Are you too lazy to succeed?
You're here to start your own business. You are going to be your own business owner - your own boss. Whether you succeed or fail is up to you this time. How exciting! But what a responsiblity - and what hard work you will have to put in.
You will get tons of help and support on this site - but please: - start with helping yourself first!
One of the things I see on here are people being lazy. By that I mean taking the easy option of asking a question instead of searching for an answer themselves first.
For example, the other day, someone asked on live chat "help me find a niche". I and two other people gave them several suggestions of how to find themselves a suitable niche. Our replies were not acknowledged or replied to, instead the member posted again "help me find a niche". I tried again to help - but I noticed an hour later another post: "help me find a niche". This member had no intention of helping themselves, or following our suggestions, they just wanted the easy option of having it all done for them. Their question should really have been a demand: FIND ME A NICHE SO I DON'T HAVE TO DO IT MYSELF.
So: an important message to people who are new to owning and running their own business :
Running your own business involves hard work. And you cannot get other people to do all that hard work for you. They might try and be helpful (as I did in the above example) but will soon get fed up offering a hand, and it being ignored, or being expected to help every step of the way. If you want to succeed, it's up to you to do the necessary work.
This of course doesn't mean you shouldn't ask questions, or that you should search for hours before daring to ask. I'm just suggesting that you do the training and use the search bar facility, before asking for answers to basic questions. That way, everyone has more time to help people who really need it.
Rant over for the day, lol ;-)
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I have been working really hard the last 4 months. The last weeks I have been getting lazy or rather unmotivated because I seem to be doing the right things but I can't figure out what is wrong because I have not made a single commission yet. I told myself not to fall into that trap, but even a small payoff would really inspire me to get going. Although I'm reaching #1 at Google I still can't make commissions or get visitors to my site. I don't know maybe I have chosen the wrong niche.
John, please don't think I am talking about people like you who have put in the effort, it's the people who join and from day one don't even bother to try before expecting everyone to do everything for them.
I can quite understand feeling unmotivated when you're not making money, I think you have to inspire yourself by reading other people's success stories to keep you going - or maybe ask the community about your niche, whether you can tweak it to get the results you want.
I just got back strong by creating a new post. I will get going. Your post really helped me, although it wasn't meant for me. Thanks.
I'm new here John, but if there is anything I can do to help, let me know :-)