Like many of you, I have read Stephen Covey’s books on time management and I even have his quadrants on a chart on my wall to remind me to spend a good chunk of time each week on things that are not urgent but are very important which can include goal setting and visioning for my business.  Surfing the web has always been  in the category of not important and not urgent and has been considered a time waster. My friend would call this  “doodling” around.

However, website optimization and social networking has added a whole new challenge to time management. Some stuff that can seem like doodling is actually very important. My business has an international market and as long as someone understands English I can help them.  Marketing my business on the web is extremely important and not urgent, (plus I enjoy it as a side benefit). The challenge is that it is something that never gets done. The more I do the more I want to do. I am dipping into the world of Squidoo right now.  Squidoo allows you to create infinite number of separate “lens” pages on any topic you want. You can easily add books from Amazon, u-tube videos etc and Google loves Squidoo for a reason that my non-techy brain cannot  quite explain.

To solve this time management issue I have now set aside two half days a week for online marketing. This includes creating new  Squidoo,  hubpages,  Sumbleupon, Facebook Groups, Twittering and updating my own website to name a few.

I imagine there could be a whole new book on how to manage your time on online marketing. Any ideas??

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