For many of us, including myself, winter is a tough time of year.  The incessant frigid cold weather is taxing on our bodies as well as on our psyches, making it even harder to just get out of bed.  Then we have to go and put on several layers of clothes, and a coat over that just to leave the house.

January, too, can be a depressing letdown after the huge buildup to the Christmas holiday season, especially if you earn money from sales during the holidays.  All of the energy that you expended leading up to the holidays, takes its toll in January.

And you are not the only one.  Many people take a few weeks to recover from the holidays, often making January a sluggish sales month.

However, if you are goal oriented and smart, January and February are a huge opportunity to build up your resources, lenses, blogs, and other online money earning accounts while you are inside next to the fireplace. (Make sure to stay far enough away to keep your laptop cool.)  If you spend the first few weeks of the year strategizing your year, and writing your articles, lenses, and blog posts 4 to 5 months before they need to produce, you will allow your work to percolate, and gain authority and backlinks in time for real money to be made.

Visualize yourself on the beach this summer, while your summer travel lenses are making you money while you are sunbathing.  Summer travel lenses that you wrote in February, I might add.  This is just an example of course, as you can come up with numerous topics to write about for every season of the year.

My point is really two points.  One–take advantage of the slow time to rev up your income earning potential by writing, backlinking, and writing some more.  Two–write your articles way ahead of the time they are apropos to allow them to mature so that the right people read them when they are ready to buy.  In other words, plan ahead.

I started as a Squidoo lensmaster in June of 2008, and it is only in the last six months or so that I realized the value of time in the online money making equation.  The longer you stick with it, the more you write, and the more good sites you write on (including your own blogs), the more you get noticed, followed, fanned, the more income you will make.  Each item you create adds to your repertoire or resume, just like any other type of work that you do.  Even more so, if you link the items together in a network.

So let your space heater run next to your feet, and the cold wind blow, while you create income for yourself that will pay off in the next few months.

© lakeerieartists for Squidlog.net, 2010. | Permalink | 3 comments ]]> http://squidlog.net/blog/lakeerieartists/making-the-most-of-the-winters-blahs/feed 3 http://squidlog.net/blog/lakeerieartists/making-the-most-of-the-winters-blahs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/squidlognet/~3/cQomkr3Y8Mg/monarch13 http://squidlog.net/blog/lensmasters/monarch13#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:13:46 +0000 MiMi http://squidlog.net/?p=9154 Quoting monarch13: Hello, my name is Michelle, aka Monarch13. I first joined Squidoo in December of 2007, initially writing about health related subjects. I have since expanded my horizons to include other topics that fascinate me such as symbolism and legends as well as the biographies of people I admire, or who intrigue me. —The ABCs With Monarch13