Finally, this is the longly awaited “How To Overcome Information Overload – Part 2″! After the last post on information overload, many subscribers have requested if I could go into more details as it was rather brief.
So here we go. The KEY to overcoming information overload is…

Focus.

That’s it. Even if you get bombarded with emails after emails from those gurus promoting their latest internet marketing products, you’ve got to keep yourself focused. You’ve got to stay on track on what you’re doing right now, and not get distracted.

Rather than buying every single product that comes down the pipe every week, look at the big picture. Look at what you’re doing right now in internet marketing. Are you doing affiliate marketing? List building? Traffic generation? Copywriting? Blogging? Pick, focus and specialize in one of those methods.

Now that whenever a new internet marketing product comes out, all you have to do is see if it fits within your big picture of what you’re currently doing. It really boils down to looking at your internet marketing business as a whole. If you’re doing list building right now, then purchase only list building products. If an Adsense product comes out, ignore it. Even if it claims that it’s the “latest, revolutionary tactic to generating instant $100,000 paychecks”, ignore it, because it doesn’t fit in with what you’re doing. Don’t get distracted. Focus on what you’re doing.

In terms of overcoming information overload on a day-to-day basis is to write down your purpose for the day on a sticky note and put it on your monitor. That way, whenever you start going off track and reading other things, you’ll remind yourself by looking at the note and get back to what you’re doing. If you feel you’ve gone off track, force yourself to ask this question: “Does this really fit with my purpose for being online right now?”

Stanley Tang

[tags]internet marketing, information overload, focus, time management[/tags]