Time Management Tips - Spend Less Time on Twitter and Facebook and More Time in Your Business

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Time Management Tips - Spend Less Time on Twitter and Facebook and More Time in Your Business

Social networking sites can eat your time, but only if you allow it. Instead, decide to make a plan and a schedule of how much time you will spend on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Managing your time in this way will help you to become more productive in other areas of your online business.

It will take you some time to initially set up your social networking sites, but once that is done you will want to limit the amount of time you spend on these sites every day. I like to teach my students to spend one hour a day total on all three sites for the first month, and then cut down to thirty minutes each day, in total, once you have established yourself.

For example, on Twitter you need to set up your account, find people to follow, and share interesting information about what you are doing online. Once you do that for the first month it is very easy to cut your time in half. People will find you and follow you, and you will be able to interact with those people in just a few minutes.

On Facebook it takes time to find friends who are interested in your niche and to set up a group. Once this is done you can spend much less time. My blog and tweets automatically show up on Facebook, allowing me to take one action and have it show up in several different places.

LinkedIn takes even less time. Unless I am setting up an event, adding someone to my network, or updating my status, there is very little reason to be there. Set up your accounts, automate them as much as possible, and then go on to more important activities in your business.

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Source by Connie Ragen Green