How much time do you spend on your online business ?

Email, forums, surfing the web are the biggest time wasters.

Asking myself "How am I going to make money today?" is the best use of my time.

woah, I better not be on my lonesome at 40+ hours a week . Tis only because I'm planning a lot of projects on top of ongoing projects ;P

Probs about 60 hours per week spent on IM. My biggest distration is Warrior Forum and Skype although those two things are also productive for me.

I do have my days though where I get a lot done and others where I don't seem to get anywhere.

I learned a long time ago to focus only on the things that actually produce me money. And that is the customers, so my only job is to have as much fun with my customers and too help them as much as I can by providing them the best content I can.

I help manage my team do the rest. I work about 10 hours per week.

I am not loving my options above - I have multiple businesses that I spend well more than 40 hours a week ... but I think I know what I am doing lol

Biggest time saver - I schedule my day down to the hour (very OCD)
Biggest time waster - Sleep

in maintenance mode.. the time I spend on online business is not more than 1-2 hours a week... that is the beauty of internet marketing business... all on autopilot once you set it up and get it going

Right now I probably spend too many hours on my online business. Trying to focus on what works and not on the latest widget is my biggest problem.

Based on my business model, I tend to spend huge amounts of time looking at what others are doing and then instead of just adding it to my site, I tend to try it out myself. Great for subscribers, lots of time (most wasted) for me. Lots of misinformation and duplication out there.

4 or 5 hours a week due to running offline businesses and other reasons,

i found myself if i stay over them times mentioned i be hooked and never get no work done at all,

I spend about 20-30 hours per week online. I write articles almost everyday and send it to my list.

I respond to email from my subscribers.

I watch videos on YouTUbe that are inspiring.

Other then that, my business runs on auto-pilot.

Tal

1 hour working on your business is better for your long term future than any number of hours working in it.

A simple concept with far-reaching consequences.

Cheers,

Neil

The question is a little backwards.

I spend 40 hours a week or so working on my business. I am always planning what to hit next, lining up my outsources, meeting with networks, on calls, and going over conversion tactics and data.

Your question is worded as if the less time you spend, the more money you make. When in reality the most successful people I know work their ass off each and every day (even though they have eight of nine figure business').

Of course it's all about priorities but like Neil pointed out there's nothing wrong with working 24/7 on your business, as long as you aren't working in your business (e.g doing things that severely undervalue your time).

Biggest distraction is things like this forum, twitter, and e-mails that aren't important. All of which I'm drastically cutting back in.

Biggest time saver is, obviously, outsourcing everything I do and only working on my business. It's amazing when your outsource so much you'd think you would have all the free time in the world - but there always seems to be something to fill that time void.

As the saying goes: more money, more problems.

Zach

Best use of time: Creating & working with systems, so my regular tasks are by-the-numbers and I stay relatively in-focus.

Worst use of time: Email, social sites, aimless surfing.

I spend at least 12 to 15 hours on business every single day including the weekends but I love what I do, and I have a passion for it so i could care less =) as I find work FUN

The biggest waste of time (for me) must be email, how much time must we all have wasted on email! Brilliant thing at first, but then like a creeper plant it just suffocates you. plus so many other ways to communicate nowadays.

I have around 17-20 hours per week to work on my business and having read Neil's smart distinction between on and in will make sure it's on!

Neil, there is a whole new thread to be had with this one.....

Regards

mbrig

I spend 20 to 30 hours per week online. The rest of time, I go to business mixers and happy hours to network. Not sure if I count that as work :-)

I usually spend well over 40 hours per week. Mainly because I am just starting and am learning and doing at the same time. I now have over 30 websites up and running, mainly affiliate sales (both physical products and digital products). Keeping those updated and promoted doing SEO and backlinking take up most of my time.

My biggest time wasters are reading emails sent from the countless places I am subscribed to and doing un-tarketed research.

Reading blogs can also be added to the list except for the fact that you can learn so much, especially here.

I spend all of my time working online and building online businesses

Trying to eliminate the time waster - like posting on WF

Hmm, interesting replies so far... Thanks. Do you guys work on Sundays as well, or set aside any 'special' time, etc? (where you just don't work at all?) I managed to go about 3 days without e-mail recently

I spend about 3 hours daily. My main jobs are writing blog post daily and site promotion activities.

2009 was 8+ hours a week but probably only 4 off those being very productive. My wife will tell you way too much
Productive time would be researching in WF and elsewhere to find out what I cant figure out on my own.
Non-Productive is in the same area however making for a lack of FOCUS

I try to have a day off occasionally but this work is addictive. I average 12 hour days but this is my main job. Work hard now and relax further down the track - at least that is my theory. I even worked when I went to Vegas recently thanks to the laptop and this month off to the UK - again take the trusty laptop. 2010 is going to be a great year!!
My husband has threatened to make my office chair and ejection seat and he will have the control.(LOL) Hope he doesn't do it while I am away.

When you're passionate about what you do. It's hard to take days off.

Especially when there's momentum.

My rule is alway family first. "My work is my pasion, but my family is my life...."

At the end of the day I'm working hard for them.

There is always more that can be done, so it really is knowing when to stop!

I find it becomes addictive, finding new methods and tools to increase your exposure.

Pretty much any time I'm at the computer I'm working on something or another. I've got so many projects right now that ARENOT making me any money, I must be insane to keep them around. But the majority of my projects are all 50% complete, so its not like they can make money for me right now.

Lots of work to do still!

Anyways, I spend an average of 3-9 hours working a day, depending. Whether I'm writing myself articles, working out bugs on my sites, learning something I need to know, or whatever. I spend my time well.

That was a new years resolution, lol. My other resolution (aside from getting my book published) was to get these projects rolling before the end of JAnuary, so February I could see money coming in.

-Sean

I'm spending 50+ hours per week, hope to cut it half in the near future

Johnathan - I build/design online software. When I start a great project or idea I find myself working on it all the time.

One thing about time: It's the great equalizer we all have 24 hours in a day - no matter what your talents are, or how much money we have, or what country you are from. We all have the same amount of time in a day.

You can't just jump to a 4 hour work week. You gotta build the machine that does the work for you first. (and you can't buy yourself a 4 hour work week thru some info-product). Nobody works hard anymore. 100 years ago everyone could measure how hard people worked each day. Today we are lazy. Get off your butt and make it happen. I always hated this saying "it is what it is..." I say "it is what you make it!"

The real magic is how you spend your time. I try to utilize my time by staying focused on a plan or a goal. The multiple streams of income approach will only distract you from creating something great. Why half-ass a bunch of crap when you could take your time to build something amazing...

It's just my 2 cents - if it even makes sense

I send at least 20hours on the net, don't get me wrong I love my work but I really want to start spending at least 8 or 10 hours but can't help myself I get carried away with things.......

i currently work around 20 hours a week as well just maintaining what i do...

around 4 hours a day is a solid good enough day for me... i know i can work more but then, i think i'd feel burned out...

I spend about 20 hrs or more trying to get things off the ground. I must say, it is tiring at times but it's well worth it!

One more thing: You gotta learn when to say No. When you say No to something you free up your time to say Yes to something else... And whoknows when that something else could be your ticket to the next level.