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Is Online Business For You?
By Dave Blake | November 27, 2007
A problem with all the hype about starting you own inline business is this idea that starting one is the perfect opportunity for everyone. In some ways I find myself in agreement with this assertion, and in other ways I find myself at odds with it. Thus, I now wish to further articulate upon this idea.
An online business gives you the opportunity to pick and choose something you are interested in.
Starting an online business can allow anyone to create his or her very own business that is aligned with personal interests. This alone is the main reason I personally find online businesses to be my favorite career choice. Doing something related to your interests ensures you being able to maintain a happy outlook on life. It is the exact opposite of sitting in a little grey cubicle doing pointless tasks that have been delegated to you.
Everyone knows that a bad day at work tends to drag over to your personal life. The main benefit to online businesses in my eyes is the near-full to full elimination of those bad days. You are picking something you LIKE to work on! You are having FUN! Your online business can be likened to the career of a professional athlete. Professional atheletes make their livings doing what they love, and so can you.
But then again:
We have this issue where for some people online businesses simply may not be the right choice.
This issue stems not from the idea of doing what you love for a living. Rather, people should always try to persue a career they find intriguing, for the sake of maintaining personal sanity. What this issue really stems from is the simple fact that many people are not cut out to make a living online. Yep, I said it. I admitted the one thing that most online business advocates will never admit. Online businesses are NOT for everyone.
The reason this truth is kept so “hush hush” is that an entire online industry has emerged which has the sole purpose of promoting online business opportunities. This industry basically acts as an online business opportunity middleman. It provides you with things you could obtain free of charge, makes these things sound better than they really are, and subsequently makes a killing! Avoid this “middleman” industry at all costs!
There will always be a few success stories used to attempt to reel in you and your money. Some of them may be real, some of them may be fake. However, you simply don’t need to pay for the things this industry offers. There is plenty of free information available on any subject you can think of.
Now, let’s go over why online businesses aren’t for everyone.
There’s a certain mentality that goes along with successful online business owners. Part of it is a strong will to succeed, part of it is taking a constructive approach towards failure, part of it is not putting all the eggs in a single basket, and there are other parts as well.
However, there seems to be one main issue I think is many times overlooked. Typically, in order to be successful with an online business you will need to be business-minded. If you don’t know much about business in general including managing a business, running a business, starting the business in the first place, getting a business off the ground, etc., you can’t just expect to waltz into the online world, throw some money at a potential opportunity, and then succeed. That’s simply not how things work. Online businesses are no different than real life businesses other than the virtual aspects. It’s still a business, and it still entails the general things any normal business entails. The specifics are where the differences lie, and they many times give online businesses the upper hand when it comes to things such as overhead and product replication.
So what if you aren’t business-minded? What if you know nothing about businesses? Well, I personally think you are better off not wasting your time trying to start an online business. Can you become business-minded? Sure, I believe anyone can change. And if you do, by all means go ahead and give online businesses a try. However, for those of you who simply aren’t business-oriented in the least nor think you want to go through the effort to change, I would say you’re plain outta luck. Leave online businesses alone, and try to find a stellar job. After all, everyone desserves to be happy in life 
Topics: Motivation, Principles |
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