At conferences, you can spot them a mile away. They're shaking hands with everyone they meet. They're passing out business cards like they're free hundred dollar bills. They attend every talk and scribble notes furiously through each of them.
And you can bet that when they go home they'll spend every waking hour -- which might be twenty in a day -- sitting in front of their computer working on their site, building traffic and making deals.
Sound scary?
Those people scare me too.
I'm all for hard work. I'm always saying that AdSense isn't a get-rich-while-lying-in-your-hammock-drinking-lemonade scheme. It's an opportunity. If you're not prepared to put in the sweat, you won't be taking out any dollars.
But if all you do is put in sweat, you're not going to enjoy your work. Life is too short not to do that.
You should set yourself a goal. That goal could be something as simple as earning an extra $500 a month with a website or it could be becoming an Internet millionaire.
Both of those goals are possible. But they take different amounts of time.
The first might take you months. The second could take you years.
I can't give you any guarantees about when you'll reach your goal. But I can guarantee that if your goal isn't realistic -- and if you don't enjoy the road that will take you to it -- you'll never get there.
You'll get fed up, frustrated and burned out long before you've finished ironing out all the kinks in your sites.
There are lots of things that you'll have to do to create a successful online publishing business. The hardest is the one you won't find talked about at conferences or explained in products.
It's creating the right work/life balance. Get that right and you'll be running at the right pace to get your business where you want it to be.
It's Del.icio.us!
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January 15, 2008 02:02 PM
Hoho..of course i enjoy with my work. If not, its really hard to keep our works right?