How Many Hours A Day Do You Market To The Internet?

by Bingo123

Posted: 16 years ago 35 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

So I noticed a post on here earlier asking how much you earn from internet marketing? That seemed to hit a few nerves, though personally I find those kind of responses quite inspiring.

As an off-shoot of that, I thought I'd ask how many hours a day do you spend online working on your internet marketing business? I guess this will depend whether or not you do it full-time or part time.

Personally, I have dabbled in IM for about 5 years, but the penny only really dropped last year. Since then I've proven to myself that what I'm doing works and that there is definitely money to be made online. At the moment I spend about 4-5 hours each evening working on scaling my success up.
If all goes to plan, this will hopefully be my last year of working for someone else. This should hopefully be achievable about 11 months from now if I stick to what I'm doing.

As Bruce Springsteen said.."I'm working on a dream"!

#day #hours #internet #market

tritrain 16 years ago

Too much, according to my girlfriend.

Probably 5 hours per day, with some overlap with my full time job.
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Michael Shook 16 years ago

Ther are a couple of ideas that seem to be relevant. First, the idea of how much time you put in working on your business/ That is an employee point of view - woking by the hour. Nothing wrong with that, it can be very satisfying and very lucrative.

The other idea is that when you have your website up and running online, it is working for you, 24 hours a day, every singel day that it is up and out there.

That is a powerful idea because it takes the amount of hours you worked and multiplies them in a way you cannot do while you are working by the hour.

This is an excellent thread topic and I hope it generates a lot of opinions.
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trishworks4u 16 years ago

ok, i'll bite. This may be sad.

14 hours a day - 6 days/week.

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- Rod Cortez 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by trishworks4u
  
  ok, i'll bite. This may be sad.
  
  14 hours a day - 6 days/week.
  
  :rolleyes:
  
  It's not sad at all. If you focus on building automated systems it will only be temporary. I worked 12-16 hours a day 6 to 7 days a week for about a year before I got to the point where I felt comfortable enough to take a long needed vacation.
  
  Today I have no set schedule. Sometimes I work one hour a day. Sometimes I work 12 hours a day. It's all done by choice because I no longer really need to work. I work now because I want to and am addicted to product creation, systems creation, and seeing what new niches I can dive into.
  
  I love this business and can't see myself ever truly retiring.
  
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  Bingo123 16 years ago
  
  "Today I have no set schedule. Sometimes I work one hour a day. Sometimes I work 12 hours a day. It's all done by choice because I no longer really need to work. I work now because I want to and am addicted to product creation, systems creation, and seeing what new niches I can dive into.
  
  I love this business and can't see myself ever truly retiring."
  
  Very inspiring.
  
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Ryu 16 years ago

About 12, but only about 7 of those hours I spend marketing. The other 5 I spend browsing, educating, emailing, and facebooking, etc.
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NikkiDelgado 16 years ago

I spend about 2-3 hours on internet marketing. 1 or 2 hours reading up and educating myself watching tutorials etc. About 2 hours on FB and Forums reading

So about 6-7 hours a day. I have another job too but only work 15 hours a week on that.
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StephanieMojica 16 years ago

I usually spend at least 5 to 10 hours a week marketing, but plan to up that in the New Year.

I spend way too many hours writing for clients and also listening to marketing-related CDs

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vishalduggal 16 years ago

16 hours a day and remaining hours I just sleep :-)
That is my whole lot damn schedule :-)
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masterofinternate 16 years ago

Well I've to manage my study which is my main job.So I can't spend a lots of time on internet.But in weekend I tried to give full time effort.Actually there's no specific hours of my working in a day but in average I spend 3-4 hours a day.
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John-Galt 16 years ago

I never really market "to" the Internet. I do spend some time marketing to the people that are on the net...

All day, most days. It's my life.
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- sonic74 16 years ago
  
  .....a lot of hours !
  
  I can say more than 10 hours a day !
  
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- JohnMcCabe 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by John-Galt
  
  I never really market "to" the Internet. I do spend some time marketing to the people that are on the net...
  
  You beat me to it, man...
  
  Oh, well...
  
  It's like when people tell me they're "Internet Marketers." I always want to ask them, "So, how many Internets have you sold this month?"
  
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Lazy 16 years ago

Time spent actively marketing TO someone can be a waste of time.

Let them find you. That's the secret.
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jlm69 16 years ago

Not as much as I should. Trying to get out of the dabbling stage into a constant work schedule but I seem to spend more time staring into space then actually getting any work done. On my good days I spend about 4-5 hours getting any actual marketing done.
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PHPGator 16 years ago

I probably invest a good solid 2 hours a day. I spend a lot of time on the computer, but mainly on forums and I don't consider that work.
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evazk 16 years ago

I work for 10 hours per day, all days of week.

I'm trying to deliver something unique thats why.
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daangertenaar 16 years ago

70 hours a week =)
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trishworks4u 16 years ago

I love it - just knowing "i'm not alone".

no it's not "sad". I wouldn't be doing this unless I loved every minute of it and what's crazy is the days fly by like it's just a few hours. I need MORE!

Of course, the goal is to eventually not work all day everyday. There's a method to the madness.
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WarriorGal 16 years ago

I certainly don't mind investing a lot of time now to gain free time later. I'm currently doing 3-5 hours a day...on top of my real estate business (gotta keep the bills paid).
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justdave 16 years ago

monday thru friday about 10 hours a day sat and sunday i do less hours so i can spend the weekend with the wife and kids
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Danny Cutts

16 years ago

24 hours a day.... :-) Outsource and automated models...lol

In essence though the last few months I have been working more like 10 hours a day but then the money is there so I am not that fussed :-)

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packerfan

16 years ago

spending close to 10hours/day just online. Was as high as 16 for a stretch of about 3 weeks.

It's funny. I work about 100 times harder doing this than I do at my real job, yet this doesn't feel like work. Probably says more about my regular job, but whatever...

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Jason Fulton

16 years ago

Originally Posted by packerfan

It's funny. I work about 100 times harder doing this than I do at my real job, yet this doesn't feel like work. Probably says more about my regular job, but whatever...

I have the same feelings. I "work" online between 5-10 hours per day and only go to sleep because i have to wake back up

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wannabeme 16 years ago

Six hours a day,six days a week
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- morninjoi 16 years ago
  
  I spend about 4 or 5 hours online, but use only 2-3 hours to do actual work. The rest i use for learning and just browsing.
  
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  werer 16 years ago
  
  howdy! new here! and me and my job,I have spend 16Hs a day on net ,to be the "weaver" on net,I think I get crazy! werer
  
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  davidjames42973 16 years ago
  
  At the moment I'm doing about 8-10 hours a day almost everyday.
  
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Bingo123

16 years ago

Originally Posted by packerfan

It's funny. I work about 100 times harder doing this than I do at my real job, yet this doesn't feel like work. Probably says more about my regular job, but whatever...

That's how you know that you're supposed to be doing IM.
I read once that a good way to find your ideal job is to do what you would normally do on your day off. Now if you can just find a way to make a living out of it, you are set for life.

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Noctilus

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Bingo123

I couldnt agree more bingo. If you think about it, thats all it boils down to.

Find something you love, time flies, you're obsessed and passionate and theres just one more important ingredient-

it should pay the bills.

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Noctilus 16 years ago

Realized I didnt post an answer to the question asked-

Im in the 10-16 hour/day category because I do this full time.

mostly 7 days, sometimes 6 days. The past 3 days Ive allowed myself to go easy on my schedule.

My social life has fizzled out a bit but its a choice and my real friends understand so Im not worried. Smart work always pays off!
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Chris The Traffic Blogger 16 years ago

Depends, some days 16 hours some days 1-2 at most.
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navyseal 16 years ago

I think for me it really depends.
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pethanks 16 years ago

I work 13 hours everyday in the internet.
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imon32red 16 years ago

Lately a half hour tops. I usually waste a couple of hours reading the forums, emails, facebook, sports, news, classifieds and etc...
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