Friday, March 13, 2009

Struggling With an Online Business

The huge numbers of people struggling with their online businesses are staggering. The failure rate is massive. Sadly a large amount of the blame could be placed at the door of the very marketers who got the newcomers involved in the first place. The endless promises on how you can go from being flat broke to overnight wealth are often to blame. However my comment on this is, are you a complete idiot? Surely not, so you would realize that even if the details being given to you were true, they are probably a best case scenario. If I told you that if you bought a bicycle from me and then trained a bit that you could win the Tour De France next year, would you believe me? Why not? I have given you all the tools you need. So what is your excuse? You see that when you realize that firstly you will need to train for 8 hours a day every day, and then a full year later you still only “might” win a race. But it is still possible. Now the guy who still trains and doesn’t win, doesn’t lose, in fact he will win some prize money for coming in third.
Here are some facts.
Expectations.
New internet marketers expect very easy money for very little work. And generally they get their returns.
Distraction.
New internet marketers allow themselves to be easily distracted from what they are doing, and drift off onto a new plot before allowing the first one to work. After doing a few scattered attempted projects and failing the beginner blames everything else.
Stupid spell.
Newcomers also seem to be under some sort of stupid spell, thinking that if they keep buying up products then they will succeed.
Real world.
People seem to think that business is totally different on the internet. While some aspects are different, a general rule is that in any business it will always need time to build up the required experience and framework before a good income is coming in. experience is a huge factor in any business.
Bad training.
If the workman’s tools are bad, how can you expect to get a good job? The quality of the training is so important that I cannot stress enough on the subject. If you are unable to get into one of the good training products because of not having any money, then please make an effort to teach yourself properly. If you are able try to get someone to mentor you. Very often you think that you are on the right track but are wobbling around aimlessly.
No technical skills at all.
Newcomers that arrive into this brand new business world and have absolutely no knowledge about website building etc are going to fail unless they allow themselves time to learn. Failing that they must pay other people to do the things that they cannot do. I have seen some excellent step by step instructions on how to build a website. Great stuff, baby steps.
No plan.
Easy! Do your training! Make up a step by step plan! Stick to it! It is so simple that when I see people floundering around with piles of zip files in their hands like a drunken person, complaining that they are lost, I want to cry for them. Silly fools. If they simply went to a mirror and asked the person that they see in that mirror where their plan is it will help.
Please struggle no more. Stop, study, plan and execute. Easy.

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