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Internet Marketing and Time Management Mistakes 101 – Five Problems To Be Aware Of
Are you an internet marketer who finds it difficult to stay focused and stay on task? If so, you have a time management problem. The first step in curing a time management problem is to know what the problems are.
So, how do you know what your time management problems are? An easy approach is to examine common time management mistakes and see if they apply to you.
Problem #1 Not Realizing Time is Money
Whether you sell your internet marketing services or use internet marketing to drive traffic to a website or blog where you sell a product, service, or generate income through affiliate links, time is money. Your ability to market a product, service, website, or blog, is what generates income. When you are successful, you make a sale or receive an advertisement click.
The ability to make money based on your productivity is a unique opportunity. In the corporate world, it doesnít matter how efficient and productive an employee is, they usually receive the same paycheck week after week. Since you have a unique opportunity, realize the potential. Remembering that time is money can serve as a source of motivation.
Problem #2 Using the Internet for Personal Communication
Yes, the internet makes it easy to stay in contact with friends and family. You are encouraged to do so, but on your own personal time. If you are working from 9 am to 3 pm, work only. Do not check your email, unless for business purposes only, avoid instant messaging programs, and so forth.
When you take the ability to socialize away from the internet, you will find it easier to manage your time and tasks.
Problem #3 Not Knowing Where You Are Wasting Time
Unfortunately, many home based workers waste time without realizing they are doing so. Many think that quickly checking their email wonít waste time, but it can. What if you check your email multiple times a day? You could waste as much as 15 minutes or more. That doesnít count the time you may spend responding, clicking on links, and so forth.
Yes, it is important to start managing your time and right away, but first complete a trial run. Have a pen and paper handy and go about your day. Each time you find yourself stepping away from work, record the time and what you are doing. No that you know what your distractions are, eliminate them.
Problem #4 Allowing Distractions
Once you determine what distracts you from completing your daily internet marketing tasks, it is important to eliminate them. Do you use instant messaging programs to communicate with others for personal reasons, not business? If so, disconnect the program. When you do, it no longer becomes an issue.
In addition to eliminating distractions online, look at your surroundings. If you work from home, it is easy to find many distractions. Background noise is ideal for some, but do you find yourself watching television instead of working? If so, shut it off. Do not answer your phone. Instead, use caller identification and an answering machine so you can be alerted in an emergency. Otherwise, do answer the phone.
Problem #5 Justifying Your Actions
When may realize their common distractions, most will take steps to eliminate the problem, but others tend to justify it. Do not do this, as it will not improve your time management skills.
A unique way to market a website, blog, product, or service is with the use of applicable internet forums. For example, do you sell a dog obedience eBook? If so, create a message board signature with a link and a catchy sales phrase. Each time you post a message, your link will appear below. So, this approach involves chatting on internet forums. Do so, but only in moderation. Set aside a specific block of time, such as 30 minutes or 1 hour. Do not spend all day socializing and justifying your actions by claiming it is a marketing tactic.
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New Release June, 2010 Social Media and Call Centers have been a primary focus for our sm division here at Soamac HQ. Special thanks goes out to Robert Trent of CCTGRP, inc. for his insight and expertise on this ongoing project. Truely Inspirational!
Social Media And Contact Center Firms Offer Clients Better Acquisition And Retention Results
SOAMAC, Inc. (SOAMAC) and Contact Center Transformation Group, Inc. (CCTG) have combined their resources in Social Media and the Contact Center Arena to offer a suite of services that integrates social media and contact center best practices.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 09, 2010 – Port Saint Lucie, FL – SOAMAC, Inc. (SOAMAC) and Contact Center Transformation Group, Inc. (CCTG) have created a joint venture agreement that allows them to combine their resources in Social Media and the Contact Center Arena to offer a suite of services that integrates social media marketing and contact center best practices that will help clients drive measurable improvements in customer acquisition and retention rates.
Marketing departments, contact center managers, outsourcers, Managed Service Providers (MSP), and professionals in the Customer Relationship Management CRM) industry now have a single source for subject matter expertise in inbound social media strategies that integrate seamlessly with the best practices around traditional contact center staff development, process improvement, and technology enablement.
Marketing departments will now have a way to “put into operation” their social media strategies and contact centers will have a way to improve agent utilization during slow traffic periods by using the programs and systems that SOAMAC / CCTG have developed through this joint venture.
“The SOAMAC proprietary platform and systems have produced impressive results in driving acquisition and retention scores for our clients” says Craig Berry, Founder and President of SOAMAC, Inc.
Robert Trent, founder and president of Contact Center Transformation Group, Inc. claims that “Outsourcers, Managed Service Providers (MSP), and other consulting professionals will have access to knowledge, thought leadership, and intellectual capital developed by his firm which have been integrated into the platforms through this joint venture”.
This joint venture has been under development for several months and is now poised to deliver these integrated services on a proprietary platform. Berry and Trent who have both been in the social media and contact center market places respectively now for decades recognized the gap that was growing between marketing organizations and a way to implement effective programs to put these critical social media strategies into operation. Contact centers who already manage, in some cased hundreds of thousands of transactions a day, have the rigorous disciplines and are required to make these new strategies effective.
The contact centers have the processes and structure to monitor, manage and take appropriate actions that will bring new customers in and keep existing customers from leaving now through the use of these services from SOAMAC and CCTG.
Contact Center Transformation Group, Inc. was formed in 2006 by Robert Trent who had spent over 23 years consulting with contact center managers, outsource providers, software providers, and large managed service providers in this space. He held executive positions with IBM, BellSouth/AT&T, and Sprint. There is more information on him at his Web Site / Blog http://www.cctgrp.com, at LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobtrent
, and Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bobtrentjr.
SOAMAC, Inc. was created to help businesses develop internet strategies. It’s Founder and President, Craig Berry, is a true entrepreneur. He has an exhaustive background in building internet sites and developing strategic marketing systems to help businesses dominate their industries. Berry’s strengths include brand building and natural search engine domination. There is more information on him at his company at http://www.soamac.com . He can be reached at craigberry@soamac.com or follow him at http://twitter.com/soamac.
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Media Contact: Contact Center Transformation Group, Inc.
Person Name: Robert Trent
Phone Number: 770-826-1110
E-mail: rtrent@cctgrp.com
Website: www.cctgrp.com
