An Internet Business Opportunity Entrepreneurs Reality Check
So you want to learn the internet business marketing secrets to
make money by starting an internet business? Do you feel like an
internet business entrepreneur that is just waiting for the best
opportunity to strike it rich with? You know that the internet
is a hot money market and you want to get your share! If there's
money to be made, you'll find a way to make it! The only things
you need are an income source, and the resources to market it.
Once you have them, it's all downhill from there!!
...Right?
Well, let's take a brutally honest approach to analyzing your
hopes of being an internet business entrepreneur. There are
thousands of other entrepreneurs out there just like you who are
just waiting for the chance to start their own internet business
and make an insane income from the internet. That's alright
though, because any good internet business entrepreneur knows
that there is always a way to make money out there.
The beginnings of any entrepreneur's business are what
ultimately what define their long term success. This not only
applies to any successful internet business entrepreneur, but to
any entrepreneur in history. That's right! I'm not even speaking
specifically about our modern culture! Throughout human history,
entrepreneurship has been always centered on one basic, broad
concept. We hear all too often today, but rarely give it a
second thought. Here is the golden rule for any entrepreneur,
whether an internet business entrepreneur, a small business
owner, or perhaps even an entrepreneur who is looking for the
chance to start a business.
Entrepreneurship comes down to the ability of finding a need of
the people and filling it.
We all know this is common knowledge. However, what happens all
too often with internet business entrepreneurs is that they get
caught up in the hype of a last chance offer or internet
business opportunity, and forget to question if it fits the
definition of entrepreneurship. Now, I'm not saying you can't be
successful with these things. The problem is that entrepreneurs
get hyped up in thinking they're all set for wealth because they
have the best internet business program out there. They know
that all they need to do is execute the pre-written plan they
were given to achieve success. They may very well make money
with any given internet business opportunity. Then, after a
little success, they tend to convince themselves that they have
become a true internet business entrepreneur and have
accomplished exactly what they set out to do originally.
Well, if they were successful, what's wrong with thinking that?
The problem is that they have diluted the idea of being an
internet business entrepreneur so far that it would be unfair to
even consider them an entrepreneur. They may have had some
success, but were they really an entrepreneur? This is where the
men separate from the boys.
They are not entrepreneurs they better fit the definition of an
Opportunist.
So what? They were successful right? What's the difference
anyway?
The difference is this: Entrepreneurs find the need and fill it.
Opportunists fill the need, but weren't the ones to find it.
Now, when someone hears the word "opportunist," it usually
carries a bad connotation. This is not the case. Opportunists
are simply different than entrepreneurs. No one ever said they
were less successful than entrepreneurs.
If you don't agree, think about the very famous, successful man
we all know is without a doubt the world's greatest opportunist.
Who would that be? Here are a few hints. He didn't find the
need, but he knew two entrepreneurs who found the need. He even
worked for the entrepreneurs who filled one of the biggest needs
in history. He didn't even invent the product that filled this
need, but most people who use this product don't know that. Do
you know who it is yet? Here are a couple obvious hints. To this
day, his products are inferior to his competitors', but he still
leads the industry. He made his wealth through quality
marketing, not a quality product. If you still don't know, here
is the giveaway: He is the richest man in the world! Bill Gates,
of course! Bill Gates is the greatest opportunist in history.
But he still wasn't an entrepreneur.
So what? He's the richest man alive!
Yes, he certainly is. But that doesn't make him an entrepreneur.
Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak are the real entrepreneurs of the
Computer Industry. They both are successful, but they were
caught off guard by an opportunist with a vision. They could
have very well had a virtual monopoly on computers to this day,
but an opportunist stole it from them.
Alright...Well what's so good about being an Entrepreneur then?
Well... Umm... it sounds good to say you're an entrepreneur? No,
that can't be it. Uhh... Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur?
No, that's not it either.
The brutally honest truth is that being an entrepreneur is not
all that it's played up to be. It involves a high risk of
failure, and the bottom line is most people aren't going to take
that chance. Also, it's good to remember that there is
absolutely nothing wrong with being an opportunist. Sure, you'll
have to factor in your own ethics. But, speaking monetarily,
there is nothing wrong with being an opportunist.
With almost every entrepreneur we know of, there are
opportunists that follow. Michael Dell founded Dell Computers on
the idea that people would want computers built to their custom
specifications. He was and still is very successful with this.
Soon, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, Gateway, and many more adopted
his principles into their business models. Many people would
label what you now know as opportunists to be entrepreneurs.
Many people who declare themselves "internet business
entrepreneurs" are really internet business opportunists. Many
successful network marketers would call themselves
entrepreneurs, but they are really network marketing
opportunists. The real entrepreneur is individual that came up
with the idea of network marketing. He found a need for a
business model that would utilize ambitious individuals who had
no product to sell on their own, but still sought a way to earn
an income through marketing a product.
Entrepreneurship is one of the many subjects of common knowledge
that few people think twice about. There are thousands of people
out there who say want to be entrepreneurs that don't even know
how to define "entrepreneur!" If that entire group was to
eventually find success in internet business or any business at
all, the chances of the majority of them becoming a true
entrepreneur are very small. I would estimate that about 98% of
them, if successful in the long run, are opportunists and not
entrepreneurs.
Any given successful entrepreneur knows the concept described in
this article all too well. That's most likely because at some
point, they lost some aspect of business to an opportunist who
picked up on what need they are filling and how they are doing
it. Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak would be able to describe in
detail the shear frustration of this.
So if you really do believe that you want to be an entrepreneur,
think about the golden rule. What is the need you will fill and
how will you fill it? If you can come up with some answers for
those two questions, you very well may be on your way to
success. Don't forget to get a patent, trademark, and/or
copyright though!
*On a personal note, I will take a shot in the dark and say that
you're probably wondering what right I have to speak so bluntly
about this subject. Maybe you're wondering what my experience
and qualifications are. Perhaps you're ever curious about my own
entrepreneurial endeavors. I'm not going to come out and spill
the details of my entrepreneurial endeavors, but take a good
look at this article and the information presented, and how it
is presented. Maybe you can figure it out!