Help, I’m Addicted to Email!

Are You Checking Email From Distant Locations - Like Your Bathroom? 

Do you check your email constantly and hide the number of times that you’re checking email from your family and friends?  Do you tell them that you can take it or leave it… and stop at anytime?  Can you go more than 30 minutes at your computer without checking your email?

“I won’t be checking my email from you or anyone until further notice” Yeah, right!  Even when people go on vacation, they’re still checking their email.  Many people go so far as to pick their vacation destinations around whether there will be an internet connection available.  

Here are some results from a survey done by www.CrazyForEmail.com:

62% check work email on the weekends

55% of mobile email users upgraded to a new phone just to get email

59% check email from the bathroom

23% check email as soon as they get up

They need to have a category just for internet marketers re:  how many times during a one hour span do you check your email?  I think internet marketers are more susceptible to email addiction than other folk.  After all, email can bring us news about whether we’ve made enough moolah to buy that big screen TV or if we’ve pissed off our list members.

Yes, we live in a world that now communicates by email, but this is doubly true if you have an online business.  Let’s face it, as internet marketers we are eternally optimistic that our emails will tell us something like:  Notification of payment received, or ClickBank Notification:  CB Sale, or AWeber:  This person has been added to your list. 

So what is this doing to your work day?  Every time you check your email you aren’t just taking a couple of seconds.  You get caught up half reading some of them that catch your eye and don’t give them your full attention because you feel guilty for checking your email again, or you read them in full and click off to their sales page, buy what they’re promoting and start reading their 100 page PDF. 

Um…. what were you doing before taking that sec to check your emails?  I read somewhere that it takes around 20 minutes to get focused again on what you were doing before an interruption.  I say to you, constantly checking email is a huge interruption and a big factor in why many marketers are busy online all day everyday but don’t get much accomplished.Here are a few ideas to help curb that bad boy habit:

·         Make checking email from your desk, during your internet marketing work hours, a reward.  If you’re an article marketer, tell yourself you have to write 3 articles before you can check your email.  If you’re working from a to-do list, say you have to check off 4 things before checking email.

 

·         Set yourself up with an email schedule:  Work for 2 hours, read your email (guilt-free) for 1/2 hour, etc.  Or check your email at 9:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 4:00 pm, or whatever works for you.

 

·         Check your emails before you go out socially so your spouse doesn’t get mad at you for checking it during the social occasion.

 

·         If you’re worried about clients who might need help, put a detailed FAQ list on your website or set up a help desk.

 

·         Have a plan and get to work on your project.  Constantly checking email can often come from your lack of focus and inability to get started on something.  Once you’re working on creating your next info product, PDF, or ecourse, you’ll forget about your email for longer periods of time.

 

“I will be checking my email from a remote location.”  I must admit that does have a ring to it, if my remote location is somewhere on a beautiful beach and due to what I’ve achieved with my internet marketing.

 

Now will you excuse me, I’m going to go check my email, er… get some work done and make me some more money!

 

Fed up with being really busy online everyday with nothing to show for it?  Tired of checking your email from any location and not even getting those “Notification of Payment Received” emails you want? Ready to start making some real money with your internet marketing?  I’ve got something that can help… http://im-focused.com

 

Profile of a New Internet Marketer - Is This You?

As you might guess, my next few posts will be such that I point you to my new product, IM Focused. :)  So humor me by reading this article I wrote:

Profile Of A New Internet Marketer… 

So you’re a new internet marketer.  Super!  So… ummm… have you made any money yet?  Have you set up your website or your blog?  Have you added great content to either one?  Are you successfully promoting affiliate products?  Or have you created a product(s) of your own?  Are you becoming known as an expert in your niche?

If you’ve answered yes to some of the above questions, then congratulations! 

If you’ve answered no to all of the questions, then welcome to information overload and analysis paralysis.  This is a common occurrence when you first get online.  There is so much to learn, so much to buy, download and read, and so many different directions to go. 

It’s like you’re lost in the deep forest that is internet marketing and you can’t find your way out because you don’t have one really clear path to follow.   You might find a small trail that looks promising, but soon it splits off into many smaller trails.  You don’t know which way to go and it always seems like the one you pick dwindles off into nothing and you are lost again.  You still haven’t reached your destination.

 

Is this you? 

Somehow you carve out a precious two hours in your day to work on your online stuff.  You start off reading an email which leads you to a sales page for a product they’re promoting.  The sales page is so great it lures you into buying and downloading the product that will finally put you on the path to the BIG money.  You read most of the ebook, watch one of the videos, take some notes, start in on some of the suggestions but hit a snag so you decide to check your email and you see there’s a new giveaway going on.  That leads to registering for the giveaway and double opting in to everything that strikes your fancy and you take mental notes on what the products are called so you can read them some day.  While you’re downloading you decide to check out your favorite marketing forum and become enthralled with a new method you see there.  You stay on the forum longer than you intended because you are learning so much….  Poof.  Your two hours are gone and you haven’t actually accomplished anything.  You have taken no measurable action.

Is this you?

 

It doesn’t have to be that way.

 

Learn how to focus and take action so you can finally start seeing success.    By putting focus and action together, you will learn just how far focused action can take you.  See IM Focused for more info and get started on your path to freedom.