What is your biggest time suck?

by LiamMcIvorMartin

Posted: 14 years ago 16 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Just wondering what task you spend the most time on which you don't enjoy doing. Mine is just managing employees since I run a service based business and I don't like having to constantly solve employees problems. I've recently taken the approach of trying to get them to solve their own problems which has resulted in two really successful situations and a third which ended up costing me 3 grand (long story).

Anyhoozle, just would like to hear about other peoples experiences.

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webwriter 14 years ago

Researching material that I could use in creating reports and ebooks. I have fun, but tend to lose a lot of time.

Am beginning to think that this is just a way to procrastinate.

Anyhow, that's my biggest time suck.
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Power and Wealth 14 years ago

This forum
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- LiamMcIvorMartin 14 years ago
  
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  Get leechblock and set yourself to 10 minutes a day. Makes you much more productive.
  
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  innocent07 Banned 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by LiamMcIvorMartin
  
  Get leechblock and set yourself to 10 minutes a day. Makes you much more productive.
  
  What is leechblock?
  
  oh i have just seen it, but cant you just Take them websites off the settings? (if you cant keep off them) ?
  
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  Get Inspired Today 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by innocent07
  
  What is leechblock?
  
  oh i have just seen it, but cant you just Take them websites off the settings? (if you cant keep off them) ?
  
  With leechblock you can set the password to something you don't know so you can't edit it while blocked.
  
  However, you could probably just uninstall it if you wanted to. At the very least, its a useful program to keep you AWARE of where you're wasting time. It's always up to you to actually adhere to changes you want to make.
  
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EquestrianGal 14 years ago

Researching... and editing my own work
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Brad Gosse 14 years ago

Stats is my biggest time suck, I am an addict.
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Midas3 Consulting 14 years ago

Checking SERPS positions with MS for about 10 sites.
Email !!!!!
Home Cinema forums.
Sleeping.
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Diana Lane 14 years ago

Lots of things, probably, but I'm pretty certain that I spend far too long looking for images. 'The one that will do' is usually more than acceptable, but I want 'the one that will do better', and when I find it I'm still convinced that 'the one that will do perfectly' is out there somewhere and that I'll find it if I just click around for a bit longer. A lot of the time I never get further than 'the one that will do' anyway, and have to settle for that - about half an hour's worth of looking after I first found the thing. Stock photo sites eat my life
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LiamMcIvorMartin 14 years ago

I would also install rescuetime as it will literally show you how much time you spend on youtube or facebook every day. It's horrifying once you get your analytics back that first week.
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- innocent07 Banned 14 years ago
  
  I sometimes get very carried away with youtube clips!
  
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  TheChanger 14 years ago
  
  Writing content for my blogs.
  
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Negotiator74 14 years ago

I'm starting to finally manage my time sucking, time wasting, no production things which includes:
1) Endlessly checking the SERP rankings for my sites multiple times per day
2) Checking my Adsense earnings several times per day
3) Checking in on new forum posts here and at 2 other forums
4) Checking and reading email that wastes my time and doesn't earn me any money but I find myself doing it anyway

You could say I am addicted to these useless time sucks but am aggressively trying to wean myself off!!
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DogScout 14 years ago

Pain.... & a neurotic beagle dog.
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genietoast 14 years ago

That would be my computer.
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Darren Beecham 14 years ago

Email,but thankfully i have worked out how to use gmail effectively.In and out of there now.
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