How Sequential Planning and Execution works Wonders for Business Owners
Do you have too much to do and barely anytime to execute? Have you been piling up ideas on your table but didn’t inch forward to make even one single idea come to fruition. Do you feel that you are swamped with work every day? The reason all of that happens is lack of planning and then executing plans made. To make it easy for you, the secret to effective planning is called “Sequential planning and execution”.
The phrase is self-explanatory but getting to the bottom of it takes years of training and mind-boggling effort on your part to get things done. It’s usually easier said than done.
Sequential planning consists of getting tasks under a separate head (depends on the project at hand) and going at it sequentially. If you need to develop a plan for marketing your website, for instance, you could make a list similar to this:
Marketing yoursite.com
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SEO/SEM
o Articles and product descriptions ( 5 per day)
o On page optimization
o Off page optimization
o Blogging with SEO targeted posts ( 3 per week)
PPC
o Yahoo PPC
o Google Adwords
Linkbuilding
o Creating satellite pages – squidoo, bukisa, and hubpages with relevant content
o Commenting on other blogs
o Linking to other blog posts within yoursite.com/blog posts.
o Requesting other webmasters to manually add your links…
Newsletters and email marketing
o Create opt-in form
o Start building a list of Interested subscribers
o Send out regular emails loaded with content.
Free Methods of Advertising
o Forum Marketing
o Q &A sites
Article Marketing
o Ezinearticles
o Goarticles
o Work.com
This is just a sample plan for marketing and by setting clear objectives to each of these heads here with the elements within, you are well on your way to planning your success. It’s because this is difficult work that most people fail at it.
No matter what project you have at hand, you could develop sequential plans such as one shown above and execute it come what may.
Have you done sequential planning before? What are your thoughts about it?
