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Starting a New Home Business Online – Keep on Truckin’

By Lowell on May 6, 2015 in Blog

Like with anything in life, in starting a new business you may encounter many obstacles. It is important to not let them throw you off. Instead, learn to resolve those problems that you can and to go around those you can’t. The point is not to let anything stop you from achieving your goal of a successful business.

There is nothing instant or magical about making money online. While it is a great deal easier and cheaper to start a business online than it would be offline, it is still reality. Reality is such that in most cases in order to make money we have to work at it. Not just half-way or once in a while but we have to be engaged in our business all the time until we get it set up and running.

While some things can run on ‘autopilot’ that would be only after they are researched, learned and set up. There are actually a number of things that can run automatically for you just as all the marketing ads say – but marketing and advertising are some of the main operations in any business and it takes really aggressive, consistent work to promote a business successfully. It can be automatic, but again you have to set it up first.

Of course if you can afford them there are plenty of tools and services to help you in this regard. If you can’t afford them then you will be working a lot harder, but you won’t be alone because most people have to do the work themselves especially at first. In a way this is good since they will know how to do things that those that can just pay will not know. As they say, ‘information is power’ and knowing how your business is running is the best way to stay in control of it.

If you are considering starting a new business from home, be honest with yourself. Are you easily discouraged? Do you tend to give up right away when something doesn’t work the way you think it will? Are you really serious about this or just like the idea? Needless to say you need to be real serious because otherwise it won’t make sense to you to spend the time to do the work.

It can be difficult because you still have to live in the meantime while you are developing your business income. So you will likely be working at a job and then instead of kicking back after work, you will take a break hopefully and then start right back working in your ‘spare time’ to build your business. Again, you will be in good company because most people that are really serious about earning a full-time income eventually, will have to make a real effort over time.

Starting a business is not for the squeamish! You have to be a ‘warrior’. Even though at first you may have an extended period where you see no tangible results from your actions, you have to be able to walk in faith. It may take several months to see anything, depending of course on how much time you are investing in building your business, and/or how many services you can afford to have running for you.

Either way, you can do it if you just don’t give up and you keep on trying with all your might!

Realizing Your Dream – Internet Marketing

By Lowell on May 6, 2015 in Blog

Do you remember when you were a kid and you dreamed about what you want to be when you grow up? This likely changed several times by the time you grew up! Then if you had an idea of what you wanted to do with your life, you may have gone to college to pursue that. You had to do research on which colleges had the best curriculum, how much it costs to go there, costs for living arrangements, etc. Then you determined whether it was feasible for you or not at that time. Do you have the grades to qualify for that school? Do you have the money? If not, what loans are available to you?

The point is people don’t just sit there and dream and then suddenly everything materializes so that they can realize their dream. They have to do planning and research and then develop that into a step-by-step process that will get them to where they want to go. They also need the ability to change direction if necessary, so the plans need to be both focused and flexible.

If they do go to school, when they graduate it will be the same type of routine where they will need to find the companies that hire whatever particular speciality they had pursued. Where is the company located? Would they need to move if they were hired? Who do they need to see to get the job? Will the company pay them what they are expecting? Will they be willing to compromise if not? Will the company representatives like them and offer them a job after their interview?

Your plans are usually dependent on outside forces as well as your own resources as far as if you can make it happen – and importantly, if not, what other options do you have? It is always best to plan for contingencies no matter what. Reality is such that we shouldn’t ever be caught off-guard if anything unexpected happens. This can mean something as simple as always remembering to have a savings account so that you have resources to survive no matter what, and ideally to be able to pursue your dreams.

If your dream is to create a business in the Internet marketing industry, then all of the above applies. It seems to attract its share of ‘mavericks’, as entrepreneurs do not necessarily have college degrees. They just need initiative and motivation and be willing to learn. Of course there are other options to learning other than college, and many resources are available on the Internet itself; so if someone decides that they want to go their own way and start their own business, then they would find out what it is they need to do and how and where to learn how to do it.

There are as many aspects or possible avenues to this as with anything else. You might want to be a web designer which along with computer programming would probably take some real solid instruction as they are both technical and as such are very exact sciences. This would be starting at the top and something that more than likely would take quite a while to master to the degree that you could build websites or develop systems.

Never fear! There are less skilled jobs you can do in Internet marketing. For example you could start your own affiliate membership program and be a mentor or coach, teaching and guiding your members who want to start an online business. In that case maybe you could hone up with some courses from an online community college in sales and marketing, business management and communications. If you enjoy working with people then this might become your dream.

However maybe you are not all that ambitious or are unsure what way you want to go at this point. Then ‘test the waters’ by doing something less involved, such as just becoming an affiliate and focus on being a super affiliate in the future. Learn the ins and outs of the industry in that way; something like ‘working your way up’ the proverbial ‘corporate ladder’. Determining what the difficulties may be for people, as well as the best techniques and strategies for marketing and advertising online would definitely help you get information and experience. Down in the trenches is a very effective place to learn and then you can share with those that come behind you.

Realistic Dreams – Home Business Start-up

By Lowell on May 4, 2015 in Blog

‘Dream big’ gets a lot of press. Certainly the idea is not to limit yourself and to ‘aim high’, to believe that you can be whatever you want to be. However this concept can be self-sabotaging if one is not realistic. If you dream of being an astro-physicist, shouldn’t you factor in the many years of education you would need to realize that dream? If you are realistic you will – if you are silly you will just shoot for waking up tomorrow in a lab coat.

The same goes for a home business. It can be everything that you could possibly dream it could be; this is true and it is proven by the many entrepreneurs that have made it so by actually doing it. It is not always apparent what all they had to endure to get to where they are. Unless you carefully consider all things, you might miss the part about working hard at least to build the foundation and then to keep it all running.

Whether you have what it takes is another question however. In this we are not necessarily talking about education or tangible skills, although of course those would make it more plausible that you could achieve your highest financial dreams. However, what is required is positivity, confidence, faith, a willingness to learn, determination and hard work. That you have acquired some business skills and experience would also be an asset.

Naturally it never hurts to have a ‘day job’ or some way to support yourself while you are developing your home business start-up. This is where the realism may bite those that are not logical in their thinking or dreaming. Time and again people have put their last dollar into starting a business online, as if their computer is a slot machine that will return the money ten-fold almost immediately. In most cases, they are sadly disappointed to learn that in reality it takes time and work to get a return on their investment.

This fact doesn’t mean you can’t do it or that it won’t work for you. It just means that you have to be realistic in planning your future. You know that you have expenses such as for housing, utilities and food at the minimum. So you should plan for covering at least that for the next several months to a year. If you have not saved money that you could use for this purpose (survival), and/or do not have severance pay or unemployment insurance, then your first objective in your plan should be to find a way to live while you build your business.

Unfortunately for most of us this means finding at least a part-time job to tide you over. If you can realize this it will be a God-send to you because contrary to this would be constant anxiety and worry that would definitely hinder your ability to learn or focus on starting up a new business (as would living under a freeway when you get evicted for non-payment).

So get the basics out of the way first. Do not ever speculate on your survival – as if you will ‘probably’ get the money back before the bills are due. NOT! Plan the opposite, that you won’t get it – so you need to cover yourself and you know it. Hopefully you will eventually be pleasantly surprised when your dream starts to become a reality and you receive your first check!

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