Welcome to Episode 80 of Praestabilis: Excellence in Marketing

Welcome! In Episode 80 the topic is around managing your time and deciding when to begin outsourcing some of the tasks and activities that are a part of your business.

I continue to only engage in four areas in my business. These include:

* Writing – blog posts, short reports, focus guides, sales letters, books, and more

* Creating – products, courses, challenges, and events

* Marketing – I’m the “Marketing Madwoman” and relish this title! Marketing makes the business world go ’round, and I wish I would have embraced this concept sooner in my life.

* Mentoring/Consulting – I love working with individuals, organizations (for profit and non-profit), companies, and corporations to help them with their marketing, online and offline.

I began my outsourcing journey by setting up a “barter” arrangement with someone I met at a live event in 2006. She set up websites, did technical work, and created graphics for me, in return for me helping her learn more about marketing herself and her business. A year and a half later I started paying her for her services. Soon I was building a team of people who continue to help me grow my business.

Take a close look at what you love doing, what you strongly dislike, and know that outsourcing at least some tasks and activities to others is the way to increase your income and your free time.

Pick up a copy of my book, “Time Management Strategies for Entrepreneurs: How to Manage Your Time to Increase Your Bottom Line” at https://amzn.to/37QfTWg

“Everything we do in our lives is preparing us for something that will arise in the future, even though we don’t yet know what that will be.” ~ Connie Ragen Green

I have created a training course on how you may do the same thing at Become A Local Celebrity and you may reach out to me at conniegreenhouse @ Yahoo .com if you’d like to come in at a discount.

Embrace the Hard Parts of Everything You Do…  Because Skipping Through the Hard Parts of Life Won’t Serve You

Throughout my lifetime I have discovered that skipping past or through the crucial parts does not serve one well. These also tend to be the boring or uninteresting parts of the process, so it takes grit and perseverance if you are to achieve success and reach your full potential.

Some of the things I engaged in during 2006, the first year of my online business were born of necessity. I was a new online entrepreneur with no prospect list or connections. Also, I did not have an information product or course or even an eBook to sell and start earning some income. I order to get my new business rolling and bringing in some money, I knew I’d have to get creative. I came up with  few simple success strategies that continue to be effective today:

* I hosted a weekly “Ask Connie Anything” call. This was a teleseminar, so anyone could join me by simply dialing in to my conference line. They could also go to the webpage to ask their questions at any time, whether or not they were attending live. The replay was accessible from the same link, making this a stress free solution.

* Three times a week, I wrote and published a short post to one of the several blogs I had set up on a variety of topics. I hadn’t yet chosen my niche and was still experimenting with my ideas.

* I reached out to the people I was buying from through email primarily. If they had an affiliate program I joined it and then shared information about them with those who attended my teleseminars,