You need a simple, but deadly effective time management system.

Today, I'm going to share my system with you. It enables you to be productive day after day and getting an amazing amount work done on the fly.

Simple Time Management for Small Business…

I'm sure you know about the 80/20 rule. Most people get 20% of the things done in 80% of the time, and 80% of the things done in 20% of the time. And if you're like me, and you get most things done in the morning, then make sure you get 80% of your work done in the first 20% of the morning. And remember to do the "To Do" items on your list you fear, first! Then do the fun items!

This has improved my productivity by over 300%, because I always get most of the important "To Do" things done for the day.

The first thing I do when I plan my day, is to enter the tasks that I want to do into a software called the Journal. You can find this software at http://www.davidrm.com. With this amazing software you can enter your "To Do" list for the day, organize your notes about any topic you can think of, and write short stories and articles. In short, I use it for for any information I need to record and remember.

For example, if I need to jot down great information about a specific topic, I put it in the Journal. If I plan to do a specific project, I also put it in the Journal. So as you can see, the Journal simply represents all the information, planning, and goal setting I need to keep track of — in one place. My information is organized and I'm able to stay focused on my tasks ahead.

Time Yourself for Best Results…

I then use XNote Stopwatch to time me for 55 minutes while I do a specific task. I then take a break for 10 minutes, and then do the next task for another 55 minutes. These tasks are not set in stone as far as the length of time is concerned. I could also do a task for 45 minutes and break for 15 minutes if I'm not feeling good on that particular day. The main point though, is that I do the most important task of the day first, which guarantees that I'm getting things done day-by-day.

When I start my highly productive system on a particular day, it works as follows. I close my eyes and imagine how I'm getting the task done with speed and accuracy… And I see the great results I got from my actions. This only takes a few seconds.

I then open my eyes, set the time in XNote Stopwatch, and get cracking with my task for the next 55 minutes. Remember to be focused. Don't surf the Internet, don't call anyone and don't do anything else but this task for the next 55 minutes. I do this cycle at least four times a day.

Can you now see that you have to be productive, because you get 80% of your most important tasks done at the beginning 20% of everyday?

The beauty about the system is that you don't have to force yourself to work. You simply set your most important  tasks you want to do the beginning of the day, and do them before you do anything else.

Create your own system and you'll be an action taker instead of a procrastinator.

The trap I see almost all small business owners fall into, is that they stop marketing like crazy. They seem to get comfortable and "hope" they'll magically make more money.
It ain't gonna happen without constant marketing, and creating several ways to pull in customers!

Take these Four Action Steps to Generate a Constant Stream of Customers For Your  Small Business

1. Market Constantly to Get New Prospects and Customers

If you market to local customers in your immediate area, advertise with flyers, create promotional events, and have permanent ads running in your local press or radio station. You simply have to keep these ads running and stage promotional fun events to be present in front of your prospects on a consistent basis.

If you market nationally, make sure you also market consistenly in front of your target market, via adwords, magazines, TV or radio ads, direct mail and Press Releases etc. Test what medium is profitable to you, but make sure you have a constant stream of prospects becoming aware of your products or services too.

2. Market Your Website With Both Search Engine Optimization Strategies and Google Adwords

Get prospects to your website with Search Engine Optimization strategies and Google Adwords. All Google Adwords clicks should lead to a squeeze page where you get them to sign up for your special report or newsletter. This is the most efficient way to justify the cost of the adwords campaigns. If you simply send these adwords visitors to your homepage, most of them will browse your site and leave… so make sure you send these visitors to a squeeze page and capture their name and email!

3. Introduce Your Customers Into Your "Continuation Program"

If at all possible, get your customers into some kind of continuation program that pays you month by month. No matter what you sell, think of a way to engage your prospects into a monthly payment program (give them a discount for doing this), so you can build your profits exponentially as you manage to get more customers. You don't want to sell them once and then they're gone….

4. Create A Back-End Product or Service For Your Best Customers

Think of a Back-End product or service which you can sell the raving fans of your business. Almost all business have raving fans… those 10% who love your product or service. Create a higher priced product or service these fans will love, which will enable you to generate sales without having to find additional customers.

If you follow these four steps, keep marketing for new customers, and keep developing good products and services for your customers, you'll always be able to make a profit and stay in business. You have to be active and market like crazy though. That's your insurance policy to stay in business and succeed.

What are your strategies for making a small business thrive?

Whether you run a blog or a newsletter, you'll always make more money if you're ever present in front of your targeted prospects and customers.

Give them tips, ideas and help to solve their biggest problems. They'll love you for it.

Here are 5 Tips on Writing Articles with Speed and Getting Links to Your Websites with these Articles:

1. Research Your Article Quickly

Use Google's free search tool, Wordtracker or Nichebot to find out what your target markets' dreams and problems are. You can also search the forums in addition. But take the trouble so you're able to solve your prospects' problems, and you'll certainly get loads of traffic to your articles.

Also get expert books at Amazon on your topic and browse in Google to see what other authors on the internet write about your theme. Now, create your own unique and valuable articles to brand yourself.

2. Write the Sub-Titles of Your Articles

Before I write my articles, I break them into 5 to 7 steps. I write a sub-title for each step, and simply fill each step with the content I've researched.

It's very simple, but it works well as the sub-titles create the framework of my article, and it keeps me focused on what I'm writing about.

3. Write a Strong Headline

Simply model effective headlines to draw prospects into your articles. These headlines are always effective:

• 5 Secrets to…
• How to…
• 3 Best Ways to…
• 7 Common Mistakes… And How to…
• 9 Barriers to …
• Success Secrets for….
• Top 10 ……. Tips to …

4. Write Your Article with Blinding Speed

The new Dragon Naturally Speaking Ver. 10 is more accurate and faster than any previous versions. It makes writing articles very easy and extremely fast by simply speaking into a microphone.

And it's much faster than you can type!

So use it if you can afford it. You should be able to write an article in about a third of the time it takes to type it by hand. Remember not to edit your article until you've finished writing it. First get it done, and then edit it later. This is the fastest way to get articles done.

5. How to Use your Articles to Get Links to Your Website

The old method of submitting an article to hundreds of Article Directories to get linking power to your site, is becoming less and less effective.

Find article directories such as ezinearticles.com which have good page rank for its internal pages and submit your articles to these directories. Your article will then have some page rank within these article directories, and you can use your resource box at the end of the article to link back to your website.

This has two advantages. You get good PR links back to your website, and you have unique articles out there which will still be there for a long time to come… What are your article secrets? Let us know