I recently came across an old quote (a Chinese Proverb) that made me think of my current situation.
Imagine if a tree was never planted. Now imagine how large a tree would be and how much nicer the landscape would be if that never planted tree, was planted 20 years ago!!! The same holds true for me today. I think of where my life would be and what I could have accomplished if I would have just planted a seed and taken the first steps to start an online business.
STARTING IS NOT ENOUGH!!
Starting is not enough. Like a tree, a business needs to be watered, fertilized and nourished so it can grow. A tree does not grow large overnight, and neither can a business of any kind. You cannot make tons of money overnight. You must build it gradually, step by step. This can be frustrating but also very rewarding. In an Ideal world, I would have started an online business years ago. But there was always an excuse or reason why I never got one off the ground. It always seemed to come down to “I will do this when I get some of my debt paid off or have some extra money.” Or it just wasn’t the right time.
THE TIME TO START IS NOW!!!!!
Just like we cannot plant a tree 20 years in the past. We cannot start a business in the past. So, if I follow the wisdom of the Chinese Proverb, I must start a business today. Will it be easy and without work? Absolutely not!!! But, with the right system in place and someone willing to take a chance, this journey could provide my “tree” and make it grow!!!!
I signed up this morning for the Plug-In Profit Site and have been VERY impressed. Everything has been done for me to set me up for success. My website has already been created including the extras promised when I signed up! Not just the website but all the affiliate links were done as well as the Auto responder. This would have taken me forever to do myself and I probably would have gotten discouraged and given up. Completed Day 1 of the training module and look forward to progressing to success.
Hi, it’s Randy and this is my new website. Stay tuned… I’ll have great things to share!
For starters, here’s an article I think you’ll enjoy…
It’s called: “Make the Leap to Home Business Success”
If you are going to build a successful home business, you need 3 “intangibles.” These are things that must come from WITHIN you.
===> Intangible 1 <===
First, you must have a strong WHY.
Why must you make a home business work? What’s driving you? What is it that you CAN’T have in your life anymore and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?
For me, I couldn’t stand working 12+ hours a day anymore and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control my life and finances through a little box that I could carry with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone’s time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out on my children’s lives and the incredible freedom that succeeding in this business would provide for me. I found my why. You MUST find yours.
===> Intangible 2 <===
You must BELIEVE that it is possible.
If you don’t believe that it’s POSSIBLE for you to succeed in a home business or make your living on the Internet, you won’t. It’s that simple.
For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making great money with a home business online. If they could do it, I could too. It would just be a matter of figuring out what those people were doing and then adapting it to my situation.
There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people (millions of them) are making money online in many different ways. Just get online and do some research and you’ll find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local bookstore and you’ll find the same documented evidence of this fact. Truth is, it’s getting easier and easier to start and succeed in a home based business. This is primarily because of the Internet and affiliate marketing.
I’ve always said that “affiliate marketing” is the job of the future. In the “old” days, you had to go to a potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill out their affiliate application and start work immediately. Affiliates are the new working class. Believe me, making money with affiliate programs or making your living on the Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is the “job” of the future that’s here TODAY.
===> Intangible 3 <===
You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.
Ready, FIRE, then aim… This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with an Internet home business.
That’s backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire. The fact is the Internet is a moving target… The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can’t learn from the outside… You have to be IN THE RING to truly understand it.
The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to start a home based business. You simply have to start one. This is what I call “Making the Leap.”
The good news is that the cost of failure on the Internet is very small. In the “brick and mortar” world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up a business. It’s almost always necessary to invest thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for less than $100. In fact, Plug-In Profit Site is a really good example of this.
You simply need get IN THE GAME… Each moment that you stay “out there,” you’re wasting valuable time that you could be learning and skills necessary to become a successful affiliate marketer. In fact, if you’re not in the game yet, you’re ALREADY behind the times. Come on… You can do it! Make the leap to becoming a successful home based business owner today!
About the author:Stone Evans was a washed up restaurant worker desperately searching for a way to save his family when he discovered the internet and affiliate marketing… 24 months later he finally cracked the code and started earning over $10,000 per month. Now the same system that saved him is available to you here >>
