How much time do you spend working online?

drew8882 · 07-07-07, 09:44 AM

I find myself spending a lot of time working online whether it's answering emails, filling orders, updating my blogs and websites, everything else that comes up in a day. The hours add up quick and sometimes I miss out on other things. I do enjoy what I'm doing so I guess that's what matters. I also try to set a cut off time and try to stick to it and I do stop to do my workouts.

Do the rest of you put in long hours online?

PeterNgLH · 07-07-07, 11:27 AM

I'm just a newbie, thus i've spend so many hours and i'm still spending the long hours,say...at least 5-7 per day,on all kinds of researchs,etc...

How i wish i can really start to earn money online so that i can cut it down...

Monkey · 07-07-07, 01:00 PM

Well at the moment i don't spend much time at all probably about two hours a day or so, i don't know why but i actually want to spend more time making money online.

Businessboy · 07-07-07, 11:28 PM

Well I have an online jobs and websites and it eat my times daily. I have to spent 5 hours with my online job which help me to clear my bills and I have blog which need updates daily so I spent 7 hours to 8 hours per day. It almost 1/3 of my day.

Silhouette · 07-11-07, 09:31 PM

I spend as much time as I can online, initially when I started working on the net I would completely loose myself in cyberspace, back then I was so completely overwhelmed by what I didn't know. But now I have created a more realistic and balanced approach to work and home. Yes, I do spend a lot of hours here, but not at the expense of letting other things that are important in my life get left undone...

Calypso · 07-11-07, 10:40 PM

Most of my work is online, so I spend a lot of time on the Internet. I just try to make sure I really am working and not just playing...at least, most of the time.

mikesgold · 07-16-07, 03:36 PM

Hey all kind of a newbie but I been useing solo ads and free ad sites.But one sale for me is 1k so if any good ideas for lots of traffic is greatly needed.I try to post 300 ads some where and some how
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clasifieds
articles
free ad sumit sites
flyers in your home town
traffic exchanges
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mikepyles · 07-20-07, 06:45 PM

Making money online is great but it can also be time consuming
To the point where thats all you do
dont let the monster get the best of you

Adrianne · 08-20-07, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterNgLH

I'm just a newbie, thus i've spend so many hours and i'm still spending the long hours,say...at least 5-7 per day,on all kinds of researchs,etc...

How i wish i can really start to earn money online so that i can cut it down...

When you are new to internet marketing, it's going to take some time to research and try different things before you find what works for you. Once you reach that point, then you will spend less time online.

When starting a new biz, I think it takes a minimum of 2 months of daily promoting your website so you can generate enough traffic which can be turned into sales. But more importantly is where you promote. If your focus is FFA sites, traffic generators, or free classified ads, then you may not get the return you hope for. This creates a lot of busy work with very little to show for it.

What works for me is posting to message boards. Ask questions and offer valuable info to the forum if you decide to use this method. This will create curiosity and forum browsers will click the links in your sig line to see what kind of biz you're into. It might seem a little time consuming at first but once you become a regular poster, you'll find that it only takes 10 to 15 minutes to make your post on each board. I would recommend that you start with 5 message boards, and post once a day to each one. Do this for the next 30 days and you should have at least 1 new enrollment for your biz.

BizyBlogger · 08-31-07, 02:12 PM

I normally spend 5-6 hours online daily, although much of that is email for my primary online business. About 2 hours of that is to develop new projects and enhance existing ones. Updating blogs is less time consuming when I use automated scheduled posts to all my blog months in advance, just spend an afternoon and don't worry about it for a month.

One of the benefits of an online business is to be able to work when you want, so I work around my activities and life, not the other way around. It's a great lifestyle and am grateful to be doing it.

All the best on your businesses!