It's OK If You Want To Do This Part-Time

I was working 10 hours a day back in England.. I streamlined everything.. outsourced the support (they get paid on a per ticket closed basis) and I now work about 30 minutes a day and travel all over the world.

Work the System by Sam Carpenter pretty much changed my life!

thats my aim. I want to cut back my 9-5 job to say 3.5 days a week and supplement the rest with IM.
I have a little girl due next weekend so want to spend more time with her and Mum.

Currently focusing on Niche sites ($30ish per day sites say up to 10) and offline offering free seo appraisals of small to mid local businesses on the proviso of getting email address and building a bit of a list

So if you know anyone around here who can help me find niches (suck at KW research) then Yay

Any advice

That's the thing with the internet, you can work part time, but make a full time living or better. Just depends on the actions you are taking.

As a former (yes, former) full time home business owner, I can absolutely say
for certain that you can make a nice part time income working a few hours
each month.

I would say I know work between 16 and 24 hours a month, or less than an
hour each day. That time put in brings me in about $3,000 to $4,000 monthly
of "side" income.

I decided to go into semi retirement because my wife stopped asking me for
money to pay the bills (which there are very few of now) last year. I finally
got to the point where I said, "why am I killing myself?" There are so many
things I'd rather be doing.

So the few hours I put in now are basically to support my Magic The Gathering
card addiction. You should see my Ebay bill.

I second what John says. Build a list. My list can support my addiction
easily with just a few hours work each month. The key is providing value
and giving people what they want.

Semi retirement is wonderful (which is part of the reason why I don't post
nearly as much here as I used to) and I wouldn't go back to working full
time for all the money in the world.

Here's a quick and dirty way to have some money coming in for life with
just a little effort up front.

1. Create a product in an evergreen niche like Travis Sago did in the get
your ex back niche.

2. Get affiliates.

3. Let them do the work for you.

Sure, it's a little effort at first, but once the ball starts rolling, it doesn't
stop as long as it is a true evergreen niche and not something volatile like
MMO.

But if you're not up to that, do as John says. Build a list in a niche market,
preferably not MMO, and you can easily make a few hundred a month from
just a few hours of work each week.

Great post John. And yes, full time isn't for everybody.

It's not even for me anymore.

it takes much time to build your business, but once it is up and growing you can spent less time for it. This is exactly what happened to me. By outsourcing the things that I hate to do, I spent few ours a day for doing some small staff.

For me I love freedom much more than anything else.

Before I discovered the amazing Internet making Money World! I was so miserable working around 14 hours each day including weekends and holidays!!

But now, I work with my business online and making 6 figures a month, I never didn't dream before.

When you have a fired desire and passion be sure that nothing can stop you.

Good Luck for everyone

If you're new to Internet Marketing, this is all very valuable advice.

There's no way to suddenly flick a shift and be a full time Internet Marketer. And, unless you have a lot of luck, this just won't happen.

It's far better to build a business slowly, fo a few hours a week (list building is very important here). That gives you a valuable resource if you ever do have a change in work patterns.

I'm also recommend keeping at least a foot in with a day job. There are lots of benefits to having one.

The aim to work part time with a day job (3 or 4 days a week), with the flexibility to pursue Internet Marketing outside those times is an excellent one, and will work well for many people. It's much closer to how I see my own IM career going then some of the unrealistic 'quit your day job' posts that appear from time to time in this forum.

Thom

Thanks for your post. I absolutely love my nine to five job and really do have a lot freedom at "work." For example I'm typing up this post at work right now.

Regardless I simply started trying to make some quick cash online because I just wanted some extra mad-money. I started out with a simple goal of like $100 a month and now I make my car payment and car insurance payment with my online dealings.

That's more money in my pocket from my nine to five, which means I actually have a decent savings account for the first time in my life. Also when I want something I can just go buy it, which has eliminated all of my credit cards with the exception of one (for emergencies!)

I'm kind of tied down until October so I can't really travel or do anything fun like that, but come November I'm going on an adventure!

Profound enough I would suggest

Great advice - keeping your fulltime job and working on IM part-time. But the problem is that with a fulltime job, if you start doing IM on the side, there is hardly any time left for anything else.

At least initially, when all the work on the sites is being done. What about social lfie and your health?

Abso-friggen-lutely.

When I first started this whole IM thing back when there were stage coaches, I had a full-blown financial planning practice that took up a lot of my time. So I started out as a part-timer. However, when I sold my practice, I started putting in 12, 14, even 16 hour days. Looking back, I could have accomplished twice as much (heck more than that) in HALF the time if I had just focused on one or two things.

So your post is very appropos John. I think people can accomplish a lot more if they focus on list building and niche marketing to get started. It's also very critical to take any money you make and reinvest it back into your business. Something I neglected to do in the beginning.

So heck yeah, doing it part-time is VERY doable. Every now and then someone will ask in the forum if they should quit their job and pursue IM full time. From a financial planning perspective, that's generally NOT a good idea. It makes more financial sense to at least replace your income and make sure you still have extra for health insurance, saving for retirement, making sure you have enough life insurance, etc. before quitting any job.

RoD