Time Management is a vital skill for internet marketers

If you want to be a successful internet marketer you need to ensure that you are mentally prepared! It is vital that you organise your time so as to get the maximum productivity available.

Internet marketing is not about

• writing great content
• designing websites
• creating gorgeous headers

If you want to do these things then you are a writer, a web designer, or a graphic artist.

Yes you will have to do some writing – blog posts (like this one) emails, descriptions, etc, but if you are writing your own articles you should consider the amount of time that it is taking you and whether your time could be more profitably spent doing other tasks.

For example, a really good quality article could cost you $10 (this is actually a little on the high side), but how long would it take you to write it? Let’s be generous, assume you are a good writer and say, 30 minutes. So in an hour you can produce two good articles.

If you paid someone else to do this it would cost you $20. Now the question is, in an hour could you earn more than $20 doing another task? The answer: probably.

Similarly with web design and graphic design – if you are spending time on these things then you are taking away time that you should be using to promote your site. If you have an office do you make your own furniture? Do taxi-drivers make their cars? NO!

Lesson 1 – outsource as much as possible.

Once you have got to the stage where you can outsource the labor-intensive tasksyou will have a lot more time to spend marketing and promoting your sites. Again this needs to be approached in a logical way.

Parkinson’s Law states that the amount of time a task takes is proprtional to the amount of time allocated to it. For example if a job only takes 15 minutes at full tilt, but you allocate 30 minutes to it, you will never be finished in 15 minutes! You may finish slightly before the 30 minute mark but you will never be near 15 minutes.

Lesson 2 – set strict, achievable time limits for every task.

If you can set time limits for each task you will be much more productive. Now before you can set time limits you need to know which tasks you need to complete, so it is necessary to make a plan for each period that you will be working. List the tasks, set time limits and off you go.

Lesson 3 – make a plan of what you will achieve each time you sit down to work.

If you follow these three simple lessons then I promise you that you will be much more productive than previously.

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You need to;

• identify the most vital and important tasks that need completing.
• plan out which tasks you will complete in a session.
  
• set realistic time limits for each task.

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