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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 3

I have my own checklist (which I’ll share with you in brief format in just a
moment) filled with what I call “Day Specific Activities”.

Each day of the week, I have a simple checklist that I work my way through in
order to build my Internet business.

Let me give you just a quick example of what your “Monday” might look like
when it comes to “building lists” and “generating traffic”.

Monday:

• Write an Ezine article to promote your list, product, site or affiliate link.
• Submit the article to your “Ezine distribution network” for results:
  • Publish article to your own opt-in lists.
  • Load article to a page at your web site.
  • Submit article to major article directories.
  • Submit article to your list of ezine publishers.
  • Inform your affiliates and JV partners of your article
• Publish your weekly newsletter, including your newly written article.
  • Make personal remarks about a specific product or service and offer an incentive for anyone purchasing.
  • Cross promote one of your free reports, blog posts, mini-courses or existing articles.
  • Refer to any contest, joint venture project, sub-list or other business-building activity currently available.
• Setup a joint venture partnership to (a) build your list, or (b) grow your traffic.
  • Option 1: An “all-inclusive” project with multiple partners.
  • Option 2: An “exclusive” project with one partner.

That’s just a sample of what you can do. The important thing is to actually
establish a routine. Get your own list of activities to do every single week. Plan
things out into daily assignments. You don’t need to try it all at once, or attempt to do too much.

Just get some things on a regular schedule that you can follow week
after week to gain some momentum and steadily grow your business.

Include the following in your action steps to build your lists and grow your traffic.

• Write ezine articles
• Create viral reports
• Conduct and / or participate in joint ventures
• Bid on pay-per-click search engine listings
• Experiment with SEO tactics
• Purchase solo mailings and other paid advertising
• Exchange links, articles, popups, ads, etc. with other marketers
• Post questions and answers to relevant forums
• Work with your affiliate program
• Get your list members involved in marketing for you

There are countless ways to grow your lists and generate web site traffic. It’s
critical that you develop a plan here to work your way through each week. Hit
and miss tactics just won’t work. You need momentum. You need to get a
system in place. And you need to get started today!

Tomorrow, we’ll look at more ways to get organized.