To Do Lists- Making an online to-do list
by Phil Wiley

It's no good at all having a well designed web site, offering a great service or product, if people don't know your site exists.

So to promote your site, and be successful with your web business you have to spend most of your time on marketing.

But, on the Internet, it's far too easy to drift or lose focus. Unless you follow a regular routine, your efforts will yield inconsistent results at best. And, to stay on track, it's important that you get down to specifics.

The only way I know of doing this - of keeping your marketing attack on track as the weeks go by - is to make an Online To Do List.

This week we'll look at things you need to do on a daily basis to keep your online business flowing. Here are some activities you should consider putting onto your Daily list:

Daily Tasks

1. Answer your email promptly - and helpfully. Remember that not everyone knows as much as you about online business. You might have been asked the same question 10 times but people wouldn't ask if they knew the answer. Be helpful and friendly. It's no good getting a flood of traffic if your poor response or attitude turns people away. It will help you earn people's trust and their business.

2. Do at least one promotional task. If you have an ezine submit it to at least one new directory or ezine list. You'll find places to submit your ezine/ web site at

http://www.ubrande.com/goldmine.php3?1133

http://list-resources.com/promotion/

http://Ezine-Tips.com/

http://List-Universe.com/

3. Register your site or a new page at a search engine. You can post to a limited number of search engines and directories for free at

http://www.submit-it.com

http://www.selfpromotion.com

http://www.jimtools.com

If you're into Internet marketing for the long run you really need to be using some auto submission software.

The ones I find best are Swiss Army App and Submit Wolf Pro 4

4. Visit your web site to make sure it's working properly. I use a free monitoring service which notifies me if my site is down. Not that it happens very often because my web host, the ultra reliable http://www.allwebco.com usually has 100 percent up time. If you try them tell Glen I sent you. ( have a look at my testimonial and uptime stats on their testimonial page ). You'll find the free monitoring service at http://www.webpartner.com

5. Send a message to your own auto-responders to make sure they're working.

6. Monitor the discussion lists, forums, and newsgroups you participate in and post messages in them. You can find the best daily posts from the best marketing forums all in one place at Trick Report

7. Check the positions on any classified ads you've posted - and repost them if they're too far down the list.

You can post ads at

Ad Track Classifieds

http://www.ozemedia.com/classifieds

http://classifieds.yahoo.com

http://www.1second.com/freead.htm

http://www.netclassifieds.com/

8. Follow up leads to new information resources, and visit rivals web sites. Although it's important to check out your competition and pick up new ideas, it's far too easy to spend half a day web surfing without actually achieving much.

To avoid drifting like this you need to set yourself a time limit for this kind of activity - and stick to it.

9. Post Your site to some FFA pages. You can use this free submission site to post to around 150 sites http://www.virtualpromote.com/ffapenance/ or download the just upgraded free version of Swiss Army App which lets you post to over 1000 FFA sites as often as you like. I was going to put posting to FFA pages in the list of things to do weekly, but if you use Swiss Army App you may as well post daily because you can leave it running in the background while you work on other things.