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Time Management in Network Marketing – 7 Ways to Master Your Time For Network Marketing Success

June 25th, 2010

Time management has to be one of the most challenging aspects of any network marketing opportunity because many folks are already working a full-time job, so making the most of your spare time is even more critical.

Are you at your wits end wondering how you can get ‘more’ done to achieve success with the limited time you have available right now?

What does time management in network marketing mean to you? Juggling meetings, trainings, learning new skills, prospecting your warm market? Are you struggling to achieve results despite working all the spare hours you have, and you’re still not making any money?

In this article, we’re going to share with you 7 ways to master your time for network marketing success. Plus, we’re offering you a very valuable, eye-opening book to help you get the most out of your business and avoid failure with strategies to help you start earning fast.

First of all, never underestimate the time it takes to achieve a result. The key is to know the result you’re aiming for. If you’re juggling a full-time job and have allocated ‘work-at-home’ hours, this precious time can easily be eroded with housekeeping, telephone calls, PC problems, surfing, challenges with submissions plus learning and applying new skills.

Tip: It helps here to keep a ‘Success Diary’ to list all your successes during the day however minor, to remind yourself of your progress. Review it at the end of your day to see how far you’ve come. Remember, small victories lead to big victories and this small victory process is the natural evolution of things. Most important is the fact that you are doing something new; learning and applying new skills which will help you reach your goals. Congratulate yourself on each new step along the way!

1. Develop a plan and work your plan

Decide what you need to accomplish to achieve a result and keep at it before moving to the next task. This can be especially difficult if you need to learn new skills. This is where many people look for short-cuts. There aren’t any. Any of the folks you see at the top had to learn new skills and develop persistence to succeed. So must you.

2. Set aside specific amounts of time to accomplish what needs to be done and avoid distractions if possible

Nothing can get you more uptight if you’ve allocated a specific amount of time to develop your network marketing business and you allow yourself to become distracted. Once that time has gone, it’s gone and you have to await your next free slot. Spend your business time slot on your business.

3. Develop the habit of discipline to keep you on track and focused

Get into the habit of spending your time productively. Minimise distractions like important messages from top marketers, eBay, computer games, TV etc which can eat time. Decide what’s important and avoid the rest. Progress may at times be slow, but if that’s what needs to be done, keep at it – success is just around the corner!

4. Act like a successful business owner

Remember you get what you expect. Many network marketers and home-based business owners are over-cautious because they’re either scared of failure, or they don’t think they will be able to manage once they reach a certain level of success. Extra help is readily available and you can hire out certain activities, but you have to put the work in first! There is no magic pill and success is not for the timid! Do you really want to be a successful home business owner?

5. Look at your progress and decide if it’s working. If not, change your approach

Seeing others around you making little progress even with the same network marketing opportunity is not indicative that things won’t work for you. Don’t follow the followers necessarily. Look at your marketplace, trends and what’s happening with your company and products and act on your intuition – it never fails! Spend your time on activities which put the customer first.

6. Are you really enthusiastic about your network marketing opportunity?

This can have a really negative impact on your time management. Check your enthusiasm towards your opportunity and that you joined for YOUR reasons not someone else’s. This is YOUR business. If you’re not happy with it, consider an alternative.

7. Make sure your marketing efforts are not splintered and splattered

Pick one area to develop in your business and stick with it until you master it. Mastering one skill can often sky-rocket your success. What particular skill, if done well, would boost your results? For example, if you’re learning internet marketing, master one area before moving on to the next piece of the puzzle. Refer back to your plan and tick off your tasks as you complete them.

Keep in mind the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step!

By: Rich Anderson

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When Is A Marketing Manager – Not?

June 24th, 2010

So you want to hire a Marketing Manager. Someone suggests you go to a headhunter or a dot com site. You get inundated with resumes from those with degrees in marketing or those with marketing backgrounds in major corporations – ad nauseam. Unfortunately, most of these applicants cannot fill the job.

The most appropriate applicant as a Marketing Manager for a lead based home improvement company has usually worked for a company with “in home » Read more: When Is A Marketing Manager – Not?

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5 Small Business Management Questions to Help Choose Marketing Programs

June 20th, 2010

As small business managers, we juggle limited resources in a quest for success. To an extent, when we focus on success in one area we forego attention elsewhere. Limited money and time mean we must choose from seemingly endless — and often conflicting — advice and recommendations from marketing service providers; management and marketing consultants; and internal experts. This creates a dilemma. How do you choose which recommendations to embrace and which to pass by?

Consultants, marketing service providers, and/or other departments within your company will eagerly give advice from their viewpoints. You will hear the benefits of focusing on “___” (fill in the blank with appropriate specialty). This is not a bad thing; it is their job to sell you on the advantages of their specialties. It is your job to probe for the downsides and tradeoffs.

Different Perspectives

Back in my brand management days, it was sometimes frustrating when individual departments could not grasp The Big Picture. The graphics department and the outside ad agency wanted to focus strictly on graphical elements when other aspects of a campaign were just as critical. Manufacturing was worried about throughput and efficiency, never mind what the customer wanted. Each department was doing what it could to optimize its own function, but this did not always work in The Big Picture. A catch 22 of small business management is if all functions are “optimized,” it could be to the detriment of the business. When resources are spread too thin and timelines expand, implementation suffers.

In the online world the same Big Picture problems occur. Each specialist knows much about her or his own specialty, but often little about how it affects other areas. Most of the advice makes perfect sense. Toss in a dose of reality, however, and you may stretch your resources too thin if you simultaneously try for perfection in all areas.

The Big Picture

When reality hits, you find it is simply impossible to optimize all areas of your business. The obligations associated with small business management do not allow you to stop ongoing activities while trying to obtain detailed perfection. God may be in the details, but profit is in the implementation. As small business manager or “chief cook and bottle washer,” it is your job to make it work by bundling the advice into a profitable implementation package.

Once you accept that some areas are going to be initially less than perfect (providing you with opportunities to improve over time), the challenge is to figure out what makes sense for your business and site. When is it critical to optimize and when is less than perfect acceptable? When considering advice from a marketing consultant or other expert, ask yourself these five questions:

1) Does it solve a problem?
One of the best ways to comprehend the importance of an action is to relate it to a problem. If you think strategically – first identifying your major problems, then designing solutions to solve those problems – your business is more likely to thrive.

2) What are my alternatives?
There is always more than one solution to a problem. If you evaluate different approaches, you will ultimately make better decisions.

3) What are the downsides?
Perfection and optimization are in the eyes of the beholder. What you see as a disadvantage may seem trivial to the specialists. Ask questions and do some research on your own to uncover the downsides.

4) Is it likely to be profitable for me?
Larger companies can afford programs that smaller companies and individuals cannot. If you have to go into debt or dramatically reduce other critical activities to implement a program, your cost increases dramatically. In these cases, carefully weigh the resources required against the potential gain.

5) What happens if I do not do this?
Some activities are “niceties” and some are necessities. Know the difference. If you are losing customers to other sites or businesses, for example, taking action is critical. Some activities – those you want to do but do not help solve a significant problem – can be pushed to the back burner.

Incorporating The Big Picture into your decision-making is critical. When you ask yourself these five questions, you are in a better position to make the right decision. Your small business depends on it.

By: Bobette Kyle

About the Author:
About the AuthorBobette Kyle draws upon 12+ years of Marketing/Executive experience, Marketing MBA, and online marketing research in her writing. Bobette is proprietor of the Web Site Marketing Plan Network http://www.WebSiteMarketingPlan.com and author of the marketing plan and Web promotion book “How Much For Just the Spider? Strategic Website Marketing For Small Budget Business, howmuchforspider.com/TOC.htm .Copyright 2002, 2004 Bobette Kyle. All rights reserved.