{"id":56,"date":"2006-08-06T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/2006\/08\/06\/can-we-massively-up-our-internet-marketing-productivity\/"},"modified":"2006-08-06T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T06:40:34","slug":"can-we-massively-up-our-internet-marketing-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/can-we-massively-up-our-internet-marketing-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we massively up our Internet Marketing productivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone was asking me how to accelerate their Internet Marketing efforts.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d be putting in many more hours, sleeping less, were getting run down, and worst yet, felt they were on the <em>edge<\/em> of a <strong>nervous breakdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Worst still, they only saw a <em>small increase in their results<\/em>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s physically impossible to increase their results, they proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily, I said.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been working hard, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, It&#8217;s killing me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the problem. You don&#8217;t need to work hard.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>There are two components to time usage. <strong>Quantity<\/strong> and <strong>quality<\/strong>. Instead of working hard, you need to work <strong><em>smart<\/em><\/strong> too.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I told him.<\/p>\n<p>We have several factors within our work framework:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have 24 hours a day<\/li>\n<li>Depending on your biorhythmn, you need about 8 hours of sleep a day<\/li>\n<li>You have between 16 waking hours every day<\/li>\n<li>You will spend about 2 hours eating each day<\/li>\n<li>You will spend about 1 hour in the toilet and shower<\/li>\n<li>You will spend about 1 hour travelling each day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That leaves 12 hours of work time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a full time job, that will take another 8 hours a day, leaving 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may just have 4 hours a day!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you watch 2 hours of TV each day, you&#8217;ll kill off half your productive time.<br \/>\n<em>Is it any wonder why many complain they don&#8217;t have any time to grow their business<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>How you use your time each day will determine your results.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;re 3 ways to squeeze more time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Planning helps (a great deal!)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spending 5 minutes at the start of the day is akin to planning your destination before setting out on your journey.<br \/>\nKnowing you will have 4 hours and deciding how you want to spend those 4 hours will be best.<br \/>\nIf you wait to see what free time is available, there&#8217;ll usually be nothing left.<\/p>\n<p>Planning your time means cutting out and making the time available to do the important tasks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most important things first<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The toughest tasks will usually be the ones that give the most leverage in accomplishing our goals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Do those first, especially when you are fresh.<br \/>\nPutting them off another day will delay the achievement of your goals, and ultimately the outcome you desire.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Make it a pattern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps the most important. It takes 21 days to establish a new behavioral pattern. (Try waking up at 4am and start your workday at that time every day)<br \/>\nIt will be difficult at first (as with all things), but as you establish new inertia, your new behavior will become <em>unstoppable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking these 3 simple steps will bring you massive results.<br \/>\nTest them out and leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone was asking me how to accelerate their Internet Marketing efforts. They&#8217;d be putting in many more hours, sleeping less, were getting run down, and worst yet, felt they were on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Worst still, they only saw a small increase in their results. It&#8217;s physically impossible to increase their results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}