My 7 secrets of success comes down what to get done daily, weekly, monthly. That is how I smash through my To Do List, reach more people and make sales daily.

The beginning of 2014 I contemplated closing down. It lasted 2.6 seconds but I realised I needed to work smarter, not harder.

I had business dreams, and I need to be more thoughtful (read: smart with my time), rather than running around like a headless chook.

I wrote down these 7 (simple) things I would need to get done and that is what I get done in my business. Every day. Every week. Every month.

Update: in 2017 I earn a full-time income from my blog, am a content creating and selling machines. These 7 things are exactly what I still do today in my business.

7 Secrets of Success (How I Get So Much Done!)

#1 Blog.

Regularly. At least 2 x a week.

Schedule time aside to create content for your blog. If it isn’t scheduled, it isn’t done. Blogging needs to be scheduled and a priority. On the list of important vs. urgent blogging is important and done first (before emails, social media, etc).

I found early mornings and getting up early are my perfect content creation time as my brain is firing on all cylinders. (The most successful people attest to this.) I get up at 5am and have 2 hours of content creation, where I can get anywhere between 1-3 posts done.

#2 Send out email newsletters.

Regularly. 1 x a week.

Emails are essential (read: critical) to online business. The foundation or building blog to a blog and online business is building an email list because ‘the money is in the list’. If you don’t have an email list, start one. The normal or standard frequency for emailing is weekly.

I email daily-ish. Yep, nearly every single day. Now I get that isn’t most peoples style but I have learned over time (years) that it very much is mine and more importantly people love my daily inspiration and motivation. My emails are over 80% of the time blog posts and 20% sales emails.

Related article: How to Make Money Online: The Secret to the 3 C’s.

#3 Facebook (& Social Media).

Regularly. 1 x a day.

On social media it is important to share a mixture of your content, business related posts, some images like photos, graphics or memes, some personal stuff, testimonials for street cred and some straight sales posts.

Social media is a lead generation tool to direct traffic to your website and build you email list.

#4 Track your numbers.

Regularly. 1 x monthly.

Any number or measure in business needs to be tracked. What isn’t measured can’t be improved. Check Google analytics for numbers, email service provider for email subscribers, open rate, click-through rate. Book keeping to be done regularly so that you know your monthly and yearly gross income, expenses and net income.

Every month on the 1st I do my reports. I call these ‘Happy Fun Time Monthly Numbers’ to make them seem more fun! It is an Excel spreadsheet and I enter website page views, social media numbers, email subscribers, sales, income & expenses, bank balance. I analyse again against my goals and also look at worked what didn’t in the last month.

#5 Update Content.

Regularly. 2 x a month.

Cake photos, blog posts, tutorials. Whatever you want to share (& sell) to the world. Your content does get out of date and it needs to be a practice to constantly aim to improve.

As part of my SEO strategy I update old blog posts and republish at the current date. I also add more training modules in membership sites (like Blog Business School). I update an old opt in or training or course that has become out of date, whether free or paid.

Related article: How to Find Your ‘Why’

#6 Give with excessive kindness.

Regularly. Help 1 person a day.

My business mission and goal is to help 1 person per day. I do this by high quality content (the blog posts, articles, tutorials and information). I

I do this by high quality content (the blog posts, articles, tutorials and information). I schedule time (about 30 minutes daily) to go into 1-2 Facebook groups per day and help complete strangers with the questions, like random acts of kindness. By offering free masterminding and brainstorming for someone who is struggling. Doing something with excessive kindness that I wished for at the beginning of my journey.

Related article: Why I do What I do. (My Why).

#7 Build Trust & Relationship

Regularly. By doing all the above. Daily.

By giving with excessive kindness, sharing free content on your website, email newsletter and social media and while tracking your numbers (see what people are liking/following/clicking on) and continuously updating and improving. That is building a relationship and a business that can be trusted.

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