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Do You Think You Can Start a Successful Online Home Business?

By Lowell on May 22, 2015 in Blog

Look at this question this way: You have to think you can. There is so much you can glean from this little saying by Henry Ford: “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right”.

When you think you can do something then you will try to do it. Conversely, some people will not even try if they think they can’t do something. So they will never know if they could have succeeded. What a waste of potential!

What characteristic would you say is pretty universal in people who are successful? The answer is self-confidence. A person that has this gift will usually always see everything through that lense. They believe in themselves and their abilities and that if they put their mind to it then they can do it.

Sometimes though people will lose their confidence in themselves if they have had critical people in their lives or they have suffered some failures. So they have to work at making themselves feel stronger. Sometimes it takes nothing more than determination and some self-talk to get them over the hump that will allow them to try something new like starting a home business and to believe that it is possible for them to succeed.

Another saying that is so important to remember in this regard is something like ‘the road to success is littered with failures’. We learn from our mistakes and mistakes are not really failures but lessons. So with each mistake we learn what we can and take it with us. We now have more information and have built a little strength of character in that we are still trying even after we made a mistake. ‘Try and try again’.

The only true failure is the one who will not even try or who quits trying just because everything is not immediate. Most things in reality require time and effort to succeed. We need to listen to the voice within us that tells us ‘I think I can’. When we begin to have doubts or we get angry because it appears we have wasted our time on another mistake, we need to not feed that negative energy. Refuse to go there.

A great way to blow those kind of thoughts out of the water is to realize how blessed you are, and to remember all the victories and accomplishments that you have had in your life. Think of specifically what they were and remember the feelings that you had when you had these experiences. Believe in yourself no matter what and always start from that point each day.

Developing a Home Business – Make Life an Open Book

By Lowell on May 21, 2015 in Blog

When you first start out to build a business there are numerous details and there may be a lot to learn. It can be overwhelming unless you have an organized plan. Don’t try to do it all at once but make a few lists. Have one that includes everything and then pick a few things from that list each day and put it on a ‘short list’ of things to accomplish. Don’t be a hero. Make it manageable and doable so that you don’t get discouraged if you can’t get to all of it.

Once you get through the real chaos and things settle down, remember the first priority is to take action on things that will produce income the soonest. So for example don’t spend a year tweaking your website which may include an online class in HTML. No money in that and if nobody sees your site because you haven’t got your marketing and advertising running, then it’s a waste of time in a sense – although great to have a spiffy website.

Of course it goes without saying it IS important to have a website that functions properly and does not have bad links or errors that may dissuade someone from taking action while they are there. It is true that your website represents your business and you, so some attention should be paid to this. However, just don’t get lost. Maybe make learning the technical ins and outs a priority for your long-term plan but remember it’s about the money and money comes from advertising and getting traffic to your site.

The point here though is that you should always be learning as you go. Even years after you start your business things will still be changing, improving or being superseded by something more effective. You should be ‘up’ on everything so that you give your business the best chance of succeeding. There is just no excuse not to remain well-informed. There is almost nothing you can’t find information on just by ‘Googling’ it. (using a search engine to conduct a search or query).

Find out what words mean if you don’t recognize them. The beauty of the Internet being you can take your research to any level – the more you read the more terms you will encounter that you want to define and so you are off on the next query. They always say ‘information is power’ and that is so true. However unless you take action using the information it is not going to help you. So this is why you need a plan.

Have some regular time to learn in your work day schedule – You can get ‘lost’ and really start to eat up your time if you are constantly ‘surfing’, just as you can be taking too much time to read endless email advertisements. Make your time count so that you get everything done that you intended. Just don’t get bogged down so that you do not have time to keep growing.

Why Do You Want to Start a Home Business?

By Lowell on May 20, 2015 in Blog

Most people likely would just say they want to start a home business to make money. To what degree depends on the individual circumstances. It could be extra money to pay bills because the regular paycheck is not ‘stretching’ as far as necessary. It could be extra money for some special thing like a vacation or a new car for example. It could be extra money to create some savings or investments for retirement or a ‘safety net’.

Money could be needed more critically if someone has lost their job and has been unable to find another one, and need to replace their salary. This is the scenario where they would be better off if they had started something part-time that they could capitalize on where ‘spare time’ is all they have right now! It is important to plan for the unexpected just like we should do for earthquakes or hurricanes, etc. Once the emergency hits, it is a little late to prepare.

Although when we are doing well and don’t think we have any problems it is normal to not worry, if somebody reads the news for the past few decades they should realize that ‘only by the grace of God go I’ is a real, true statement. It could happen to anyone. Don’t get complacent because you know you do your best to do a good job, and often ‘go the extra mile’ to exceed expectations; that is no insurance at all. When companies make decisions to eliminate jobs, it is positions that they are looking at, not people. Be prepared. Save your money, start building something on your own to increase your security. Do it now before it is critical.

There are blogs and other social network communications from people who call themselves the ‘used to haves’ – these are people who used to have good jobs and enjoyed a good salary and all the things you can buy; they are people who are educated and skilled. Yet they lost everything through no fault of their own. They lost their jobs and their salary because their company merely wanted to make more money and so they moved their operations ‘overseas’ where they do not have minimum wage laws or taxes. The ‘used to haves’ are now struggling to pay their bills, have no prospects for jobs and are every day becoming more and more depressed and deeper in the hole.

It is therefore surprising that more of them do not arrive at the possibility of starting a business online from home. They do have for the most part education and skills – they must know how to do quite a few things that could be ways to earn money from home. Of course many are willing to make less money or work longer or just to do anything out of desperation. Another option they have is to apply at temporary agencies to get assignments that can just help to tide them over until they find permanent work.

Yes, for the most part wanting to start a business from home is mostly about money – but there is a lot more to it as far as feeling strong and feeling good about yourself because you are doing more than what is expected – because you always feel you can accomplish more, and because you are going to be prepared for the unexpected (and if it never comes you will find something to do with a nice chunk of money you have saved!)

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