Tips for Starting an Internet Business: Vision
This is my second post in my series on “Tips for Starting an Internet Business.” In my Introduction, I listed vision as the first of four essential elements needed for starting an Internet business.
A successful Internet business, like any business, starts with a healthy dose of vision. Vision is a vivid mental image of something that may come to be. It includes intelligent foresight and clear anticipation. Vision originates in the imagination and over time is converted into thoughts and desires and eventually plans and goals. Read more
Tips for Starting an Internet Business: Introduction
You’ve probably seen a television commercial suggesting that if you just buy such and such a book and follow a few easy steps you’ll soon be making big bucks in your easy Internet business working only a few hours each week. The setting for the commercial often shows someone luxuriously lounging on the beach enjoying “the good life” of riches and ease.
This picture does not paint an accurate view of reality for the vast majority of Internet business owners I know. As an Internet business owner since early 1999, I have met hundreds of others like me. Most work long hours and are very much involved in all aspects of the daily operation of their businesses.
Armed mainly with my experiences, I have a few “common sense” suggestions for getting started. Read more
