No doubt about it, the Internet can be addictive. It’s easy to access 24/7, it’s endlessly fascinating, and it’s habit forming. You’re at a keyboard, checking on the latest tech tools or market listings or mortgage rates when the urge to click on an attractive link “for only a second” creeps up on you. Before you know it, you’re four or five links into cyberspace and you’re seriously sucked in!
You’re not alone. Many of your real estate colleagues, clients, and prospects are Internet junkies, too. No harm, no foul, right? Wrong. Anytime you find yourself surfing the Net and having nothing to show for it, you have just cost yourself time and money that could be invested much more profitably.
If you, like others, find it hard to resist the lure of endless information and amusing interactive social media, it’s time to put yourself on an Internet diet. The first step is to learn how to get where you want to go without getting lost in those meandering side trips.
As we count down to the end of the year and resolutions that many of us make as the new year begins, I want to leave you with some simple tips to control your Internet use…or make sure it doesn’t get out of hand.
Tip #1: Search, don’t surf.
Make it a rule to have a particular purpose or specific information to find each time you get on the computer (or on your smart phone).
Share your best ideas on how to not waste time (and ultimately money) when you’re connected.
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