The 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
For Highly Productive Time-Constrained Marketers
There is so much opportunity to start and grow an online business. Still, it’s a shame that many people count themselves out simply because they don’t feel they have enough time to pursue this career path. If you genuinely want this to be an option for you, you’ll learn how to start and grow a business with this 30-minutes a day marketing plan.
In reality, men and women have launched their Internet-based businesses with stolen moments throughout the day, including days when they only have half an hour or less to make progress.
For this to work, you have to carve out half an hour free from distractions, where you can be laser-focused on your tasks.
You’ll need to work quickly and methodically not to waste a minute.
You can do this anytime – as soon as you wake up before you get ready to go to your offline job, on your lunch hour, or at the end of the day before bed.
The 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan will allow you to streamline your to-do list to knock out tasks on a Monday-Friday schedule. This will free you up for relaxation and a reenergized spirit for the week ahead.
Week 1 of Your 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
To start growing your business, use your entire 30 minutes daily on the primary decisions you must make.
The setup of your business is something that should not take weeks or months on end. If you focus on the task, you can spend half an hour daily and complete an entire setup in five days.
Monday
On Monday, you’ll spend 30 minutes brainstorming your niche. Do a quick brainstorm of topics that you have an interest in or that you enjoy doing.
Whether it’s gardening, cooking, taking care of your pets, exercising, or something else – put pen to paper and have it written out in front of you.
Then, do a quick search on Amazon and ClickBank in that niche to see if people purchase tangible items, nonfiction books, or info products about the topic.
You don’t have to have digital and tangible products, but having both helps you see the profit potential.
Once you have it narrowed down, ask yourself if you will be happy being involved in this niche daily from here on out.
If so, lock it in and dedicate yourself to this topic to become an authority figure.
Tuesday
On Tuesday, you’ll spend your 30 minutes picking a business model. How you make money from this niche is up to you.
You can create your own info products, promote products as an affiliate marketer, or even, in some cases, create tangible products to sell to customers.
Many people like to start with affiliate marketing because you are simply reviewing other people’s work.
But if you feel confident that you already have a lot of insight to share with your audience, you should start as an info product developer.
Remember that you can continually expand beyond your original business model as you gain more time. But with only 30 minutes a day to build your business, you need to focus on one thing.
Wednesday
On Wednesday, you’ll spend 30 minutes buying a domain name, hosting, and installing WordPress on your blog.
You can use a keyword tool to help you gain quick insight into semantic wording that will help you mix and match words and phrases to find an available URL.
Ensure your domain name is related to your niche topic and is as short as possible.
Purchase the dot com extension of the domain, and move on to buying your hosting account.
Hosting is going to be simple. You want to avoid an expensive account now because you can always level up when needed.
Invest in a simple hosting program that provides enough space for a single website.
Follow the instructions for your domain registrar and hosting companies and point the servers from the domain registrar to the new hosting company.
For the last task of the day, log in to your cPanel and go through the quick step of installing WordPress.
Thursday
On Thursday, you’ll spend your half hour on branding elements and registering the social media profiles for your business online.
You can log into Canva and use a template to create your blog header and logo.
Or, you can log on to Fiverr and outsource this to someone else.
Once that is taken care of, you need to go to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and anywhere else that you think fits your niche topic. Set up on those social media platforms with an account name for your business and brand.
If you have extra time, you can set up the profile on one or more of these platforms and make sure the link to your new domain is listed and pointing back to your website in your bio.
Friday,
You’ll set up your email autoresponder system and install an opt-in form. Instead of spending a lot of time evaluating the best autoresponder system, use a proven tool like Aweber or GetResponse.
Quickly sign up and set up your first list.
Then, you will go through the steps to create an opt-in form and copy the code it gives you.
Take that code and log into your WordPress blog so that you can add it to a widget in the sidebar.
You can also create a page on your domain that will be your landing page dedicated to lead generation.
Some autoresponder tools have templates for this purpose, and you want to paste the code for an opt-in box in there so you can build a list.
By the end of week one, you’ll have spent two and a half hours building an online business.
Everything from now on focuses on serving your audience and taking care of administrative tasks. So let’s look at how a typical week might go when you only have half an hour per day to grow your business.
Monday 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
Answer Emails & Comments on Your Blog or Social Media Accounts – 5 Minutes
Spend 5 minutes daily answering priority emails and commenting on any engagement you get online for your blog or social media content.
Acknowledge your target audience with a simple “Thank you” or other observation, but don’t allow yourself to get sidetracked by other content on social platforms.
Learning – 10 Minutes
Take 10 minutes out of your day for learning. It could be a YouTube video on copywriting or some other marketing strategy. Make it something you need to learn and share with your niche audience, or learning how to use a tool.
If the content you are educating yourself with goes beyond the 10-minute marker, finish it another day.
You don’t have to learn everything in one sitting.
Marketing is a career where you will continually learn, so knocking it out in short bursts is perfectly acceptable.
Researching – 15 Minutes
You’ve used half of your day by this point.
The next thing you want to do is spend the rest of your time, 15 minutes total, researching.
The research can be for products you wish to review as an affiliate marketer, keywords you will use in your content, information about your niche or the demographic you are targeting, etc.
Over time, you will find tools that can assist you with the research part.
You’ll want to bookmark resources you prefer so you can quickly and easily access them.
Invest in a suitable password device like Roboform to save precious moments logging in to the tools you are using.
You want to fly through the research process quickly, which you will get faster with as time goes on. You don’t want to write thorough notes at this point.
Absorb the information and jot down some ideas you may want to use in your marketing.
Tuesday 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
Answer Emails & Comments on Your Blog or Social Media Accounts – 5 Minutes
The start of every day should be the same.
You will spend 5 minutes quickly answering emails and logging into your blog and social platforms to see if there are any comments that you need to respond to.
Brainstorm Content – 25 Minutes
That leaves you with 25 minutes to work on your business. Today, you will brainstorm and outline the content you will use in your business this week.
Type of Content
You will have the information you researched yesterday. Use that data to come up with unique slants for your blog posts and product reviews, your info products, and social media posts.
Create Outlines
You want to create content outlines for blogging twice a week or sections of your info products if you’re not planning on blogging as an affiliate.
Use AI (artificial intelligence), keyword tools, People Also Ask, and other online resources if you need help brainstorming topics that should go into your articles.
You can purchase readymade content through private label rights (PLR) to take an even faster shortcut.
That way, you can spend your time finding suitable packages to purchase. Give them a once over so that you know what needs to be tweaked, and figuring out where you want to use the content later in the week.
Wednesday 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
Answer Emails & Comments on Your Blog or Social Media Accounts – 5 Minutes
Again, start with email replies, blog, and social media responses for about five minutes.
It really shouldn’t take longer than this on most days.
Once in a while, there’ll be some problem you have to sort out for a customer, which might eat away at your time a bit more.
Content Creation
You might spend one day writing your lead magnet offer the week after your initial business setup.
Some people start with the promise of updates via email, but if you want a lead magnet, you can set one day aside on week two to achieve this goal.
But after that’s complete, on this day, you’re usually going to create the content for your online business.
In 25 minutes, you might not be able to get a lot done if you’re a slow writer. You can find ways to shorten the time.
Tools for Speeding Up Content Creation
For example, if you open up Microsoft Word and use the dictation option, you can triple your output.
Speaking the content is much faster than typing; for many people, it gives you more productivity (for those who type slowly).
Another excellent option for content creation is using an AI-driven note-taking app.
Tools like Notion, Roam Research, and Coda are all great ways to get your ideas down quickly.
With a few clicks, you can have notes saved that you can revisit later when you’re ready to write the entire piece of content.
See recommended AI tools for writing at the end of this special report.
Types of Content to Create
You’ll be creating three types of content today – blog posts (which can be informative or product reviews if you’re working as an affiliate marketer), info products, and social media content.
If you’re not creating your info products, you might create product listings for a site like Etsy (selling tangibles) or just pour the rest of your time into your blog.
Stay Focused & Avoid Distractions
Don’t spend a lot of time on social media. You can grab the link to your blog post, pose a question or teaser with it when you share it, and move on.
Suppose you’re using multimedia social platforms like TikTok (where your content is only 60 seconds or less for the best results) or YouTube.
In that case, you can spend time working on those and even use premade slideshow templates to help you with the short timeframe.
You’ll be working off your outlines from earlier in the week for your blog posts and info products.
Sales Copy & JV Page
Write your info product sales copy or your joint venture (JV) page once your info product is complete.
Thursday 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
Spend five minutes of answering essential emails and engaging with your target audience online if they’ve commented on your blog posts or social media content. You will take today to handle the technical and strategic tasks marketers need to do.
Some of the technical tasks might be things like managing your blog. You’ll need to log into your dashboard and see if there are any updates to process.
Not updating your blog can result in security issues.
Spend this time automating publishing the blog content you created yesterday and the social media posts to share on your accounts.
You can schedule blog posts to go live whenever you want.
Use social media management tools to schedule posts across various platforms so you don’t have to go to each one individually and upload them.
You’ll also set up any emails you want to send to share the content you’ve created this week.
The first time you do these tasks, it might take you a few minutes longer (as you learn how to schedule a blog post ), but after you’ve done it once or twice, you’ll be super fast with these little tasks.
Friday 30-Minutes a Day Marketing Plan
Today, after your initial email and content responses, you will spend the rest of your half-hour networking and leveling up your business. Networking is part human connection and part data analysis.
For networking, you’ll want to get to know people who can approve you as an affiliate, promote you as a product vendor, and help you gain insight into the strategic part of Internet marketing.
You can network with colleagues who are your competitors in the niche.
Instead of always trying to destroy the competition, in Internet marketing, the relationships can benefit them if you’re strategic.
For example, you might open a discussion with someone to guest blog on their domain.
The byline and link you provide will help drive traffic back to your site and give you an authority backlink for your SEO benefit.
Network With Competitors
You can also spend this time networking with competitors in a way that benefits your customers and subscribers.
For example, getting to know competitors as a friend can result in your list getting private deals, discount coupons, etc., making you look helpful for procuring them.
Networking is also done directly with your target audience online.
You’ll be able to give back to people in forums and online groups, helping them publicly so that everyone can see that you’re there to serve others.
Take a minute to log into a niche forum or a Facebook group and see what questions people have that you can answer or what problems are under discussion so that you can help.
Your goal isn’t to be a spammer and put your links everywhere but instead to deliver genuine service to the people who are your prospective customers.
People will naturally learn your name, follow the link in your signature file, and click on your profile to learn more whenever you’re an authentic and helpful niche authority leader.
Conclusion
You can tweak this 30-minutes a day marketing plan to whatever you need. Don’t feel pressure to get a lot done every day.
When you are laser-focused and using every bit of that half-hour, you will make more progress than those who spend 8 hours a day getting distracted by Netflix and Facebook
You can also take a few moments to glance at your website and email analytics to see what content and pages are performing best for you. Discover issues that may be sabotaging your efforts so that you can tweak your strategy.
This system is for go-getters who are determined to see their business launch and begin thriving online.
If you are someone who makes excuses, this won’t work for you.
It’s for people who have it in them to be highly productive in a short amount of time.
