Quarterly Project Plan For Your Online Business

by Michele | Online Business, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Quarterly Project Plan for Your Online Business

This is a great time to begin your Quarterly Project Plan for your online business. I’m not talking about a huge extensive plan, just getting your projects laid out for the next quarter. What is the best use of your time and energy?

A Little Side Note

If you’re planning a large launch to take place in the next quarter and you know all focus needs to go into this. This would be your only project for the quarter.

Let Me Guide You Through A Quarterly Project Plan…

Brainstorm an exhausted list of all the projects that you want to accomplish in the next three months. When I say exhausted, I mean braindump all the ideas and information from your head on the list. No project is too small or simple for the list. Write down everything that pops into your head, no judgment.

Get out your pen and paper and get the projects out on paper. I like to highlight, cross off and of course color code.

With your brainstorm list, figure out which projects are aligned with the vision and mission of your online business. Cross off any that is unaligned or feels heavy in your business.

Circle all the projects that are aligned with your online business and rank each of the tasks by importance or if they have an outside commitment. An example of an outside commitment to someone else to be a guest on their podcast. This will aid in where you need to start.

Now on to Quarterly Project Plan for your online business

From your list above what did you circle as projects to work on for the upcoming quarter?

If you have a project management system you can set this all up inside so you know what to do when. If not, a paper calendar or Bullet Journal will work just fine.

At the top, write out your online business mission, vision, and goals for the upcoming quarter. Under this break it into three columns. One for each project.

Looking at your list if you had to pick just one project what would it be?

Start with that one.

Under the Project Header

Now we are going to put in all the tasks that need to be completed by who and when. Will you need any resources, such as a new software application, to complete the task?

Not all the tasks must be completed by you. It’s very important that you stay in your lane and delegate out the tasks that can be done by someone else.

Quarterly Project Plan for Your Online Business

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Do you have tired eyes?

by Michele Duwe, Miss Task | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Do you have tired eyes?

By the end of your workday do you have tired eyes? Are your eyes dry, sore and have difficulty focusing? Do you have a headache? These are symptoms of digital eye strain.

Yup, I had digital eye strain

If you answer yes to any of the above, you could be experiencing digital eye strain. This is caused by overexposure to blue light from our digital devices. As an Online Business Manager and Web Designer, I’m pretty much in the same boat as you, sitting in front of our digital device is how we serve our clients and prospective clients.

Little Side Note

Have you heard of the Kolbe A? It is an assessment that identifies the natural way you take action. My high number is fact finer which means, I start everything I do with research.

Enter Research Mode Here

At the end of the day when I had tired eyes that were so exhausted I didn’t even want to open them, I entered into research mode.

What I found out is…

I was suffering from digital eye strain, in this day and age is very common. A solution to digital eye strain is simple, you can purchase computer glasses that reduce the blue light exposure from your digital devices.

With a Google search, you will have more options than you know what to do with. Because I wanted to make sure they would be helpful I just found a pair on Amazon. I did not even give it a second thought I ordered them immediately.

Can you say life changing

These glasses have made a huge difference for me. ((Insert little dance party here)) In the evening my eyes do not feel tired and dry. Nor does my vision seem hazy any longer. My eyes are not tired in the evening and my vision does not seem as blurry as it was in the past. I can tell you from experience that when my first pair broke and I didn’t replace them right away I could tell from my tired eyes I had all the digital eye strain symptoms again.

Here is a bit of my research if you would like to check it out:

Article One: Blue Light – It's Both Bad and Good for you from All About Vision

This had a ton of great information in it. It explains why blue light is needed and why too much of it is bad for our eyes.

Article Two: Blue Light and Your Eyes from Prevent Blindness

This article gives a list of what you can do to protect your eyes from blue light.

I did read through a few others, but I found the most information in the two articles above.

Dubsado for Managing Your Prospects

by Michele | May Contain An Affiliate Link, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Dubsado for Managing Your Prospects

Dubsado for managing your prospects

Utilizing Dubsado for managing your prospects is an ingenious time-saving move as a business owner.

For Reals

Yes, really! How are you currently managing your prospects? Let me share with you how I handled them before Dubsado was recommended to me by a Mastermind Sister.

A prospect would fill out a Google Form with a list of questions about there business. I would review the form and send a follow-up email with a link to Calendly so that they could schedule a call.

They would get entered into my project management system for follow up. All pretty manual, ya I know I could use Zapier to connect everything. However, it is so much simpler going into one application for all the things.

And Now

When a prospect visits my website they still fill out a form, though this form is from Dubsado. I’m able to map the fields, create a new lead, tag them with interest and select how they found me.

Once the form has been completed it enters a workflow, pending the answers they’ve provided it sends the appropriate follow up email to meet the specific done for you service they need.

Scheduling too

Dubsado has rolled out scheduling too. They are so fancy, yet still so simple to use. Instead of using Calendly, I’m able to use Dubsdo for scheduling the discovery call with the prospect.

Following the discovery call, a task to follow up at a later time is set up or if we both decide to say“yes” to working together than a proposal, contract and invoice are sent out of Dubsado.

A Little Side Note

This isn't the first time that I've professed my love of Dubsado.

Check out my earlier post too!

After it’s signed they go into another workflow, that actives them on my client portal, send them all the information they need about working with the Miss Task Team and creates a project. Did it take some time to set up – heck ya. Still, once it is set up say bye-bye to doing all the work manually every single time.

Would you like to use Dubsado for managing your prospects for your business? Here is my affiliate link that provides you with 20% off your first month! Oh, and they do allow you to try it out for FREE up to three projects. Just lets you dip your toe in the water first – love it!

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