Working Online...
Whenever friends ask me why I decided to work from home and start an online business I tend to have a pretty straight up answer. Even if I attempt to spell it out to them many fail to see the benefits.
To most people what I do online is an enigma, they simply do not understand it and many cannot fathom why I would even take the risk of leaving my comfortable corporate salary.
Despite all my explanations they simply cannot understand my Indiana Jones like cravings (Without the whip and hat!) for adventure and venturing into the unknown world of starting an online business, even if the benefits are there for all to see.
Location, Location, Location
From the carnival atmosphere of Rio De Janeiro or the sunny beaches on the coast of Spain, or even the dark musty workspace in your parents basement, the internet has almost no boundaries…And for many this is the one major benefit of starting an online business, the ability to work anywhere in the world without any physical constraints.
Unlike traditional employment working from home gives you the freedom to be where you want to be, when you want to be there. Some may choose to stay at home whilst others travel the world or work from the comfort of some high street coffee shop. The reality is that with an online business all you need is an internet connection, your laptop and you are ready to go…
In this day and age almost every single part of doing business can be done online or over the phone, meaning that you are free to choose your location and there is the kicker….you have the choice.
For some that choice involves going into an office, for many it means working from home whilst taking care of the family, others may choose to go to the local coffee shop or library, whilst the more adventurous will pack their bags and work on the road in some exotic location.
It’s a numbers game…
If I needed to give you one defining moment in deciding whether to start my online business this would be it….I simply had no choice!
I wanted to work for myself and start a business, so much so that I looked into a donut franchise (You know the ones you see in shopping malls and fairs). I excitedly ordered a brochure and took that first step towards financial Independence….or so I thought! My dreams were practically shattered from the moment I opened that big white envelope, I still remember that exact moment. I was sitting in my parents kitchen as I quickly skimmed through the catalogue and took out the price lists, calculator in hand I did the maths, then redid them and then did them again for good measure…
I was stumped! The total cost of starting the business would have fallen just shy of $12,000 and that would have kept me and my business going for less than 3 months (And that did not even include licenses, premises or any of that stuff!) The total annual cost would have hit $40,000 at least!
It was a no brainer…even if I had sold a kidney in the black market I would have struggled to come up with the cash flow to kick start my business. Not only that! I was damn scared! Heck wouldn’t you be?
Stumping out $12,000 to start with is not an easy decision, what was an easier decision was getting started online!
You see… starting an online business is 100 times cheaper than doing so in the “real” world when you do it the right way. Sure enough there can be some expenses you simply cannot run away from, but if we assume the normal typical small business:
Domain: $8.99/year
Hosting: $107.88/year (At $8.99 a month)
Autoresponder: $228/year (At $19 a month)
Total: $344.87/year ($28.74 a month)
For me it was a no-brainer getting started online. It was something that I could easily afford to do with very little risk… (Less than $1 a day!)
Stick it to the man!
With the rising unemployment rates, increased redundancies and some companies sinking as fast as the Titanic working for yourself can seem to be an enticing prospect.
In the average working life of an adult you spend most of the time making money for someone else. Normally it’s some person who you’ve never met and owns more bling than the Queen of England, and whilst you slave away in some dingy office, they are out playing golf or hunting wild boar…
Hardly sounds fair right? Fact is that it probably isn’t, but many people are pretty content working in the knowledge that they know where their next pay check is coming from. That is until it all goes horribly wrong and the company sacks you or make you redundant.
It’s not all doom and gloom! If your company keeps you employed, you can go to bed at night happy at the knowledge that you will spend the better part of your life marching to someone elses beat in the traditional 9-5 rat race, wishing for the holidays to arrive and retirement to come and save you.
The alternative is a situation where you work for yourself, march to your own beat and avoid the stifling constraints of a 9-5 job. That is, you work online and get the choice of where you work and what you do. In other words you work to benefit yourself and not some millionaire tycoon who you’ve never met!
Paint By Numbers
Remember those painting by numbers kits? The ones that made you look like the next Picasso?
The beauty about them was that they were simple to follow. They had a logical step-by-step process that got you from A to Z (Or in this case from 1 to 100) and at the end you had a pretty picture your parents could be proud of…
Well getting a business online is pretty much the same. It’s a series of systems which pretty much anyone from the street can follow. Yes it requires you to work and spend time developing your business, but if you can follow simple instructions you can have a working business up in no time.
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