If you see great copywriters are actually good time managers. If you want to be successful you need to know how you manage your time. Time management is everywhere. It's not just copywriting but all industry looks for time management and good time management needs to have good copywriting skills.

We should always look for better ways to manage time available to us. Many of you might be doing writing as a part-time job. We at Contempo give away work to many copywriters who are freelancers we have seen many of them deliver their articles delayed. It's mostly because either your profile is already hectic and you are trying to find time to write or you are not managing your time properly. If you see online they suggest many different ways to manage your time I am not going to be too contradictory. Here are my thoughts on being more efficient by good time management.

1. Maintain a list.
Do you know what you will be doing the following day before going to bed? Well of course we cannot predict future but at least if you are working in a office you know you need to work the next day and then you have lunch and travelling, meeting etc. Just note it down and then try to break down your copywriting work into timing it should work for you.

2. Production time.
You know better than anyone else when you are more productive and when you are less. So utilize the most productive time to as much work as possible. For me I am usually lazy first thing in the morning and get more active later part of the day I am sure you will have the something similar.

3. Importance:
Urgent and ordinary they call in our local police. Usually they have different files once says urgent and other ordinary. If you have a leader or manager above you or if you want to deliver to a client make sure which ones are urgent and which ones can go in regular time. Make sure you do the urgent ones first and the ordinary ones later.

4. Use tools:
If you have cell phones you will have calendar, alarm clock in it. Make use of it set alerts, set appointments. Make sure you have a deadline for writing and when the clock ticks you should have completed your copy. If you are sitting before a computer your computer clock is an effective time management tool. When I write my copies I always see the clock time to see how much time I have utilized effectively.

According to Wikipedia
Fourth generation of time management is being efficient and proactive using tools places goals and roles as the controlling element of the system and favors importance over urgency.
Time management in copywriting is important use if effectively to become a good copywriter.

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