Where Does Your Time Go?
If you know the answer to that one, then you’re an exceptionally well organised internet marketer. If like the rest of us you’re struggling to find an answer, then it’s time to figure out how much of the time you devote to your internet marketing activities is actually well spent.The best way to get your answer is to keep a blow by blow timetable for the next couple of weeks.
Write it all down – from the moment you sit down at your computer to the moment you switch it off again. What sites do you visit and why? How long do you spend checking your emails? How much time do you devote to promoting your products and/or services? How much time do you spend looking for new products to add to your current range?
Income From Internet Activities
You might be surprised – and shocked – by the amount of time you actually spend working towards your goal of building a substantial income from your internet activities. Chances are it’s much less than you think.
The first step towards becoming more efficient is to become more aware of how you are spending your time. Make a list of the activities you do that really move you towards a bigger income from selling products and services online, and try and spend the majority of your time on those activities. The more things you can automate the better. If you use an autoresponder, block out an afternoon each week to write four emails that can go out weekly for the next month, for example. They can then be loaded onto your autoresponder in advance and sent out at weekly intervals.
You might be like me and tend to overestimate how much time it takes you to do certain jobs; over time you will be able to plan your timetable much more efficiently as you get the hang of how you work. Just be sure to use the information you glean from your efforts to structure your days more profitably.
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
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Tags: Autoresponder, Income, Internet Business, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Online, Promotion
May 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I think the time goes to the same place matching socks and guitar pics wind up; somewhere but not here.
I heard John Reece say at least 40% of the time should be spent creating content.
It is so easy to get distracted, I have always had that tendency, even before IM.
It is kind of like counting how much you really spent on what to find out why you are broke. Same result too if you let your time be frittered away in your business.
May 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Good points! You must automate your business as much as possible. Personally I´m putting in more hours with my internet business than with the former day job I had.Some sort of time schedule would be a good idea because there is so much to promoting a business online and there are so little time.