Photo Marketing Mentor

It is not uncommon to become overwhelmed especially in the current state of our society where we have more gadgets and commitments vying for our attention.

In today’s article I will share with you my 4 tips to help you get out of overwhelm and back to productivity. Remember, where productivity lives, profitability soon follows.
So lets get started with my 4 tips to take control back in your business.

1. Make a plan for where you want to go. Let’s say for example you want to get 3 new clients this week. Okay so let’s say to make that happen you need to have 20 points of contact to find those 3 new clients. I’m using 20 because it’s a nice round number you may need more, but let’s say it’s 20.

Okay, so the next question or series of questions becomes who, where and how am I going to contact 20 new people? Make a list, it can names with telephone numbers, email addresses, twitter addresses, Facebook profiles, Linked In profiles etc. Just get your list together of 20 points of contact and contact them. That’s your plan; okay this moves us on to tip #2.

2. Once you have your plan in place, follow it. I know this sounds obvious but I’ll tell you not following a plan is where most people trip up. Allow me to illustrate. Remember our 20 points of contact from tip #1? Okay, so you have your list and let’s say you get to about 10 of the names on your list but now you find that you’re not getting the results you hoped.

And to make matters worse you’re now distracted because the telephone rings with a non-business related call, or you get the sudden urge to go out for a latte (when you have coffee at home)? Or while twittering you get caught up in a lively debate about Tiger Woods character, do you get where I am going? So if you find yourself in this predicament how do you get control back? Simple, Focus!

Lack of focus is the bane of the self-employed. So once you make your plan, get into action immediately, and make a commitment to not do anything outside of the task you set for yourself (emergencies aside of course) Let’s move on to tip number #3.

3. Track your results. This is key and the reason why is because when you can see your results and track your progress in black and white you’re fueled to continue. This will motivate you when you get stuck or feel like giving up. Another benefit to tracking is it allows you to go back and look at what worked and what you should pass on in the future.

This exercise alone will save you scores of time while greatly increasing your productivity by 40 percent or more. Try it, it works. Okay let’s move on to tip #4.

4. Rinse and repeat, repeat, repeat. This is another area where you can become easily overwhelmed but you won’t experience this problem because you have tracking system in place from step #3, right? From this point moving forward with a results based workable plan in place there will be no need to reinvent the wheel. If it’s working just keep doing it until it doesn’t work anymore.

And there you have it, my four-point plan for over coming overwhelm and increasing productivity.

If you’re ready to delve even deeper into developing a customized marketing plan for your business that will help set clear goals and doable actions I believe I can be of help.

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