Learn As You Earn When You Start An Online Business.
1. Learn As You Earn When You Start
An Online Business.
2. If you're fairly new to the world of running an online
business, you may be worried that you don't know enough
to become a success. You may feel that it will take a lot of
new knowledge before you can even begin. This can be
quite overwhelming. However, this is not necessarily the
case. Let me explain.
3. If you wanted to become a pianist, how would you go
about it? Would you spend months or maybe years,
reading books on how to play a piano? Would you listen to
people talk about how to play the piano? Would this alone
teach you how to play? Ok, so maybe you would read one
book and listen to a few people that have already learned
to play. Then you start to practice. You take the knowledge
from the experts and apply it by practicing. This doesn't
make you a master pianist in an instant. You have to
practice over and over, adding new skills as you master the
last one. This all takes time and effort. But if you really
want to learn to play the piano, it's all worth it.
4. What does this have to do with starting an online
business?
5. Reading and learning about every single aspect of internet
marketing can take considerable time. If you where to
wait until you knew everything there was to know before
starting your business, you would find that things have
changed during the time you've been absorbed in learning
and you would then have to learn even more.
6. This is what you should do. Do spend some time reading
and doing research. Make sure that you have just enough
information to know that you are working the right
area/niche. More importantly, do something. Get started.
You will learn on the way, by doing. Yes you will make
mistakes, but that really is the best way to learn. If you
where learning to play piano, you would make mistakes
there too, but you would work at getting it right. You
might try a different technique or put in extra practice to
get it just right. With an internet business, it's pretty much
the same thing. You need to tweak as you go along, adapt
and grow your knowledge base as you expand your
business.
8. You may feel unsure because of several factors. Such as
new jargon, seemingly difficult technical stuff, many, many
new subjects covering marketing, advertising, traffic
generation and it goes on and on. You don't need to know
everything to make a start and you will learn the rest on
the way. By learning from actually doing and experiencing,
your learning curve is much higher, but it will not feel like
it. Obviously a little bit if know-how is necessary, but just
read a free special report on that topic. They are free and
available all over the internet. Download what you need,
print them off, but don't go and read everything and then
some more and then something else before you start.
9. If you don't understand a particular area, go to a forum
and ask questions. These discussion boards are growing at
a lightning pace across the net this year. Their popularity
has fuelled a new kind of information resource. Priceless.
Don't be worried that you will sound dumb. The experts of
these boards where just like you once. How do you think
they became as knowledgeable as they are? By asking
questions and using the answers to grow their business.
Posting questions on forums is highly recommended. The
people who frequent these places are more than happy to
help. "Why?" I hear you ask. By answering questions, it
gives that person 'credibility' it gets their name known
across the internet as an expert on the subject. It is
advertising for then and it's free. The people that will
happily answer your questions and help guide you on your
11. It most certainly can, but it will cost. A lot of people that
start an online business do so with a budget of almost $0.
A successful and highly profitable internet business can be
born form this, the disadvantage is, it takes far longer to
earn a good income. There is nothing wrong with doing it
this way, heck some of today's biggest internet guru's
started on a $0 budget, including me.
12. If you do have some funding, then it will be easier for you
to be earning quite quickly. The best thing to do would be
to find a mentor. Someone that has already done what
you are trying to do. A guide that will teach you and help
you to get started. It can be quite tough to go it alone, I
know this because that is what I did. A coach would have
made my life much, much easier, but I didn't have the $20-
$30 a month that I needed for the membership fees. If you
are lucky enough to be able to afford this comparatively
small outlay, I would highly recommend a mentor. This can
save you a great deal of time and you will be making
money a lot sooner than if you where to go it alone.
14. A good mentor will take their student by the hand and
guide them through each stage of starting an online
business. They will encourage you to get stuck in right
from the start. Teaching you that you learn best by doing.
Yes, you will make mistakes, but learning from these
mistakes and putting them right is all part of the business.
All aspects of internet business will be covered as they
become appropriate. Introducing new skills and ideas in
manageable chunks. Having a good coach can accelerate
your online business presence at a respectable rate. You
will soon build much confidence and will not need a
mentor forever.
16. You can still make it on your own. Don't be afraid of
getting your hands on experience, get stuck into it as soon
as possible. If you sit there, reading and reading, you may
never actually get started. Don't let your dream die before
you've given it your best shot. Do what the successful
internet guru's have done, learn as you earn. Practice until
you get it right. One day soon you will turn around and
find out that you know more than you ever thought
possible and you learned it in such a short time. You'll
think "What was all the fuss about, that wasn't so hard".
And you'll remember that it was because you learned
most of your lessons on the way.
17. In conclusion, if you are going to start an internet
business, don't let all the knowledge that you have to gain
put you off. Don't get stuck down by thinking that you
need to learn everything before you can begin. Experience
of doing is by far the best and quickest way to learn the
ropes. Take it one step at a time and you will find that
with practice, you will soon become quite proficient. If you
can afford a mentor, do it, the benefits are outstanding. If
you can't afford a coach, don't worry, you will get there
with persistence. Learn something new, put it into
practice, correct any mistakes and learn the next step.
Education and training is an ongoing life experience. Not
even the internet guru's know it all. They learn new things
every day and that is what you must do. So enough with
the reading. Go take action today. Until you take the first