Element 4: Watering & tending – I will water the plants on a regular basis in order to see good results.

Thank you for sticking with me on this series! This is element 4 in our series about what gardening has to do with internet marketing.

Today's element, watering and tending, relates to our need to be consistent in our efforts. Do SOMETHING, every day, toward growing your business.

That may include spending time on social networking sites, building relationships (soaking). Other times it will mean pulling the weeds (evaluating what is effective and eliminating what is not).

If you do not water your garden, your plants will die. If you do not pull the weeds once in a while, your garden will become overgrown with them. They will zap the resources that the good plants need and your plants will suffer. In the same way, your business will wither and die if you do not continue to feed and water it. You will become worn out from caring for the weeds that aren't getting you anywhere if you do not stop to evaluate them and remove them once in a while!

I encourage you today to make a daily plan of action. Include how much time you will spend each day with vital tasks such as:

- Advertising. Try to promote each program you are working in at least 10 places per day. At then end of the month, you have roughly 300 posts working for you!). I will be adding a list of free advertising resources to the sidebar soon!

- Social Networking. You may even break it out by each social networking site. This includes sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Yuwie, 6dgr, EziHippo, any NING sites you belong to, etc.

- Follow up with leads. It's so true that there is a fortune in the follow up. Someone you talked to three months ago may be ready to join your program today!.

- Follow up with your team. Love 'em or lose 'em. Some people won't ask for help, assuming you are too busy for them. Make sure they know you are available, even if it's only one hour a day.

Monday Tasks

In addition to my daily tasks, my Monday AOMA tasks include:

Promoting my programs by posting ads at:
Rockin Text Ads
Mammoth Text Ads
Serious Traffic Ad Exchange
Traffic Warp

Post Specials for Avon, Mineralicious, and Teaporia on BusyShopaholics blog.

Post Specials and network in 3 Social Networks.
Check in with Yahoo Groups.

Brring! Get Paid Every Time Your Phone Rings!

A while back I signed up for Brring. It's a free ringback service. What that basically means is that it's free to sign up. Brring provides you with a new phone number that redirects to your current home or cell phone number. Callers hear a 10 second advertisement from companies from record labels and movie studios to travel services and popular consumer brands. Brring also partners with humanitarian and charitable organizations to run public service announcements.

Every time someone calls you on your Brring number, your account gets credited up to $0.05. You can also earn by creating a profile, notifying your friends, family, or business contacts of your new phone number, and referring others to this free service.

One thing I like about it is that it keeps my phone number private. I use my Brring number on internet forms and on my promotional materials.

I've made $12.65 so far. Not bad for doing something you already do every day: receive phone calls. The minimum to get paid is $10.