Dear Overwhelmed Blogger,
“If you don’t take control of your time now,
you’ll hate yourself later!”
Give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how to build your blog, market your business,
be a social media butterfly, make more money, still have time for your family,
and yes, even have time for yourself too!
Fall 2011
From the laptop of Heather C Stephens
Roscoe, IL
No, I’m not kidding.
You may have started your business so you could be a stay at home mom or dad, or so that you could have more time to do what you love while enjoying financial freedom through residual income.
You’ve been working hard, investing in yourself and your business, paying your dues now, hoping and praying that the rewards will eventually come.
But you’ve worked yourself silly, sacrificing the time with your kids, family and yourself, believing it would be worth it in the long run, and you’re now wondering how long this marathon will be.
It all boils down to this, you are caught in a catch 22…
Your kids won’t stop growing while you take time away from them to grow your business, but your business won’t grow by itself.
Ask yourself…
Do you feel like you’re busier now and working harder than you ever have before?
Could you easily work 48 hours a day and still not feel caught up?
Do you ever find yourself still in your pj’s at noon, having accomplished next to nothing?
Do you struggle to stay focused because you’re bombarded with too many distractions online and at home?
Are you plagued with guilt because you are spending more time with your business than your family?
Do you feel like the money goes out of your business faster than it comes in?
It doesn’t have to feel this way. You can build a blog, market your business,
make money, and still have time to have a life!
It is possible to get caught up, focus on the money making activities and stop the night-time worries. And yes, you can make real money in your business without burning more of the midnight oil and feeling so overtired the next day you can’t think straight.
It’s not your fault that you’re overwhelmed. Marketing your business online can be like opening Pandora’s box of time sucking activities. Think about what you typically do in a day:
Building your blog
Writing compelling content
Sharing your content
Networking with others
Commenting on blogs
Twittering on twitter
Keeping up with friends on Facebook
Creating videos for YouTube
Guest Posting
Balancing your business budget
Investing your time and money into trainings
Studying SEO & building back links
Hosting or attending webinars and teleseminars
Sending & answering emails
Reading books, blogs, and emails
Returning voice mail
And that’s just the beginning! I’m not even counting the things you’re doing for your team, your business, your family, your household, or yourself? (I know, I know, you don’t have time for yourself, right?)
So what’s next?
How do you possibly make sense of this chaos,
get control of your time and take back your life?
We need to live and work by two laws of time:
1. Parkinson’s law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
2. Pareto’s principle: “80% of your profits come from 20% of the time you spend.”
I’m confident that this isn’t news to you. It wasn’t news to me either. The challenge for me came when I was trying to apply these laws to my business.
I struggled to see what activities were giving me the biggest bang for the buck and the biggest results for my efforts. And then there were all the distractions in the form of emails, webinars, marketing techniques, and training programs that attacked my inbox and led me way off track with their hypnotic marketing. I’d end up spending days lost in a fog of confusion as to what steps I should be taking next in my business.
I made countless lists and schedules, bought timers, and several different day planners, trying to stay focused, only to throw them away after a day or two because they were too structured for my creative ADHD entrepreneurial brain to stick with.
I felt like I was having to adapt my business and life to fit the day planner instead of having one that adapted to my life.
So I finally got smart and took the best day planner I’d purchased and started to tweak it for my needs. I paper clipped pages to help me track, organize, and plan my business each month, other pages to help me brainstorm ideas for my writing and I added in the various checklists I’d created to help me with SEO and copywriting. I also added in pages to help me keep track of my logins, my goals, my editorial schedules for my blog, my marketing systems, etc.
I’ve spent the majority of the last year tweaking this daily planner, adapting it to fit my specific needs as a blogger and a home based business owner and I’ve truly refined it into a system that grows my blog even when I’m not writing every day. It has taken me from a newbie blogger with no traffic to getting several hundreds of visitors every day. And now that I’m both building my own online business and working as a social media manager for a huge online company, being organized is more important than ever.
“I asked my readers what their biggest challenges in their business were,
and they (almost unanimously) replied that they also struggled
with overwhelm, lack of focus, and time management.”
Well, after sending my readers a survey to fill out, asking them what frustrates them and makes them want to pull their hair out with their business, I was shocked to see that almost every single person replied with answers of feeling overwhelmed, overworked, distracted, and out of time.
I have not shared their names or business names to protect their privacy, but clearly, this is a struggle many business owners face! Here’s what some of them had to say:
What is it that keeps you up at night with worry?
“Hmmm what I worry about is whether we can all keep working at the insane levels that we have to just to keep up with the pace of change, technology etc I am busier now than ever before and while I love what I do there is just too much of more, more and more!”
“Everything that I have to catch-up on the next day!”
“Wondering if I will ever make enough money to be able to ditch my job and live the free life.”
“How long it will take to become profitable and if I am sacrificing my relationship with my son as I push to succeed.”
What frustrates you and makes you want to “pull your hair out” about your business?
“I enjoy spending time connecting with others, but I feel like I don’t have time for myself.”
“I have to say it’s the constant distractions — the next best system, company, tool, or lead source.”
What daily struggles do you encounter in your business?
“I think a lot, do little. Get side-tracked easily.”
“The main one for me is being able to focus. There is just too much going on and I am too curious and want to do too much.”
“Enough focus and needing to be more effective in the way of setting up automated things.”
“Finding the time to get it all done when I know I need to be doing more of other things.”
What is the biggest business obstacle you deal with?
“Procrastination”
“Time management.”
“Focus and prioritizing”
“Tech stuff. and lack of time”
If you could learn how to do one thing, what would it be?
“Do less better and ignore all the distractions.”
“Spread myself out ‘more’ ie: sharing… without all the time it takes. I guess efficiency might be the better way to put it. I am sure there is a better way to mass market.”
What is the biggest improvement you could make to your marketing and life that would help you achieve your goals/dreams?
“Consistent action-oriented activities that would conquer fear and build confidence.”
“Become more efficient at writing quality articles and posts.”
“48 hours in a day. OK… scuse the sarcasm”
“Learn more leverage and productivity techniques and figure out better ways to leverage my time to get more done in my business.”
What would you do anything or pay almost anything to achieve, solve, or get rid of?
“What I need is a 72 hour day… do you have access to these too?? LOL”
After reading the survey results it was clear to me that I had to find a way to share my business planning system with other bloggers.
So I’ve spent the last six months refining the day planner I’ve been using. Combining my day planner with my worksheets, editorial calendars, social media checklists, SEO checklists etc. and assembling them into a day planner customized for bloggers, by a blogger. And since I’m a mom too, I included things like a menu planner and shopping list for each week, and plenty of room to keep track of the important events and daily schedules for our busy family of five.
The image is a digital, but rest assured, the actual day planner is a REAL physical item that will be shipped to you, not some e-book that will get lost on your hard drive, forgotten, and never used.
You can have a life beyond your blog! You just need to ditch the overwhelm, dump the stress, and stop being drained by your business and trade it all for more time, more focus, more effective action, and more profit!
This is the system I desperately needed, but couldn’t find so I build it myself. I’ve used it for most of the last year and a half and it has helped me monetize my marketing, stay focused on my goals, and given me a snapshot of what activities I need to be working on to manage 2 blogs and grow 2 businesses.
Because of the dreaming, goal setting and planning with this system I’ve created the prove it challenge, launched a forum, created several information products, written more then 170 blog posts, interviewed experts, coached clients, built websites, etc.
All while raising 3 kids, being a wife, a social media manager, and building my network marketing business.
I know the Blogger’s Biz Planner will help you like it’s helped me!
These are just a few of the details of this planner:
This is a real, spiral bound day planner with a durable frosted cover, that folds flat for easy writing.
It is 8.5 x 11 so that there is plenty of room to write, take notes, and doodle when you’re brainstorming (if you’re a doodler like I am!)
I added a reminder to update your main social media profiles, a way to track your blog’s growth and your daily appointments.
There is a place to jot down your blog post, article of video topic ideas for each day of the week.
There is a place to plan your family’s menu and shopping list each week.
Plus a place to list your top 3 “no matter what” priorities for each day.
There is even a place to track your mileage and expenses so tax time isn’t such a dreadful nightmare!
I’m giving you 2 free bonus months, November & December of 2011, so you can get started right now and make the most of the rest of this year! The calendar goes from November 2011 to December 2012.
The images below will give you a sample of what’s included in this awesome day planner and business organizer that will save you time and money, every month.
Order the Clever Marketer Blogger’s Biz Planner Now!
Bonuses for Fast Action Takers!
- BONUS #1 : Order before January 31, 2012 and pay only $39 + shipping. Price will go up to $49 after January 31, 2012.
- BONUS #2 : Receive a coupon for $10 off your 2013 Blogger’s Biz Planner
- BONUS #3 : Receive the Blogger’s Biz Planner mp3 audio to help you maximize the use of your planner.
- BONUS #4 : Get a say in what goes into next year’s calendar! If after using the planner you see there is something missing or something needs tweaking to make it better for bloggers and marketers, I’ll consider adding it into the 2013 planner that will be released toward the end of the year.
- BONUS #5 : Remember you’re getting 2 free months (November & December 2011 so you can start using it right away!
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Weekly PagesOoh, where do I start! The weekly pages are exactly what I wished I had for planning my blog. With space to set a weekly goal, track your Alexa ranking, a reminder to back up your blog, tracking your social media updates, and so much more, your success story will be created through the activities on these weekly pages. |
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Monthly Calendar and Planning PagesThe monthly calendar has a section to record the important holidays, birthdays, and events in your month as well as a place to break down your 90 day goals into monthly goals with action steps. |
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Monthly Marketing Missions & $ensible Biz $napshotHow fast does each month fly by? Do a rough sketch of your marketing a month at a time, brainstorm your weekly blog post topics, email marketing, etc. This section hit a hot spot for me and I bet it will for you too! It’s easy to slip into a habit of paying for things you aren’t using with all the continuity programs out there and get yourself into a financial pickle. The sensible business snapshot will, without a doubt, save the day for many a marketer making this bloggers biz planner pay for itself over and over again each month! |
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90 Day Vision Journal & 90 Day Goal WorksheetsYou know how important goal setting is, but how often do you set them and then set them aside? Goals are integrated throughout this day planner so you can set them every 90 days, add them to your monthly worksheets, add your weekly goals to your weekly planner and your top 5 action steps for each day! |
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Productivity PointersLet me help you get focused and organized so that you know can get “it” done and get on with your life! |
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Blog Traffic & Marketing Funnel Blueprint & Worksheet
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Hypnotic Headlines, Blog Post Types & Writing FormulasHeadlines are often the hardest part of writing for bloggers, tweak these hypnotic headline samples, blog post ideas, and writing formulas to pump out better content in a fraction of the time. |
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Business Login Cheat Sheet &Product Login Cheat Sheet for URL’s, Affiliate Links, etc.Stop wasting time searching for login information or URL’s for your information products or affiliate links: |
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On Page SEO Checklist & Copywriting Cheat Sheet &Hypnotic Words, Action Verbs and Bucket Brigade PhrasesEasily write content that appeals to both the search engines and your human readers! |
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It’s time for you to take your life back from your blog!
I’m sure that you can easily see, this is so much more than a just a day planner and that using it will naturally help you save time, save money, and stay focused on the 20% activities that will give you 80% of your results!
Take a minute and think about where your business will be at the end of this year if you implement the strategies contained in this planner and you use it to help you take consistent action for the next 6 months.
The time is going to pass whether you’re moving forward or running in place in your business. You can continue to struggle, feel overwhelmed, and disappoint your loved ones, or you can take your life back from your blog and be in a whole new place professionally and personally by the end of the year.
If you’re still not sure, let me take away the risk for you!
- I guarantee you’ll love this planner. If you don’t love it, please feel free to return it within 30 days, in it’s original condition and I’ll refund 100% of your purchase price, excluding shipping.
Bonuses for Fast Action Takers!
- BONUS #1 : Order before January 31, 2012 and pay only $39 + shipping. Price will go up to $49 after January 31, 2012.
- BONUS #2 : Receive a coupon for $10 off your 2013 Blogger’s Biz Planner
- BONUS #3 : Receive the Blogger’s Biz Planner mp3 audio to help you maximize the use of your planner.
- BONUS #4 : Get a say in what goes into next year’s calendar! If after using the planner you see there is something missing or something needs tweaking to make it better for bloggers and marketers, I’ll consider adding it into the 2013 planner that will be released toward the end of the year.
- BONUS #5 : Remember you’re getting 2 free months (November & December 2011 so you can start using it right away!
Order the Clever Marketer Blogger’s Biz Planner now by clicking the pay pal buttons below and organize your business so you can live your life!
Orders within the
United States & Territories
$39 + $4.95 USPS Priority Mail Shipping Within the US
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Orders within
Canada and Mexico
$39 + $11.95 USPS Priority Mail Shipping to Canada and Mexico
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Orders
$39 + $13.95 USPS Priority Mail Shipping to All Other Countries
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