How Are You Spending Your Time

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How Are You Spending Your Time

How many of you are becoming frustrated with the economy, and if you are I know you are not alone? This is where being productive is the most important time for you, and instead of allowing your frustration to get the best of you, why not use this time to do the things you have not had the time to do before?

Stress, Anxiety And Depression

It is no secret we all are experiencing a great deal of stress right now, and if you are not careful your stress is going to lead to high-anxiety levels, and possibly even depression. I just read that anxiety and depression is at its highest point ever, so this crazy situation with this virus is causing many people to become unhealthy. Even if you don't have the virus it is putting extreme stress on everyone, so now having good coping skills is more important than ever.

What Can You Do To Cope

For most of us the best way to manage our mental health is to stay busy, I am taking more time to go for walks with my dog during my day. Walking is one of the best ways to cope with the pressure of stress, so this is one way you can relieve some of your stress and anxiety to prevent depression from setting in. The next best coping skill is to remain busy, and with an online business you always can find things to keep you occupied. So what have you been working on since the world has gone into social isolation, and that is what we are going to focus on today.

Researching

Being in this business most of my life I know you can never research enough, so how many of you are taking advantage of this downtime to learn more about your niche? There are so many things you can spend your time researching with this extra time, I know very few people take the time to research their competition. Most of us don't have the time to research our competition as much as we should, so this is a good time to be checking on your competition and learning who is your biggest competitors in your niche?

  • Keyword Research
  • Competitors
  • What Consumers Are Buying
  • New Marketing Strategies
  • Affiliate Programs
  • Business Tools
  • New Products On The Market

Website Design

Now is also a great time to work on improving your website design, and if you don't have more things you would like to add to your website you really need to start thinking about this. You will find me whenever things are slow making changes to my website, and it just happens I did just that this week. You see when people are not buying for whatever reason this gives you the time to make changes, and when you are not taking advantage of this time you are not being productive.

How Can You Provide More Value

Providing value to your readers is the key to your success, so if you are just writing and publishing awesome blog posts you are not doing nearly enough. You need to give your readers as many reasons to keep returning to your website as you possibly can, and when things are slow this is the perfect time to focus on ways to add more value for your readers.

Start Your Newsletter Sign Up Form

Many of you have not started your sign up forms on your websites, so this is another thing you can be doing to spend your extra time. Despite the economy is almost non-existing I am still receiving sales, and these sales are coming from my newsletters. I also am still receiving steady subscribers, so why not use this time to start building your email marketing list?

What You Should Avoid Doing

You now know some things you can be doing while the world is turned upside down, but how many of you are doing things you should be avoiding? You want to cut back on your social media time, and the reason for this is it can be a trigger for your stress and anxiety. When people are not buying you are wasting your time on social media all the time, so what you want to be doing is cutting back on your social media marketing time. You still want to be active on your social media pages, but you don't need to spend as much time on them since people are not looking to buy.

How Are You Spending Your Time

I have learned from years in this business you are only going to stress yourself out promoting on social media when people are not buying, I always cut back during the summer months on my social media marketing, and the reason for this is the majority of the people are doing other things than shopping online. I use the time instead to improve my website and my business, I also will do as much research as I can on new possible ways to marketing my business for the holiday shopping season.

Happy Mother's Day Weekend,

Jeff

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Thank you for your information how to improve right now I am just studying and learning to do the right content on Social media which I really don't visit unless I have too as building my business is much more important but to do that I need to study hard and learn more as they say study = learn = Understand = teach

I agree you must build your business as your first priority, and right now social media is not as effective with most of the world not working

That’s a great post there, very informative and I would agree right on que about social media.

Social media is a great asset, but in times like these you need to be focusing on other things

Excellent, Jeff! I was wondering where you had gotten off to, my friend! Jeff

How have you been and what have you been up too

Nice one

Thank you,
I hope you are doing well

I am still pushing...lol

I can understand just don't push so hard you burn yourself out

Good advice, Jeffrey. Thanks.

Just reminding people things they can be doing even though sales might be down for many

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