Time Management For Bloggers And Marketers

This is guest blogged by Melvin from MelvinBlog.com, a super duper cool blog. 🙂

These days, I have observed many school kids, college graduates and even the individuals who are doing regular 9 to 5 jobs are considering blogging and internet marketing as a source of part time income. However, I am not saying that this is not a wise decision to make but as we all know that blogging and internet marketing requires sufficient time and efforts from your side if you want to succeed.

In this piece of writing, I will (try to) shed some light on the most important issue which is associated with blogging and internet marketing, “time management”.

As we all are aware that time management is an important aspect of every virtue of life, so we cannot overlook this aspect in online businesses as well. Time management for bloggers and internet marketers is very important because they have to take care of multiple things at one time. If they will fail to devote sufficient amount of time to their online business then they will not get the outcomes as they desire and on the other hand, if they devote all their time to their online business then they will not actively participate in their daily routine activities.

Considering the above mentioned scenario in my mind, I would like to elaborate the importance of time management for bloggers and internet marketers and how they can manage their time in an organized manner so they can take care of their online business as well as their daily routine activities.

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Disclaimer: I’m not a professional counselor or whatever. Anything laid out here is entirely based on my opinion, and my experience with it myself and from my close colleagues. As always, consult a professional person first.

1. For School Going Kids

If you are a kid  going to school everyday, then you must devote sufficient amount of time to your studies, it is your first responsibility. After coming back from your school session, take some rest and have your meal. Then, get rid of your home work (if you have any). After getting rid of all these issues, devote 1-2 hours to your online business.

For students, 1-2 hours will be enough because they are still at their learning stage and too much on anything can cause stress in the child. Remember, as a kid, making money SHOULD NEVER be a serious goal. The reason you’re blogging is for early exposures that can benefit you in the future.

2. For College Students

For college students, it’s much easier to manage their time and organize their daily routine schedule properly. College students can take care of their online business while they are at their college or university. They can divert their attention towards the computer lab of the college of university in their free time and can take care of their online business quite comfortably. T

his will assure that they are utilizing their free time to their most. This is easier since college life is a life of more freedom where as you could do a lot without hurting your studies that much.

3. For People Working In A Job

For individuals who are doing regular 9 to 5 job, It’s important that these types of individuals must understand the importance of time management if they want to keep a balance in their personal and professional life. Their responsibilities are more as compared to school going children and college graduates.

For them, it would be hard to manage time for business but if they put some efforts then this won’t be a difficult task. They must devote sometime to their online business on regular basis, maybe 2-3 hours. But, they must put some extra efforts in their weekends. In this way, they would devote sufficient amount of time to their online business as well as to their daily routine activities.

Conclusion

Time management for bloggers and internet marketers is very important. Proper time management will assure you a stress free life as it makes sure you’re maximizing everything without hurting your other responsibilities and stressing yourself. What do you think? What’s your own tactic that you’re using?


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  2. I am people that work in office. I usually take 1 – 2 hours everyday to manage 2 blog that I have. I have hundred of blog but i am focus in this 2 blog. And I spent to read 1 article about blogging tips to add my knowledge. thanks you for article that remind me.
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  3. Students have the most time to blog and spend their time to other activites because they can control their time not unlike people who are working on companies or office or anywhere because they must follow strict schedule.
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  4. Good article! Time management is often neglected by many people thus it is one of the most important thing so you can do everything you need from your top most priority to the very less. It also helps to discipline ourselves in doing non-sense things or less important.
    .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

      1. Oh, I am inspired on what you said “Many old people regret that their waste time when their were young.” Yes, don’t let it happen to us. I promise to fix my schedule and practice time management soon!
        .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

          1. Thanks for the appreciation. And here we comes another tips for time management :

            Invest 1 hour sleeping for blogging. In a year, there will be 365 hours saved total for blogging. 365 hours…don’t you think it’s great? You can do a lot of things for blogging using that 365 saved hour…!!!
            To make it more managed, from now make a list of “What will you do on 365 hours for blog”
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          3. @akira07

            what a plan friend… its seems to be great… 😀 Definitely 365 hours enough for blogging.. But again there comes a question… How usefully we will manage that 365 hours for blogging?
            .-= Deepika´s last blog ..SEO – True Story =-.

        1. To finish schooling is what every parents dream for their children. I’m not sure why they do not support maybe because you do not use your time properly, you earn money but you tend to ignore schooling, i guess? Knowledge is not only to find a money but to have a better you, your life itself and personality.
          .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

          2. @senthil

            You are right… Many will be waiting for the comment approval.. We need to moderate it as soon as possible.. This is also one way of time management… The picture shows that he does not maintain time management
            .-= Deepika´s last blog ..SEO – True Story =-.

  7. Thanks for the article.

    I like how you divided up the information, so that for scanners it is easy to see what section applies. As you said many people are starting to see making some money online as a legitimate part time income, but often they have no idea about the time involved. Progress can be still made if less time is spent online, it just means that success may take a little longer that’s all.

  8. I am working full time and trying to make an online business after hours… So it looks like third category. You wrote about working in weekends. But it is not as easy as it sound especially if you want to have some time for wife and kids. Usually I work at late evenings 10PM to 1AM. It is not much but my business is looking better and better everyday. I have decided to leave my full time job and I will use my day time to work harder and to make regular updates to my blog… Like for now it looks promising. Check my blog soon for my case updates and wish me luck 🙂
    .-= KreCi´s last blog ..How to jump into freelancing? Get your first job! =-.

  9. I really think the Students should focus more on there studies as that is their career once the students finish their Jobs they will quit blogging and will focus on the job that will help them earn more money

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