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I used to have 3-4 hours a day doing my part time job on the net. But now it's shortened because of webmasterworld. I can't help but keep on browsing and reading the forum, I have to refresh every couple of minutes to see if there's a reply to a particular subject. I have plenty of projects to finish, but due to this, all are getting delayed. Please help.
Sincerely,
thegreatpretender
The next day, set alarm for 30 minutes, when it goes off surf WebmasterWorld for 15 minutes, etc.
I'm sure you see the pattern.... wean yourself gradually. Try to work up to only stopping by WebmasterWorld once an hour and surfing its posts for only 20 minutes.
[Er. This is fairly tongue-in-cheek, btw....]
it happens to the best of us, when our page views get too high, we become mods ;)
Track the amount of time you spend on the forum.
Don't feel obligated to respond to every post.
Calculate how much money you could make in the time you spend here.
I was out of office (and cut off from the net) for two days. I had to FORCE myself only to follow up on the new postings to "My Threads" and NOT to go to "recent".
I started lurking in November in anticipation of launching an ecommerce site. WW really broadened my horizons, which is a double edged sword.
Now I don't want just one site, I want 5 or 6 sites for different marketing niches of the same line. Also I want to build affiliate sites to make some bucks off the competitors in the field. I've gotten some great ideas about promoting the site, and took care of some bad ones too.
The downside is, I have so many ideas it is hard to focus on any one. I don't know what to do about the frames the "solution" company wants to use. My webpage designer and I have been stalled on the logo for months now. Plus, I've got a bad case of writers block for my TOS which is the next sttep to proceed.
Someday I'll get it all going, but right now, it's all a buzzing, blooming confusion! I know I will avoid a great number of pitfalls thanks to WW, so there is that.
THanks everyone for the great information shared here.
I don't get paid to read WebmasterWorld; neither does anyone else I know. I do get paid for servicing my clients. The original poster wisely recognized that one was interfering with the other - and it is our jobs that put food on the table.
I am not saying the forum is not useful, only that the value of spending time here has to be balanced against the value of that time if used for other purposes.
lol - [webmasterworld.com...]
C
There is a point where you have to stop reading and start doing.
I can relate to this. I spent nearly a year becoming an "expert" on most topics discussed here, at least in my own mind. It took me a couple of Pubcons and several in-person meetings with fellow members to realise that the real experts were doing more and typing less.
I no longer monitor my own ranks or PR on a daily basis. Instead, I look at impressions, clicks, RoI and work on improving them.
But it's true--there's got to be a point where you stop posting and start *working*!
