Are There Really Enough Hours In The Day To Be An Internet Marketer?

Are There Really Enough Hours in the Day to Be An Internet Marketer?

I have been asked time and time again, how much time I spend as an internet marketer. While my answer may be a little bit different than others, they may also have different results. See I started out as a part time marketer while I was still working 70+ hours a week. Wonder when I found the time? Well, looking back on when I started, I have to laugh and chuckle on how I made the time. There were times that my lunch break involved writing an article, listening to a previous training call or reaching out to other marketers for ideas.

How Do You Go About It?

Whether you have your own product to market (which I dont), have the ability to sell other peoples products (affiliate), or sell some services; there are certain ways you could go to market. While you may have used one or all of the following marketing strategies, I hope you arent doing them all at once. Lets go through the following strategies:

Article Marketing
Banner Advertising
Blogging
Building Content Sites
Writing Press Releases
Pay Per Click
Video Marketing
And many more

Now there are other very daunting tasks that revolve around these marketing strategies that I would like to mention:

Keyword Research
Commenting on Sites for backlinks
Building Links Online
Bookmarking
Pinging websites
And many more

When I first started

Like I said I started out part time spending a couple hours a day building myself a strong foundation. Some may say that I spent way too much time focusing on my foundation that I may have missed other opportunities. I started building my brand, what I was going to be known for, and how I was going to contribute to the world. I started out learning how to do different things, how things worked, and what they meant. After that I wrote an article on them. I wrote an article to share my knowledge and to start positioning myself as a leader and teacher. I will tell you that it did not take long for other internet marketers to start approaching me for guidance and how I was being successful in many different ways.

What I Didnt Allow To Happen

After about six months of not only working 70+ hours a week at my career I built for 15 years, and 2-3 hours a week on my internet marketing business I made a change. I took my business full time at home and made the transition from a retail store manager to entrepreneur. I knew I did not want to get in the rut that many do; I didnt allow myself to start working 90 hours a week from home. I knew that there were so many different possibilities to market my business that I wasnt going to allow them to consume me.

How I Became Successful

There are a few different things that I did to become successful with my online business. First of all I had to change my mindset. I did this by understanding that I owned my own company and whether it prospered or failed, it was because of what I did or didnt do. I obtained the mindset that I would not allow my business to take over my life and become a slave of a digital world. I went about this by reading a couple books and also masterminding with likeminded people on a daily basis.

My second step was to pick two marketing strategies that I had some knowledge about and felt that I wanted to learn more about. While I knew a little bit about computers I knew I would learn along the way, and I have to say I have impressed myself. I chose to really dig into article marketing and a good amount of paid advertising. I soon found out after starting I knew a lot less than I thought I knew, but I was okay with that.

I went full force into learning these new skills, I have prospered from it and will continue honing my skills and taking my business to the next level.

So to answer your question, Are there really enough hours in the day to be an intern marketer?; the answer is yes! You cannot manage the time in the day but you can manage how you manage yourself and what you do throughout the day.