JoeMilford
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Lately, I have had a real adjustment period in balancing out my "day job", which pays the big bills, and my freelancing and online gigs, which provide supplemental income. I was just curious--how do you all balance your many responsibilities with your freelancing work? I think this is a more complicated question than just basic time management. I am looking forward to hearing your insights.
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TommyCarey
When I started off, I would come home and answer any emails I had from while I was gone, then I would start sifting through the mountain of data. After about a year of this, I was making as much online as I was my "real job" so I decided to go full time online and see what I could do. Before that, it felt like I was constantly overworked and I would usually miss a few things here and there because I just didn't have enough time in the day.
Time management definitely comes into play, but there's so much more to do than just set time slots aside to finish something. You don't know exactly how long an article will take to type, you don't know how long a website will take to fix, you don't know how long it will take to get a response back from your hosting company, and all of these play into big factors when it comes to time management that can't really be controlled when you're trying to balance a "real job" and an online job. I usually had a list of things that I needed to do when I got home from work, and depending on how long I thought something would take, some tasks wouldn't get any attention until the weekend when I had plenty of time to attend to them and have extra time if additional problems popped up lol.
You'll need to prioritize your work, meaning that anything that makes you money is high priority and anything that you're trying to develop after your first website is up and running becomes secondary. You're more focused on priorities in the beginning than time management, because time management only comes into play when you have a steady stream of income that you need to do small tasks for to keep going. Priority management will be what you need to focus on until you start making more money than your day job
Think about it, if you're managing your time well, you might not be able to get to the sales pages of your website and get the "Buy Now" button on them because you were more focused on setting up your 3rd website. Work on one website at a time, and get it set up to the bare bones point where you can capture a sale, then build off of that later on with lesser priorities. You can add new static pages or publish some blog content to help bring people in from the search engines, you can spruce up your design a bit so it looks more modern, you can play around with the menus and navigation so it's easier for people to get around, etc. These are what I consider secondary priorities because they aren't crucial when it comes to making money online. Sure, they will help boost your sales, but they aren't the main core features that will capture the sale and send money to your PayPal or bank account
I hope that makes sense
- Razzy I had a "real job" when I started out and had the same problem you do right now. I would work my 9-5, or whenever I was scheduled, and I would come home to do my freelancer stuff. I didn't really offer any sort of service until a few years after I started, but I still had to manage my own websites and monitor all my data to make sure what I was doing wasn't wasted time lol. When I started off, I would come home and answer any emails I had from while I was gone, then I would start sifting through the mountain of data. After about a year of this, I was making as much online as I was my "real job" so I decided to go full time online and see what I could do. Before that, it felt like I was constantly overworked and I would usually miss a few things here and there because I just didn't have enough time in the day. Time management definitely comes into play, but there's so much more to do than just set time slots aside to finish something. You don't know exactly how long an article will take to type, you don't know how long a website will take to fix, you don't know how long it will take to get a response back from your hosting company, and all of these play into big factors when it comes to time management that can't really be controlled when you're trying to balance a "real job" and an online job. I usually had a list of things that I needed to do when I got home from work, and depending on how long I thought something would take, some tasks wouldn't get any attention until the weekend when I had plenty of time to attend to them and have extra time if additional problems popped up lol. You'll need to prioritize your work, meaning that anything that makes you money is high priority and anything that you're trying to develop after your first website is up and running becomes secondary. You're more focused on priorities in the beginning than time management, because time management only comes into play when you have a steady stream of income that you need to do small tasks for to keep going. Priority management will be what you need to focus on until you start making more money than your day job :) Think about it, if you're managing your time well, you might not be able to get to the sales pages of your website and get the "Buy Now" button on them because you were more focused on setting up your 3rd website. Work on one website at a time, and get it set up to the bare bones point where you can capture a sale, then build off of that later on with lesser priorities. You can add new static pages or publish some blog content to help bring people in from the search engines, you can spruce up your design a bit so it looks more modern, you can play around with the menus and navigation so it's easier for people to get around, etc. These are what I consider secondary priorities because they aren't crucial when it comes to making money online. Sure, they will help boost your sales, but they aren't the main core features that will capture the sale and send money to your PayPal or bank account :D I hope that makes sense :D - Razzy
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