There are plenty of mindless, totally boring steps in internet marketing, particularly when it comes to link building.  That has been the major thing slowing down my output, and dragging on me.  Every time I realize that the time has come to post all my damn articles to 50 different websites and build the links, I get this ultimate dragging feeling and then my mind distracts itself by finding something more interesting to do.  This cycle perpetuates, and the reason is that it’s simply NOT worth your time to do all the linking yourself.  Ugh.  What a terrible task… just about as bad as accounting. HA!

Now that I’m finally willing to pay other people to do things for me, I’ve realized that the most important factor to success is getting things done exactly how I want them to be done.  Communicating clearly with the outsourcer, and having very specific requirements for the work I receive.  That way, if I’m not happy with the end result, I can point to a specific line in the job instructions that clearly states what I expected, and then demonstrate how that objective wasn’t fulfilled, eliminating any confusion in the mind of the outsourcer.

So what I’m doing now is going through every boring & repetitive task that I feel is essential to my current project,  doing it once, writing down exactly what my thought process was, as well as the steps I took to accomplish that task in a manner that pleases me.   It sucks, but I have a feeling of accomplishment when I finish each task, knowing that I will hopefully never have to do that task again unless I choose to.

An added bonus is that by keeping very specific track of these tasks, I’m actually creating a specific internet marketing method for success that I’m going to turn into a product down the road and sell to other people.  2 birds, 1 stone.  Huzzah!