Business owners/employees: Do you spend all day working? Promotion, advertising, etc?

EricCubixCloud

For anyone who runs a web hosting / VPS service, I am wondering what your day consists of. I thought It would be interesting to know: do you have side-projects? Do you work on only one aspect of your business your entire day? Spend time with your family? Etc etc.

Personally, during the summer and weeks while I do not have full time school/work, I only end up spending about 2 hours per day working on various tasks that relate to my web service business. The rest of the time, I am spending time with friends, family, or just relaxing at home. (of course answering support tickets and chatting with team members all day too). I try to schedule my day and only work between our "business hours" - this leaves from personal time for us.

How about you?

EDIT: I am trying to spend a bit more time on things as there are various areas of our business which I need to focus on and complete.

DanielM

no, we pay for this type of service. and most oursourced

EricCubixCloud

@DanielM said: we pay for this type of service

So you can just sit back and collect profit without working? Awesome - been in the LEB business for a while I bet :)

DanielM

most of the time yes. that's generally it.

EricCubixCloud

@DanielM said: that's generally it.

What business do you represent? Can't find it on your blog..

DanielM

if you look more you will find out. but i run a few. Web hosting/VPS and VPN

Liam

@EricCubixCloud said: What business do you represent? Can't find it on your blog..

He's the CEO of Virgin. He spends most of his time on his island.

martip07

@EricCubixCloud

Interesting ... ya I can confirm that :P

Well I'm a noob in all this but my time is this:

• University around 4 - 6 hours everyday
• Home - the rest of the day (week)
• Homework - (some at home som at unviersity)
• PC/PS3/PSP - play any game around 2 - 3 hours
• Party, fool around, have fun - saturday at night (after university)

• My noob business hours using my cellphone most of the time (it doesnt matter where i am) or my laptop(university or home) just when there is a question, ticket or service order, but most of the time for general questions :S

• And yes part of the tiem talking with Kevin and Gabriel about business projects.

martip07

I forgot also working in some apps for windows phone and windows 8 (trying to make something like putty but in a Metro UI Style) and an app for connect, reboot, boots, shutdown a vps xD

Damian

I spend about 6 hours a day total on IPXcore things.

eastonch

When I was running my company, I would idle on tickets, do some promotion, answer reviews, queries on market-specific boards etc.

One week, I pulled 48 hours straight when I had to emergency migrate clients (6 hours downtime ;/)

I ran about 3-9 hours/day depending on load, I had a dutch guy who kept watch overnights (he didnt sleep. ever.) -- And he was awesome, answered most sales tickets, called me when there was a problem...

Damian

@eastonch said: I had a dutch guy who kept watch overnights (he didnt sleep. ever.) -- And he was awesome, answered most sales tickets, called me when there was a problem...

Was he a friend? Or did you find him on a site/service somehow?

We have a difficult time covering the 2 to 5 AM range, and i'd like to close up that hole, but I'm not sure how to go about finding someone we can trust on issues.

Liam

@Damian said: We have a difficult time covering the 2 to 5 AM range, and i'd like to close up that hole, but I'm not sure how to go about finding someone we can trust on issues.

2 am to 5am is 7am-10am gmt, should be easy to find someone in the UK or Europe.

rds100

... or even China

Liam

@rds100 said: ... or even China

True!

rds100

Just don't choose India :)

AnthonySmith

Well this is kind of a surprising thread to be honest.

Between 10 - 16 hours p/day working (I count this as work to some degree).

PAD

If you don't outsource you mainly put time into managing clients, promotion and advertising is relatively easily (a matter of targeting forums and keeping up a daily post count) when you're small-time.

Damian

@AnthonySmith: What do you spend all of your time on?

Corey

I spend pretty much all day working on YDGH, some occasions where the GF wants me to do other stuff with her.

HC_Ro

I spend about 16-18 a day =(

EricCubixCloud

@rds100 said: Just don't choose India :)

That's quite rude :(

@HC_Ro said: I spend about 16-18 a day

You're actually working on something or doing what I do... get distracted then look at the clock and see how much time I've wasted? :P

rds100

@EricCubixCloud you are from India? I apologize if you felt offended by my comment.

EricCubixCloud

@rds100 said: you are from India? I apologize

No, I'm not. I have many great friends and business partners in India though and I think highly of the country. No offense taken. :) Thanks though :)

rds100

@EricCubixCloud i have nothing bad to say for the country, it's just the communication with support engineers outsourced to India is usually quite hard and sometimes frustrating.

DanielM

@rds100 said: it's just the communication with support engineers outsourced to India is usually quite hard and sometimes frustrating.

Blame the companies who outsource them and dont trame them properly

I have had problems will call centres in Bulgaria personally too..

rds100

@DanielM true, i guess you can't expect too much from a low-to-mid payed employee.

Liam

@DanielM said: I have had problems will call centres in Bulgaria personally too..

I have had like problems with call centres in like liverpool.

DanielM

@liam said: I have had like problems with call centres in like liverpool.

LOL.

qhoster

Spending whole day paying invoices :)

ShardHost

25000 tickets this year