Blueprint for Weekly Online Business Tasks

The idea of running an online business can be exciting and your mind may be filled with all kinds of exciting ideas on what that looks like. It can be overwhelming and so having a blueprint for weekly online business tasks can really help keep things sorted and running smoothly.

Having an online business comes with many responsibilities, whether you are selling your own product or you’re an affiliate marketer promoting other people’s products.

You have to take care of various tasks and most people don’t realize just how much is involved in getting the business up and running.

When there’s a lot on your to-do list every day, it can start to feel like you have too much to handle. 

This is why you need to have a plan in place in order for your affiliate marketing business to be able to run as smoothly as possible.

It’s really all about time management and focusing your efforts on moving the needle in your online business daily.

When you have a plan and system to implement that plan in place, it can ease the feeling of juggling too much at once and you won’t feel as stressed. 

Also, by setting up the right plan, it will make it easier to hire outsourcers to share the load so that you can have a break when and if you need to.

With the weekly plan provided in this post, you’ll be able to implement the steps you need to take every day Monday through Friday – including what you need to check off on your daily to-do list.

Keep in mind that this is still YOUR online business and these are only suggestions. 

It’s still your choice how you decide to organize things and what works best for your schedule.

With these suggestions, you’ll have an idea of when you should be updating your blog, when you should reach out to your mailing list, and when you need to touch base with your audience on social media. 

You’ll also learn the best times and ways to introduce your products, how to deal with customer service and how to establish and thrive with an affiliate marketing business.

If you’re someone who doesn’t like a daily to-do list that’s spread out during the week, you can make the plan work so that you group like-minded jobs all together on the same day.

Again, it’s up to you. These are only suggestions of what a plan could look like during a 5 day period, so tweak things as you see fit.

For example, on one day, you can take care of all of the social media marketing and knock that off the list. 

Or, you can take care of your newsletter content. 

How you arrange the tasks is up to you.

So, here is the breakdown of Days 1-5

These tasks will include suggestions whether you’re a product creator, an affiliate marketer or both.

In other words, not all the tasks will necessarily apply to your specific online business.

So, just ignore those that don’t apply to you and your business.

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Day 1 Online Business Tasks:  

📋 Blog Procedure – Examine the Prior Content on Your Blog

Start your week by examining the prior posts that you have on your blog. 

You want to figure out which of your posts had a lot of engagement or clicked with the audience. 

If you find that you had a lot of interaction, something resonated with them, note that so you can duplicate it going forward.

Sign into your website analytics so that you can see how many visitors you had, what pages they visited.

If you allow comments on your website, look and see whether or not anyone left a comment. 

If you do see comments, you want to respond immediately.

This is one reason you want to regularly check your website analytics. 

It’s important to know what’s going on behind the scenes of your blog posts.

One reason is because good engagement gets your blog a higher ranking in search engines when people are searching for certain keywords and phrases. 

Another reason is because you want to understand where the traffic is coming from.

If a lot of it is coming from one social media platform over another, then that can tell you where to concentrate your efforts. 

You also want to look at how you wrote the posts that moved the audience to want to engage.

While you definitely want to pay attention to the posts that did well, you don’t want to ignore the posts that didn’t. 

You want to check out what could have caused an audience to overlook them or not engage.

Usually, this has something to do with not using strong enough keywords, or the content just didn’t spark an emotional connection to get that reaction. 

Don’t just leave posts alone that didn’t do well – edit them to make them stronger so that they can pull in traffic, too.

📋 Email Procedure – Make Your Email Marketing Plan

Also on Day 1, one of the tasks that you need to focus on is your email marketing. 

Go to whatever system you use for automated emails. 

You want to write email broadcast drafts that you’ll be using throughout the week.

To keep this step organized for easy reference, label each email according to that day’s date. 

So for example, you might be sending something out on Tuesday, the 17th. 

You might label that as Tue-17th so that you know when you’re supposed to queue that up to go out.

In the content part of the email, make sure that you use whatever salutation you’ve chosen. 

Most people use the words Hello, Hi, or Good morning. 

You can set it to auto input the email list recipient’s first name by using the short code designated by whatever email system you use!

Then you want to add something about your week or day because this is a way of building a personal connection. 

Next, share what you have to offer. 

This could be your own product, an affiliate product or another item you want to promote.

Explain why they will want this item by showing them the results or value they’ll get from buying and using it. 

Finish it up with a useful tip or insight that your subscriber will be grateful for.

Once you’ve done that, end the email with whatever closing phrase you’ve chosen along with your name. 

By having this email plan, you can simply create an extra section or offer in your emails if you end up needing to inform your subscribers about something else.

📋 Social Media Procedure – Grow Your List With Posts

Another task you’ll want to do on this day is to sign in to each one of your social media platforms. 

On these platforms, you’ll want to mention what incentive it is that you’re offering for people who sign up for your email marketing list.

You’ll want to mention how your free gift can help them. 

It’s you basically saying what they’ll gain from getting it. 

On each of your social media posts, you need to direct traffic straight to the offer on your website.

Looking at your incentive, you’ll want to highlight something from it to share that causes the audience to want to know more. 

Then use a prompt directing them on what they need to do next.

Don’t skip that part. 

This step is important because it’s what can make people want to do something to get what they want. 

For many people, it takes several times of hearing a call to action to actually do what they’re being invited to do.

📋 Product Launch Procedure – Know What the People Need

You can’t sell what someone doesn’t need no matter what you say. 

That’s why it’s imperative that you tap into the direct need of a consumer. 

You can figure this out by examining your audience’s online questions, comments and purchases.

Pay attention to what people say when they contact you. 

Sometimes people will email you directly for advice. 

You can also check out what your audience says when they respond to your posts online.

See what type of information guides, courses and books that your audience is buying. 

Create a master list of what questions they’re asking to solve certain issues. 

That will tell you what your audience is hungry for.

📋 Affiliate Marketing Procedure – Research Items to Share with Your Audience

Part of your plan to build a successful business as an online entrepreneur will include research. 

You need to figure out what you’re going to promote. 

Decide how many items you’re going to promote each week, then search for that amount of items.

You can do this research by looking on well-known affiliate sites like ClickBank, Commission Junction and Amazon. 

Make sure that you’re looking for items that have a good reputation and offer value.

If you promote items that are crappy, your audience will stop trusting you. 

The products you promote should directly address their most pressing needs. 

That may be physical, financial, or emotional in nature.

📋 Customer Service Procedure – Help Your Customer

If you are selling your own product, your goal should always be to help your customer.

Great customer service will help you build a reputation as someone that takes care of their audience. 

Never ignore any correspondence from your customers, whether emails, comments or direct messages on social media. 

You should try to always direct any customer service issues to a specific email address, contact support form or even a ticket system. 

Look at all the messages in your inbox. 

Make sure you search your trash in case you accidentally deleted one and always look in the Spam, Junk or promotion folder, just so that you don’t overlook anything.

Even if you can’t fix the issue that same day, you can still reach out to the customer to let them know they’ve been heard and that you’re working to fix the issue. 

This builds good will with them and ensures they’ll stay tuned in to you for niche leadership.

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Day 2 Online Business Tasks:

📋 Blogging Procedure – Study Your Niche Market and Outline Posts

On Day 2, you’re going to want to study whatever niche market you’re promoting. 

By knowing the interests of the audience in whatever niche that you’re in, you can create posts that will both help readers as well as convert them into buyers.

Make sure that your posts aren’t all the same. 

Not only will that bore your audience, but they’ll start to feel like you don’t have anything new to talk about. 

You want to create posts that make people regular readers of your blog.

So offer them a lot of different styles. 

Create some blog posts that give them a lot of information and ways to help their lives or businesses. 

Then, create other posts where you’re giving out advice or ways that they can do something faster, easier or better.

Have other posts where you put together information that you’ve culled from a variety of resources, but all pertain to something important in your niche. 

Highlight helpful resources that have been shared by experts or do a Q&A on a blog post featuring someone within the niche community who’s well-known or always gives top-notch advice.

Share any industry news that you come across that may be interesting to your website audience.

Whatever is important, relevant or brand new within your niche, you want to be sure that you share that on your blog. 

Create a rough draft for your posts so that when you go to write them, you can get it done fast, without leaving out any important details.

📋 Email Marketing Procedure – Line Up Your Promotions

A task that you want to include on Day 2 is to line up what you’re going to promote in the upcoming days. 

Type up a spreadsheet of products you plan to recommend to your subscribers. 

These don’t have to be posted on your blog, but are emailed directly to your subscribers instead.

You’re going to have to do some research to see what new products are about to hit the market. 

The best way to find this out is to check out various places online that offer these products.

Depending on your niche, these new products may be digital information products, tangible products or courses and memberships.

Look around for deals for your audience so that way you can offer them a discount when they buy the product.

This might be a simple launch period or a coupon code you’ve secured for them. 

Get everything organized so that you know what you’re going to be sharing. 

It can be tempting to talk about all the great deals that are being released, but you don’t want to do that because you can overwhelm your subscribers.

Instead, schedule your promotions throughout the week to highlight the best ones you feel will meet their needs. 

There are many affiliates who promote anything and everything just to make money, but they lose the trust of their audience.

📋 Social Marketing Procedure – It’s Time to Connect

It’s not going to do you any good to find products and set up various online business tasks if you don’t connect with others. 

These are going to be people who can promote your products or whose products you can promote as an affiliate.

The best way to connect with people is to send them a direct message.

You can do this by reaching out to them on social media or via a direct contact on their website or in an email. 

It’s always good to begin nurturing those relationships publicly by engaging on their content first before you hit them up privately.

📋 Product Launch Procedure – Think About and Plan Your Launch

This task is one that shouldn’t be too difficult because by now you’ve done some research into items that your audience can use. 

So what you’re going to do now is to create the product and come up with selling points for that item.

You can scope out what’s already on the market that is similar and consider what you can add that will improve the actions or results of that item. 

You don’t have to worry about the success of this product because items that you know for sure your audience needs will sell well.

You can just work up a short visual or written info product to let them know it’s coming or is available. 

Outline it so that the product creation process is seamless and quick, allowing you to make money easily.

📋 Affiliate Marketing Procedure – Share What the Product Can Do

It’s time to look at the affiliate items you’ve selected to recommend and talk about how it can help your audience. 

Share a brief introduction of the item, how much it’s going to cost and how it’ll help those who buy it.

Because your audience trusts you, if you’ve found any flaws or things that don’t work as best as it could with the product, then mention that. 

You can even create a note or something where you share how to fix that detrimental aspect.

📋 Customer Service Procedure – See If Your Audience Has Contacted You

Open up each of your online platforms and search your inbox. 

You’re looking for communications from customers that you need to handle. 

Sometimes, these will be compliments. 

Even so, you still want to reach out to the person with a thank you! and acknowledge the time they took to reach out.

Other times, you’ll get negative feedback that may be a rant or something unpleasant to deal with. 

You still want to deal with it because ignoring their message could cause that person to lash out publicly and you want to protect your online business and reputation.

Be sure to also check your blog posts or anywhere else where you’ve posted. 

Make sure you address what the audience is saying in the comments section of those posts. 

This not only appeases that individual, but shows others you’re not absent from the conversation.

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Day 3 Online Business Tasks:

📋 Blogging Procedure – Making Visually Appealing Posts

On Day 3, you want to spend some time working on your blog. 

One thing that you want to make sure of is that all of your posts aren’t just filled with text. 

Most people won’t even read blocks of words.

You have to make the post visually appealing. 

You can do this by adding a photo or an infographic or include a video. 

People are more likely to read through blog posts that have these items.

Use a graphic design tool to make your graphs or to create a video. 

Whatever images you do add to your blog, make sure you have the license to do so. 

Look up sites such as Canva Pro for images and check out DepositPhotos located on my Recommended Resources page.

📋 Email Marketing Procedure – Show Your Worth and Highlight Products

Now it’s time to set up the emails you’ll be sending out. 

Go into whatever email list program that you’re using and tailor them to your audience. 

You want to make these more personal and then talk about whatever it is that you’re selling as a product creator or recommending as an affiliate.

Mention what the audience will be getting, any deals that are offered and then give them the direct URL for them to click on that will take them straight to that item. 

Don’t forget the conclusion of the email message such as sharing some advice that’ll help them or letting them know about a strategy you found helpful.

This prevents your message from being one that’s salesy. 

It’s important to always provide value in your email. 

It doesn’t matter where in the email it is, but usually, it’s a good note to end on.

📋 Social Marketing Procedure – Make a Variety of Content to Share

This task involves creating content that you’re going to upload on whatever social media you’re using, such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, etc.

If you don’t have anything created, you can share things specific about your niche like pictures, other videos, audio and more. 

You’ll want to talk about whatever it is you’re sharing, if it’s not your own work and tell the audience the purpose behind sharing it.

End by prompting the audience to comment (so that you’re interacting with them), like or share it. 

Make sure you’re checking back for comments, so that you keep the conversation alive.

📋 Product Launch Procedure – Buy or Make Your Item Design

As a product creator, what you want to do today is to either buy or make your launch designs. 

It’s important that if you decide to get someone to design it for you that you hire someone who has good reviews and gives a professional looking design.

This is representing your business and you want it to look good. 

You can use someone from the various outsourcing platforms available, but check out samples of their work first. 

If you want to make it yourself, then you can use graphic design programs online, such as Canva Pro.

📋 Affiliate Marketing Procedure – Get Acceptance and Direct Links

On Day 3, you need to reach out about the items you’re going to want to promote as an affiliate. 

Just because you want to do so doesn’t mean that you can because some vendors require you to apply to be an affiliate. 

Some affiliate marketers spam people and it ends up not converting, which lowers the conversion rate for the vendor, so they only allow serious affiliates.

So, check to see if you’ve been accepted, so that you can share the direct links with your audience.

Your odds of getting accepted by the vendor go up when you create a connection between you and the other party. 

Reach out and let them know your plans for how you will promote their product and how you think it’s going to help those you share it with.

This helps them to see that you’re a professional and really want to promote the product. 

📋 Customer Service Procedure – Gather Information to Better Your Business

Information from consumers is extremely important in any business, including online business. 

Create a list of research questions where you ask your audience how they feel your business could do better. 

You might get answers that’ll show you things you had no idea were lacking.

Or, you might hear back about some things the consumer wishes that you offered and this can lead to product ideas for the future. 

Think about what the consumers are saying and see what concepts they have that you can implement in your online business.

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Day 4 Online Business Tasks:

📋 Blogging Procedure – Prepare the Content for Your Blog

You need to prepare the content for your blog on this day. 

Make sure that you create posts that are going to connect with the audience. 

You want to think about what topics to talk about that will draw readers in.

Never miss an opportunity to level up the interaction with your audience. 

Every time you write out a blog post, prompt them to do something. 

This might be to download a report, to tell others about the post or tell you their thoughts.

📋 Email Marketing Procedure – Schedule Your Emails

Much of what you do in online business can be automated and your emails are one of them. 

Determine where the messages are going to go and when they’re going to go out. 

Then you can set-up the email to be sent on that day and time.

And this is very important: Don’t just set it and forget it…Double check your emails!

You want to check them by having a copy sent to your email first. 

This way, you’ll be able to see that it arrives correctly without anything that you need to fix, such as the links in it, before it is sent to the audience.

It is frustrating for your subscribers to get emails that are full of incorrect information, typos and links that don’t work.

It is embarrassing for you to have to turn around and resend a corrected email to everyone.

This happens to the best of us, but it really is preventable if you slow down and make sure everything is correct before the email goes out to your entire list.

📋 Social Marketing Procedure – Find Valuable Content to Share

You don’t just want to share your own content with your audience – you also want to share what others are teaching. 

You can search for information in your niche, among the people who you follow on social media and share that.

Be sure and give credit to the person who taught that or originally shared it. 

Make each social media post relevant. 

You want to make sure that it has value for your audience. 

It could be some tips, tricks, news or expert interviews or something that can help those who follow you.

📋 Product Launch Procedure – Develop Items for Your Audience

On Day 4, it’s time to take the ideas and outlines you’ve worked on and develop products that your audience can use and that you’ll be able to promote to them. 

If you’re relatively new to this part of having an online business, it might take you some time to do the first product, but you will get faster as you go along.

If you don’t like the idea of doing it yourself, you can always hire someone to make it. 

Or you can buy a private label rights license to use and sell something like an eBook or video course as your own product.

📋 Affiliate Marketing Procedure – Share Your Opinion of an Item 

You’ll want to give your opinion about the items that you’ve researched and gotten approval to promote as an affiliate.

There are so many ways that you can do this. 

You can write up an in depth product review on your website.

Or, you can create a podcast talking about. 

If it’s a tangible product and not digital, some affiliate marketers make videos of themselves unboxing and using the product and then talk about what they like or don’t like about it.

Once you write out your thoughts on the item, you’ll want to talk about it not just on your blog, but other places you hang out online so that it directs traffic back to you. 

Some platforms allow you to link directly to the product with your affiliate link, but others will only let you link back to your blog post review.

📋 Customer Service Procedure – Reward Your Audience

People always like to get something extra at no cost.

You can give something to your audience that they didn’t anticipate getting.

It doesn’t have to be something complicated or expensive.

Customers love to get something for nothing.

You could send items like free journal printout pages, a mini-course or whatever else you feel like they could use.

For online entrepreneurs who are too busy to come up with these extras, you can outsource it or buy pre-made PLR products that you can rework and tailor for your followers.

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Day 5 Online Business Tasks:

📋 Blogging Procedure – Get Your Blog Posts Ready and Queued Up

On Day 5, you want to get your blog posts ready, so that you can get them lined up to publish for whatever date and time you’ve selected. 

There’s no set amount of blog posts that you have to line up at the same time.

You can do what works for you – but regular content releases resonate best with an audience as well as with search engine bots. 

Use headings, and short paragraphs that are divided by visuals like images or videos.

Some people use bullet points. 

Practice good SEO habits by using the right keywords and phrases. 

Always check each post before it goes live so that you catch any mistakes you may have accidentally made.

📋 Email Marketing Procedure – Tighten up the Subscriber Numbers

Look over your both email and website analytics.

You’ll be able to see whether or not your email messages were even opened and if they’ve been clicking on the links in your emails.

You’ll be able to see what posts held your reader’s attention and posts made them move on.

You don’t want to waste your efforts on people who aren’t bothering to read your information.

Remove any email addresses where you’re not getting any kind of engagement you need, such as opening your emails.

Also look for messages that aren’t going through. 

Sometimes people sign up for stuff using old email addresses and when those get full, the email server will kick them back where they came from.

Technically though, you’re still charged for them as a subscriber, if the email system you’re using has incremental charges based on the number of subscribers.

You don’t have to worry about this with LeadsLeap because there is no limit on subscribers.

📲 Check out Resource #3 on my Recommended Resources page.

However, even though you don’t have to worry about the cost increasing with LeadsLeap, you will still want to remove email addresses like this, to keep your email list clean.

📋 Social Marketing Procedure – Provide Information that Earns

On Day 5, a good way to make money is to tell your followers across all of your online social profiles about something you have that they can buy. 

You can tell them about your eBook, about courses or even your paid coaching or mentorship programs.

You can share details about your checklists or guides. 

You can even mention an item for someone else that you make money from as an affiliate. 

Create content that will not only entice your followers, but have the potential to be shared virally by others.

📋 Product Launch Procedure – Create a Sales Letter and Recruit Affiliates

Create a persuasive sales letter where you talk about what your item can do for your audience. 

This sales copy should contain the narrative, bullet points and call to action that prompts the viewer to react.

Once you make the sales copy, put that on platforms like ClickBank, JVZoo, Warrior Plus and more. 

Let people know that you’ve listed the product by notifying those who’ve promoted your products in the past.

Also, notify people that you want to promote for you this time around and then send them the information they need to get their affiliate links.

📋 Affiliate Marketing Procedure – Spread the Word About Your Opinion

If you’ve shared your opinion about an item on your blog, you want to copy that URL to send it to your email list.

You also want to share it wherever your niche audience hangs out online, like social media platforms, forums, etc.

This is a service that you’re doing. 

Other people enjoy seeing what someone has to say about a product. 

It can help them determine the value of the item in their own life. 

Don’t bother to put the URL where there’s no demand for it.

You know by now where your niche market is online. 

You wouldn’t want to waste your time talking about a product on Facebook if your audience is mainly on Instagram. 

You can tell if they are interested by looking for hashtags, keywords or metadata on whichever site that you’re on.

📋 Customer Service Procedure – Respond to Your Audience

When someone from your audience gives you their opinion about an issue, you’ll want to pay attention. 

This can be constructive criticism that, if it’s useful and you heed it, can improve your online business.

You might have someone reach out to you and tell you that your font is too light. 

Or they might point out that there’s too much text or that the posts are too wordy. 

You could use a darker font and see how that works.

You could also try streamlining and shortening your posts or switching to a different format such as using bullet points. 

If someone tells you something they’re struggling with, use that information to think of something you can create based on that issue.

Mention to those who do take the time to reach out that you appreciate them. 

Share what they’ve said and you could even turn that into a blog post pointing out what steps you took to address that issue.

Send the person who reached out a surprise that’s relevant to the topic. 

So, as you can see from this suggested plan to tackle your to-do-list, you can stay more focused and accomplish more when things are laid out.

Again, take this plan of action and tweak it to whatever works for your and your online business.

When you have a plan to handle your online business tasks, it can help you stay organized so that all your tasks are done well and in a timely manner.

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