Ok, I spent way too much time finishing my Compelling Marketing ezine this AM–about 3 hours writing it and I actually worked on it yesterday too. Obviously, that has to change since it’s a weekly. Lately, I’ve been jotting ideas on Sunday night as I get ready for bed but I was distracted this week by gearing up for this initiative. Still, I’m going to try planning a 3 hour block of time on Saturdays to write the ezine and hopefully a blog post or two for the week as well. I’m sure it’ll make my VA happier as well!

Of course, that completely knocked me off my carefully mapped out time blocked schedule. I also had to clear some financial matters off the desk this afternoon which, again, took longer than expected. But it was worth the time to eliminate some big distractions.

However, I did write a letter to the PR guy at Ben & Jerry’s that I’m sending along with a copy of the new book I’m in Conscious Entrepreneurs. In my chapter, I talk about how working at one of their scoop shops during college inspired my interest in social entrepreneurship. Since I know PR people like to keep tabs on company mentions, I figured he’d appreciate seeing it. But of course I wouldn’t mind if anything more comes of it…

Social networking can be an effective way to broaden your network and build your list, but it can easily be a big time suck. So my plan is to visit certain sites each day for a limited amount of time–1 hour total max.  I went over time tonight, but I also signed up for two more forums–one for copywriters and one for PR folks. And of course, it takes some time to get caught up. But I will definitely be getting the timer out tomorrow.

As for actual income, one client told me they were referring me to someone else in the company and I got a call from another client today who wants me to do a some additional work for him. But since I’m not counting it until I invoice the client, I reached 0% of my daily income goal today. Good thing there’s 29 days left!