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18 ways to increase productivity

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These 18 Ways to Increase Productivity for Internet Marketers are ultra effective and absolutely must be treated as such.

Eighteen ways to increase productivity should give you enough to get pumped.

Apply just a few and you will notice a difference if you are not used to being this disciplined with yourself.

If you want to use the ways to increase productivity then you can give these hacks you choose three weeks or more before you make a judgment on how much more you have done.

This is just because it takes three weeks to make a habit. Then you will have no choice but to become more productive as a direct result of memorizing and making the habit.

When working at home:

These tricks may aid.

1.Work 15 minutes.

Use any Timer. Your blood-flow is far from optimal when you work from home. Unless you stand and type that is. – I must admit I have some tasks where I sit and type and type as I do now and it is not in my best interest to just get up and get distracted so TEST before you choose what tasks are suitable for this exercise.

2. Rest 15 minutes

Say you manage to do 15 minutes of work then 15 minutes of whatever, then you can get something to eat, you can do the dishes, you can play some music, you can take a walk or a short run… And many other things just to get your mind off and your mind sharp.

3. Write Down What Your Next Task is.

Keep GOALS in mind at all time. The more goals you set that you CAN make and actually DO make will boost your momentum and confidence so you have the ultimate snowball effect. You want to have a few up to many reachable goals as you can during one day. Learn to measure the time it takes you to complete certain tasks.

4. Cross it off your list

The importance of doing the check marks: You want to reach as many “CHECK. DONE WITH THAT TASK, moments…” as possible, to boost your momentum and self-esteem so you are lit and seeking the next challenge. This ensures your mastering of new fears, which is the stopper of growth in many businesses.

5. Write Daily tasks/goals, weekly, monthly, yearly.

Keeping a daily task sheet is good. But when you do only that you need to make up new tasks every day, and for good goal setting standards you want to have bigger goals also that may take longer to accomplish but reap more harvest for your business. These Tasks that a business would want to have should be at least: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly. You can add quarterly and you may also want to think a bit about your direction before setting the wrong or right goals, because you now may have gotten more to chew on than first anticipated after point 3 with the DAILY task. Stick to what you are comfortable with in the beginning but make goals. Do not worry too much if you get delayed a little if a task is taking longer than anticipated. Just KEEP FOCUS. The most important thing is to finish.

6. Spend 30 minutes on exercise in the morning.

This ensures blood flows in your brain with easy. Sitting too much will make it slower. Starting the day with at least 30 minutes of light or heavy exercise is a surefire way to increase your blast off on the day.

7. Spend 30 minutes on meditation during the day.

I suggest you make a judgment call and try to feel when your body needs it. Usually, that would be when you feel stressed. If you are not in tune with our timing of the tasks or not settled with spending more time than wanted then take that deep breathing exercise and breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. Possibly find a video on Youtube for relation meditation to aid you.

8. Drink Liquids, water coffee smoothie.

Having some energy in your beverage and enough of it is a wise choice so you also feel your metabolism functioning properly. Water, one glass first thing in the morning. And also throughout the day. Coffee, if you like it, is a great energizer. The same can be said about Yerba Mate which is a similar effect like coffee but without the jitters. Smoothies can be super-healthy and can also contain anything from juice and bananas to algae and so called Superfoods and Nootropics which is a nutritional category based around mind enhancing supplements. You can live on smoothies alone and feel light in body AND mind. This aids the overall energy level a lot. Not essential but wanted to add it in here as it really has benefits for the head if you use the right supplements.

9. Eat healthily.

Aside from a diet based on foods that will enhance your cognition and speed, you must think blood-flow. Don’t binge so you get stuffed and work slow. Low energy food, gives lower scores, plain and simple.

10. Read Books.

The MOST important part in a lot of Entrepreneurs life is constant learning and copying what works. Read books on the topics you want to get better in. Get the best books. And benefit from somebody else’s hard work leapfrogging years in growth.  Be sure to pay for the books 🙂 ( Why books, because the PC-monitor needs a break.)

11. Listen To Mindset and Growth material.

Same principle, learning from the masters. Cannot be understated and you want to include learning from more than one medium. So reading is one thing, listening is another. I find it practicable for times when traveling or meditating/relaxing.

12. Make a Mindmap.

Use Software Like Freemind or Xmind (or similar) and create Mindmap like the rough example included below here. Get the bird’s eye view of your sites, funnels, business overall and structure your business the way you want it to. Just using the mind and remembering this is not easy, looking at the Mindmap gives you a clear vision on all the parts at once. Without you needed to thin k and try to remember everything moving part. Super “handy” stuff which gives clarity in the growth process fast.

13. Organize Your Tabs In ORDER.

From the first being the most important tab to check every morning, like your stats, email etc. – Your Browser Tabs should be of utmost importance to have IN ORDER like the serious businessman or woman you are. It might be a bad idea to put Facebook there just because you use it, unless you use it only for work. Email, Todoist. Server Access. Whatever YOU use or SHOULD be using daily, MUST be put in order ranging in the importance of tasks related to Tab up there. If you just felt an urge to re-organize then you know you’re onto something.

14. Use Todoist.

In the tabs, you can put Todoist.com, it helps you organize your tasks easily. I have looked at several of these planners and this is at the moment the one I went for as it is more or less exactly what I need for keeping track of my schedule with smaller and medium tasks.

15. Avoid all distractions.

What  I am talking about is TV, video games, and things that take you away from a good roll… Steer clear for as much as you possibly can when you have a work week for maximum results. – TV and Newspapers information stays in your head all day. Your mind subconsciously thinks about it. Say you started the day reading the news and the news sucked, you might be feeling a little depressed as opposed to not reading the news. It is one thing to stay up to date with some news, but do you need to see them every day or would you rather grow more as a person spending that precious time in the morning preparing yourself for the day?

16. Chill!

You work HARD, and deserve and NEED to chill. Relax when you feel you are working on fumes. Take a day off or two. Then get back into it when refreshed. Often 4-5 days do a lot of good if a period has been long. This depends entirely on your situation but To say it like it is, entrepreneurs without focus get burned out. When tired we can make mistakes so it is important to stay on top of that game as that is what you want, top performance, right? =) So remember to take a breather and get back stronger.

17. Write Down On Paper The Tasks.

You want to be done and your thoughts on projects. – This is just as Mindmaps and Todoist a great way to memorize and learn at the same time. When we note something down on paper we commit to the task as it is greater than punching buttons on a keyboard… It gives that tasks higher meaning and a purpose and you much more likely to accomplish a written task than any other way, without writing it down.

18. Use Whiteboards in addition to all.

They can be big and give a great view on your wall for Mindmaps, notes presentations and drawing… You name it. (Highly recommended!)

 

Other ways to increase productivity include sometimes also music. – Music will give you a good mood if you’re into that then. Also, it stimulates your brain so it get’s creative. Depending on the task ahead and need for inspiration or not.

This is an option that goes into the chill part, the energy part, and the creative part.

Other things worth mentioning may be glasses for eye constraint and exercise ball for your “mouse arm”, this is for the long term heavy user.

I would advise getting a hold of something like that at some point as I need it myself 🙂

 

  • When using mind maps you see a clearer path to your goal.
  • See here for a rough: (I did write that you need to blog a lot, but the numbers are not necessarily correct IN the image. For a blog to get the traffic it gets MORE if you post more but you can blog less than 5-6-7 days a week and still get traction with organic website traffic momentum.

ways to increase productivity

Click the image above for zooming in and out.
What I mean is that we need variation in our work so we keep inspired.

Follow these simple rules and be sure to get some work done every day.

After all this is your business and it won’t run completely on it’s own without your dedication.

Other things you should take in consideration is the use of  something called Vision Boards.

The idea is that you get several images of your goals like what you want to achieve by getting successful. Like for instance a picture of a house, car, location and money and whatever you want. Put these images inside a frame so you can look at them every day. Get an image for your computer desktop background image also. This way you keep it in mind at all times by being programmed to visualize them in more detail. Also the more detailed your images are the better.

The clearer your goals are, the better.

This works on a subconscious level and keeps us moving even faster towards our goals.

Use this a daily guide towards your prosperity.

Rune

P.S

Hope you enjoyed learning about the 18 ways to increase productivity. 🙂

Hot To Get Backlinks

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Can you really achieve to get good traffic if you know how to get backlinks?

If you are the owner of a website… Then you know that you would need a lot of good trustworthy and relevant backlinks in order to make it climb to the top of Google and also, in order for it to get extra relevant traffic.

Goes without saying really but you  want targeted relevant traffic. Doing this link building manually can be a tedious task though.

So we have collected a number of helpful hints and tools that will show you the way you do link building easy.

So: What links are the best and where do you get them?

.edu  And .gov backlinks are very high in value to Google.

Domain Relevancy is also key.

The more relevant site you can find to place your link, the more potential traffic comes from the link itself.

The more you have of these links pointing back to your site the more perceived value is thought to be inside of your website. At least this used to be the the Google thinking.

These days Google base their ranking factor on a number of other factors also.

Social proof etc…

Still, backlinks are vital and very much alive.

Be sure to do White-Hat tactics and that will help your site in the long run.

High PR is something which also carries a lot of weight in your backlinks. The higher Pagerank of the site you are linking to, the higher your site will be placed on Google.

Aged Domain is something you should notice also. If you link to an aged domain it carries a weight far heavier than any new site. PERIOD. You can buy domains with age from Godaddy auctions by the way. Find one with your keyword and it will be easy to rank with it compared to building a new site.

Also you may want to use http://justdropped.com to see for domains. It’s a very good site for finding aged domains.

Trustflow, the metric that is more relevant today, like backlinks were just years ago.

You can use a tool like SEMRush for Firefox or Chrome and Google anything. Then SEMRush provides data like backlinks, trustflow and more.

How to backlink?

Simply read a post on a “similar topic site” ( internet marketing – internet marketing sites) then make a comment on the post you read providing quality feedback and your URL to your internet marketing site.

That is ONE backlink. Comment backlinks has it’s place.

Depending on the site you can expect to get ranking, trust factor and traffic boost from that one comment and link.

Not a big deal necessarily, so that is why you need more of them.

A way to do this even better is to find the sites with the most traffic and then posting your comments on them.

ALWAYS think quality before quantity when your post is being read by real people.

How?

 

Go to Quantcast.com, have it open.

Open up a new tab and open Google. Search for “internet marketing blog”. Without quotes of course.

From your Google search you will find a lot of results and if you want to you can start with the one on top and work your way down.

Now you can use quantcast for demographics and interests in some way, but I use it for numbers of visitors.

First result we had was:

http://blog.hubspot.com We then inserted our URL into Quantcast and got good indication that this is a great start.

*Not all sites show their stats.

Estimated Traffic for Jan 01, 2012 – Jan 30, 2012 United States
People per Month 19,123 +47%
Visits per Month 7,315 2440%

From this brief check we know that this is an active site with active viewers.

Let’s see if we can find a place to steal some juice from…

And yes. Here is a great post on the new LinkedIn “share” button. http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/31601/default.aspx

In the end of the page we can comment and leave a link which will point back to our site.

What is it worth?

Let’s see.

Using a tool like Market Samurai as a preferred analysis tool we came up with these numbers:

Age 4 years.

Pr. 6.

And a whole lotta’ backlinks pointing to the site was revealed.

What does this tell us?

This tells us that a big number of people are using this site as part of their education.

Just by adding a simple comment you get a link from a PR 6 website pointing towards your site.

If you add a USEFUL comment you get REALLY relevant traffic from your comment also.

This is a more time consuming way of linking and the goal is to get targeted traffic rather than simply harvesting backlinks for your Google climb.

You can use backlinking to gain ranking with trust and PR. And also get traffic for years from simple helpful comments on the right places.

There are a number of ways to spread your links and commenting is only one way.

Writing articles is another. You can be very independent on this task and add your links where they can be added all over the internet via using various media channels. I.e. Free E-Books or content on your Facebook page, Twitter page, Youtube Video and Slideshows and more… Possibilities for posting your links are virtually endless.

Easier way of Link Building EFFORTLESSLY

First of all I will mention DropMyLink.com which is a simple tool for finding .edu .gov and a WIDE area of other very good links.

Here you can use DropMyLink.com instead of Google search commands.

Secondly there is Fiverr.com  for easy timesaving.  Order by using the search field and add “backlinks”,”.gov”,”.edu”,”paul and angelas”,”angelas” and more variations. I.e. “High Pagerank” or “Link-wheel”. Sort by rating and then read for testimonials. There is a lot of good link juice from Fiverr.com. Cheap also. Be sure to spend enough money on all of your sites. Start with anything from one to 5 gigs per site.

Important: The more random you order gigs AND where you order from, the more natural the links would seem to Google.

BEWARE: DO NOT BUY PBN’s unless  you know the seller is proven over TIME!

Software for links:

You can use several link services and software to send out content carrying links in the form of articles or social bookmarking and more.

Article Samurai is one very good service for this.

SENukeX or SEO LINK ROBOT are also amazingly good tools for this task.

You can find link networks to join from anything from cheap, to V.I.P prices that also will give you a big boost in authority. BUT right now I would be very careful and Google to check if that link network has been banned by Google. Right now they are in brute force war and Google has penalized a number of networks. It is key to get diversified large network with proven retention rate with Google over time if you can get one.

Links will always be valuable as they stand for social recognition for other people AND Google.

Therefore you should always look for ways to get a good deal on links.

That’s it for this post.

  • Will be adding more resources later. Be sure to check out the other posts.

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Keep Momentum

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Keep Momentum is my personal little story to you, based upon my own experiences.

I used to repeat this to myself out loud, “Keep Momentum!”… Momentum was the driving force that gave me increased energy for reaching my goals fast.

Some time ago, 6 months plus, my motivation for sitting in front of the computer stopped.

Sure it was summer and I love the outdoors and all but when night came I didn’t fire up either the laptop or the pc to get stuff done.

Emails and Facebook got checked on daily basis if i was home. “Sleeping brain symptom” you might wanna call it.

Been ages since I have written any blog posts also.

 

*For more info about momentum look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum

momentum

So what happened with my momentum?

I had worked a lot of hours since 2009 to be exact and needed a longer break from the usual.

My head was not in focus and needed to clear the clogged up channels within the information center of our body.

 

During the time away the need for nature was great. So hiking and exploring,travelling and various sports was in tune.

Still… I thought(!) I was working(…) for a while even though all I did was to keep up with the Jones’s of marketing… Reading emails is NOT doing efficient tasks that will propel your business forward. Making stuff to sell, taking action and promoting + scaling is what get real results that are measurable.

Text day in and day out, just input… won’t cut it. That’s what I figured at least. Again.

Earlier before getting traction in the business, I studied heavily how to alter my mind with meditation techniques and such to align myself into a healthier and wealthier mindset.
Momentum was mentioned many times. Alas…

At some point I stopped and it faded.

So the lesson was clear:

My mindset was good.

But it was not “sticky” enough for me to hold.

My old paradigms took over and made me less structured, less business focused and put me on a sort of a vacation basically.

When I started getting back into rhythm, the sufferings of bad conscious was all over me. I felt I had let myself and my fellow marketers down.

I can get kinda emotional about the work when the times are tough. Still I will never let it beat me.

So anyways the ride took me through some emotional moments and I figured out when I was at my desk by the pc again that this could not happen again.

I can take breaks and vacations alright. But I cannot evade from who I am. Who I have become.

The need to check in and do stuff on a regular basis will always be there. Just like when we read a good book. You will always learn more and read another one. And you should!

Join us and many others and give yourself traffic numbers you can measure to succeeed with performance marketing.

 

Keep momentum and you will grow.

Stop that momentum… Just for a day and you are set back a day or two.

Wait six months and you gotta rethink you whole business.

Perhaps the ultimate would be for anyone to find out their individual limit as to what is their threshold before stress.

We are not equal in every aspect of life… I think we can all suffer from a burnt out mind/body.

Be healthy. Meditate. Grow momentum.

And the ultimate lesson for me was that I could not let the momentum i had built, fade away.
Keep momentum and keep sanity 😉 Oh, and make money!

 

Stuff to look for in coming posts:

Diving into ADS

Diving into Teespring

Diving into Amazon sites

Top resources for online use plus much more.

 

Until next time.

I wish you all the best, but remember…

YOU have to keep momentum!
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New Product on the Warriorforum – Gaming Console Review Sites

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Gaming Console Review Sites is LIVE!

Today marks the day when the Playstation 4 is released.

Tons of people have been waiting just for this day to get their hands on this new gaming monster machine.

Playstation 4 has been revamped with a whole new infrastructure inside which makes it easier for developers to develop games for the console. Appears as if the old system was a little too complicated for most.

Most people buy their  PS4 in the local electronic shops but in this case the online stores will also notice the impact of the requests from customers who were too late.

Given that these machines will sell out fast, a lot of people will go online in the search for their own. This creates an avalanche of traffic to sites like Amazon etc…

To help out those of you who want in on the trend I have put together a WSO giving you a review site with a lot of material for your own use.

This includes a review site embedded with your affiliate links. Amazon buttons. Videos. Review articles and more…

Products covered is not just the PS4. Here is the complete list:

  • Xbox One Console – Standard Edition
  • Xbox 360 4GB Console
  • Xbox 360 250GB Spring Value Bundle
  • PlayStation 4 (PS4): Standard Edition
  • PS3 500 GB Assassin’s Creed III Bundle
  • PS3 250 GB Uncharted 3 and PS Plus Bundle
  • PlayStation 3 – 320 GB System/PlayStation Move Bundle
  • Nintendo Wii U Console – 32GB Black Deluxe Set
  • Nintendo Wii Console, White (NEWEST MODEL)
  • Wii with Wii Sports Resort – White

 

Currently the price starts at $2 measly dollars because I want to give back to the community that helped me out when I got started. So yes, it’s a true WSO bargain.

Join in on the massive launch of the PS4 and capitalize on the early birds that will literally kill to get their copy of the holy grail of gaming consoles.

JV’s can reach out and get their links here: https://runeellingsen.com/jv

Thanks for being a part of this launch.

Look forward to the next one!

All the best from me to you.

P.S.

Now go out there and get Gaming Console Review Sites to the masses 😉

 
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Update for the site.

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Hey all.

rune ellingsen update

There is coming some changes to the site to make it more approachable for all of our visitors.

Hope you can understand that we are looking for the best solution for everyone and that it may affect our site a little, but not for long.

The product I am working on has been a little postponed due to unforeseen technical difficulties.

This means in essence that it will just take a little bit longer to get it out there to you.

In other news I have taken some steps to ensure that I can deliver some top notch quality stuff THIS SUMMER!

So in other words subscribe to the feed to get updates on the next blog post – All I can say is that it will be good for both of us.

Thanks for visiting.

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Blog Content Creation Infographic For Newbies

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Blog Content Creation is an artform!

When doing blog content creation there are certain “guidelines” one should follow to increase your readers attention and overall time on your post.

For any blogger, blog content creation is their lifeblood and crucial to the blog’s success in addition to traffic.

The more usable content you provide the more you help your prospect.

Some blogs focus entirely on “longer value bombs”.

Publishing articles like they were paid products and that can be highly beneficial for your long term strategy.

The most shared blog posts are the ones that are over 2000 words.

Keep that in mind.

 

Take a look here at some of the highly successful blogs that create share-worthy content:

The first one is from Ana Hofmann which runs a highly successful blog focused around traffic.

Number two is from Pat Flynn. Pat shares techniques to earn money with great success.

Both sites write pretty long articles often with a heap of value in every post.

Detailed and easy for the reader to follow.

Trafficgenerationcafe.com – Smartpassiveincome.com

You can model these sites and create your own blog using their techniques and get good feedback from your crowd as they love the detailed content they can just run with and put into action in their own business. It will take some time to create a longer post like 2000 words for a newbie, but if you have the writing skills fresh and love your topic which you write for then it is easily done in a day, even though some posts can take more.

Some less, but for a highly detailed educational blog post one must be willing to set aside a little time for perfection. :=)

 

You and your readers benefit in the long run.

 

  • Maybe I will do a detailed write up on the topic in the future. But for now this is just a short introductory post aimed at newbies.

 

If you read any blog with long posts and lot’s of content then you know the drill…

You have seen it in action.

But if you’re new to it then this infographic below  is for you.

It illustrates some of the important steps for newbies to take when creating readable content for your readers.

 

 

Blog Content Creation