As home business owners and entrepreneurs sometimes it can be difficult to prioritise your work load each day.

What with checking emails, writing blog posts, updating your various social networking sites, answering the phone and contacting your list you can get overwhelmed.

What I use is the great little tool that helps me put everything into a list of 4 priorities, with priority 1 being top  and 4 being bottom.

Check out the image below and I will explain what each one means and how I deal with each of them.

Priority 1: Urgent and Important

So your first priorities of the day should be the things that you must do no matter what. This could be contacting your leads, updating your blog, presenting a webinar or just about anything that is the most important thing you must do without fail.

Priority 2: Important, Not Urgent

Your second priority will be important but not urgent. This could be something like updating your social networking sites, checking emails or anything like that. It’s a task that you is important and needs to be done but it could wait until the next day.

Priority 3: Urgent, Not Important

On to your third priority of the day and these are task that are urgent but not important, now what could that mean. Well it’s urgent for somebody else but not important for you. That person needs you to complete the task ASAP but you have more personal urgent and important tasks to do. It’s up to you how to deal with this and decide how important it is for you to do the task for that person. Each situation will be different.

Priority 4: Not Urgent, Not Important

Your forth priority is all the tasks that keep getting put off day to day. They are things that may have been priority 1, 2 or 3 but for whatever reason they were never completed. These task are likely to never be completed so the best thing to do is scrap them off your list. They are just clogging up space, so to speak.

That’s how I put all of my daily, weekly and monthly tasks into order of priority to help organise my life a little better. I would be interested to hear how your priorities tasks.

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I found this article on Linus Ruzicka’s blog and wanted to add a couple of points about tagging people in a welcome message on Facebook. Do this right and you will stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons, like Linus, but get it wrong and you will still stand out but for reasons you don’t want.

This is a practise that I use and I have seen other people use as well. A simple welcome video where you introduce yourself and say hi is fine as long as you don’t spam.

Now if you read the article it’s obvious that the guy may have had this type of thing done before but with links to websites etc. I have seen people who tag you in a video and when you click the link it’s a promotional video to their business.

Not cool guys, you know who you are!

So I can see why this person who Linus tagged in a welcome video may get a bit annoyed, but hang on a second. Would this person of preferred it if Linus had written out the video into text and posted that as a welcome message on his wall? What’s the difference?

So if you are going to tag someone who is not in a video and use it as a welcome message please follow these do’s and don’ts.

• DO NOT add any links to blogs, website lead capture pages or anything. You are reaching out for the first time, just say hello!
• DO NOT leave the video up for days on end, 24 to 48 hours is fine.
• DO NOT sell, pitch or promote anything in your video.
• DO add a text message which will appear at the side, but no links.
• DO make the video with you in it, not your company website.

These are just some of the basic’s, and to be honest it’s not that difficult to get right, however it would appear that some people just can’t help themselves and will take every opportunity they can to pitch their business to you.

Just like everything with social networking, this is a small part of building  relationships with people.

I have around 1400 friends on Facebook and have used this to greet all of them and have had only one person who did not like what I did. I have  around 30 people who have click the like button and have had around 100 positive comments.

So just because one person may not like what you do, don’t be put off. This technique lets you stand out from the crowd, dare to be different.

Thanks for reading.

Tristram Lodge

Social networking is fast becoming the internet marketer’s best friend. Original designed for high school and collage students to keep in touch it has evolved into a community of professional business owners interacting with one another.  You can get targeted traffic from your niche to your profile and promote yourself as a leader within that niche.

Now this is where a lot of people who use Facebook social networking fall down.  Your profile should be an online billboard that promotes you and your particular expertise. Let me explain, if you own a network marketing business and you have used article marketing to build that business show people how they can also build a network marketing business using articles. Don’t promote you business its a sure fire way to get yourself unfriended.

A lot of people may disagree with me on this one but if you are doing what 97% of people are doing on Facebook then you are just like everyone else and you will never stand out from the crowd. Facebook social networking is not about promoting your business, but about building relationships with people.

People do business with people not with companies, products or comp plans.

This is another promotional tip, under the “Info” tab put as much information about yourself as you like. What music you like, books you like to read, films you enjoy. Include your interests and hobbies, this is a great icebreaker. You get the picture, but once again don’t promote your business, just your expertise.

Another great area you can build relationships on Facebook is by joining groups and participating with those groups in the discussion area or putting links to articles you have written or to your blog. If the group will allow you to post video then this is internet prime real estate. If you can put up free training videos than you will have people falling over themselves wanting to network with you. This puts you as a leader and you will stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons.

The last little tip that I will give you today on Facebook social networking is do the social networking bit with your Facebook friends. On the home page you will see all of your friends status updates and you can click the “Like “  word under the update or even better respond to their update.

If they are having a bad day, give them some words of encouragement, if they are not feeling well tell them you hope they feel better soon. This will help build your relationship with that person, but also all of their friends will see your comments and you could attract more people into your group of friends that way.

 It will also show that you are not just out to make a quick buck from everyone whom you come into contact with on the internet. Facebook social networking is a great way to keep your target audience up to date with your latest training and offers.

For an indepth look at how to use social networking to grow your business click here and start using this fantasic media the right wat. Most of your competition will not be using any of this cool stuff so while your sitting on a beach drinking cocktails they will still be struggling to $10 a month.

Thanks for reading

Tristram Lodge