No Net? 10 Ways to Keep Working

Every once in a while the unthink­able hap­pens. For what­ever rea­son your net goes out. Now what?

While it may seem like a read bad thing to lose the inter­net when you run an online busi­ness, there are plenty of things that you can do offline while wait­ing. These are all impor­tant things you can do to help your busi­ness grow.

1. Work on your ebook or report
If you have an ebook or report that you are work­ing on, this would be ideal time to work on it with­out dis­trac­tion. With­out the net on, you won’t be receiv­ing inter­rup­tions from email, twit­ter, or any other social pro­grams. You won’t be tempted to get online to check some­thing out. This is a great time to just con­cen­trate on putting some­thing together

2. Write up some blog posts
If you are a blog­ger, this would be an excel­lent time to write up some blog posts and get ahead a bit. When you do get back online, you will have posts all ready to go. All you would have to do is paste them in and post it. It makes things much smoother.

3. Read and learn
As mar­keters we have to learn a lot. There are a lot of things that go with run­ning a busi­ness. This would be a great time sit back and read and learn. Pick up a book or open up a file on your com­puter (you have a bunch of em don’t you?) and just soak things in. When you get back online, imple­ment what you learned.

4. Lis­ten and learn
Just as above, if you have some audio inter­views or webi­nars down­loaded, this would be a good time to lis­ten and learn. It’s the same as above, just remem­ber to imple­ment it when you get back online.

5. Orga­nize your hard drive
We are bom­barded by reports and ebooks every day. And while all these are use­ful in some way or another, it can quickly clut­ter your hard drive. Or if you have a lot of projects (and ele­ments to those projects) they could be every­where. Take some time and orga­nize things. It will make every­thing much more stream­lined when you need to get back to them.

6. Go over your book­keep­ing
Keep­ing track of your expenses and money you receive is just as impor­tant as other parts of your busi­ness. Now would be a good time to go through and make sure every­thing is set the way it should be. Plus it could be a good way to see how you are doing income wise.

7. Come up with new tweets
A chal­lenge of com­ing up with good tweets is com­ing up with them on a reg­u­lar basis. This would be a good time to think up and write some new tweets that you can use later. This will keep things fresh when you get back to Twitter.

8. Brain­storm ideas for your busi­ness
This is an excel­lent time to brain­storm ideas for your busi­ness. This could be any­thing, but the point is to actu­ally write it down. Don’t just think about it but use some­thing, such as mind maps, to get your ideas down on paper (or screen). Flesh them out a bit and fig­ure out how your going to do it. When you get back online put these ideas to use.

9. Go through your daily tasks
I’ve talked about going over your list of daily tasks and check­ing which ones directly work towards mak­ing your busi­ness grow. Go through your tasks and fig­ure what you really need for your busi­ness and what you may just want. Keep the essentials.

10. Write down your goals.
Your goals are impor­tant. And going through them and revis­ing them can do won­ders. If they are out­dated or you accom­plished them throw them out. Or if you have not writ­ten down your goals, now would be a per­fect time to set some goals for yourself.

These are just a few ideas. The point is to always be work­ing on your busi­ness, even if you don’t have the net. While an online marketer’s job is pri­mar­ily online, it doesn’t mean it has to be done solely online. You can do quite a bit to imple­ment when you get back online.

~Chris

What other ideas do you have? What else can you accom­plish with­out the net?

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