Online business is not a quantities game. It is a quality game. If you want to master online business and differentiate yourself from other newbies, you need to be motivated and possess the drive necessary to achieve your aim. You have to persistently push through the initial learning curve before you can see any significant result. In fact, opening your mind to learning is the most powerful tool you can use in mastering this game.
However, what most beginners don’t know is that it does not have to take them years before they can learn and master online business properly.
I will let you in on a secret to running a successful online business. It is that you have to take action and be persistent. If you can carry out what needs to be done, at the right time, and stay tight even in the time of adversity, you will be golden in few months (not necessarily in a few years) time.
In the following sections, I want to open your eyes to some of the things that have amputated so many online businesses in the past. I want to bring to the forefront some of those things you need to avoid if you want to be called a successful Internet marketer. And for your information, some people will remain beginners and will never advance beyond that stage – since they never knew what to avoid. Therefore, I will advise you to read the following paragraphs carefully, digest them and implement.
What Beginners Fear Most When Starting Online Business
The Major fear of most beginners is fear of failure. None of us want to talk about failure. It is true. Most people can talk about everything but failure. Nobody wants to be embarrassed.
The way beginners regard failure in their head is even larger than it is in reality. However, this shouldn’t be. You have launched a new website before, but it flops. So what? This has happened to most people – more than once. Only those who have become masters can recount and recall all the failures they have passed through in their effort towards becoming successful.
“You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.”
That is essentially the difference between someone who runs a successful online business and another who don’t. So, if you really want to be successful online, you have to drop your fear of failure and get to work.
Why Most Struggling Beginners Procrastinate to Start Online Business
The reason most struggling beginners will never get the hang of their online business is rooted in themselves. You will often hear beginners say, “I want to figure it out first”. And that takes forever – like an aspiring author who always talks about writing a book once, but not until he figures it out. However, he will never figure it out, because what he is looking for is staring at him on the face.
When I first started an online business, I would read blog posts after blog posts, eBooks after eBooks and each time dreaming about generating automatic income on the Internet. While reading all these things, will get me excited and ready to get started unfortunately I will be stuck. Immediately when I realized that it was time to really get started I often find myself asking questions like “Will this thing work for me? Am I capable of doing it? Honestly I was procrastinating without a good reason until I decided to get started and do what I always wanted to do. Did I start making any progress? That’s what I’m doing now.
The thing about this is that, procrastination often leads to paralysis. If you like to read all the blog posts in the world about creating a website, you will not be too different from someone who has not read as much as you, if you have not actually tried your hands at build a website. The saying, “Experience is the best teacher.” truly capture the reality of this situation.
What Are Opportunities Beginners Tend to Ignore When Starting to Create Income Online
#1 Investment in Education
Most beginners forget that there are people who have treadled the path they are on – people who have built successful online businesses before them. Some of these people could have written about what they did to become successful. Instead of going to such people and learning from them or through their books, articles or websites, most beginners will rather choose to try and learn things on their own.
My advice to you is to learn from those people that have done it before you, especially if what they have done aligns with your business. I know of some people who spent lot of money on non-university education just to keep them abreast of what is happening in the industry and how they can succeed. I am not saying you should start spending all your income on eBooks, seminars and websites or membership fee, but try to learn something new whenever the opportunity comes. That is how you can separate yourself from the pack.
#2 Not Asking For Help
I have never seen anybody master a particular line of business without learning from someone else. However, most newbies get it wrong here too. There are too many articles online talking about being one’s boss when working online. Hoax. What’s more important is to be able to ask people for help. If you are shy about asking people for help, it might become a barrier to your success. There are many ways you can contact people nowadays: e-mails, phone calls, tweets, etc. Not everyone will respond to your messages or phone calls, but it never hurts to try, is it?
Remember, starting a business isn’t supposed to be easy? If you can talk to enough people I promise you will get the help you need. The program called Wealthy Affiliate helped many people, and today over 800 000 of them are still getting help from it 24/7.
Conclusion
If you want to master online business, the most important thing is doing. Just get started, even if you are yet to understand all the important aspects of online business.
Look ahead instead of focusing on your fears. Life will never be perfect jut take steps that will help you achieve results. Masters don’t sit down and wait for the perfect time; they make the time, invest in themselves, make mistakes along the way and learn from their own mistakes. That is why they are masters in the first place.
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