Change is a good thing, most of the time. And who hasn't thought more than once about starting a business from home (an online business that is) but had nagging doubts?
There's reasons those nags exist to befuddle and attempt to sow seeds of doubt in your mind. (Don't let 'em!) It's usually one of these reasons:
- You're too busy with your own business to build a web site
- You're not really interested in the process – it's just another form of marketing
- You're bamboozled and afraid of the web (yes, even now)
It's All Wrong.
Well it could be all wrong, but let's boogie down for a minute.
From my weirdo-Australian perspective there seems to be two different sorts of enthusiasts out there – the 'Do It For Me' folks and the 'Do It Yourself' folks. In case you guessed I signed up happily for the latter. After all, when you 'do it yourself' you feel like you're saving dollars, right? (And sometimes you have to do it yourself anyway).
But the down side to doing everything yourself is you tend not to be as prolific. You only get work done at the pace you create it. And leverage is almost non-existent.
So while you might think doing it all yourself is the fastest method and it allows you to be the dude-in-complete-control of everything your business stands for, lets consider the laws of averages for a minute. Let's say that this law dictates that out of everything you do, you'll inevitably see winners — and likely too, a massive number of losers.
From another point of view, you could say you end up…
Throwing Stuff Against The Wall
Just To See What Sticks
Anyways, although I'm a huge Bob Proctor fan, I'm also a down-to-earth realist. And what I realised after trying to do everything myself for so long was that it's much easier to be part of the 'Do It For Me' generation. MUCH easier.
When you get other people to design websites for you, write your press releases, pen your blog posts, articles and basically promote YOU with all that time-consuming 'starting a business from home' essential stuff it can feel, well, weirdly good.
It's like suddenly you've got all this fabulous new time on your hands and you don't know what to do with it. Sure, stuff like managing your outsourcers, making sure they're doing what you want them to, etc, has to be done. But that's (mostly) an easy afternoon's work, right?
Wouldn't you rather your outsourcers to be sourcing and commenting on backlinks, penning 500 word review articles and creating snazzy Keynote videos (and anything else you need) while you sleep and dream ideas? (And while you live life!) Sounds kind of attractive to me…
In my case, I rarely write a word for my own websites now. (Except of course for a long-stretch blog post like this one!) But yeah, in my humble opinion, the do it for me approach is the easy dude's way to starting a business from home! That's because:
You Don't Need
To Be The Expert!
All you need is an expert specialist to do the stuff you want to get done!
There's no real secrets to working from home and getting your website set up. You CAN simplify all that stuff — and an easy way to get started is by clicking here to fill in the contact form or pick up the phone. A shameless plug I know. But the advisors on that page are COOL dudes who've helped me prosper-evolve with my numerous websites. YOU can 'earn without work' too!
What do you think? Bad hair day or what? Leave your comments below or I'll send in my own SEAL team…
