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What Skills Do You Need To Run An Online Business?
Internet businesses — they’re all the rage right now. Everyone from yoga teachers to chefs are taking their business online, but is an online business right for you? What skills do you need to run an online business?
It turns out, there are a few skills that will get you started on the right foot with an online business, and in this video, I’m going to go over what they are and why they’re important.
25 Quotes That Tell the Story of Starting a Business
Sometimes, being an entrepreneur feels lonely.
Especially for the entrepreneurs I work with, who tend to at least start out as solopreneurs, the path to success can feel long at the beginning, and it feels like something they have to do all alone.
But the truth is, many, many people have walked that path ahead of us! Even if you have a completely unique business (which most of us don’t), other entrepreneurs have gone through so many of the same things that you are experiencing. And, lucky for us, some of the most successful ones have really insightful things to say about it.
I collected some of my favorite quotes about business, and organised them into what I see as the five stages of business. See where you’re at and see if these excellent words speak to you.
13 Top Outsourcing Sites To Find And Hire Reliable Freelance Help For Your Online Business (Without Going Broke)
It’s time.
You’ve realised that, as a small business owner, you really can’t do everything.
But your business is growing and you have jobs that must get done – just not necessarily by you.
Congratulations.
It’s a good sign when you’re ready to hire help for your business.
It’s become easier than ever to find someone willing to complete your most important tasks…
…but if you’re in the early stages it can be frightening and seem ridiculously expensive to find good help.
Never fear:
The Internet, in its vast wisdom, has created lots of places where you can hire quality help without going broke, and I’m going to give you a list of my top favourite freelance and outsourcing sites.
I’ve searched the web and turned up several popular freelance and outsourcing websites like Elance, Evanto Market and Zirtual.
Learning how to outsource is imperative to long-term success, especially if you want to have a life outside of your business.
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Why My First Successful Business Was Ultimately A Flop (And How To Learn From My Mistake!)
It’s time to spill the beans.
You may or may not know that when I started out on my entrepreneurial journey, I did exactly what I generally recommend people NOT to do: I quit my job with no business plan in place and no idea what business I was going to start.
I had savings to last me around a year so it wasn’t complete lunacy. I do like to take calculated risks.
I leaped before I looked
Building A Business With Coaching Versus Without
I launched a brand new way to work with me last week called Business Gold, and it got me thinking about why some people choose coaching and what holds others back from getting coaching when they’re starting out in a new business.
To me, coaching can make all the difference – and it has in my own business. But many people don’t see the benefits right away. They worry that they’re paying someone to tell them things they already know (or feel like they “should” be able to figure out on their own), that they won’t get their money’s worth, or that they’ll be taken for a ride by some shyster selling business growth snake oil.
In my experience, that’s just not true.