Are you cut-out to own your own home base business?
Now that I have my own home business I realize that I am cut-out
to do this kind of work. The shoe fits and I wear it well. But I
also realize that some people are just not cut-out to do this
kind of work.
I often dreamed of having a business where I could make my own
hours, take the day off it I needed to, work in my pajamas, and
make the kind of income that would provide me the financial
freedom to purchase things that I wanted to, instead of limiting
them to things that I needed. My most depressing moments were
thoughts of working until I was 70 before I could retire. What
quality of life would I have at 70? Would I even live until
then? If I did, would my health allow me to enjoy retirement?
When I answered an ad on the Internet that claimed that I could
make a six figure income from home, I had no idea whether I
would be cut out for this type of business. I didn't even know
if the business was legitimate. But I knew if I hid behind my
skepticism that I would never find out, and I could be giving up
the one opportunity that could help me retire before I was 70.
So I jumped in head first and did all of the things that was
suggested. I ran ads on free advertising sites, passed out
business cards, got involved in some surf for clicks programs,
ran pay per clicks, took out newspaper ads, and have been
involved in virtually every kind of low cost and free
advertising campaign that was ever thought of. Some of these
ideas worked and some didn't, but I didn't let the advertising
failures deter me in the least. I simply dropped the campaigns
that were not generating any traffic and kept the ones that did.
Eventually, I had a business plan that was working for me and
that was generating enough traffic to sustain a home business. I
have signed up and trained over 800 people during the last two
years and early on I was amazed by the high failure rate. I'm
less surprised now because I know this is not something that
everyone wants to do. Many people today have the mindset that by
having an Internet business it pays by the hour, and I'm sorry
to say that it doesn't.
You will work long hours for months building your website,
setting up your advertising campaigns, exchanging links and
getting listed with the search engines before you see one cent.
Because in order to succeed on the Internet, you have to have
traffic, and it takes some time to build it up. But when you do,
the money will flow consistently and daily for the rest of your
life with very little effort on your part.
Many of the people I have met on the Internet have jumped in
full force for a few weeks or a month and then just kind of
burnt out. The first few months are always the hardest because
if you have never made money on the Internet, it's very hard to
keep yourself motivated to keep working towards something your
not sure is going to pan out. But I assure you it will...
Some people are under the impression that it takes a huge
investment to start an Internet business. It can if you want to
pay for advertising, but if you're willing to wait a few months,
you can get started for as little as $20. I built my first
website for $20, and spent the next few months doing nothing but
exchanging links with other webmasters, submitting my site to
directories and writing articles. These three things are huge
traffic generators and they are free.
I've meet people who were close to heart failure at the thought
of spending $20 to build a website. In this day and age, I find
it really hard to believe that anyone is really that financially
strapped. In my most financially strapped times, I know I spent
$20 a month on things that I didn't need. You have to keep in
mind that this is an investment in your future. It will come
back to you many times over.
And the hardest thing that I think that people deal with is the
isolation of maintaining a home business. You won't be going to
the office and chatting with your co-workers, there is little to
no phone conversations, and I have never had any human contact
with any of my customers on the Internet. I do however send a
lot of emails. But that is fine with me, and I love it. I love
the quiet times working alone. I love the fact that I am not
interrupted by the phone every five minutes or by employees and
co-workers running in and out of my office. I love the fact that
I don't have to commute any farther then to my home office.
So, as you can see there are many perks to owning a home
business, and there are things that may not fit with your
lifestyle or expectations. The shoe must fit in order for you to
succeed. If you believe that you're cut-out for an Internet
business, visit me at: http://www.home-business-opportunity.biz
and let me help and guide you towards owning a successful home
business.