A Day in the Life of an Internet Marketer

Lots of people wonder what exactly I do for a living. I don't go to an office and I don't have set hours that I work. I go with the flow of my day and though I have a home office, it is portable and I can just as easily work in front of the television as I can in my bed or outside in my courtyard. As a mom I weave my work into my life, spending time with my children and husband, and working in between. So, as an internet marketer making a very nice income, what do I do every day? Here's a fairly average day from start to finish.

Despite the sage advice of Timothy Ferriss in his book "The 4-Hour Workweek" I DO check my email first thing in the morning. I do it swiftly and act very decisively, never hesitating to delete or junk the garbage, or file whatever does not need my immediate attention. Coffee or tea in hand, I then work through the urgent emails that I must get answered before I can start working.

Email out of the way, I turn to my essential tasks that require my focused attention such as article writing, blog posts, and submitting articles to directories. I usually do these in sequence - write article; submit article to directories; post article as blog post; ping blog; submit blog post to OnlyWire and other social bookmark sites. Currently I am trying to write at least two articles/blog posts a day to establish my experience and presence on the web and build up my site. This is something I have not done from the start so I have some catching up to do.

This done, I login to my accounts and see what sort of earnings I have over the past 24 hours. I do this once a day and usually half way through my work so that I get the kick in the butt I need to do more to earn more, or the excitement to inject some energy into the rest of my day. So mid-day is a good time for me to do this.

Thereafter, I visit my sites to make sure all is well - ads are displaying, content is current, etc. On a typical day I might also prepare new content for a few of my niche sites. I also check out what new affiliate products are available for my niches and see if any of them would be something I might want to check out, review, and offer to my members and visitors.

Next on my list is forum posting. I try to visit forums and read up on what people are talking about, ask questions I may have, pipe in on a debate or active discussion of interest, and help out where I can offer information and advice. I do this at blogs I frequent too.

Toward the end of the afternoon I turn back to my email and respond to those I received over the past 24 hours. I do empty my inbox daily, responding to questions and requests, filing away things to be addressed on specific dates, and placing events in my calendar.

At the end of the day I run a backup of my files (better safe than sorry!) and shut my computer down. I always let me computer have a deep sleep rather than a nap. It seems to perform better that way.

Finally, after family time and a bit of personal stuff around the house, I fix myself a cup of tea and curl up with a report of some sort or another that I want to relax and read without the pressure of feeling I need to act on it at my computer, clicking on links or whatever. Even my pleasure reading is business but my business is certainly a pleasure. So it's all good.

And that, my friends, is a typical day for me as an internet marketer!

Cynthia Mosher has been working online since 1998. She shares her advice on working at home and internet and affiliate marketing at her website http://www.wahmdaily.com