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Hi, it’s Jasper Silvis, author of The Social Media Marketing Guide and I have a quick question for you.  What are you doing or planning on doing today that is going to grow your business?  Is your business important to you or is it just a hobby?

It’s after 12am right now on a Wednesday evening and I have been working since 9:30.  Did my 9 to 5, picked up my boys from daycare, made dinner since my wife was working late tonight, played superhero fight with my boys of course, cleaned up a little with my wife, got the kids ready for bed, took the contacts out, enjoyed a conversation with my wife, then trekked into my sanctuary here and started working.

Look, most people working a home business are still employed.  If that’s you then pay attention.  I’m still working for an aerospace defense company writing software and I don’t plan on leaving my team there until I get a few more projects completed.  So this is what I have to do to be successful in my different businesses.  I generally work from 10pm until 2am on income producing activities, sleep until 6am then start the day over.

I can’t work my internet businesses during lunch because I work my real estate investing business during that time, following up with lenders, home owners, realtors, buyers …. you get the idea.  I am also using that time to make coaching calls to my various team members in my real estate and internet businesses.  I also teach a self defense class twice a week during lunch.

So my golden window of opportunity to be effective marketing my internet home based businesses online is between the hours of 10pm and 2am.  And this 4 hour window is consistent 7 days a week.  It has to be.  I make a great income when I work on my business, tweaking my pay per click accounts, writing articles, producing videos, attending to my social media accounts, optimizing my web pages, analyzing my lead sources, answering questions from my team members, providing them with support, and on and on.

This is the income producing activity that needs to be done to build a successful online home based business within months.  My goals are too important for me to treat this as a hobby.  How about you?

So if you are running an internet home based business and are still employed and are not making over 20 grand per month, then I want to know what your daily window of action is.  Do you have one?  If not, why the heck not?  If you do, then how long is it?

And please, I don’t want to hear anything about how your business is soooo automated that you only need to spend 1 hour a day on it.  Please.  Google is constantly changing its rules and are now actively going after affiliate programs slapping them like crazy so don’t tell me you are making any money working 1 hour per day.  

Figure out right now if your business is a real business or a hobby.  If it is a business, and you need it to provide you with a better lifestyle than you are living right now, then it is worth your time to generate daily action plans and follow through on them.

I just got my HubSpot web site grader report on a few of my pages so tonight I am going to optimize them to get my search rankings up. I am also finishing up some ads for my international ad sites that pull the best. I was adding videos to them when I decided to take a break and film this video.

I will then finish up my evening answering team questions and responding to my DMs in Twitter and do some Facebook stuff.  Before I crash for the night, I will write up my action plan for tomorrow.  I have some offline marketing I need to tweak so I will be doing that tomorrow along with some scripts for new videos and outlines for new articles.

Hey look, I’ll be honest.  I love being a coach.  I love it when my team members reach their first $5,000 or $10,000 month.  That’s just as exciting for me as it is for them.  But I have to tell you, and I know you are out there watching this video, what I don’t like is when someone asks for help, you listen to their issues and give them simple action steps, you follow up with them a week later, and they haven’t done a thing.

Everyone has boo-hoo and whoa-is-me stories.  I have them too, but if you want me or your coach or sponsor to keep providing you with support and mentorship, then you need to get off your butt and act.  Action is the only thing that decides your level of success.

Not your business system, not your product (every product has a niche market), not your sponsor if he’s ignoring you.  No one is responsible for your success but you.  Now create your daily action plan and get to work.