Yesterday, we talked about three more easy steps for managing your time more effectively. Today, we’re going to how managing your time can help you save it.
Do you rely on your skills as an internet marketer to generate income? You may sell your services to others or use your skills to drive traffic to a website you monetized. Regardless of how you make money as an internet marketer, you must not only have good marketing skills but good time management skills. Why? Because managing your time can save you time.
Managing your time can save you time. That sounds like a neat and catchy phrase, but is it true? Yes, it is. Unfortunately, many individuals look at good time management as nothing more than a useful skill. Yes, it is, but it can be so much more. It can be transformed into a time saving and moneymaking tool. How?
An important component of time management is knowing how your time is spent. For example, how do you market a website for yourself or a paid client? Do you submit articles to directories, submit websites to directory lists, or you buy advertisements? If so, you are on the right path, as you are getting work done. But, are you using your time to its fullest extent?
One of the many pitfalls of working as an internet marketer is that you work from home and on the computer. There are many benefits to doing so, but many cons as well. One of those being costly distractions. Every time you turn around, you may find a distraction.
These distractions could include an incoming phone call from a relative, a sink full of dirty dishes, an interesting website you found online, or computer games. Are you avoiding these distractions, eliminating them as an issue, toning them out, or falling victim to their allure? If falling victim to their allure, you are not making full use of your time.
But wait! Above, you stated that you are getting many internet marketing tasks done throughout the day. Yes, this is good, but you are still not making full use of your time. Even if you send an email to a family member, you are wasting time. It doesn’t matter whether you spend 30 seconds or three minutes sending that email, it is still wasted time.
When your workday involves more than just working, you get less done. By eliminating distractions and improving your time management, you can get more done. This is nice, but look at it from an opportunity standpoint. When you finish your to-do list quicker, you can do something else. If you are an avid internet user, your newfound free time many be spent focusing on researching new internet marketing tactics, but it could also be spent with your friends or family.
In addition to saving you time, properly managing your time can also help you generate income. In fact, it can prevent you from losing money. When an internet marketer, you generate income by either selling your service or marketing a product you sell.
Regardless of which category you fall into, time management is vital to your success and your high earnings. By eliminating distractions and doing nothing but work during business hours, you distribute more links over the internet and complete more paid projects. Time management is more than just a nice skill to have. When properly used, it can be both a money-making and time-saving tool.
Coming up tomorrow, we will be talking about creating monthly to-do lists to manage your time more effectively.
The hardest part of managing one’s time is to cut a phone conversation short. Unless, of course, we are speaking with one we want to avoid.
I am with you on that one, Roy!
Oh no!
I just read this message when I was in the middle of writing my daily UBC blog. 🙂
Good point though. I will do nothing else till blog is on your Facebook page.
Glad I could help!
I do need to be more disciplined in ignoring the distractions. Helpful post.
As Nike says, Just Do It. Sometimes it is easier said than done…
Know how you spend your time. Eliminating distractions.To-do lists. Just the basics will save me 1 hour a day. Thank you.
Mit Mithilan
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An hour a day will start to add up!
Working on my time management is one of my goals this month. Thank you for the tips. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s post.
Tomorrow’s post will be a good one!
Growing up, I was always taught that time is money. I have found that getting distracted becomes easier every day with all of the information just a few taps of our fingers. I am trying to eliminate the distractions by creating “blocks” for my time to email, blog, etc. Dividing it up and sticking to one task at a time seems to be helping!
I have been told to turn off my smartphone, turn off email notifications, close my door, etc., to reduce the distractions, but personally, I don’t – LOL. I do, however, maintain a good focus and ignore those. FOr example, I turn my phone upside down so I cannot see my screen.
After I was told that: “We cannot manage time, it is beyond our control, the best we can hope to do is manage ourselves”, then I was able to start working on the real source of the problem, me.
That is a great quote, Doug! I am going to remember that one!
Oh ask me Paul! Some days are just not the way you plan. That is something I have not been able to fix from a long time. Hope your posts help.
One of my favorite expressions that I learned from Camille Miller, the Executive Director of the Natural Life Business Partnership is this:
When things do not go as planned, Snehal, and you get off track, go back in and reschedule the items that got pushed off… It happens!
Great information Paul. I am constantly business and at times I manage well but other times I really need to get better managed. One is when I wrote my blogs, I get carried away at writing and finding the right photos, it can take me all evening!
Do you have a problem with perfectionism, Martha? Sometimes “Good Enough” is good enough.
Oh the distractions! lol I’ve definitely gotten better at eliminating some of them, but I’m still very much a work in progress 🙂 I find that when I post something on social media for my website, I tend to get sucked in even it’s just for a few minutes – those few minutes can add up though. Love the article, great tips 🙂
Been there, done that, Kristin! I can get so caught up when I go to post on social media, I have sometimes had to ask myself, “What I was going to do when I came here…?”