Confused About Ebiz? You’re Stuck in Analysis Paralysis
written by Chris Malta
If you’re starting or running your own home-based online business and you’re confused and frustrated, and don’t know which way to turn for real answers, you’re not alone. There’s so much information coming at you from so many directions! Product choices, store platforms, social marketing, merchant accounts, search engine optimization… where does it all end? How do you make sense of it all?
Well, the first thing you need to know is that it’s normal. If you’re not confused, you’re not an Entrepreneur. Confusion is the natural state of a small business owner. The second thing you need to know is how to get through it.
I’ve started and run many businesses in my 35 year Entrepreneurial career. Yes, it gets much easier along the way, but there is always an element of confusion when you venture into a new field. You can’t help it; that’s just the way it is. Nobody’s born knowing this stuff.
The most important thing you can do for yourself and your business is to take things one step at a time. An online business is made up of four basic things:
• Get Legal
• Find a Product to Sell
• Pick a Storefront
• Market the Business
Of course, within and in between those simple sounding steps are hundreds of little things that need to be done and learned. Meeting and working with people who are already running online businesses is critical to your success. I know a lot of people who have done really well online and made lots of money. None of them did it in a hurry, and all of them sought help from trusted, experienced people in the business community.
Working by yourself in a vacuum is the hardest way to do this, and the quickest way to get confused, frustrated, and end up wasting your time and effort. In most cases, your friends won’t understand what you’re trying to do, and your family will worry about what you’re trying to do.
The first time I left a high-paying job behind to strike out on my own in a business that I started, I didn’t hear the end of it until my business started making more money than my job had! Trying to do this alone is also the best way to get caught up in the thousands of online scams out there. Professional scammers are predators, and they just love to find their prey separated from the safety of the flock!
So slow down, take things one step at a time, concentrate on one part of your business at a time, and seek out someone who can help you.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
About the Author - Chris Malta has been an Entrepreneur for 35 years. He’s the Founder and CEO of WorldwideBrands.com, an EBiz Radio Talk Show Host, a published EBiz Author, Contributing Editor to eBay Radio, and the creator of dozens of instructional EBiz videos and free EBooks. His company is recognized as the best in it’s field by businesses including eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Intuit, UPS and many others. Chris Malta personally Trains and Mentors new EBiz owners through his Personal EBiz Workshops at http://www.ChrisMalta.com/Workshops. Chris is a well-known crusader against internet business scams. Save yourself a tremendous amount of money in your online business - get Chris Malta’s FREE EBiz Scam Report now at http://www.ChrisMalta.com.
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