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Posted By Stephen Dean on March 8th, 2009

I’m changing my domain name for this blog. You can find new posts here: http://www.copywritingdean.com

I decided Stephensblog.com wasn’t the best domain for my business. My name (Stephen) is kind of hard to spell. Many people spell it wrong. And it’s spelled differently than it sounds.

Ideally I’d move to StephenDean.com, but that domain is not available and likely not for sale. Apparently there’s a French artist with the same name as me who got it first. (I have emailed about it, but never got a response.)

So what to do…

CopywritingDean.com makes a lot of sense to me.

* It does have my last name in it “Dean.”
* It contains the keyword I’m targeting most.
* It kind of has a double meaning. Copywriting Dean, or Dean of Copywriting. You know?!
* And it better explains my site.

This site currently gets a lot of search engine traffic, and I don’t want to leave it all behind. So I’m going to keep it up for a while and see what I can do with the traffic.

Hopefully I’ll be able to build up links to http://www.copywritingdean.com quickly. If you already have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you changed the URL to copywritingdean.com.

If you don’t have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you added me :)

Again, thanks for reading everyone.

 

A Comment On Teen Internet Marketer

Posted By Stephen Dean on January 8th, 2009

When did you start your business?

There’s a guy at http://teeninternetmarketer.blogspot.com who’s working to get his business profitable at 16. That’s about the same age I got started. (10 years later…)

I saw he made a blog post about GTD, or “Getting Things Done.”

I decided to share some tips with him that took me years and years to learn. If only someone would have shared this with me back then…

Hey Montie.

One thing that’ll help you to GTD is to limit the hours in which you allow yourself to work on your IM biz.

I don’t know your schedule, but if you’re working after school you could give yourself between 3-6 to get your work done.

That means you don’t start before 3, and you don’t work after 6. Period.

If you have 4 hours of work to get done in that time… you don’t have time to procrastinate. You don’t have time to tell yourself GTD. You just have to GO.

And some people think that when you limit the time in which you have to work, you actually get more done.

“Diego Norte” describes it well in this post at the Warrior Forum: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/28621-spending-less-time-online-earn-more-how-i-move-onto-4-hours-work-week.html#post256366

As for music, I couldn’t work to Lil’ Wayne either. I usually listen to slower music… like a mix I would listen to if I were going to sleep.

Songs like “Mad World” by Michael Andrews, “Whistle For The Choir” by The Fratelli’s, or “Pieces” by Sum 41.

And even then I’ll also just listen to the same song on repeat because that tends to keep me less distracted but happy.

I also listen to Beethoven or Mozart every now and then. Ever use Pandora.com? Just type Beethoven in there and you’re set.

Limiting the hours I work is very important to my productivity.

It used to be that I’d dilly dally doing small tasks around the house and online until finally I’d get around to working late in the day. Which resulted in an unproductive day.

Now I set a time range before the day starts. Usually from about 10-6pm. And those hours don’t move.

It’s not about limiting myself to 8 hours, it’s about having a set deadline when I must be finished. That way I don’t have time to procrastinate, I must get started now to get my work done before the deadline.

And it’s important to stick to these hours. Sometimes I really have the urge to work at 10pm. But I DON’T. It’s not within my time frame.

Instead I transfer that energy in to being excited to start working in the morning.

It works. Try it. Best productivity technique I’ve ever used.

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2 Responses to “A Comment On Teen Internet Marketer”

Tony Finbarr-Smith (8 comments.)
January 10th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

great post there, and since productivity is one of my areas that needs the most work, it was a lucky find for me.

This rule assumes that the worker has already planned their day, or at least defined what must be achieved… which boils down to good-ol’ goal-setting.
I’ve been going with Zig Ziglar’s advice on goal-setting (so much so that i embedded his videos on my blog as a reminder), becuase if you don’t know what you need to achieve, you’ll never achieve it!

I’m quite the fan of your posts Stephen, looking forward to reading more.

Cheers (and happy new year!)
Tony.

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Stephen Dean
January 12th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Thanks Tony. And yup, I’ve usually got my weeks planned out… weeks in advance (although it changes as it gets closer).

I look at my tasks for the next day before I go to bed. Helps me mentally prepare.

Thanks again Tony.