Creating a Work from
Home Business
Part 1
Beating the Corporate Myth
Whether you work for a small business or a huge corporation,
you will have (at some time) been told that you are privileged to be working
for such a company. Sometimes employers tend to use this as an advantage to get
their employees to increase their work performance, which does nothing in
increasing the employee’s wage, but certainly raises the profit margins of the
business.
How many times have you been intimidated by an employer “hinting”
that you need to pick up your performance to keep your job? The trouble is,
business are implementing ways and means of improving staff efficiency and
performance, but do not alter the
employee’s wage or salary to reflect these improvements.
Then there are those businesses that warn of staff “cut
backs” to reduce the running costs and retain their viability in a competitive
market. More often than not, this is purely a scare tactic used by business to
force employees to guard the job by putting in more effort.
These tactics are being implemented by nearly all
businesses. It doesn’t matter whether you are employed as a counter hand at the
corner deli, or in marketing of a major manufacturing company, you will always
be prone to having these tactics used against you.
Job security is outdated and should always be considered as
such. To top it off, your wage or salary will never truly reflect your efforts
or loyalty to any company.
How do you create your own job
security?
There are really only two choices available to employees.
Either you tow the line and become a puppet to these companies, or you make the
move towards independently creating your own source of income and job security.
This may sound like an awfully large and dangerous step to take, but it’s not that
difficult to achieve.
Many dissatisfied employees and now making the transition to
internet marketing and eventually leaving their full time employment to work
from home. Notice the word eventually used in that last sentence, because
despite the hype about making an instant fortune overnight with internet marketing,
it simply doesn’t happen that way. If it did, then companies would be forced
into liquidation because there would be nobody for them to hire.
Many people who have quit their current jobs to open their
own business, whether it be their own store or contracting business, have
failed. Usually these failed businesses have cost tens, if not hundreds, of
thousands of dollars to create. Up to 85% of small businesses fail in the first
year whereas only 35% fail after 10 years of being in business. This is an
extremely high number of business failures in the small business sector.
Internet marketing has a much higher failure rate in the
first two years, but the financial losses are negligible. The benefits of creating
a home-based internet marketing business are many fold, but the most important
reason is time-framing. That’s right! A much higher success rate is found
amongst those people who took plenty of time to create their business.
Impatience is the single biggest reason for failure in home-based internet
marketing, whereas inexperience is the single biggest cause of failure in the
small business sector.
A home-based internet marketing business can be created over
a period of time (up to two years) which allows your level of experience to
grow with your new business. This is where impatience will definitely to your
business failure, IF YOU ALLOW IT TOO.
It is so easy to see why people allow impatience to become
their worst enemy. They have fallen victim to the abundance of false gurus, on
the internet, who claim to have the hidden secret to instant riches.
“Learn how I made $30,000 in the first month of my business.
It is so easy that you too can be making this sort of money as well.”
“Let me show you the loophole I found that allows me to make
a six figure income every month.”
“Take a look at the screenshot of my income for the last
twelve months. You too can make this sort of money by purchasing my marketing
software.” (They don't tell you that the figures show the sale of their product to people like you, not by people actually using the product)
Forget all this bull***t hype that is readily available on
the internet. Forget the dream of huge instant wealth. Never believe any person
that claims to absolutely guarantee your success. Instead let your commonsense
prevail and guide you and listen to words of encouragement, inspiration, and
motivation.
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
~ John Quincy Adams
"Put up in a place where it’s easy to see. The cryptic
admonishment, T. T. T. When you feel sometimes how slowly you climb. It’s well
to remember that Things Take Time."
~ Piet Hein
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other
people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own
inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything
else is secondary.”
~ Steve Jobs – Co-founder of Apple and Pixia
Take in all the information from the internet and study it
closely. You will be able to decipher the absolute nonsense from the factual
content. It is imperative that you start your journey on the right compass
heading. There are a lot of so called mentors out there that promise to coach
you to success. By all means follow them, if you have a very healthy bank
balance.
Simply put, the best advice you could receive is to;
·
take
your time and research before you commit
o
Document
your research so that you compile your own library of “on hand” information to
work with
·
if
you are currently employed, start on a part-time basis
o
Take
the time to build your business to a level where it is capable of replacing
your current wage
·
if
working on a strict budget, start using free (or affordable) software
o
Remember
that you only get what you paid for. Sometimes free products are inferior in
quality, but will suffice until your business creates the income to upgrade the
tools of your trade
·
Accept the fact that you will have failures
with some of your marketing strategies and promotions. They are inevitable.
o
When
you fail at any part of your business development, stop what you are doing and
analyze your failure, make the necessary changes and try again
o
Repeat
the above until you succeed
·
Create
accounts with multiple blogging sites. These can be a useful source of
information.
o
You
may even come across someone who has successfully overcome the problem you are
facing.
Most importantly, never allow yourself to become distressed
or complacent. Compile a document of inspirational and motivational quotes from
famous and successful business people and celebrities. Most of their quotes are
based on real life situations. Refer to your list of quotes on a regular basis.
It is most important to remember the reason you made the
decision to enter into a home-based internet marketing business.
This alone is your
motivation to succeed in creating your own job security.
If you found this article
informative, then please keep your eyes open for part 2 in the series on “Creating a Work from Home Business”
This series of articles will be
placed in the article archives on my website
in November 2012.
Alternatively you can email me for any information on article availability.
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Includes topics on goal
setting and time management
