Starting an Online business ? Synergize your way to success !!!
Posted on May 28, 2008
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I’ve been thinking of putting up this post for a while. A post that describes a way to keep up with all the multiple tasks involved in starting up and running a successful online business, like this blog. It’s apparent that as competition grows stiff and the distance between those making big time money from their online businesses and those just managing to get by widens, a lot may be needed to get in, get ahead, and more importantly stay ahead.
The truth is if you take the time to browse through the forums and read the blog posts, whether its on internet marketing, search engine optimization, or any other online industry that has grown to support the billion-dollar online business world, you’ll discover that the number of do’s and don’ts at best is staggering. It is literally impossible to remember and obey all of them - and thats when they aren’t clearly conflicting each other. Sometimes 2 market leaders in the same industry hold such different views that one begins to wonder …
I’ve read a lot of posts where potential online business owners either complain of having wasted $xxxx on worthless advice or information , or having spent so much time trying out some new idea which eventually failed or didn’t yield the right results. Even if these attempts don’t take money out of your pocket, the valuable time lost most times is as bad.
Since I put up my post on the next profitable online business I’ve been thinking a lot. Being able to decipher where the online business world is headed next is a task better left for geniuses , prophets or something in between - and I still wont place my money on it. Like I said in that post, the aim is to get everyone to put all their ideas in one place, and maybe by sifting and analyzing , we all will be able to get a fresh idea or two. Even though it may be possible to find and start up an online business that suits you , succeeding at it is going to have its challenges.
I believe that building your own successful online business , no matter the niche can be broken into a specific number of distinct areas of specialty, and in my opinion online businesses may have gone past a one-man show for people just getting in - that is if you’re determined to make it big. The basic idea is that if three or four people can get together, each with some experience or at least a firm grasp of a specific area within that online business niche, it will be easier to get that business off the ground without the usual hiccups.
By running your ideas past other people you suddenly become accountable, something that may have been absent if you were running a one-man show. Another advantage, ( and the reason I am bothering to put this post up ) is that over time each person can get specialized in his own specific area, learning new tips, following trends, building the right relationships, and generally keeping the online business ahead, something that would be an extremely daunting task for a single person.
Most big online businesses who have the money achieve these same goals , most of the time by employing people. If you are just starting out that may not be an option , It may even be outright unadvisable. But the fact that you can’t employ the right people to work for you doesn’t mean you should give up on finding the right people to work WITH you.
How do you find the right people ? How can you determine your own strengths and weaknesses ? Are there some weaknesses you can work on and improve over time ? These are some of the questions that I hope to answer in my subsequent posts. Specifically my next post will apply this idea or principle to the online blogging business, with an estimated 170,000 blogs being started each day, this idea I hope will reduce the number of start-up failures. I’ll break blogging into constituent parts and give ideas on how this synergy can be leveraged to give you an edge.
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Hai Friend,
I went through ur interesting online business BLOG. I am a person interested with the Business, mainly business journalism, as I am doing my course in Journalism.
I hope we can maintain a good relatioship through our blogs. THANX
Abdul Vahi..
http://avvpyd.blogspot.com
Hi Abdul,
I’ll be glad to maintain a goo relationship with you. hope you enjoyed reading my blog. Please keep in touch.
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