Some people have accused me of having a time fetish. You seen things that happen in my life I have planned down to the minute. For example my drive to work and my drive home. I know that if leave at 7:02 in the morning it will take me x number of minutes to get there. If I choose to leave at 6:55 in the morning than it takes me y amount of minutes to get there. You might wonder why I seem so anal retentive when it comes to time. But time is the great equalizer of everyone. You see no matter who you are or how much money you have we all only have 24 hours in each day. I choose to spend my time as productively as possible.

No that does not mean I work all the time, in fact it is just the opposite. The more productive I am the more free time I am afforded. So if I can find a way to streamline something generally I will which will in turn provide me with more free time. I have found a secret method that if you follow it you can at least 30 minutes more free time every day. A secret that is extremely simple yet it does require a little work up front. So what is this secret? Increase your typing speed, yes that is it, that is all. By in increasing your typing speed by at least 20% you will find you will have more free time.
Think about how much typing do you do? Even if you do not use a computer for work, you are using one right now which is on the internet. So it is safe to assume you have an e-mail account. Which means you will eventually write an e-mail or too. Most people these days have at least one instant messenger they use to communicate with friends. That counts as typing too. If you are a blogger than you are doing a fair share of typing for sure.
Let’s face it that two finger chicken pecking just does not cut it in today’s technologically centered world. Learning to type faster is not hard, it just requires some discipline. Get yourself a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and spend at least twenty minutes a day using it. You will be surprised how much you improve in little as a week. The Mavis Beacon software is not very expensive to purchase, less that a meal at a nice restaurant. However the tangible benefits you will receive from using it are worth more than a meal at a nice restaurant every day for a week.
In summary if you what to increase your productivity which in turn will afford you with more free time you have to increase your typing speed. How do you increase your typing speed? You go and get the Mavis Beacon Teaches typing software and use it for twenty minutes every day.
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 It seems every blog that runs EntreCard has a list of tips to gain more EntreCardcredits. So it would be like flogging a dead horse for me to do a post on EntreCard tips.

 That is why this post is on getting the most out of the time you invest into EntreCard. For those of you who do not know, EntreCard is a way of attracting traffic to your blog. It works like the business cards of the past. For more information on EntreCard and why you should look into it read my post here.

1. Use a RSS reader and subscribe to the feed for your card drops. This allows you to view all your card drops at the end of the day and return the favor by dropping cards on those sites. Doing this all at one time saves you more time then checking randomly through out the day and returning the card drops.
2. Use the Favorites feature in EntreCard to single out places where you want to advertise. This way when you go to do an ad campaign you can look to see if the blogs you want to advertise on are available.
3. Set a time limit for how much time you’ll spend card dropping and browsing sites. I set this at around one hour. This gives me ample time to send thank you notes to both those who have bought ads from and those who I have bought ads from. Now you could just use a form letter and copy and paste which would save you more time. But I prefer the personal touch.
4. Lets face it there are going to be some sites you’ll want to frequent every day. You can do this by subscribing to their feeds. Or what I do is book mark them in FireFox and put them all in the same folder. Then I can click on that folder and have FireFox open all the sites in individual tabs. As I drop my card and or leave my comments on the new post I close the tab. Again I do this with in the time limit I have set for EntreCard that day.
5. Start your ad campaigns and approve the ads purchased for site first thing in the day. I have noticed that price to advertise on my blog will always be cheaper first thing in the morning. This rings true for other blogs as well. I know it is tempting to approve ad requests all day. But if you do them all at one time it will end up- costing you less time.

 EntreCard is a great system and has brought my blog a lot of traffic and many RSS subscribers. The only draw back is it does cost a bit of your time. I hope these five tips will help you save a bit of time while using EntreCard. Time to me is my most valuable commodity. I never seem to have enough and I can’t replace what I have used of it. If you have some EntreCard time saving suggestions please leave them in the comments.

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