Internet Marketing Checklists

When people talk about the need for processes, it always sounds so heavy and burdensome. You're better off thinking in terms of checklists. Checklists seem lightweight and simple—not as threatening as a "procedure." All good Internet marketing requires processes to execute properly, so let's see what you should check off your list each time you perform a task.

• Send a marketing e-mail. Every time you use e-mail to communicate, you need to think through what you're doing.
• Improve your existing site. Most folks agree that they should use measurements to pinpoint places for improvement, but they get hung up in metrics reports instead of the real issues. Get a list of questions you can ask about your own site to find ways to improve.
• Name a product. One a product is named, it's expensive to change, so this might not be the best place to "do it wrong quickly."

In making this list, I intended to "do it wrong quickly"—there are undoubtedly other tasks that need checklists and probably more steps that should be on these lists. Please let me know what's missing and help me add it. Thanks.

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