26 Jun 08 Get Balance In Your Life (and home business)…

One of the biggest struggles I have had since starting my home business is balancing out the time with my family, time working and time playing. It really bothers my wife that my work on the internet never seems to stop. I am constantly tinkering with my autoresponders, websites, blog and always learning something new.

So, with that said, remember how important it is for you to manage your time properly. You got into the home business arena because you wanted more time with your family and more income right? Well, what ends up happening is that if you pursue it properly you begin to become extremely passionate about your business and well you should be. However, you have to remember this, you are an entrepreneur. You are not to be a workaholic and you are not out to create a job for yourself. You got involved because you wanted to create leverage and learn to make money while you sleep, while you eat at nice restaurants and while you travel the world.

So what is the solution to the madness of working way too much on your business. The secret is to manage your time properly and to know when to outsource your work. You want to focus on doing the things that generate revenue…what generates revenue for your business? Taking orders right? So, spend time initially setting up systems that send you leads automatically without a lot of involvement from you. Whether that be a blog with an opt-in pop up or a capture page advertised on Google Adwords, etc. get the system in place that gets you the leads. Spend time calling and interviewing those leads that are automatically coming to you each and everyday.

As far as content for your blog goes…outsource it. You can use elance, mturk, etc. for this and get your blog posts written on the cheap and they will do a lot to get you traffic.

Secondly, if you are using Facebook and other social media services to drive traffic to your site outsource that work as well. Find a nephew or a cousin or another relative to manage your friending on Facebook and to manage your Group and Business Pages. You can also teach them to manage your posting to Squidoo or Hubpages. This can all be done on the cheap since it would be such easy work for them.

Then when your business gets big enough you can hire a Virtual Assistant to do a lot of that work for you.

Remember, you are a business owner and an entreprenuer, once your business begins generating enough revenue you do the part of the business where you cannot be replaced, but have a virtual assistant do most everything else and hire someone to do your writing for you.

I wanted to write this so you get out of the mindset that you have to do it all. You can find balance by outsourcing your work and if you can’t do it immediately pick one outlet to generate your leads, master it, generate some revenue with it then outsource it and move on to another tactic.

Enjoy!

Jason DeMas

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