Going From Feeling Inspired To Taking Action – Reflections On NAMS 3

Posted at February 2, 2010

I made it back from NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing Systems) in Atlanta yesterday. As usual I learned a lot and after spending some time playing with my daughter and resting, I’m ready to take action. It’s THE most important step any time you go to a conference, take a class or buy a course. I’ll walk you through my process to go from being all excited and pumped up with a brain filled to the brim with new ideas and strategies to creating an action plan and executing it over the coming weeks.

Going from Inspired To Taking Action

If you’ve ever been to an Internet Marketing Conference (or any other conference for that matter), you know how excited and energized you feel  when you get back. You’ve learned a lot and are ready to take your business to the next level. I know I am every single time I come back from one of David Perdue’s NAMS events.

David Perdue, Jeff Herring and Maritza Parra at NAMS

Tip # 1 – Take Notes

You may think at first that you can remember all those great ideas that you get while you are watching presentations and even while you have conversations outside of class – Believe me, you won’t. Conferences are notorious for information overload (especially the good ones). Anytime a good idea or action item pops in your head, make a note of it.

I usually keep my notes and action items right alongside each other. I simple write a Capital A (for action item) in the side margin whenever I write down an action item.

This time, I tried my friend Nicole Dean’s system of writing the action items in a different section of the notebook (i.e. the last few pages). It’s working out really well and I ended up with a to-do list at the end of the event.

Nicole Dean, Lynn Terry and Willie Crawford at NAMS

Tip # 2 – Rest Up

When you first get back from a conference, you may be excited to get started, but you are also exhausted from the event, lack of sleep and traveling. Take a little time to decompress. I ended up playing and snuggling with my daughter all afternoon and evening and then climbing into bed early.

The ideas and action items are racing through my head that first night and there is just no way I can organize them right away. It takes a little bit of time to process.

Tip #3 – Make An Organized List

Now is the time to take out your notebook and go over the ideas and action items. Be sure to write down any additional action items that you’ll discover while going through your notes. I’m sure you will come up with plenty more.

By the way – do your best to always carry a small notebook with you while you’re at a conference. Some of my best ideas and action items came out of conversations with other attendees and instructors / speakers outside of the classroom.

Once you have a list, figure out what you want to have accomplished by when. Pick a date a few weeks out that has some meaning to you. It could be as simple as getting stuff done before that weekend 3 weeks out, or everything you want to get done before you go on your next trip.

For me, this will be simple. I have quite a bit of stuff I want to get done before attending Bob The Teacher’s SIMPLE event in Wilmington during the last weekend of February (more on that in another post).

Take out a piece of paper and write the date you want to accomplish things by at top, followed by a list of all your action items.

Next, make another list of things you can do TODAY. Sit down, get to work and see how many items you can cross off that to-do list today.

What were your big action items and aha moments at NAMS 3? What do your action items look like? I’ll start

I realized how much I enjoy teaching this online and affiliate marketing stuff and that I can truly make a difference sharing even the simplest of things. My action items are to

By the time I attend Bob’s event, I want to have at least 12 more blog posts up here and have written at least 5 guest post. I want to have an affiliate traffic short cut report finished that I started back in October and also write a report on choosing a hot affiliate niche. Last but not least I want to have at least 4 more affiliate niche packs available for purchase before I leave for the event.

In addition to this I also have some ideas and action items for my own niche sites, so I’ll be busy over the coming weeks. It’ll be a niche challenge and force me to get stuff done faster.

How about you? Take a moment to share your action items and to-do lists from NAMS.

Susanne Myers

P.S. If you missed NAMS 3, I hope you will join us for NAMS 4 this coming August.

Photo Credit – KSholle

You may also like to read:

  1. Getting Unstuck and Taking Action
  2. NAMS Wrap Up

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