Do you know, there is much fun to be had wasting away the wee small hours checking on my friends’picture books, skipping down memory lane with all my buddies from college. But when I’m in working hours I maximisee my online time.
I let my hairdown in my free time on Saturday and Sunday with my laptop when I am chilling with wife (while she’s on the desktop computer playing games or checking out the top news stories about rugby, or writing long messages to her family)
I make a time slot in my dayplanner When I will spend time online. I do this by allocating a limited block of time. I keep this down to 15 minutes and just to be on the safe side, I set a reminder to pop up when my time is up so I don’t get sucked down the Facebook-hole only to come up many hours later, with bloodshot eyes and a sore neck.
I know exactly what I want to acheive in my online activities. Expanding my is my followers is my number 1 priority so I always start with building my social network following.
When on Facebook I will first look at my friend requests. After that I go ‘farming’ for people to connect with either through my friends or in groups.
On Twitter I can do a quick keyword search to find folks of like mind and follow them. I may spend just 2 or 3 minutes and be able to connect with a dozen new people and still have time for other activities.
One thing I always make sure I do when conversing with my social networks and connecting with new people is to deliver a consistent authentic heart felt message. By branding myself in this manner I will stand out from the crowd as someone who expresses their life purpose in a cohesive dynamic way non-stop for free accross the Internet.
At any given time anyone in my online community can tap in to what I’m sharing and get to know me authentically and deeply.
Twitter is my favorite place to create a buzz about me delivering heart felt messages. It is though the sending of short consistant messages that my following is growing me a huge social network.
I love sending a favorite quote, linking to a fantastic resource, or inviting my followers to a live event and it only takes a few seconds to do.
If someone is having a “bad hair day” I can change their mood in and instant by posting their stuff to my network or respond to new folkr with an inspiring quote, all with a single message.
I use tools that help me automate much of what I do saving time by helping me limit how often I have to go online or how many sites I need to visit.
Automation helps me to send one message out to all my networks or to follow or unfollow followers, or schedule multiple messages to go out whenever I want. There are Social Networking tools galore, some of which I teach in my webinars or write about here on my blog. They help me leverage my time online.
When my 15 minutes are up, I can focus on other things. I’ve done what I set out to do, made some friends along the way, spread my message to the world, and now my free Social Networks are working overtime for me, attracting my perfect customers, colleagues and friends.
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