Happy Labour Day!

It's 1st May in Singapore and I would like to wish everyone who's celebrating this day a Happy one!

As we labour through life, we sometimes forget about what matters most. Here's a quick reminder for us all to take a break and just spend some time with our loved ones.

Those of us who labour online tend to forget about time and life passing us by. We need to have public holidays like these to help us STOP for a while to take in deep breaths and just chill out.

I work about six solid hours a week now to grow my online business. I don't do a fantastic lot of work and I spend most of my time at home with my family. Why am I revealing this? Well, I just want you to know that it's possible to make a living with so little time spent. In fact, I've discovered that most time-consuming tasks usually amount to less results than those less time-consuming tasks. Track and reflect on what you've done so far, compare them with the results being produced, and you might find this strange trend or pattern too =)

I'm a believer that if you work within yourself and resolve your issues within, everything around you will become better as well. Your relationships, your financial situations, your health...

After much reflection, one of the most crucial things to get right from the start when you want to embark on any business online/offline is this: Get Organised!
I'm not saying that other things like focus and planning and goal setting are not important. Far from that!

Now, if you're organised... if you purposefully organise your folders, your desktop, your bookmarks etc. right from the start... You'll find it easier to be consistent, purposeful, disciplined, focused and on task. You'll basically find things easier to do and your goals easier to achieve. You'll be saving yourself precious time and a lot of energy =)

Ok, that's all for now... I know that what I've just rattled away will one day make sense to you, and if you digest it well, you'll achieve a lot more than you can ever imagine possible.

For now, I'm going to relax and live life =)

Cheers!

How can I Keep the Traffic Flowing... Without Spending a DIME... Without Using My Brains...?

Someone asked me how... What do you think?

To keep posting ads here and there and surfing for traffic credits in traffic exchanges can be tiring, it's like another never-ending JOB, but what do you expect for FREE and brainless activities?

If you want great traffic, beginning with Traffic Exchanges could seem like a whole lot of things to do... Including your links in article resource boxes, forum postings, emails... and getting your ads out on free online classifieds... these are tasks that may seem daunting to anyone, especially newbies...

How can all these be done without having to pull our hair out?

The secret is not just be focused in your thinking and actions, but also be DISCIPLINED. If we are not organised, trying to be disciplined would only be an uphill task.

If you split your tasks into smaller chunks, have a schedule for everything, have your browser bookmarks organised, and just do things when the time comes, you'll have no problem generating free traffic!

When you're organised, it's easier to be disciplined without having to pull your hair out. If you are disorganised, you'll feel pressurised as there's no structure or system in place to get things done orderly and you'll find time going against you.

Hence, there are indeed many things online that can aid us in marketing. We can spend some time in research using the search engines or reading free books from the library about marketing... Then, start doing things in a focused, organised and disciplined manner... reflect on what has been done as we go along, make the necessary adjustments and changes, and persevere...

No big secret really. Driving traffic and making money online... = Consistent... WORK.