Work at Home

Given the amount of work at home and online businesses there are, why isn’t everyone finding them and making good money? One reason is that many of these businesses are scams. Even so, there are many out there that are legitimate work at home opportunities. I believe the number one reason people who join or start legitimate online businesses fail because they do not see results right away and give up.

I joined Avon when I was in college. I started out very gung ho about the business. I was so sure everyone would want to buy and that I would make money. My college roommate joined with me and we set off to advertise. What better place to start than your friends! We gathered them all up to present our products, expecting them to be immediately interested and to buy, buy, buy. Out of 10 girls, 1 of them bought a chapstick.

We sold to a couple of other people (ok, like one other person), and gave up within a month or too, never to speak of it again. What happened here? Why did we fail? In retrospect I think we expected to have results right away and to make a profit right away. If we had stuck with it, who knows where we would be now.

Many people with home based businesses have the same problem. They think that they will make money hand over fist with very little effort in very little time. This is not often the case, if ever. With any business where you are your own boss, you need discipline and focus to make a go of it. Immediate results are not seen, so you must work past that with your end goal in mind.

On a forum I belong to, we decided to start a weekly goals list to make ourselves accountable for what we want to accomplish. My goals for this week are to update each of my blogs with one new post a day. That is the only way to build interest in what I am doing and to stay focused. My other goal is to sign up 2 members with MyWorldPlus and to offer those members the guidance and support they need to succeed in the home based business industry. I also need to make sure I send in all of my paperwork for my online tutoring job.

It is a good idea for all of those trying to make it in the home based business industry to develop a weekly goals list. That way, you can check things off of your list and feel like you are accomplishing something even if you are not seeing the immediate results of your end goal. Another reason people give up is they lost their inspiration. Often companies offer shiny promises on the front page, and when you don’t see those shiny results right away you lose hope. Find inspiration by chatting with someone who is successful, or bookmarking the page of a success you admire.

Tips for Staying Focused

• Find some inspiration
• Develop a weekly goals list
• Check things on your goal list off so you feel accomplished
• If you are getting frustrated, take yourself away from it for a while to return with a fresh mind.

What do you do to stay focused???