From my new Online Series O-Biz 101.  This is part 1

Desperation:

I understand… You need to create a business just to survive! It’s no longer a matter of “I wish I could work from home so I could be my own boss!” Now it is a matter of “I NEED to work from home so I can keep it and Feed my Family!”

But at this point you don’t have any spare change, let alone money to start a business. What do you do?

Well, the first thing is you take care of your family and basic needs – do whatever it takes, work nights at a grocery store stocking shelves, or flip hamburgers. The bottom line is you have to remember that panic never helped anyone get started in anything, but usually leads to a worse situation.

If you got that basics covered, but things are just looking bleak unless you do something else, then listen up…

You can start a business online for nothing.

Yes, you read that correctly, you indeed can start a business online for no money at all. But be very careful because I did not say that it would be easy. It won’t. It will require time and work, and it will not be an instant fix.

That second part is so important that I am going to repeat all of this from the beginning because I want to make sure you are not being duped by some well wishers or some direct marketing trickery designed to part you from what little money you do have.  Here is the scoop:

• You can start a business online for nothing.
• You will be required to put time and effort into your business.
• It will not be easy, at least not at first.
• You have a lot of learning to do.
• Results will not come instantly, and may take awhile.

But guess what, it can be done and eventually you may get to the place where you are only working online and making a very comfortable living doing it!

I know it can be done because I am doing it.  This very website you are reading this on (Well, if you are reading it on www.AchieveMaster.com) is one of my online presences.  I started this whole endeavor by selling a box of old radio tubes on EBay to earn the money to buy website domains and tools to create my first web presences and start creating products and services for my online business.  You can read about this in one of my earliest posts here: Bootstrapping Your Internet Efforts. If you have an account on Ebay you can sell all of your stuff you don’t use anymore – buy your family some food and perhaps a cheap vacation, and get your mind cleared to start on a new adventure in your own business.

(Incidentally, that article was originally named “Man builds business with Box of Junk!).  Do you think I should have kept the original name?)

The fact is there are many other people doing business online and you are going to face competition as well as the uphill battle of getting known in whatever space you intend to do business in.

So todays lesson is simple: Are you desperate enough to start?  If so, then decide.

That is it – Decide you will start today, even if that is nothing more than picking up a book or magizine or going online and start reading up about what you have to know to start an online business.  But what ever you do… WHATEVER YOU DO… Dont’ Buy Anything!

Learn first!

It’s okay if you go and read some of those slick sales pages designed to hypnotically make you pull out your wallet and send in your credit card number – just give your wallet to your wife or good friend first.  You must first get a lay of the land and learn what is out there, what is working, what is not.

You might want to join a few forums, here is a list of my two favorites – and you don’t even have to post at first, you can read tons of stuff for free, and if you do join, you will get so much information your head will hurt – and that is a good thing!

The Warrior Forum – probably the number one forum online, hands down.

Digital Point Forum – I personally think they are the next best thing to Warriors.

Get some books (real, paper books…at your bookstore or to save money, your public library).

By all Means go to this site here: www.hardtofindseminars.com Michael Senoff is the most generous Internet Marketer online, hands down, period.  He gives away absolute GOLD in audio format.  If you have an MP3 player, download his stuff and use it as a learning course.

Do This Now!

David T. McKee

PS: If you have a PayPal account and seven bucks ($7.00) you can order my electronic library “Marketing Magic Collection I” – a collection of over 250 books, reports, articles, and helps on Marketing, Online presence, SEO, Copywriting, Advertising, self development, etc. all in PDF format.  - But only after you have done the other stuff I told you!  Now get Busy!

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