My attemp to build online business
This is my second attempt to build online business and make a living from this business. It is the only option for me to earn some money. If you read my profile you can see that regular 9-5 job is out of a question for me, so I must find another way to make some funds.
First attempt was more then 15 years ago, I was amazon affiliate and I had several websites selling amazon goods and earning commissions. But I also have a job back then, so my affiliate websites were not so important for my life. Today is different story. Now my online business is essential for me to survive. But I want to learn about building online business before any attempt to make it real. I believe that WA will give me necessary knowledge, so I can boost my skills and create great websites. I am so grateful I found WA. I have technical knowledge, I know how to create website, from code to design. But I need knowledge about finding a niche for my business, driving traffic to my websites, SEO, marketing and much more. As far as I explored WA there is a course for my every need, great courses. And community is unbelievable. I know I can count on other members to help me out when I get stuck on a problem.
I have some resources for next 6 months, so I can survive. I will spend this 6 months learning and creating demo projects on my test servers. I know that on my side is lack of understanding about what’s involved in creating and maintaining an online business. I am aware that simply having a website is not a business model to succeed. I have a lot of books about business and other stuff, I am sort of a book freak. If I see good book I must buy it.(majority in pdf format). At least this was the case in my past. Today I cannot afford spending money on books, but I already have big library, so I can find information’s. I attended many certification seminars during 1995-2002, from various fields. But I always felt that something is missing. And I know now that WA is the place for missing knowledge.
I wrote down some plans and goals for the following year. I will post on my blogs important milestones, so I can monitor my progress. I also invested in some special software for keeping all my projects in one place. Also I have software for collecting information's from various sources, websites, pdf documents, rich texts etc. I must have everything organized. If you are interested in such a software send me a message and I can send you what software I am using. I've tested a lot of different options before I finally decided and invested in software. I am using Mac OS X for my daily routines and tasks.
Anyway, I want to launch my first website within 3 months. That’s my number one goal. I have plans to build several websites and I already registered domains. But I do not want to wait too long for business to start, so I will build those websites one by one. I do not want to wait to complete all websites and then launch all at the same time. I think one by one is better approach. Because I don’t have a job, I will dedicate all my time to work on these projects. Like I said I want to complete some courses here at WA first, and then start with real work. At the moment I can work 10-12 hours a day. I have a schedule, I work 25 minutes and I have 5 min break. Then again 25 minutes and then again a 5 min break. Every fourth break is 20 min long. I have special software called Focus, which serves as productivity timer. It simply measures time and breaks. I found this approach to working schedule very good and useful. This way I can really work 10-12 hours a day.
So in the following days I will concentrate to find some niches for my business and the journey begins. Although I am diagnosed with depression (I do have medications and I do a lot of meditation) I am optimistic for now, and look forward to watch my business grow.
This blog summarize some my future plans for building and maintaining online business and generate solid income. I do not want to become rich with my online projects. I just want to generate solid stream of money to support myself and not to depend on other people. If you have any comment or recommendation, please feel free to respond, I want to learn new stuff.
I apologize for any grammar errors, English is not my primary language, but I do learn from experiences.
This is my first blog on WA. I will probably post some more in the following weeks.
Aleksander
Recent Comments
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I wish you all the luck my friend
Your motivation is felt even here in Israel :)
You will succeed, any doubt.
And I will even use your example to promote WA among others. The way you said that you have knowledge in programming and html but still you find a lot of new stuff to add to your knowledge and to help you in other not less important categories related to affiliate marketing. That insipers me. So again good luck!
Thank you for your positive thoughts. Best of luck to you too.