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. Very nice post Melvin…
    You have listing the whole blogging into three parts. thats great..Time management is necessary for each one of us. And following the schedule is another important point. Every blogger should spend atleast one hour in blogging either writing post or promoting their blog, or commenting in other blog.
    this will provide good relation with other blogs
    .-= Deepika´s last blog ..My Favourtie Posts@Which I Have Read =-.

          4. You just need some motivation I think. You are good in time management for contest purpose because you are motivated with the prize you will get. In blogging, you need an inspiration to be motivated and a goal to set.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

      2. With only one Hour a day I think Blogging is very hard to manage. Maybe it´s a good Idea to use a Guest Blogging system for example.

        For those who are blogging to make money with it, I think I would concentrate on PPC marketing instead of blogging – this takes less time to show results (Blogging can become real Big over time, but it TAKES TIME and Work!)
        .-= Benjamin Huebner@Free marketing downloads´s last blog ..Article Submission Software – Free Downloadable Full Version! =-.

  3. That was an excellent article. I often struggle in managing time and yes since I am in 9-5 job people’s section I always find less time for blogging. Most of the time I take sundays to write articles and schedule it for that week and I spend the week looking for resources.
    .-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively =-.

          2. Yes, I think you already have good time management. Once you can accomplish every thing you need to do in or before its due, I believe you have good practice on managing your time already.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..MOVED! =-.

  4. Because we’re talk so many things about consistency, a word of “time management” sometime comes. And now, it’s shown on one article. First of all, thanks to Melvin. Well, i’m put my concentration on “For college students” point since i’m into it. I just notice that i can practice your tips on using computer lab on my college to blogging. My college have computer lab also, but it’s Linux and the internet is slow, so i need consider it first. The other solution is, go to internet cafe around the college. I need to pay for it but since i can do my blog schedule, it’s OK.

    Anyway, quite disagree with this statement : “College students can take care of their online business while they are at their college or university” if it’s design class. Design college is very busy. It’s rarely to find free time. And if their have free time, their prefer to sleep. So, i think maybe blogging is not suitable activity for design student.
    .-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.

      1. Good reaction Akira. I myself have struggle before because of internship and it eats a lot of your time that you got to figure out quickly how to adjust or you’d do harm for your blog and community.

        I believe as long as you’re dedicated to blogging, whether youre a student of any course you can do it, believe me. 🙂

  5. Well i like the school going section, but currently i giving up on my resting time, i hardly watch TV and make sure I get 4 hours a day for blogging. Though I don’t neglect my studies I am seeing my marks deteriorating, but i’m not gonna give up on blogging, I’m sure some day I’ll earn more than my parents.
    .-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..4 hottest internet startups 2009 =-.

  6. You see Melvin, I believe that if i could sacrifice some time and some rest maybe later on I can spend the rest of my life holidaying, look at Maki, he worked hard before now he went on a holiday for 6 months, i’ll do anything for such a life. My parents are also getting objective, though they were initially happy about me earning money, i try to persuade them by giving them examples of famous bloggers. But i am very much happy about my blogs growing traffic and profits and I also got featured on TOI.
    .-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..4 hottest internet startups 2009 =-.

      2. Hey dude TOI refers to The times of india which happens to be india’s largest newspaper, but i got featured on the student version, they had a contest that I won and i and some others were given a chance to edit one of their pages and i thought this was a golden opportunity and wrote about my blog there, unfortunately they didn’t put up an online version.
        .-= Vishal Sanjay´s last blog ..4 hottest internet startups 2009 =-.

          2. I’m no good in teaching others, too. I can say that I have short patience for them. I want them to explore first on their own then ask me if there is something which they really can’t understand. Because I learn that way, too. No one taught me to do this and that but because of my curiosity and because I’m not afraid to explore on things, I learned this and that.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..Lalalalove Contest =-.

        2. No, they’re not a computer geek. Actually, I haven’t told them that I’m trying to make money online. I still don’t know how will I tell them. haha and I want to surprise them when I have much already.
          .-= Jenn´s last blog ..Lalalalove Contest =-.

  7. Ok since this is time management article, i think i should discuss again of my killer-time decreasement plan. The plan is about reduce all of your activity time by some minute and use that for your blogging activity.

    If normally, you bath for 20 minute, reduce it to 10 minute. Eating time 20 minute, reduce it to 10 minute. On that 2 activity, you already save 20 minute. And if in a day, bath + eat is 2x, so you already save 20minute x 2 = 40 minute <<– enough time to do blogging
    .-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.

          3. Don’t let you health suffer by reducing your sleeping time, 8 hours of sleep is the advisable length. I suggest you reduce your time doing not-so important things.
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..Lalalalove Contest =-.

          2. I’m not see it yet 🙁
            But i think my time mangement for this contest is very success 😛

            @Typhoon
            Would you like to reveal it on the last day of contest?

          8. @Akira, I haven’t seen it yet as well. >o<
            @Typhoon Would you mind to reveal it to us at least for a longer period of time?
            @Deepika you're lucky to see it twice
            @Senthil Thank you, hope to have sneak on it. haha
            .-= Jenn´s last blog ..Lalalalove Contest =-.

        2. Schooling is hard. My daily schedule for school is 8-5 but if I will calculate all including my traveling time, it’s 6-6, half of my day is spent on school then 5 hours of sleep or less than since I got projects and requirements to accomplish. That hurts.
          .-= Jenn´s last blog ..Lalalalove Contest =-.

        1. yeah… Time management is needed for every bloggers… Melvin have done a great job and divided into categories which is useful for everyone..

          3. @akira07

            you are right friend… Every day there is an update in technology.. So blog regarding tech needs extra time for blogging and also need to be updated

    2. That’s why don’t let anything stealing your blogging time. The only way to do it without also not disturb any priority such school is time management. I find your blog is good enough, it’s a prove you can manage time properly. Congratz…!!!

      Anyway there is article titled : “Blog With Consistency And Succeed In The Blogging World” on your blog, it’s so relevant with this article topic.
      .-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.

          2. @Akira Yes I think. People are getting less time, all over the world and they some of the less time reading this kind of article to manage that less time effectively 😀 😀

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