There’s a funny thing about Internet Marketing.  It is by nature very distracting.  One moment you are writing an article on something that requires research, and the page you are researching on will have an ad or link that catches your attention, next thing you find you have been reading something unrelated to the work you are doing and an hour has slipped past.  it’s frustrating, and it requires a lot of discipline to avoid doing it.

My two biggest time wasters are currently the warrior forum and the 5 bucks a day forum.  Anyone who has visited either will know what I am talking about.  These sites are loaded with fascinating information and you are learning stuff every time you read a post.  In other words it is procrastination that is easy to justify to yourself.

But ultimately, it is killing my productivity.  I have had to undergo a self imposed ban on the warrior forum these past few days because I had a backlog of over 50 articles and I just wasn’t getting them done.  With the distraction removed I have gotten through the majority of them.  Now I am able to say to myself get through my remaining articles and I can get onto my own websites, which is the work I really want to be doing.

Ultimately, internet marketing is not about reading, it is about doing.  My freelance business is taking up all the time I can dedicate to it at the moment, but it didn’t get to that point because I read thousands of articles or special reports on how to do it - I just went ahead and applied for jobs and figured out what worked and what didn’t.  I am at the same point with my Adsense sites as I was with freelancing all those months ago.  I have seen there is money there to be made, and now it is just a case of making it.

Now ere’s a thought for you.  Did you find this post worth the time to read, or is my writing it and your reading it merely another way of procrastinating?