4.5 Ways to Find the Time to Build Your Home Business

Busy… So What! Find the Time

I have a full-time job, I love my job, and I have medical benefits, a pension plan, and four weeks of vacation. Also, I get paid well. I run my real estate and online business part-time. As of today, my business makes just as much as my full-time job.

When you are starting you may have a full-time job, family, school, and other obligations that put you in a time crunch. You may get frustrated and overwhelmed.

The reason you started your home business was to generate extra income. If you discover that you have the quitter gene stop reading and go get a second job.

I want you to build your home business into an income-producing machine. I don’t know what your income goals are but I know you want consistent cash flow on a weekly or monthly basis.

Decide how much time you will spend on your business. How many hours per day will you have to market and generate sales? Perform income-producing activities each day.

Income-producing activities mean marketing, sales, following up, generated traffic, and leads. Despite popular belief shuffling paperwork, cleaning your desk, and playing Candy Crush Saga are not income-producing activities.

Here are 4.5 ways to find the time to build your home business part-time:

1. Make a clear decision on what your end result will be — Decide how much money you want to earn. Do you want to go full-time? Do you want to build it to sell it later? How much do you want to spend? How long do you plan on running your business? Will you have employees? Why are you in business?

2. Make a schedule — Decide on how many hours per day you will work on your business and then schedule it. Nothing happens until it is scheduled. Trains and planes run on a schedule. Movies run on a schedule. Multi-billion dollar corporations run on a schedule. Your home business needs a schedule. Your job has you on a schedule and I don’t think they have bounced a check yet.

I train my team to devote 3–5 hours per day to their home business. I tell them to create content for 1 hour, market for 1 hour, and do education for…