Is social media an effective tool for driving targeted traffic to a brand new website that is starting from a complete standstill?

Based on what we are seeing - yes. I am learning alot with this project, as it is in a market with which I am not at all familiar.

Getting traffic is only the first part of the equation. Motivating that traffic to take action is the part where most social media deployments break down.

More to come in a few days…

Be well…

Social media is part of the getting ideas into the marketplace.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are everywhere. You just had another idea.  In fact, as you are reading this you will get a few new ones.

You can be inspired by anything. The key is what you do with the ideas that you or others have.  Innovation is the buzzword these days… but to truly innovate, someone has to build it and make it work.

In short, an idea that is not executed is nothing but a fleeting flash of brilliance.

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I was noticing that I was too busy for business these days.

• Phone calls.
• Emails to write.
• Meetings to attend.
• Proposals to write.
• Travel Time
• Setup Time
• Presentations
• Web sites to create

I found that I was caught in the same cycle that made my desk job so unbearable. Too much “busy work”.

Too busy handing other stuff to actually get anything done. We have all gone through days and found that we have gotten nothing accomplished.

So enough is enough. Here’s what I did to solve it…

I got out my note book and made a list of who I had to talk to and what I had to do for them. But more importantly – why am I doing this for them.

When I asked the “why” question, I found myself pushing calls and appointments back. Cancelling some calls and clearing out whole days of so-called work.

Now with the days cleared, I can concentrate on designing my life and business the way that it should work for me and not me for it.

What did it take?

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