An excellent post! I’ve, been “fooling around” with IM for about a year and a half. I do make some money, but just what I actually deserve to be making. For a while I got discouraged, but when I looked honestly at what I was doing, I realized I was really doing nothing but wasting a LOT of time.

Focus and commitment are everything. I’m still not making a lot of money, but I also know that when I decide to treat my efforts as a business, I can.

Thanks for reminding me of what I should be doing.

I have found that I can spend hours sitting on my computer. The concept of the time has changed all that. I just set my mobile phone to go off at 60 minute intervals. It forces me take a break and be more focused during my time.
Thanks

Now get back to work

It’s crazy, but I still don’t know how to use outlook. Always been a strange thing for me.

A great time saver would be to get a VA to check my emails (except my one-on-one coaching program) for me, but I am still afraid to get someone reply to my customers and subscribers.

Getting the relation right is everything for long term profits.

Franck

The weird thing was, I was thinking about cleaning up my mail just when you posted this.

And yes, it’s full of junk. Sometime it really gets on my nerves. AHHH!

By the way, thanks James.

Don’t tell anyone that I only work 2 hours a day – they will get upset!!!

You may get another chance to shoulder surf. lets see if we have stalkers again

Great advice as always mate!

I remember watching you do a “day’s work” – in all of 2 hours – and it was a masters education for me in personal productivity and efficiency.

You’ve got this stuff absolutely nailed buddy! I immediately went home and unsubscribed from everything – except YOUR emails of course! :^)

I wished afterwards I had taken notes on all the other stuff I saw that day… and here they are.

Thanks mate!

Steve

calvint

Be sure to check out my Video instruction on making your inbox ka-ching like a cash register

Regards

James

I’m sure it’ll help with my email management too.

- Tim

I work in 36 minute chunks.

Most people set it for about 40 minutes.

One question: you say that you use a timer, but how big chunks do you work for between each break – 30 minutes – 1 hour?

The value you place on customer service benefits both parties tremendously. I hope more marketers will realise that instead of using, for lack of a better word, bots.

Keeping inboxes sparse is important to me too. I use the archive and label features in Gmail a lot.