Home-business Hurdles, Part III:
December 2nd, 2008
Rays of Hope:
Working for money is easy – that’s why the majority of humanity is employed. Except for the hassle of an 8 to 5 existence, the in-between can either be hectic or pretending-to-be-hectic day. I know, I was working for money for the better half of my life. But just like the rest of us, we all go through different seasons in our lives. I am now in a different season. The difference between me and the others in the same season as I am is that I am trying to learn something new, and earn in the process. Hence I am into e-commerce.
There’s a big divide between what I was doing before and what I am doing now. While it is beyond argument that working for oneself brings in better and bigger rewards, but it definitely is not a walk in the park. My previous posts can attest to these. Now I am beginning to see the light, thanks to the help of some very well-intentioned people doing the same thing I do.
After firing so many shots in the dark, consuming much needed ammunition, not to mention the effort, I have come to realize that “focus” is the main point from where to start. Without focus, we jump from one offer to another, one program to another, one website to another. And at the end of the month or a year, we will find ourselves in the very same spot from where we started, only this time a few hundred dollars poorer.
Through these very helpful sites and people, I am beginning to set my focus on something to work on. And these are:
Right Personality:
The Internet is a bottomless source of websites promising instant wealth. They are sometimes innocuous, with a “come-into-my-web free offers to join,” to outright commando-type selling strategies. One can be scalped by those throughout the entire spectrum. My advice is for the potential Internet marketer to hold on to his/her marbles for a site that fits ones personality, feels comfortable with and offers help bordering on the personal. Though all have auto responders sending out impersonal and sometimes stupid e-mails, only a few give out email addresses where they can be reached for items one does not want discussed in forums. I found them in
o LeadsLeap for viral advertising by Kenneth Koh.
http://www.leadsleap.com/blog/how-to-create-an-online-business/?=michael02
o BetterNetworker for social networking:
http://www.betternetworker.com/
o TEP (Traffic Exchange for Profits) for the cheapest and easiest Internet marketing model.
http://teprofits.com/r/joesfortune/
Much will be written about the three in the coming posts.
