I've been having a rough month. From waiting for important replies from reps, to important support tickets and important forum questions, it's been holding back my progress this month.
Because it seems like I really can't work on anything until I get my questions replied.
And I feel guilty if I don't do anything when I'm having these 'downtimes'.
What do you guys do in situations like this?
-Take a smoke?
-Take a much needed nap?
-Watch porn?
-Refresh your email account to see if there's a reply yet?
-OR continue cranking out new ads/LP for future use?
When in doubt, just try it. Worst case scenario, you lose some money and you learn something new. Best case scenario, it works and you learn something new! Don't get stuck asking TOO many questions before you jump in and just do it, because you will never be able to ask enough to feel 100% prepared.
Smoke.
While the busywork LP suggestion *sounds good* ... chances are it's a waste of time (in my experience, not necessarily yours).
I'll take my current to-do list and break it down to the single most important thing I could be doing at *that* moment. Then do it. Hasn't failed me yet.
I want to echo @webbastard's comment. Activity is not the same as productivity. If there is something you can do that is truly productive, then do it. Otherwise, go do something that recharges your batteries.
What I consider productive generally falls into 4 buckets, in decreasing order of importance:
1) Driving traffic (includes building new traffic sources, learning how to get traffic cheaper, etc.)
2) Testing traffic (includes setting up split tests, making lp variations , swapping offers, etc.)
3) Creating new assets (includes making new landing pages, building swipe files, etc.)
4) Improving skills (e.g., Photoshop tutorials, statistics, PHP, etc.)
I consider 1 and 2 the money makers, and only work on 3 and 4 when I've made progress on 1 and 2.