Guide To Quarterly Planning For Your Online Business

by Michele | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Guide To Quarterly Planning For Your Online Business

Are you quarterly planning for your online business? I’m not talking about a huge extensive plan, just getting your projects laid out for the next quarter. Where you want to focus your time and energy.

Let Me Guide You Through A Quarterly Planning…

At the end of last year did you get an idea of the types of projects that you wanted to complete in the up coming year? If not, no big deal. Do it now.

Brainstorm

Brainstorm an exhausted list of all the projects that you want to accomplish in the next four to five quarters. 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.

Narrow It Down

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

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Align

With your brainstorm list, figure out which projects are aligned with the vision and mission of your online business.

Select projects that are aligned with your online business and rank each of the tasks by importance. This will aid in where you need to start.

Each quarter will be assigned three projects to achieve! Basically, one per month. Start with the projects that have the most impact on the growth of your online business or is the quickest path to cash. Either highlight the three tasks for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 with a different color or note the Q in front of the task.

Now on to quarterly planning for your online business

Now, it's time to organize your next quarter plan. From your list above what did you select as projects to work on for the upcoming quarter?

Do you have a project management application?

If you have a project management system you can set this all up inside so you know what to do when. If not, paper 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.

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.

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.

WordPress Monthly Maintenance

by Michele Duwe, Miss Task | Content Marketing

WordPress Monthly Maintenance

WordPress Monthly Maintenance are you keeping up on this?

With everything seeming like it is moving at the speed of light, it is difficult to juggle all the demands that we place on ourselves. Most of the time we do not have enough hours in the day to complete the items on the to-do list that absolutely must be done.

Not sure how you feel about this, but waking up in the middle of the night with the urgent thought about an important item that slipped off the list? Not my favorite way to startle me awake. When this happens I take a note of it for the morning and it gets added to my list.

Take the time

Keeping up to date with WordPress Monthly Maintenance does take time. Especially if the thought of working on your website feels the same as nails on a chalkboard.

To prevent the monthly maintenance of my WordPress site from slipping off the radar, I created a specific checklist in my task management software with the recurring items to completed. It has three buckets for when I am short on time, have a little more time and have a lot of time. Who am I kidding I never have a lot of time, but I will make time for these items because they are very important for the health of my website.

Checklist

Are you interested in downloading my WordPress Monthly Maintenance checklist? If so, sign up for my email list and receive a free PDF copy along with a monthly reminder email that its time. Link is below.

I hope that you find this checklist helpful, let me know if you have items that you complete that are not on this list. This checklist is ever-changing to keep up with the consent changes of WordPress.

Do you have a system in place? If so, tell me about it below in the comment section.

Enjoy your Day!

Michele

DYI Maintenance Checklist

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This simple checklist will walk you through the tasks that need to be completed each month.

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