I will offer you
a different perspective. I like all comments, but somehow, I just can't figure out how, everybody IMPLIES the same thing, BUT none points out what REALLY matters.
I am in business since 1993. I've started my first company in late 1993. I had no previous knowledge or experience in any kind of business. I just wanted to prove to the people around me that it is possible to start a company. If I would be granted somehow to start again, well, I would do THE SAME THING. BUT!!!
Not the same way.
Most people talk about money, expenses, accountant, utilities, but it seems that nobody wants to point out THE REAL THING: Business is NOT about money!!
Again: business is NOT about money!
C'mon guys, admit it! Do you work for money? Don't cheat yourself! You want arguments? I'm sure you don't need, still there is one: How many days off you wasted just to work on building your business? Don't ask me. I don't dare counting the Saturdays and Sundays... Do you think I am sorry? NO! I would do it again. I do it and I will.
Why do we enter business? Because WE BELIVE WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER. Money only comes AFTER. I was so happy when i gor my first $ 0.18 in a month with AdSense, you can't even imagine it! Why? C'mon, let's be realistic, 18 cents in a month it's nothing! NULL!!
What than made me so happy?
It was THE SYSTEM. I found out how to build a site that brings money in. After that, it's a matter of VALUE. Not money, but VALUE. Adding value to your KNOWLEDGE, brings you clients (please, read FRIENDS!) that actually pay! I don't consider a client just a cow that I can milk $ from. Doing so, will throw you somewhere in the hell of the business. Where business is done through guns, bribery, ***, drugs, politics, armies... and you know the rest. WE don't need such kind of business! There is plenty for all of us! Let me point the things differently: Let's say you're on the dark side. You have to wipe out one of your competitors. What type of sweeper do you hire, an amateur (cheap but dangerous) or a PRO (expensive like hell, but SAFE)? So, no matter on what side we are, we ALL need VALUE.
Now, getting tho the mainstream theme... It's not about $ 100, or less, or more! It is not about how much money you invest, BUT HOW MANY RESOURCES!!
IF you invest in yourself, sooner or later, your knowledge will gain enough VALUE to be RECOGNIZED. If I read one of Lynn's posts, I FEEL she is true. Again: ---> I FEEL. And, because I FEEL IT, I KNOW IT. What I feel, is not BS, because it is backed up with my own experience, with the facts I gathered along the path of my life.
And THAT is not BS! I might be unexperienced in many ways, in many aspects of general knowledge, but NOT IN ALL of them. Somewhere inside me, I CAN FEEL, thus I KNOW. If you find the right direction, that is: YOUR NATIVE ABILITIES (Gifts, Divine Grace), than you can FEEL. And YOU KNOW. The next step is to develop that knowledge at such a level that makes it very visible. That moment we usually call “Success”. Sorry guys, it is not so. Edison said it, I'll only quote him: “Genius means 1% inspiration and 99% sweat.”
That is the real reason behind ANY failure. The lack of VALUE and the lack of SWEAT.
You guys pointed very well the reason of many of those who rush into online business: 95% of them, actually belive that is easy-money. (In some ways, it is, but not the way it is usually perceived...) And that means for them, you-do-nothing-and-get-rich-overnight. I never found such a formula. You can get rich overnight, but through other means: stealing an already made fortune. But this path is not for me. And I belive you are here, with Lynn, because WE ALL BELIVE THE SAME.
A final thought: The strange thing is that
KNOWLEDGE, is a real fortune. THE Fortune! Still, nobnody kills nobody for knowledge... Further more, IF WE SHARE IT, THE MORE WE SHARE, THE RICHER WE GET!! Do you want PROOF?
Answer me one question:
Why are you on this forum? For the sake of poverty? The question is obviously retoric. The answer is too obvious. However, if you feel you like answering, please, do so!
In the next article I will try to connect a few things:
Resources and native abilities.