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Are You Really Cut Out For This?
By Jim Daniels
©2004 All Rights Reserved
> Jim, can a new small business really make money online?
> I've been trying for nearly a year and I need to start
> making more than I'm losing. PLEASE, tell me how you
> did it so quickly!
The message above is just one plea for guidance, among the thousands I've received over the past few years. I'll cut right to the chase...
The answer is yes. New businesses really can make money, especially on the Net. Many new small businesses are earning a substantial and steadily-growing income.
But...
It cannot and will not happen overnight. No matter what you may have heard, ANY business demands your time, your dedication and most of all, persistence.
I learned that first-hand in 1995. Before the web was the marketing tool it is today, I tried and failed at my first home business venture. As a hard-working nine-to-fiver trying to carve out a home business in my spare time, I spent five months writing what I thought was a decent manual about how to start a mail-order business. I sold ONE in four months. End of project.
Why did that venture fail? Lots of reasons. Among them:
- I knew little about marketing. (The experience itself was my best lesson on the importance of marketing.)
- There were already about a million similar products.
- I had no marketing budget, a BIG problem before the emergence of the "commercial" internet.
So why am I sharing my first failure with you?
Because it is important to know that over HALF of all successful entrepreneurs experience at least one failure along the way to success. Success demands persistence.
I did NOT let my first setback stop me from achieving my dream. Yes, it was depressing to open the mailbox, praying for an order or two, and finding it empty day after day. Had someone told me my home-business would reach a six- figure within two years, I would have considered them crazy.
Thanks to the web and a little persistence, I managed to make my dreams come true. So to all you new internet business owners reading this right now, here's a bit of advice from my own experiences online...
- Stay focused on your goals.
- Put up a professional website and use it to grow your own opt-in email list.
- Build multiple, TARGETED income sources and expand them tactfully and continually.
- Set up a few residual income streams that will keep income coming in whether you work or not.
- Spend at least 20% of your work time every week on marketing activities or new marketing ideas.
- Stay confident and accept nothing less than success...
Back when I was failing miserably, just when my doubt was reaching a peak, I received a little 3" X 4" card and I still have it today. The words on that card turned out to be just the encouragement I needed. Perhaps these words of wisdom can help you stay focused on your dream too...
PORTRAIT OF AN ACHIEVER:
- Failed in Business - Bankruptcy, 1831
- Defeated for Legislature, 1832
- Sweetheart/Fiancee Dies, 1835
- Nervous Breakdown, 1836
- Defeated in Election, 1836
- Defeated for U.S. Congress, 1843
- Defeated again for U.S. Congress, 1846
- Defeated once again for U.S. Congress, 1848
- Defeated for U.S. Senate, 1855
- Defeated for U.S. Vice President, 1856
- Defeated again for U.S. Senate, 1858
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Elected President of the U.S.A., 1860
You cannot fail... unless you quit!"
JIM DANIELS
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