For many people, the dream of working online is financial freedom, time with the family, the ability to take lots of holidays and relax on the beach.
The reality for most is very different.
Working on the Internet is sold to most people as being easy, taking up very little time and making massive amounts of money really easily without any effort. The reality here is again, very different.
However, if you set your business up correctly and create a business strategy then you can live the dream. It is possible and there are people doing it, just not the vast majority.
Firstly, you need to ensure that you do not swap your current job for a job on the Internet. Most new Internet Marketers spend their time creating products and websites, doing SEO work and basically working as an employee of the business instead of the CEO.
Does Bill Gates sit down and write the latest Windows operating system himself? Nope, he’s the boss, he defines the strategies and sets the direction of the company whilst his TEAM does the actual programming work. I know, when you first start out, you may not have the money to outsource all this work to other people so you have to do it, which is fair enough. But, and this is a big but, as soon as you do have the money, you need to be outsourcing the mundane, hum drum work to someone else whilst you are working on the strategies, direction and new products.
You may be thinking this is a waste of money, but you need to think about how you value your time. If someone will do the work you are doing, e.g. web design, for $7 an hour, then you are saying that your time is worth $7 an hour. However, as the CEO of your business, your time is worth a lot more than this.
Think about it. Is it better for you to be saving $7 an hour by doing the work yourself or potentially earning an awful lot more than this by creating new products and working on your strategy whilst you pay someone the $7 an hour to do the work for you? If you do not outsource your work then you will never really own a business but instead will be caught in another job. Admittedly, you’ll be your boss, but you still have a job.
You need to also understand how to run a business, and this is everything from creating and marketing products to the financials to customer relationship building and more. Without this knowledge, you will struggle to get a real business off the ground and make a full time living online.
If you want to be able to quit your job and live the “Internet dream” then you have to start a business and not get yourself another job. People are living the dream and you could be one of them too.
