Do Not Commit Business Suicide

Tina Krause
When starting a New Business either online the most important thing that you never want to do, is DOOM your Business before you even start. After all, we start our Businesses with the goal of making money and becoming successful while doing so. Right? However, did you know that the vast majority would say over 90% who embark on their journey to start an Internet Business have doomed themselves to failure LONG before they ever started?

While many experts and critics will cite many reasons for why most Internet Businesses will fail today, I would like to discuss one reason with you that I feel everyone should consider being at the top of the list.

Is it Lazyness? Lazy people as a whole, will most likely never succeed with their Business. But then again there are just as many people who have worked incredibly hard and never had made any Real money from any Online Business venture as well. Working hard, or a lack thereof, does not always guarantee success or failure. If you want proof of this, all you have to do, is look at someone you know who has worked insanely hard for most of their life, yet they are still stuck in the same rut year after year.

We all tend to know people who like like this who are always trying something New, and wishing for something better to happen to them. We might even seem to get a couple of steps ahead to often end up having many setbacks along the way again. I know that this sure sounds like me.

Is it lack of Knowledge? Most of the time many of us have jumped from one Internet Business to the next Internet Business and have really never stopped to consider the Risks involved when doing so. Many times we never know what will need to be involved for us to succeed with this business unless we take time to read up, ask questions, and learn how to succeed with this Business as a whole. Maybe also this might require attending some the Training Calls and such with a willing mind and open heart. So we often find that we try only to often fail, until we finally find the thing that will help us succeed.

But did we give up too soon, or not try as hard as we could have, and doom ourselves from the beginning? I know for one that is quite easy to do, and we have all been there. I know that I could literally go on about almost any reason or excuse that there is, and give you example after example of how people can be successful despite the fact they might be considered lazy, unknowledgeable, poor, and just too busy with like along with everything else. Yet, despite these
missing pieces I have seen many people including myself, who have done really well with an Online Business venture they are doing now.

So, what will doom your Online Business long before you start? It the one you are doing, or want to do easy to do? Most of the time there are challenges with them, but they can be easy to do if you take the time to learn what is expected of you. The reason most people never do it, is because they always think that things are just too hard to learn and they also fail to make themselves a plan and Goal for their success and just go for it until they succeed.

Planning your Business will be one main key factor in your success. While it certainly will not guarantee that you will do well, I can promise you the same as anyone else that unless you have a plan and a Goal on how to make this Business suceed you are already lost.

Now when people think of planning, they tend to get scared and think that they need to write a detailed professional business plan just like the successful Businessmen have done. While many out there will HIGHLY recommend that you do create a serious Business plan, many will just start with nothing more than just a sheet of paper, a pen, and ideas of what they are hoping to accomplish with this Business, and then go from there.

One thing that I have learned over time, and felt quite helpful for me, is to get a rough idea in my head and on paper how I wanted to Grow my Business, Usually since most of us are usually quite limited on the amount of money that we can invest in our Business at first, this is one thing we need to take the time and visually be thought out and planned out as well.

Many of you will find that if you have a Good product or service that you are trying to market, you need a find ways to grow your Customer base, and then be able to move on from there. You find you need to find ways to advertise, and find New customers and Referrals that will want to Trust you and continue to do Business with you year after year. For me one thing that has helped is to have Websites for my Business ventures that I can in turn advertise and promote from there, whether it be thru word of mouth, advertising, etc.

Did you know that even though it can often get quite expensive, one of the easiest ways you can market your product and/or service is with Ebay. Ebay I found is one of the easiest wyas to gain exposure for your product while getting many New customers who will trust you and want to continue to purchase from you year after year. They often will help your Business grow just by telling others about you spreading the word by word of mouth, Email, etc. Personally, from my opinion, and experience, I feel that you can never go wrong when you consider giving this a shot.

To this day even, I still find myself planning my every move when taking on a New Business venture. If you are serious about yours I feel it could be time that you consider planning like this as well.

DO NOT WAIT ANY LONGER. If you have a Business idea that you are wanting to build, it is time to get started!!

Published by Tina Krause

I love to Write, and find it to be a good way of expression, and being able to get a point out there for others to think about. I am really wanting to become a Published author and known by others. I Love...  View profile

Many of us will Fail in the next yr. or two with a Business we are wanting to grow and succeed with until we find what it will take for us to succeed. Do you have what it takes?

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  • Sophie7/12/2007

    Good advice, Tina.
    Sophie

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