Time Management Tips for the Work at Home Parent
Even the best laid plans can go awry when you have children. The trick is to plan for everything and, whenever possible, stick to the plan. It can be hard for children, especially very young children, to understand that mommy or daddy are really working when they are at home and if you have very young children, you may need the support and assistance of your spouse or someone else to help you to reach your goals while tending to your children. Parents who work at home have to make time management a priority in order to be successful.
If Your Children are in School
If your children are in school then you most likely have a readymade schedule already. Take advantage of the time they are at school and make this time your workday. Resist the temptation to do household chores or other things and concentrate on the part of your business that demands your undivided attention during this time. There will always be mundane tasks that you can complete in the evening when your family is home but if you are developing products, writing, editing, chatting or talking with customers, or taking care of any number of things that require your undivided attention, strive to take care of these matters during the school day when you can focus all of your energy and attention on your business.
Children get Sick: Plan on It!
Deadlines are crucial and in order to obtain and maintain regular clients and customers, youll need to adhere to them religiously. That means, as a parent, youll have to work extra hard to avoid procrastination because just when you think you can finish that all important project the next day, just in the nick of time, youre likely to be awoken in the middle of the night with a sick child. Plan for it. It will happen!
Clients and customers are people, too; many of them have children of their own and while they may not verbally assault you if you have to explain that you cant deliver on time because of a sick child, it could cause them to look elsewhere the next time they need something. However, by regularly utilizing effective time management skills, youll be able to withstand the small emergencies without your business being adversely affected.
Get Support from Other Parents
There are a lot of aspiring as well as highly successful Internet marketers who have children. Many of them hang out at Internet forums and groups and offer support to each other. This is especially helpful to parents with young children, some of whom run their businesses during naptimes, before their children wake in the morning, and after they go to sleep at night. While working from home with young children demands a great deal of creativity and discipline, it can be done if you are organized and utilize effective time management strategies.
Dont drive yourself or your children crazy by trying to focus all of your attention on important details of your business while your children are up and around and may need your attention. You can always conduct research and perform many administrative duties during this time and save the work that needs your undivided attention for naptime or bedtime. Set realistic goals and youll find that your roles as Internet marketer and parent will fit nicely into your schedule.
Part 14 — Internet Marketing With, SEO, youtube, Myspace, Facebook, RSS Feeds and More.
In early 2008 I spoke at the Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar for my friends Buck Rizvi and Brock Felt. The attendees paid thousands to be there but I’m sharing my 3 hour presentation from the seminar with you for free. I outlined the social networking and web 2.0 strategies that I personally use to drive tons of traffic to build my list and make more sales. I covered dozens of topics including, but not limited to, internet marketing, creating a sales funnel, search engine optimization (seo), myspace, youtube, squidoo, email marketing, wordpress, rss feeds, openx ad server, affiliate marketing, blogs, getting more traffic to your sites, social profile pages, social networking, social media, and more!
Which One is More Important Product or Mailing List?
Which One is More Important Product or Mailing List?
If you would ask this question, Which one is more important the mailing list or the product? any savvy marketer would answer you, The mailing list.
Principally, any wise business person puts the importance of hungry demand (and not just any demand) in front of the product. In other words, there is no product if there is no demand! And a mailing list represents the demand or your business if you would like to call it.
If you frequent the Joint Venture forums and membership sites of any kind, you will find that product and service owners need mailing list owners more than the other way round. This is because the mailing list owners have the prospects that the other type of partner is looking for to sell to.
And if you are a mailing list owner, you do not have to necessarily make money from selling your own product. You can sell advertising space or craft a Joint Venture with product owners in return of commissions, recurring or not.
Most of the biggest success web businesses on the Internet today often establish the mailing list (or subscribers) first before the product. One fine example is Friendster.com.
Friendster.com, in the nutshell, is a website that connects friends and potential friends from around the world through a free membership access.
While Friendster.com does not make money from the number of members who join the site, the business makes money from selling advertising space and partnering with other big time merchants and businesses, owing to the established number of members Friendster.com has recruited.
This business is perfect example that demonstrates why every business should establish a need or demand before the product itself, and why you should do the same, whether you run a friends site or not.
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