3 Smart Ways Online Marketers Can Boost Their Personal Productivity

Most online marketers usually face huge challenges in their daily activities and it affects their productivity a great deal. These challenges range from SEO, website optimization, internet access device optimization, managing traffic and rankings, PPC campaigns, social media marketing, Search Engine marketing, Email marketing, online reputation management and so on. By taking on these many marketing activities, (even if necessary for your overall marketing success), productivity at times takes a dip. That is more so if you have no viable and workable plan in place to take on the numerous marketing tasks. Then what to do? Simple! Just put a little planning in place to help curb the challenges. That helps your online productivity a great deal. If you take my tips, follow the simple measures below and even make them routine practices, they can help boost your online marketing productivity a great deal.

  

1. Break Up Your Marketing Tasks Into Smaller Bits

Breaking your marketing tasks into smaller bits/milestones creates simplicity and easy achievability. That helps your online productivity. Just spare quality time to create, daily, weekly and monthly tasks you need to take on for your marketing. Follow this plan diligently by accomplishing one task before moving on to the next. That helps to provide direction and the impetus to accomplish more tasks. When tasks are in smaller bits, they become more realistic and easily achievable. By the time you chalk off one task after another on completion, it makes you feel good. That provides the right motivation to keep things going smoothly till you achieve your targets.  Once you achieve your targets as planned, your productivity goes up naturally.

2. Avoid Distractions with Good Planning

Online marketers can do well to always avoid distractions. With distractions, marketers tend to dissipate energy and resources unnecessarily. Inevitably, online marketers have to daily browse other websites and visit many social media platforms. That is where many of the distractions are unless you are strictly guided by what takes you to each site and to exit the site as soon as you are through with it. That requires prior planning. Good planning helps online marketers to manage their to-do lists effectively and efficiently. With it, they can check procrastination and missing out on tasks, spending too long a time a one site and getting attracted to other issues on these sites outside what they planned for. Good planning allows online marketers to focus on real work and steering clear of accessing websites that have nothing to do with the work at hand. If as a marketer you are unable to make conscious efforts to avoid these distractions, you can engage a time-tracking tool to help manage your time well online. Doing so can be great for productivity.

 

3. Always Optimize Your Internet Access Device

Clutter naturally slows down internet access devices particularly computers. Since online marketers usually have a resource-intensive job that requires that they access countless sites and toggle between multiple sites simultaneously on regular basis, picking up a lot of clutter is a given. Without removing this clutter regularly, you inadvertently slow down the performance and efficiency of such devices. Therefore, you must routinely take deliberate steps to optimize the device you are using to access the internet with a view to maintaining its high performance and on memory fronts. Fortunately, there are very handy remedies to turn to if you want to boost your productivity with a super fast computer. You can easily use the right software among the many available online to clean up your computer systems and get rid of the redundant files and apps slowing it down. It is that simple. 

How to Remain Productive While Working from Home

Now that Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home world-wide, many have lost their much cherished freedoms. We all love freedom. Everyone loves freedom. One of the perks of working from home is freedom to do as you please. Working from home gives you the flexibility to work with your own rules and your own time. It saves you the hassles of daily commute and its attendant costs. In addition, it allows you quality time for your family and loved ones. Inspite of all these perks, it is always a struggle to remain organized while working from home. You cannot be effectively productive if you are not sufficiently organized.

Here is what you can do to help you better organized while working from home.

Daily Work Plan

To avoid timing conflicts in your work at home, it is best to always have a daily work plan and to follow it strictly for the day. That is the best way to get more work done within a given time.

Designated Work Space

Your work space should be carefully chosen within your home. It must be a quiet place where you can find some comfort and a bit of privacy. It must be devoid of typical home distractions like noisy and playful kids, TV sounds, Kitchen sounds etc. What matters is to be able to work from the space with all amounts of concentration while at work. The space can be in the bedroom, balcony or near an open widow with a good panoramic view of vegetation or the countryside. That helps your productivity.


 
Designated Work Times

For personal discipline and productivity, it is good to designate specific times of the day or night solely for work and other times for rest and family. If it is time to work, you must stop everything else you are doing then proceed to your work station to work. For the sake of productivity, this should be non-negotiable.

Avoid Dehydration

To enhance good blood circulation and to avoid cramps, you can have a bottle of clean table-water on your work desk where you take regular sips to re-hydrate. As part of your regular breaks, you can also seize the opportunity to walk to the kitchen refrigerator to take some water.

Declutter Your Work Space
 
At times, physical clutter tends to translate to mental clutter in a work station. It is therefore important to declutter your work desk at least once a week. Ensure your work desk is always organized and conducive for productive work. So, you must avoid piling up files/papers and working tools in a disorganized manner. Work desk clutter can lead to confusion and other problems which distract you and slow down your work. If you are able to keep a neat desk in your work station, it somehow reflects some power and tranquillity. A neat and tranquil workspace helps the mind to focus better and that helps productivity.

Mind Your Mental Health

Confinement, isolation and privacy if excessive can affect our immune system and mental wellbeing. The reason you must always maintain your mental well-being and immune system. If you fail to do so, you may end up with mental challenges making you susceptible to covid-19 and various flu and even other inflammations. When your body’s immune system reacts abnormally, it somehow helps to diminish the capability of the body to function normally and that affects your productivity.

Take Regular Breaks

Everyone needs a very calm mind to be able to focus properly on any constructive engagement. While working at home, you can avoid being stressed up by regularly taking short hourly breaks. That helps productivity. You can use these beaks to just take a walk around and stretch your body a bit. You can use the breaks to take a cup of tea/coffee or even a sip of water from the kitchen fridge. You may even choose to meditate a bit during these breaks. Anything that helps your mental health, blood circulation and alleviates muscle aches is ok during these breaks. What matters is to do things that help your physical body get some much needed movement to improve blood circulation. You may even choose to step out in the balcony to get some fresh air, catch some sunlight and listen to birds/insects sing/chirp or by simply gazing far into the landscape horizon. These activities help your mental health and wellbeing, reduce stress and somehow improve productivity.