Podcast #4 - Lots of New Projects Coming Up

Hi Caroline,
I’m also guilty of procrastinating and diverting, I somehow convince myself that I’m being productive but I’m actually wasting time on things I could easily postpone. So I’m all over the place with no specific focus. I keep getting distraced with new things I find and I hardly finish things I start. I’ve also been targeting niche marketing and messing around with adsense and this and that, but really not accomplishing much.

Thanks for this podcast, I need to refocus too.
Charlie.

Hi Caroline.
Oh I so understand the ‘being busy without being busy’ - lol
You sound like me with all your projects. I currently have at least 6 things that I want to do which are all major projects - and I’m still in the day job!
I’m a member of John Thornhill’s site - haven’t been in there for a while but I did find the forum extremely useful and I did learn a massive amount by asking questions there and reading various threads. John’s pretty much a master seller. Ebooks are still a favourite of mine although I prefer writing my own to selling other people’s.
May I offer a quick bit of advice? Buy a pop-shield for your microphone - it cuts out the *PPPP* sound of air when you pronounce a P, B or sometimes T into the mic. I never knew how to get rid of it and then someone told me about them so I’m passing on a bit of advice that was given to me - not a criticism :-)
Hope you feel better soon - eat some garlic - great for a sore throat and wards off vampires too ;-)

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yeah i think its great to keep planning ahead thinking of new projects. the more the merryier…

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I have totally mastered busy work. I can do busy work pretty much indefinitely. I call it infomania.

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Thank you for this podcast! I had difficulty finding the other podcasts, even once I used the search function. Perhaps this is something you could address?

Once I found all podcasts though I was inspired to really explore your archives.

Just a couple of suggestions:
- Instead of recording the entire thing again, could you have used a free program like Audacity to re-record that bit?
- You may want to look at Warez sites as a way to market your e-book. This is considerably faster than torrents.

Hope you are feeling better soon!

Hey - can I be the first newsletter subscriber? Whoo Hoo!

Great to hear you on the PodCast. If you are interested in PodCasting, I recommend Jay from Internet Business Mastery as a resource. He is something of a podcasting guru, and his partner Sterling is big into eBay. You might like their podcast (it is on iTunes).

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@Jade, I’ll add a podcast category to make it easier to find them. I do use audacity but to be honest I actually prefer to leave the mistakes in there and just roll with it :)

@Mark, Well who knows, there may be a massive rush of people itching to join it lol! I’m not really interested in podcasting per se - it’s just a nice way for me to ramble on about stuff on the occasions where I don’t feel like writing.

Hi Caroline

I just listened to your podcast. Makes me tired just thinking about all those projects. I am trying to do one at a time these days after hearing this advice from somewhere (can’t remember the source)

The advice was …If you do three projects at the same time which will take 1 month, 2 months and 3 months separately, you won’t have anything finished and making money until 6 months are up.

But if you do the one month project first that will be working for you from month 2 and then the 2 month project will be working for you from month 4 and finally the last one will be ready after month 6.

The only way I change this is, if I have waiting time on a project (while waiting for someone else to so something), I fill the gap by working on the next one.

Hope this helps

Jan

P.S. my work still takes forever LOL must be all that busy work

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@Jan, yeah that’s good advice if you don’t have much time but I do this pretty much full time now so if I was only working on one project at a time, I’d get bored!