How being realistic has helped me keep going.
I have always had my own businesses and none have been brick and mortar. I have had and still continue to have a successful network marketing business, a fitness business that contracts out instructors to facilities and a real estate/investment business that rents out vacation homes short term. Some of these businesses have been a lot easier to make happen than others. I think some of the key factors at play were: my interest level in them, my motivation for starting them and what had been happening in my life when I started working on them. For e.g. the fitness business was easy. I was doing it all myself, teaching classes and personal training, then I got sick and was unable to work and so I hired out the work to others. It went so well that after I recovered from my illness I never went back. Blessing in disguise! For my network marketing business, I was really hungry to get out of the management aspect of my fitness business and the timing was right to let someone else run it. I was ready to work hard and I saw and experienced the upside of network marketing very quickly and that was encouraging. With the real estate rentals I was looking to diversify my portfolio and thanks to my other successful ventures, I had some funds to invest. I liken this business to running a restaurant, people show up and the momentum of it keeps you moving forward. They are at your door and you have to provide the promised service.
With Wealthy Affiliate just like in my other businesses I have big hopes and big goals and I am determined to be successful. Even though my goals are big, I keep realistic expectations and I remember that this is a business and though overnight success would be great, it is not expected to come without a proportional amount of work, perhaps even a disproportional amount of work in the beginning. My network marketing business has trained me for this. I have seen many people quit after a short amount of time and a small amount of effort because they did not get the big pay off that they thought was due to them. This all being said, my previous experience in business has prepared me for many of the ups and downs of doing this type of work yet I am finding it more challenging than any of my other endeavours. One of my biggest challenges has been social media. I realize that when I had built my other businesses, social media either did not exist at the time or it did not play a big part in the success of it. I am not a big social media fan and I find it overwhelming. I tend to go down the rabbit hole and it takes me hours to get out. This I think, is just pure discipline. In an attempt to become more disciplined, last year I closed down my Facebook account. I don’t miss it at all. Now though, I am learning that to have an online business and to give myself that extra edge, if I don’t embrace social media, then my website will not be running on all cylinders. So this is my challenge. When I think of it, if this is my biggest challenge then I am pretty lucky. I am certain that there are strategies that I can implement to keep myself on track and to effectively use social media. Perhaps once I get the website dialed in and I get past the learning curve of what to do and when to do it and it all starts to feel a bit more natural, then I might even embrace the social aspect of social media and become more of a willing participant. I am curious to know, is there anyone else like me who at first struggled with this particular situation and then over time came up with a way to embrace it and work with it in an effective manner? Once the website is built and running is your main job writing content and engaging in social media? I hope so, because if it is, I can do that! If it isn’t, then please share your nuggets of wisdom on how you have become successful.
With appreciation,
C-L
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Thanks for sharing.
Thank you :)