When you don’t have a boss looking over your shoulder, tutting every time you take a break, it becomes rather hard to stay on task.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all ages,

Gather round,

Let Me Tell You a Secret…

Motivating yourself every day, when you’re in your house surrounded by lots of books to read and food to eat, is HARD!

I’ve tried everything. I even tried reading the food and eating the books.

The Bible is hard to swallow. It’s far too dry.

- Lewis

There is no better motto…

Not to worry though, because blogging has no strict rule book.

I have been thinking a lot lately about my building an empire of articles and lenses and blogs online, to sell mine and other’s products.

I have been hard at work building up my own niche sites, on topics that interest me, and building a bunch of supporting lenses and articles for backlinks too.

It’s hard work, but it’s fun to see the results. I’ve learned lots about article marketing and SEO too.

My next post is about The Most Important Thing In Article Marketing.

…BACKLINKS!

Lewis

What I like about it is that I can sit wherever I like and write, like on a park bench, or on a comfy chair, or scarily high on the back of an elephant.

Hard at work:

This elephant broke my BlackBerry. Moments after this photo was taken we were squirted with river water from her trunk. Guess what I had in my pocket.

My iPhone has a whole bunch of great SEO and Blogging apps too, which makes it a productivity tool to rival my laptop.

Trouble is it’s also a time wasting tool…

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I’m coming up with many ideas, like normal really, for different things, and it’s quite difficult to focus on my new business model (which is writing writing writing).

Nobody, apart from Tiffany Dow perhaps, actually enjoys writing. Even professional writers still feel like they’re bleeding words onto the page.

Staring at a blank page is hard.

But so is not actually earning any money because you spent all day staring.

So I’ve written 2 articles today. Just 2. I have lots of emails and other things, but only 2 articles. But when compared to my old business model, 2 articles is more than I would write in a week!

My plan is to build up my ability to write more in a day. I want to write good quality articles and info without even thinking about it. I want 20 pages a day to be a habit for me.

You can write your own paychecks with 20 pages a day.

Literally, earn whatever you like.

I will be a web guy who knows about all the promotion/seo/blog building/website building/adsense/adwords/squidoo/twitter/list building aspects of online marketing, so I can now apply masses of words.

But still. Creating the writing habit is going to be hard!

Today was a day of Set Up. I have been laying good foundations.

I am a great fan of systems, and things happening exactly as they should. So today I was setting up a system.

I have outsourced a couple of data entry tasks in the past, and I have been setting things up again today for Social Bookmarking. My outsource helper will be bookmarking my articles/web pages/lenses on various websites, so after I complete an article and hit Publish I will simply email her the link and she will get it bookmarked and linked to from various places. The bookmarking sites I have chosen are all dofollow, so the links to my pages will help rankings in Google.

It’s all about the system. You don’t want to just write your fingers to the bone, and get pennies per article because of low visitor numbers. Simply having some backlinks will help it get indexed and could be all that’s needed to help it rise to the top for your chosen search terms.

Today:

Setting up the outsource of the bookmarking tasks
Creating some new accounts on bookmarking websites

Writing shall commence tomorrow!

Lewis

P.S. what elements of your online business do you outsource?