Entrepreneurship
Focus - Your Key To Online Business Success
Posted by Andy Williamson on June 11, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business Entrepreneurship Planning Your Business
When I first decided that I’d had more than enough of my job and all that it entailed, I started to look at every possible option and opportunity available from a sandwich bar franchise to unworkable MLM schemes, eventually I decided that the only way to get what I really wanted i.e., a job where I could work from home and a life where I could live anywhere I wanted to, was by using the Internet - and that’s where the decision making process really went into extreme overdrive and the chances of me settling on any one single business idea seemed remote.
If you’re anything like I was when I first started out, in order to move to sustainable profit as quickly as possible you’ll need to be very careful about the incredible amount of noise on the Internet that sets out to capture your attention and consequently takes your focus away from your business. At best you’ll lose a few hours work, at worst the distraction will keep you in a state of perpetual indecisiveness unable to commit long enough to anything for it to work.
One thing that I never really appreciated when I first started working from home was just how much extra discipline it requires - or to put it another way, how much easier it is to allow yourself to be distracted. On top of this new found home based freedom to be distracted, you have the Internet with all its charm and temptation to just click around for a while. It’s so easy to just follow a couple of links on the web and hey, 2 hours have gone and no work has been done! Worse still, you’ve just read about another great way to make money on-line and you’re about to rewrite your business plan for the 4th time this week and it’s only Monday!
Basically you have to start to become immune to the incredible ‘listen to me’ type noise on the Internet - everyone will be telling you that they know the only real way to make money on the Internet - and when you’re starting out this can prove to be a real distraction.
Yet while all this is going on if there ever was a secret to making money on-line it’s this:-
“Don’t allow yourself to get distracted, keep yourself focused on producing one great website focused on a niche or topic that you love and enjoy”
With that single secret firmly in mind your site will start to climb above the others - forget the people who you read about trying to manage 100 sites, don’t feel threatened by them, relax because they can only give their sites 100th of the time that you can give your site.
What Are The Chances Of Becoming A Guru
Posted by Andy Williamson on May 24, 2007
Filed Under Entrepreneurship
Often when I chat to people about our on-line publishing business and explain roughly how it works they will seem really interested and motivated to try it for themselves, however often they inevitably ask one question:
“What are my chances of making it with an on-line business and being able to trade my day job for a successful career on-line?”
It seems like a perfectly valid question - some wise risk assessment before embarking on a new and very different career and business path - but when you look at it in the cold light of day, you’re actually asking for hard statistical data that is actually based on averages and isn’t going to add such great value towards your decision making process. In fact it may disable rather than enable your plans and goals for the future. Imagine if any of the leading Hollywood actors had stopped to ask ‘what are my chances’ - or for that matter World class sports people or captains of industry. Luckily I would say it is a lot easier to carve a career on-line that it is to set yourself up to become Hollywood’s most in demand actor; however that said, the means average statistics look incredibly grim…
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