Day 0: Hi [[Firstname]], Thanks for subscribing to receive tips on time management for online business owners. Let me explain why these tips are useful and why you can’t get them in bookstores. The majority of the time management books are about managing your chores, office work and personal time. Rarely will you find time management books targeted for online business owners. To really make use of your time and shave hours from working on your online biz, you need tips which specifically help you with running an online business. Tips which doesn’t apply to a normal brick and mortar business. This is why a lot of internet marketers struggle with time management. They spend hours and hours working on their business and not getting much done. They need information which is related to running an internet business. Here are the first of 2 tips: *Off Topic Browsing* One of the ways to market your business online, is to post in forums. However, this task is dangerous. It’s dangerous because the activity eats up a lot of your time which you haven’t counted for. When you visit forums to post, you’ll come across several articles which are interesting and which apply to your business. You’ll naturally start reading these posts and before you know it, you’ve spent over an hour on reading. This happens to everyone which is why you have to control yourself when surfing. If your purpose is to make some posts to market your business, then set a time frame for yourself. If it’s 20 minutes, then make sure that you stick to these 20 minutes. Just search for posts which apply to your topic, answer a few questions and get out of the forums. The 20 minutes should be the absolute maximum. Don’t go off-tangent and start reading other threads for information. You have work to do. *Reading emails* As an online business owner, you’ll no doubt have signed up for a lot of newsletters and lists from other marketers or companies. A lot of these emails are pitches for the latest products or recommendations for their affiliate links. What you need to do is organize how you read your emails. Since you have so many emails, reading them all will take over an hour of your time. Here’s how you handle them. Scan through the emails and answer them immediately if related to your business. Ignore the rest for the time being. Go through the email subject quickly and delete emails which are obviously promotion for a product. For emails which offer good tips, file them for reading later on when you have free time. If you do this simple procedure with your emails, you’ll find that you don’t necessarily have to read everything that comes into your inbox. Self-discipline yourself with this task and you’ll be able to save well over an hour on reading emails. When you do this often enough, you’ll find that you don’t need to read that many emails. Look out for my next email for more time management tips. In the meantime, you can read a detailed book on time management secrets for online business owners at <<>> Talk to you soon, <> <> Day 2: Subject: [[Firstname]], this tip is like gold on how to manage your time. Hi [[Firstname]], Did you enjoy the time management tips from my last email? Well I hope you applied the tips and saved at least a few hours a week. It’s amazing how one or two simple tips can make a difference to your life. With the extra time you saved, you can spend it with your family and friends to wind down and relax. Life is not just about work. Here is a very useful tip on time management for the online business owner: *Laser Focus* This very important. I have seen this time management tip save people 3 hours a day before. It is very effective yet seen as too simple to be true. When you work online, you’ll no doubt have a lot of communication software or gadgets turned on. These include your emails, chatting software (MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Skype), cell phone and telephone. These are excellent tools which distracts you from your work and make you spend twice as much time working than needed. For example, if you’re writing an article you could be distracted by an email 15 minutes after working on it. You’ll start reading the emails and replying to some which are not urgent. You spend 10 minutes or so on this task and then get back to your writing. Well did you know that reading your emails in the middle of doing a task can eat up a lot of your time? Writing an article will normally take 45 minutes of your time. If you start checking your emails in the middle of it, you can easily take 1.5 hours to finish writing the article. The reason is, when you’re distracted with checking your emails, it will take you at least 15 minutes to get back into the level of concentration you were before you stopped. You have to gather your thoughts again and understand where you left off. This 10 minute of checking emails is actually taking 25-30 minutes of your time. The same applies to other distractions such as chatting software, answering a phone call etc… If you want to save time then switch off all these communication and focus on completing the task on hand. You’ll find that you can get a lot more done when you work at it 100% with no distractions. If you apply this technique as a working habit, it will help you save many hours of work. We spend a lot of hours on work which is not necessary. We think we’re busy but in fact, we’re just multi-tasking several things and some being unimportant. By laser focusing on completing your important tasks, you’ll eliminate a lot of unneeded tasks which doesn’t contribute to your business such as checking email several times a day. Get into the habit of checking your emails twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. You’ll find that it’s more than enough. To read more on useful time management tips, download the book “Time Management Secrets For The Online Business Owner” at <> I’ll talk to you later! <> <> Day 4: Subject: 2 skills that will shoot up your productivity like a rocket! Hi [[Firstname]], Did you like the time management tip I sent to you 2 days ago? I bet that was an eye opener for you. If you haven’t read it yet, go back and find that email. It’s very important. In today’s lesson, I’ll talk about how you can increase your productivity like you’ve never imagined before, by improving just 2 skills. Master these 2 skills and you’ll have plenty of hours to spare per week. Here’s the first tip. *Typing* If you own an online business then you’ll do a lot of typing such as posting to forums, blogging, writing marketing material, writing a report, replying to customer emails and updating your website. Since you do so much typing on your business, have you ever considered to take typing lessons to increase your speed? Many people use 2 fingers to type even after spending several years working behind a computer. On average, a person can type 30 - 40 word per minute. Well if you took typing lessons, you can increase the speed to over a hundred words per minute easily. This is about 300% faster! Imagine writing a report which normally takes you 6 hours and doing it in 2 hours? If you learn how to type fast, you can think faster and get those thoughts type out quickly. It’s a simple skill to practice but yet many entrepreneurs won’t take the time to learn it. Just by typing faster, you can easily save an hour off your normal working speed. This pays off big in the long run. *Making checklists* Have you ever tried using a software or a tool to create something and then completely forget about it afterwards? When it comes to using the software to do the same thing, you need to learn everything again. Well this problem can easily be solved if you make the effort in creating a checklist for your task. So say for example, you created a video for one of your webpages and you submitted this video to a lot of sites like YouTube and Viddler. Well when you first create the video with a camcorder and you use the software Camtasia to edit the recording and then submit the video to sharing sites you can document all of this in a document. The next time you want to do the same thing, just print out the document and do the exact same thing. You’ll know step by step what screen resolution to make the recording in, how to operate Camtasia, what account to submit the videos to and what keywords you have used. With this checklist your mind will feel free of stress because you know you don’t have to remember a lot of things. These are just a few of the tips which is offered in the book “Online Time Management Secrets”. If you’re serious about your online business and desperately need more time to work on it or spend with your family then download a copy of this book now at <> Thanks and I wish you all the best! <> <>