Thinking of Starting an Internet Home Business?, Full Time or Part Time ?
Before I started my Internet Home Business, I had more than 30 years business experience and I ended up making more mistakes with this one Internet Home Business than I would ever of thought possible. This famous expression comes to mind, ” if I knew now, what I thought I knew then, I would be rich. “ What I thought was, all I have to do to be successful is to grab just a tiny fraction of all those millions of people on the Internet, and I will be okay. This is really embarrassing but I used to sit there and say, if each person who visits my Internet Home Business web site spends just one measly dollar, look at all the money I will have.
I am obviously pointing out just the financial aspects of my involvement on the Internet to illustrate a point. My point is this, the Internet is a very challenging place to do business on/in, even people who should know better, people like myself, get caught up in the implied hype of the Internet. I have learned incredibly quickly, some of the things that I took for granted, this blog will be pointing out those things that you should be on the lookout for, hopefully saving you time and money in the process.
The question is, whether to start full time or part time, my advice is part time without question, here is why;
1. I call it the incubation period, the time it takes to have a functioning Internet Home Business, the time from when your web site is up and when you start to see some results. In this case, we are talking business, so results would have to be sales, correct? There are a number of different time frames here, the start of the planning process, then the actually building of the web site, and then when does the business, traffic come, and then when do you see sales.
2. What I am trying to avoid are people who think that starting a business on the Internet is a quick, simple, easy way to make money and they just jump in full time and think the money starts rolling in. Looking at the millions of ads and offers out there, you would think that was the case, but it is not, I am speaking from experience as well as getting feed back from people who read this blog and contact me with their stories of misadventure on the Internet.
If I had to compare starting a business on the outside, and then starting the same business on the inside, on the Internet, there is no question that the Internet start up is significantly more difficult. Two of the more difficult points to over come are getting your web site indexed on the search engines and a connected issue, getting traffic to your site. Those topics deserve posts all on there own, but deserved a mention here. Be aware, the Internet is a whole new ball of wax compared to the outside world, skills and experience you have out there, does not necessarily translate into success on the inside.
3. The advantage of starting part time is that you can start the tasks that need to take time to work, while you are still keeping that full time pay cheque coming in. Here is a partial list of things that have to happen for you to actually have a functioning Internet Home Business; Picking and establishing your keywords, then seeing if they are going to work for you, this involves a lot of testing and for time to elapse to see if you are making any head way, time frame, realistically, 6 months to a year!! Getting your web site indexed and crawled by the search engines spiders, again months. Tweaking an already finished web site is almost an ongoing job, for a new Internet Home Business, almost a necessity, again months.
This is just a small sampling of what has to take place BEFORE you really have any shot at starting to see any money at all. All of these activities and more can and should be done on a part time basis before you make any steps about quitting any jobs to go full time on the Internet. More tomorrow, have a great day.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas
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