Internet Marketing Mentor
I spent 3 months researching for an Internet Marketing Mentor. I’ve studied many pros, subscribed to their RSS, email newsletters, bought their products and learnt a good deal from them. But, I chose Lynn Terry of ClickNewz.com as my mentor and I’m excited about that.
Why LynnTerry?
- A rare quality among IMers is helping without expecting monetary return. Lynn is Passionate to help and never expects a dime.
- Lynn never tried to lure me to buy products.
- She doesn’t fill my inbox with mails like “shri hurry ….I have an offer..”
- Cool n friendly. I wonder if she ever loses temper.
- Conducts webinars everyweek which don’t sound like a primary school grammar lesson. She stays focused on the topic and never gets distracted.
- Her feedburner feedreader shows a count of 1416 and I didn’t come across a negative comment from any reader.
- Her blog has close to 1500 excellent posts on Internet Marketing.
- She has incredible insight into every micro detail.
- Connects with her readers every day. Replying to blog comments, answering questions on her forum is part of her daily schedule.
- She runs a forum at selfstartersweeklytips.com without any restricted access to hundreds of awesome resources. She personally helps with any questions.
- Forum members are very friendly, you will feel like you are home.
Lynn is a mentor with an awesome personality.
Do you have a mentor?
How I Schedule Myself?
Just like millions of other netpreneurs, I do hundreds of things each day. It gets so difficult to manage my time as a work at home mom.
I’m a web & graphic designer, template designer, online business consultant for a few companies.
This is how I scheduled myself. First I divided my major tasks and assigned a day in the week to each of them.
- Designer’s Monday
- Coder’s Tuesday
- Launcher’s Wednesday
- Blogger’s Thursday
- Marketer’s Friday
- Publisher’s Saturday
- Browser & Brain Stormer Sunday
I’ll design templates on monday, code them on tuesday, launch them on wednesday, blog about them on thursday, market them on product display sites on friday, write articles & ezines and all that writing and publishing stuff on saturday, browse around and brain storm on sunday (with family 
). Sounds like a nursery rhyme?
I have few more things I HAVE to do everyday (like VA, web maintenance etc), so haven’t included those here. This schedule constitutes only half of each day (practically speaking).
How do you manage your time?
Top 15 things to include in a blogger’s daily schedule
1) Write to-do list and stick to it
2) Write a piece of article (not less than 200 words)
3) SEO tweaks
4) Forum posts (Min 5)
5) Post comments on other blogs (Min 5)
6) Find more products
7) Read from RSS lists 
Social networking
9) Market or advertise your blog/ website
10) Reply promptly to comments on your blog
11) Learn, Read, Browse around
12) Brainstorm for great ideas
13) Check if you complied with schedule
14) Spend Quality time with family
15) Take care of your Health (food, exercise, sleep & beauty)
Solutions to the most difficult tasks of a home based entrepreneur
If you are planning to quit your day job and wish to start working from home, then the possibility is that you are dreaming of lower number of less stressed hours a week. The reality is that once you get into online business, 24 hours a day becomes too less to cope with the tasks at hand. Now for the good things of working from home.
A flexible schedule and less stressed work as you are not working under instructions. You work just the way you want and just at the time you feel like. If there are less bills to takcle, then working from home is heaven.
The most difficult tasks of a home based entrepreneur and their solutions:
1) Keep up with day schedule
2) Control the temptation to browse around for hours
3) Instant messegers
4) Stay motivated
5) Remembering all the passwords
6) Quality family time
7) Finding the right topic / right product
Multi-tasking like seo, blogging, forums
9) War against bills
10) Sick leave
11) Paper work
12) Learning
13) Networking offline
Now for the solutions: Read more