Its The Business We Have Chosen
Written by: Don Miller
Posted on April 24, 2008
Filed Under Starting your Online Business, bans
This week I added some 50 + sites to my home based business. My friends it’s a lot of work. Please don’t let anyone tell you it is not. My sleep pattern is , well, not a sleep pattern at all. My girlfriend has helped me as she is a part of the process. My dog thinks I have forgotten him and probably wonders if I am ever going to come out of my home based business office. My hope is that we will all soon be reaping the rewards of our sacrifices, but at the end of the day, it’s the business we have chosen.
The Internet Marketing Business
I have wondered sometimes even aloud if my friends are working their own business model as hard. The fact is many don’t have a business model. I haven’t had much time for reading other blogs , but when I do, I see mostly the same old stuff. So and so is calling so and so an idiot, a jerk, an a-hole and worse. Seemingly doing so increases their traffic count and subsequently their income. I have a question. Would it not be more profitable to work you plan, work your business model? I suppose all that crap will never stop. Why? It’s the business we have chosen.
Work at Home is All That !
I bet many of those home based business owners have realized that working in your pj’s is not all that. All that freedom you thought you were going to have, really doesn’t feel all that free. The term home based business has a very important word at the end. Folks it’s a business and it should be operated like a business. Oh sure you can take some time off during your day, and have an extra long lunch or break. I generally eat at my desk while I work diligently at getting links and building another site. I don’t know about you but if I don’t work I don’t get paid. Still I love working at home and I am sure many of you do too. After all, it’s the business we have chosen.
There is Time For Fun Right?
Oh hell yes there is. I frequently chat with Monika or Vic and usually share a good laugh along the way. Soon we sign off or hang up and its back to work. Both are extremely hard workers and I suppose we are drawn to like minded people and they work just as hard as I do, if not harder. I do take time out each week to catch a baseball game or a TV show. Those are usually recorded and get viewed around 4 AM. Most days I’ll send off a word of encouragement via e-mail to a blogging buddy and wait two or three days for a reply. Okay, I get it, they are busy. It‘s the business we have chosen.
So Why Do We Do It ?
For the entrepreneur or aspiring internet marketing maven it really is a matter of not having a choice. It’s in our blood, it in our thoughts. We are thrilled with the idea of building a home based business from nothing. I will be honest; nothing quite sets off the endorphins in my old head like making sales and making money, better yet earning money. That’s right we earn out money with our work. A successful home based business built by having a plan and working your plan. It is not easy, real business never is. I personally love it, and I hope you do too. It’s the business we have chosen.
How are you doing with your plan?
I mentioned that most people I talk to do not have a business model. I wish I had a statistic that proved my point. It is my experience 8 out of 10 people I have worked with have let the dream of owning a home based business all but die. The reasons are plentiful. Not enough time is probably the number one answer, closely followed by not knowing how to do this or that. That leads to frustration and time away from their business. That brings me to this final thought. Most business’s fail because their owners lack the drive to see the plan to the end, or simply don’t have the knowledge to accomplish what they want. Both reasons are fixable. Right now it is 2 AM, tonight I set up 3 free link directory sites. It was not as easy as it sounds, at least not for me. I had to learn how. It will be easier for the next 20 sites I set up. So tell me how are you doing with your plan? Desire is something I was born with. Knowledge is something I acquire everyday. My home based business will succeed; it’s the business I have chosen. Time for a baseball game!
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Work work work,, I do more of that in my home based business than I have ever done in any traditional job., but it the business i have chosen . Having a plan and working my plan, it seems to never stop, How about your plan? Do you have a plan? I surely…
Great post Don. You are 100% correct when you say that working from home isn’t necessary the freedom we have hoped to have.
That is why I work double as hard right now to create wealth in the future. While my freelance writing business pays me a full time income to allow me to stay at home, I also always knew that this ain’t enough.
The reason being, when I’m sick, or on holidays nobody will pay me.
Therefore I am building niche sites and BANS to help build residual income for the future.
Hard work - you bet. Fun - Oh yes, I’m loving every minute.
What a post as I sit here looking at my computer through roadmap eyes. Anyone that thinks building a long lasting organic presence on the internet for a home business is easy (as in little or no work) is kidding themselves.
Success, in all forms requires effort, determination, perseverance, and yes many many long lonely nights at the computer.
What’s the payoff? 7 Figures or more when you do this consistently over a long period of time.
My partner was like why are u online at 7am this morning! I work (real world job) 3 days a week so the other 2 days I can obviously run to the shops etc - duh! And of course having not yet made any real money he’s not convinced this is a business at all - but payback will be the first week I make more than his 5 day a week job
Lissie sty the course it will come, I usually go tto bed at 5AM and wake at 10 for the day job, it gets old but have a plan and have to work that plan, since i wrote this post Ive added another 15 or so sites
Great post. There’s no doubt…starting and running a business takes much time and effort. There’s no such thing as a business that runs itself, unless of course you want it to fail.Especially when establishing a new business expect to work work work. If you get lucky you will get the right people to help you if that’s your plan.If you prefer to do it all yourself that’s OK too but you had better have very supportive family or friends because you may not being seeing much of them for a while.
And I thought I was the only one who tried to eat and type at the same time. You know the silly thing, I’m doing it right now with chilli sauce on my fingers.
50 websites in one weekend is really impressive. You make me feel lazy with the 8 hours I have put in today
I think that although this is more time consuming and harder work than advertised, i have no regerets about this business.
The ability to invest a hundred dollars in a domain name and web hosting, tweak this, add that and presto you can make money over and over again, well that is impressive too
Glad I made this choice