Being three years into online business, I learned quite a lot and I’m glad to be able to share my experience with you. If you think there’s easy money involved, simply turn away and close this page, you’re just a lazy ass if you ask me.

Ingredients

• Patience (50%)
• Hard work (20%)
• Quality (10%)
• Speed (10%)

How to mix?

Ridiculous amount of patience is needed and ability to take a lot of punches into your face. So, when you’re down, get up quickly and learn from your mistakes.

There is no such thing as easy money. Only hard work will get you somewhere and there is no money in the world that could buy your pride. You could work hard doing wrong things, so make sure you aren’t wasting your time – but even if you do, learn from it and don’t give up.

You will be tempted to earn quickly, instead, concentrate on quality of your work. Doing one quality project is better than doing hundred of lousy ones. So, if you’re tempted to run online ads on your business website, you already lost your battle.

Even though these tips could apply to offline businesses, there is one variable that is extremely important online – speed. Not speed of your work, but speed of web apps you’re working on. Increasing performance of your apps and websites will bring in thousands of new customers.

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Online Business Success Recipe

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As you probably know right know, blogging is hard business so don’t take anything for granted. Becoming a successful blogger is not as easy as many think so keeping focus on mainstream problems is very difficult. Thus I’ve done a short study to find out which are top ingredients that make a blog successful:

Content

What you type is still one of the most important things you do when you blog. Actually it is the most important of all four ingredients but still depends heavily on each one of them. The basic purpose of blogging is about its content so try to focus on your words and concentrate on quality.

Design

If you don’t have looks than your content makes no sense. Still, don’t mix great design with beautiful one as it’s not the same thing. Great design is also usable as beautiful may overlap good content.

Performance

Faster is better and with little errors as possible your site becomes a winner in not time. So how slow is still tolerable? If your initial load time for first time visitor doesn’t exceed 5-8 seconds on normal 1mbit connection than you’re OK. Still faster is better and faster you get better you are.

SEO

This ingredient is not at least important (as it’s placed on last place) moreover it is probably just behind great content. Of what use your blog is if nobody can read it? Thus optimizing your blog visibility to search engines is crucial if you want to spread your word to the masses.

Have to say that all ingredients are not worth anything if they don’t complement each other. Invest your time equally in all of them and you should be fine. Otherwise be a celebrity and none of this is important:)

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If you don’t know what you want to achieve or don’t know where you are heading, you’ll never know when you’ve reached it. Your idea of success may also be quite different from that of another business owner’s. So how to set up goals that would mach your personality and your own professional preferences?

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But if you do define your goals, what to do when’ve gotten it? It sounds like a never ending circle thus let me give you some possible goals you might pursue and reach with no trouble at all:

Money as Value

Most of people define their/others success by the amount of money they have. Well if you are doing business only for the mere bucks you’ll fail 99%. You could set a goal how much money you want to earn to feel great about but you’ll soon find out that you want more and more and more…(I won’t write more word further on as you’ve got the point now:). I won’t say that setting amount of money earned as goal is always going to be a failure but problem starts when you reach that goal. How will you motivate yourself to keep going? I gues you see my point.

Beeing your own boss

I am really amazed how much money people would give away only to be on their own and have their own business. Have to say I am bit like them but still take decisions on my common sense. I have a friend (won’t say the names as you probably don’t care anyway) that mutually agreed with his boss to take over a business  to become a director. It sounds great but now he pays himself the amount of money he thinks is the best for the company. That amount is much lower and he has to worry about tons of things he never imagined would be his responisbilities. I asked him why he’s done that and he said it is only temporarily and that he knows what he’s doing,…eventhough I’ve piscked from his words that he is much happier now than ever before.

Work first family next?

A married small business owner with a family may have the intention to make a substantial living, but his or her personal definition of success may revolve around the family. Finding a happy balance between all aspects of life is often found as the driving force.

Personal vs. Professional goals

Before you outline what would make your business a success, take a moment to think about your own definition of success – both personal and professional. Remember, you are on a journey. Your success may be found in that journey. Success is not simply an end point; once you reach one goal or benchmark, there will be others to pursue.

Lessons learned:

• Do what you like and leave if you’re not happy – now!
• Empower your employees but not yourself!
• Familiy, friends first, business next!
• Combine your personal goals with professional ones, if that is not possible than chose your personal ones!
• And do business for money, favours for others will hit you back like a rock (I meant that in business practice, so no hard feelings)!

If your definition of success is owning your own business and working from home, read article 10 Steps to Running a Successful Home-Based Business for tips on how to get your dream off the ground.

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