Prioritizing And Managing Your Digital Business For Success
Updated April 26, 2024 - 6:41 PM (CST). Edited by Author Kevin Ross
A Profitable Website Is More Than Knowing How To Build It, But How To Effectively Achieve Profitable Results With It
Congratulations on taking the first few steps towards building (not only a successful business website) but a profitable one at that!
In this phase of the building process. It’s important to establish a clear understanding of what your business is about, the purpose of the business, setting goals for your business activities, and identify the objectives that are aimed to help you achieve each goal — this process begins with drawing up a business plan.
In this tutorial. I am also going to be using a few articles from Shopify’s blog to guide you with clarity and understanding.
Enjoy their articles — we love them too! 🙂
Developing A Comprehensive Business Plan
Developing a comprehensive business plan is a crucial step of the startup phase as it is a vital component in ensuring successful results while conducting business activities — online or the internet’s World Wide Web.
An effective business plan serves as the foundation of your business and its aspirations, enabling you to achieve both personal and business objectives simultaneously. With a well-developed business plan, you can confidently move forward knowing that you have a road map to success.
Remember, one of the keys to a successful and profitable website, is planning and preparation — when you get this right, you’re on the right track.
A Unique Selling Proposition
When writing your business plan. Consider including your unique selling proposition, products or services you offer, your target market (or audience), planned social media channels, and strategies for executing and promoting your business website in your comprehensive business plan.
After crafting an actionable plan, shift your focus to the necessary web-building tools and resources required for launching your website. This entails identifying dependable web hosting services, website design and development tools, understanding legal considerations in your region, and securing reliable marketing resources for assistance.
Additionally, delve into researching payment processing solutions, customer service software such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and tax software. Once you’ve compiled these resources, you’re ready to embark on the next steps in launching your business.
Balancing Daily Business Activities: 9 Effective Solutions To Help You Balance Your Activities
Starting a digital business “successfully” means that a great deal of thought, creativity, and work has to go into its creation. And balancing daily business activities around a to-do list, spending time with family, friends, and ME time, well, it may seem impossible.
Patience and trial and error are key when balancing business activities around each aspect of our life. This means taking the time to plan out what needs to be done and when, and be patient with ourselves and others if things do not go according to plan.
This also means being understanding if something unexpected pops up that requires you to make adjustments or take a step back in order to focus on one aspect over another. In addition, it means taking some “ME time” for yourself — allowing you to return back to work feeling refreshed and prepared to go.
Prioritize Your Day-To-Day Activities
- Set A Daily Schedule: Take some time to plan out your entire day — hour-by-hour, and try to set aside similar activities in each block of time. For example, you might plan to work on business tasks from 8am-10am, take a break from 10am-11am, have lunch and socialize from 11am-1pm, take a break from 1pm-2pm, and then spend the rest of the afternoon on personal tasks.
- Prioritize Tasks: Evaluate which tasks are more important and prioritize those first. This will help you make sure that the most important tasks are completed first and that all your activities are balanced.
- Utilize Technology: Use technology like calendars, reminders, and task lists to make sure you stay organized and on track with your schedule.
- Take Ownership: Be responsible for your own work. Assume that you will be accountable for the tasks you assign to yourself.
- Recognize and Appreciate Your Contributions: Ask yourself the following questions before assigning a task or project. Who will benefit from this? What is my motivation? Why am I doing this?
- Learn To Say No: It’s okay to say no sometimes in order to meet your responsibilities as an individual, as well as the owner or operator of a digital business.
- Plan Ahead: Line up “projects or tasks” that need doing before starting them so there is room for other commitments on your calendar — and don’t try to do everything at once.
- Always Make Time For Your Friends and Family: With work, school and other obligations taking up most of our time. It can be hard to make time for the people we care about. But it’s also important to make time for friends and family if we want to maintain meaningful relationships. Whether it’s a regular catch-up call or a fun outing, dedicating some of our precious time to those closest to us is one of the best investments we can make.
- Eat Healthy, Even If It’s Just A Salad: Research has shown that people who snack on fruit actually live longer than those who eat chips and other junk food—keep healthy foods around your work area.
Activity Planner
There are different activity planning software available on the Web, and some cost and others are free. However, there is also a simple solution — create a free Google account. You can also create multiple free accounts with usernames such as:
This strategy allows you to get valuable information through email from reliable sources without having to use your personalized business email accounts. After creating several Gmail accounts for your business. You can locate the calendar app under your profile picture in the right corner of each account.
The “calendar app” will allow you to schedule all your activities in one place on Google’s calendar. If you are using a Google Chromebook. A free app is available on the Play Store you can install.
Something to remember ...
Keeping an open and honest communication with customers, suppliers, and partners is key to building trust and maintaining long-lasting relationships. And by following best business practices, you can take your business to new heights on the digital marketing landscape.
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