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Do you know what is Time Killer? Time killer is the thing that distracts your concentration and kills your time, in the end you can’t finish your main task. There is a lot of time killers in our life, when I work in my office, the time killer will be reading forward emails, listening phone calls from client, chit chatting with colleagues, answering boss’ questions, and etc, these things always distracted my concentration on the actual tasks and I always need to work overtime to complete the tasks.
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When it comes to blogging, there are many blogging time killers too. I used to have about 3-4 hours online everyday, I spent this 3-4 hours to manage my blogs and did some other things, I personally call these some other things as Blogging Time Killer. So you know I have 3-4 hours online everyday, but I spent most of the time on doing other things instead of writing a blog post for my blog, so you see I have only written a blog post once 3-4 days or longer, it was because when I drafted an article, I kept distracted by many other things, end up I couldn’t finish writing the article.
Here is a list of my Blogging Time Killers :
1) Reading And Replying Email
I used to receive about 50 emails everyday, so I need to spend some times to read and reply them. Some email requires for help or question, so I spent a lot of time on replying email. Of course, I did email people to ask for help as well, such as wordpress errors, thesis theme customization, and etc. Sometimes I needed to deal with advertisers as well. I could spent more than 1 hour on the email part.
2) Bloghopping And Leaving Comment
I love reading others’ blog, I have more than 10 blogs bookmarked in my browser and I checked them everyday to check whether is there any updates on the blogs. Usually I will leave a comment after reading the article, if the comment requires the blog owner’s response and the blog owner replied my comment in minutes, I’ll visit the blog again and check for reply. It took me about 1 hour or longer on bloghopping, it was the longest part.
3) Checking Flippa For Latest Auction Listing
Recently I plan to buy a landing page which sells clickbank or any other product, the site must be launched for months and already have earning every month. So I need to visit Flippa.com everyday to check out the latest auction listings, so that I can grab the best offer and get a best deal. I have yet to get one, so I’ll need visit everyday, checking out the auction listing, visiting the auction’s website, and discussing with the owner as well. It took me about half an hour every day.
4) Chit Chatting With Friends Or Clients In MSN
I do have friends or clients looking for me everyday in MSN, clients were looking for help and friends were looking for someone to chat. So I need to entertain my friends as well as my clients. Usually I spent more times to help my clients fixing some problems, sometimes I’ll ignore my friends, I was forced to do it, lol. It took me about half an hour if there was nothing important such as resolving clients’ problems.
5) Replying Blog Comments
I used to have about 5-10 comments in this blog, sometimes more if I published a new article. So I need to spend some times replying the comment. I used to reply every single comments in the past, but I found that some of the commenter left “lazy” and pointless comment, such as “I love your post, it’s very informative!”, I approved the comment (if that’s human) but I’ll ignore the comment and skip to next comment. Usually it took me about half an hour too.
So you can see I almost finish spending my 3-4 hours online time, sometimes I spent longer time on these. I called them as Blogging Time Killer because they were really time consuming, that was why I was not able to write an article in daily basis. I’ll be setting a time frame to do these thing everyday and take the rest of the times to draft a blog post. When it comes to make money online, I need to be very active so that I can compete with the competition out there.
So, what is your blogging time killer and how much time you spend on them?
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I’m usually spend the whole day in front of my laptop or whenever I have chance to be online…I do also all that you said above..
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@Een Rockstar,
Great to see that you’ve more time online everyday, I’m able to online from morning until night actually, my working place does have internet as well, but my company blocked most of the sites, one of them is my blog admin panel, so I couldn’t be able to manage my blog, I can’t only do that at home which is at night time.
Not so much time online actually..I’m quite busy with my study..Sometimes, I couldn’t find time to blog although the pc is in front of me.
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@Een Rockstar,
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I get distracted alot also, but I need get a good time management in place. Greg Ellison
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@Greg,
Yea, not only you but everyone needs to have a good time management too, include myself. I can’t myself keep reading others’ blog and leaving comment.
its true ka hoong chai
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Totally! Most of the time when I stated to log on the internet, what comes up is the list of to do list! Checking the mail, of course would be priority then doing some reseach on internet marketing….bla..bla.. all this consume time, especially when the internet connestion is damn slow! Btw, I try to add in your name with my YM but it seems to have some error with it ( maybe my broadband connection limits it, anyway I’ll try again). I enjoy reading your blog. Quite simple but yet informative. Me? Still stuggling to balance hahaha…
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@Noor Azlin,
I believe that checking mail is what most of the people would do, I checked my email every half an hour (thanks god that my company It doesn’t block email).
Perhaps you can try to add again Noor, I’m waiting for your nudge. Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you really enjoy it, you’ll be the next well known blogger in coming days if you put effort and work hard for your blog.
I think a fair amount of people kill their blogging time doing what you do above including me. I also do 300 drops on entrecard daily, so there is another blogging time killer…
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@Compute Live,
Wow, 300 drops on entrecard daily is a lot man. Luckily I’ve dropped entrecard few months ago, if not I’ll be doing like you.
Well its because I have just started…lot of people start with 300 and ends up around 50 after 1-2 months ..
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I will look for food and drink when I blog. Thankfully, it is only happen in sometime.
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@Jayce,
Haha, I never ate anything while blogging. But I think looking for food and drink when blog won’t be affecting your blogging time, you still can think what to write for your blog, the only thing is that you can’t type. lol!
I guess, understanding what are the time killers & gaining control over them to make most of your productive time is really essential. However, I believe we can’t stop most of the activities as they do benefit the blog. But certainly, keeping them under control would help to improve productivity.
Chris Peterson´s last blog ..Tips for Building High Value Links for Your Site
@Chris,
We should have better time management to overcome this, set a daily schedule so that the tasks can be done on time, this improves the productivity as well. This is most of the people couldn’t do, including myself.
According to me, though some of the tasks are time killers, it’s hard to escape. However, mostly my time management skills have been at their best, when I hardly had enough of it. It’s the most productive time I usually had. So I think, setting deadlines & rewards system can be of best use to us.
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@Chris,
I agree with you Chris. Btw, what kind of rewards system that you used to push yourself to complete the tasks on time? I’m interested to know and learn from you too.
Pre -planning number of tasks planned for he duration you have & maintain the list of plan v/s actual tasks finished. You would, over a period of time, understand how much time you consume in emails, commenting & replying to blog comments etc. Then you can set kinda deadlines that would encourage you to perform better & save time. I hope these tips help you. It might take time for you to see results but keep fighting, dude! You will gain control over time.
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My main time killers are blog hoping dropping entrecards and reading my email.
@marcus,
Yea, blog hoping is the most time consuming task. There are tons of blogs out there and we can’t stop reading them and leaving comment, it took me about an hour even I have only 10 blogs in my bookmark.
Being connected to the Internet is the KILLER for me. I get SO MUCH MORE WORK DONE when I grab my laptop and get out of the house and don’t connect my wireless card. Everything you listed takes up my time, as well as checking CNN, ESPN, Local News, etc….
The Internet is the greatest and worse thing to ever come in my life
Definitely spend way too much time online!
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@Doug,
Yea, sometimes we can complete more tasks if we do it offline, but sometimes we need to online and do research too, it depends on what kind of tasks you have right now. But time killers will be always with you, it’s too difficult to piss them off.
it look like we have the same ” killer time ” lol… i have more than 100 email everday.. 20% of them is spam….i create one post everyday.. and sure it takes lot of my time
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@EarningStep,
Seems that you manage to write one post a day even though time killer kills your time. I couldn’t get it done because I’ve limited time online a day. Anyway, I appreciate your works.
I usually do my blogging activities more or less 10 hours a day. That just because I am a full time blogger but because of my current job as an internet cafe attendant.
I don’t have my own personal computer so more of my blogging updates will be performed at internet cafes.
I love also spending my time on visiting others’ blog if their are some new updates. I also have more than 20 bookmark sites in my browser which I visit everyday. I also include yours. hehehe. I love eating new information because I am always hungry on learning new things.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I hope we could be friends.
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@EMAH,
I think it’s great to be a full time blogger, this is what I can’t do right now. Oh I see, so you take the advantage of free online for 24hours as long as you work there, you should be able to complete a lot of tasks online.
Thanks for putting my site in your favourite list! I appreciate it! Of course we can be friends, blogging is all about building community.
Ya, Same is the situation with me..Most of my time goes into those things except that Flippa thing. Instead of that I check my Twitter, Clickbank and other major account..
Well the Flippa Idea is a looking good to me
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@Typhoon,
Yea, recently I get addicted to Flippa and I plan to invest a site, so I need to follow up closely for the latest auction.
Hi there lee,
Well,just read you article as above and couldnt agree less or more on that with you. As you meantion above, all of your activities apart from blogging is a time killer in another word would be wasting your time. I wouldnt agree that with you as I found that to be more beneficial than anything else.
Why am I saying this ?
Well, let’s take it as imagination, input>process>output
Well, when you do all of the activities which you listed out there such as reading email,chatting,hunting your techinical problems solution, asking for help and so on, this were actually building up your input which is your knowledge towards a problem and issue,so when you found the solution it actually gives you a better foundation for you to produce your output which is your blog and post which would be quality article and would increase the traffic and revenue to your site.
So, as for me,wha you have done in the list above,is a great work, keep on doing it and build your strong foundation as well help others to build them and share good community together.
Have great day
@hema chan,
Yeap you’re right, it helps in building my knowledge and foundation so that I could write a blog post. The problem is that the activities take most of my time and I don’t even have time to produce blog post even thought there are many articles on my mind. Anyway, I do agree with what you mentioned here, it’s truth.
Also, thanks for commenting here and I appreciate it!
3-4 hours daily… just like me man. So many things to do and need to be done other than blogging. BTW, nice sharing
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@steppinout,
Yea, 3-4 hours a day is really not enough to get something up. Now I hope there’s 48 hours in a day. lol! Thanks for visiting and reading my blog, see you again!
Hai lee,
I was wondering how do you get the “sponsored ” section to be appear in your site at the top right hand corner under “sponsored”, is this a widget or how do you apply it?
@hema chan,
I insert the OIO Publisher coding in the sidebar widget.
I usually spend at least 4 hours a day on blogging and have had some success earning money with Google AdSense. I’d blog more if I didn’t have my full time job.
@William,
Great to see that you have some success earning money with Adsense! Adsense is only a small part of my overall earning, but it’s still money, and nobody hates money.
Same to you, I do prefer to work full time online if I can.
It is difficult to work every day at your blog after 9 to 5 job. I am only able to mange it weekly.
@Custom Essays,
I totally agree with you, most of the brain cells are dead after working from 9am to 5pm. We need more rest to produce articles, so the quality of articles will be higher.
searching for better news in my niche is a major time killer for me…. and it is more frustrating for me because i never get good info to write about
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Hey Indiancashmaker, try Google alert for news. It will let you update on the issue and you will get lots of ideas for your blog post.
@Custom Essays,
Thanks for the help dude!
Also, I would suggest you to subscribe to blogs that you found useful, or you can bookmark them so that you can visit them everyday to check for updates, for sure you can get some ideas to write a post.
Great post. And let me share with you my other Time Killers. Lurking in forums, and playing those game in Facebook.
@Top MBA Malaysia,
I used to play Facebook games in the past too, it took me a lot of times, but no more right now.
I batch process any commenting or responding to comments to two 30-minute sessions twice a week. If I get tempted to write a long-winded comment, I ask myself how I can turn my thoughts into a blog post. If you’re going to get distracted, you might as well design systems to funnel those distractions back into something productive.
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@Andre Kibbe,
Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment here Andre! I believe that everyone has their own planning on the blogging schedule, but that’s really cool to see that you could turn and get ideas from a long comment into a blog post. This can be happened if you’re really expert on the discussion topic and you have a lot of ideas on the article, or else it’s difficult to be done.
Andre, I’m sure you’re a good writer. Nice to meet you!
Watching other blogs grow and dreaming like that is another time killer.
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@Amal Roy,
You’re right! Many people like to do this and keep dreaming that they’ll be success by keep reading others’ blogs, they need to action instead of keep reading.
While you consider replying to the blog comments as time wasters I do not think that way.If you reply on a comment the commenter might get the feel that you are in connect with him and would be more participative on your blogs.Don’t we want this? Yes others might be time wasters but if it is related to your blog it is fine.The fun ends where you know it is not at all connected to your blog and you still have to work on that.Good for you to point out,many people waste their time without even knowing they are at it.
@Garry,
Blog commenting in relevant blogs might help in brand building and traffic building, but when it comes to spending more times and producing more quality content, blog commenting is one of the biggest time killer. I didn’t say that blog commenting is not good, but it may take most of your times when you’re going to write a post, especially for those who has minimum time online in a day (just like me), they need to take time to concentrate in writing more posts.
It’s got to be Skyping and gossiping for me!
As well as the some you mention.
Andrew
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@Andrew,
Gossiping, this was what I did some times too haha! You know gossiping can spend you few hours, but some times it’s good to release ourselves and do whatever we like. Otherwise blogging will be tiring.
Mostly, I’m able to manage my time well but sometimes we can’t get rid on time killers and that happens. That’s why we all need a good planning and know some of the techniques so that it wouldn’t bother you no matter what you are going to do!
@Chris,
Great planning you have in blogging business Chris, this is a good practice and I will definitely take it as my plan too. Most of the people are not able to save their times on blogging because they didn’t know how long they should spent on a single task, when they took too long time on a single tasks and ended up they couldn’t complete another tasks, especially people who have limited time online a day like me.