Online Marketing Newsletter For June, 2007

In This Issue:
Is A Lack Of Action Killing Your Online Business
Guest Article; 10 Ways to Take Back Your Time
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Take Action To Keep Your Business Growing

Many people get into online businesses because they want the freedom of working from home instead of the grind of working in an office. Plus no more commuting, no more boss to worry about, and no more deadlines. But having no boss or deadlines can actually be detrimental to you.

Because you have started up your own business you are now the boss. And the only way you can get anything accomplished is to set goals for yourself. And you need to set up a schedule and stick to it. If you don't schedule your time you will find you won't get anything accomplished.

You should set two types of goals, long term and short term. A long term goal could be something like I want to be making x bucks per month in y years. Short term goals could be, I want to sponsor x number of people in y number of weeks. Keep them realistic, but set the bar fairly high so you have something to strive for.

Equally important is setting your schedule. If you don't set a schedule and stick to it you will be hard pressed to make a success of any venture. It doesn't matter if you have one hour or ten per day to apply to your business, schedule it, and stick to it. And set tasks to accomplish each day. As in, I will post to forums from 9:00 till 9:30. From 9:30 to 10:30 write articles for my web site and article directories. 10:30 to 10:45 coffee and emails. 10:45 to 11:15 submit website to directories. 11:15 to 11:45 submit to article directories. You get the idea.

If you do this and keep at it, in a month you will find it is second nature and you will be amazed at how much you are getting accomplished each day.

Guest Article

I found this article and it has some great tips on using your time more efficiently. I especially like points 4 and 5 in the first section.

10 Ways to Take Back Your Time By Linda Dessau

I've divided my tips into two sections - 5 ways to manage your time and 5 ways to take back your time. Both offer daily or regular practices to try out in your life right now.

The first section focuses more on easing the time pressures in your life, to deal with all of the things you've gotten yourself into ;)

The second section focuses on making overall changes to your life. When you take back your time you also take back your CHOICE. When we're feeling time pressured and stressed out it's easy to forget that we have any say in the matter. And we do!

5 WAYS TO MANAGE YOUR TIME

1. Choose specific times to look at email during the day - seeing emails as they come in can really distract you from what you're trying to accomplish and you'll end up losing time as you go back and forth between activities.

2. The 15-minute strategy. This not only helps motivate you by breaking down large jobs into smaller pieces, it also makes good use of your time. The strategy is to spend 15-minutes on a task and then move on the next. You can come back to the first one as many times as you need to until it's done.

3. Find a system that works for you for making and meeting deadlines and appointments - a calendar or day-timer. I use a Palm Pilot and have been really happy with it.

4. Plan and cook meals ahead of time. A huge time-saver and also makes it much easier to eat healthier. It could be as simple as cooking an extra portion of dinner and having it for lunch the next day, or you could plan out seven days at a time (which is what I do).

5. Keep up with things - whether it's tidying up your papers, doing the dishes or working on a report, doing things a bit at a time (see tip #2) instead of letting them pile up to the point of taking you all day, is much more manageable.

5 WAYS TO TAKE BACK YOUR TIME

1. Set and keep your boundaries - if you work for someone else, be clear about over-time and taking work home with you. If you work for yourself, establish the times of day that are no-work zones; good places to start are breaks for meals and deciding when you will start and stop work for the day.

2. Make one day a week "timeless" – rise and shine when you feel like it, eat when you're hungry and let your inner child (or your actual child!) plan your day's activities. Warning: This may conflict with the tip below ;)

3. Cut your t.v. time - try limiting it to one hour per day. Or try cutting it out completely for one week.

4. Buddy up and find someone to take back time with. Whether it's your spouse, best friend, family member or work colleague, if you're both committed you won't let each other bow out.

5. Take your holidays! Whether you're self-employed or work for someone else it's important to take time off to rejuvenate. You will be more productive for it in the long run.
Where do you need to take back time in your life? Where do you need to manage your time better?

(c) Copyright 2005, Genuine Coaching Services.

Linda Dessau, the Self-Care Coach, is the author of “The Everyday Self-Care Workbook”. To receive one of her free monthly newsletters, subscribe at http://www.genuinecoaching.com/newsletter.html

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Take a look again at step four on managing your meals. Doing this could really help you keep on your time schedule. And it would mean one less distraction for you in your online business life.

And step 5 is absolutely right on the money in more ways than one. Letting the household chores build up will absolutely be a time killer. And the same goes for your business tasks. If you keep putting them off, soon you will have so many things to do you won't be able to choose where to start. Bad news all around.

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