What are you doing to grow your internet business?

I was thinking about this question over the last week. Like a lot of you, I have joined a lot of programs and sometimes get overwhelmed. There is so much to learn, and its important to go through the programs to see how they work and and take advantage of the benefits they offer to get the most out of participating in them.

I made a decision to step up my marketing efforts and take a step back to review the programs I am already a part of to see if they are working, am I using them to the maximum potential..to learn as much as I can about them to give them a fair effort. Then after a period of time, I will decide whether to drop or continue with them. Its important to not get so busy doing things, that we don't ask if we are doing what we need to do, or just keeping busy.

The next thing i did was decide to join the 21st century and sign up for twitter. Learning about the various social media, and being active can help you grow your list, by being genuinely interested in the other person. I'm slowly learning how to set my priorities so the important things are being done to take my business to the next level.

Back Online!

Today's post topic is about something very important! Back ups!! This week I had something happen that is a nightmare for those of us who depend upon our computer for building out businesses. My computer decided it was no longer going to boot up Wednesday night. After trying for hours to get the system to recover and finally determining, my computer was dead, I was faced with the news that I would need a new computer and had lost virtually everything. The funny thing was, I had planned on purchasing an external hard drive to do backups of my system, but had not got around to it yet. BIG MISTAKE!!!

Luckily I had been doing my homework about computer systems since I was planning on purchasing a new system soon. I had to work Thursday, so i went into internet withdrawal (can you relate? ) and went out on Friday in search of my new system. After choosing a system and getting the basic setup done, I began the daunting challenge of recovering and downloading all the tools and programs which i use. Thank goodness I took my own advice and had kept a record of all the links and programs I use. I'm still not completely up to date, but it did make the progress lots faster than it would have been.

The worst thing is all of the valuable pictures and documents I was working on that will have to be re-created. So the best advice I can give today is put some kind of back-up system in place. It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive just save your files.. because believe me it CAN happen to you.!