Keep it up x

BTW How many hours would you say you put in per week on your business to earn the income you earn?

Great article!

As a work at home mother, I have often found myself angered with “how to” posts on business start ups – as a been there done that mentality – I find most people create guides telling others how to do something they have never done.

It is easy to read from your post that your speaking from experience, it is shares like this that are appreciated the most.

Amazing that you never had to take a full time job, but yes finding a balance between any job requirements in order to make a living and growing a business is key. It’s not easy by any stretch of the imagination but it is possible and you’ve proven it can be done. Great job!

As you pointed out, there’s a lot of power in knowing the work to be done — including the sequence of tasks. In the project management world, this is the work breakdown structure (WBS). If you make something a project and break down the work, it’s your best move for figuring out your risks, the right people, the right moves, the right bottlenecks … etc.

I myself have been jumping from opportunity to opportunity, usually not finishing any of them.

Now I want to concentrate on a major project, for which a development budget of about $50,000 is needed, but cash flow is limited to 0. Your article helped me realize that I may need to spend some time working on some of those small projects first, to generate some form of income, while trying to get the parts of my big project, that will generate a cash flow, up and running myself, or with “cheap” help.

A friend of mine pointed me to the fact that, in fact, I’m already a millionaire, taking my knowledge and experience into account. I now only have to do what I do best, to translate that into real cash. And that, I and I alone can do!

I decided to reanimate one of my blogs with better response average, Exploring Suriname.

Wish me luck, and thanks for the great article. Look forward to me as a subscriber, and to a post in my blog about this site/article.

It’s always just as inspirational as it is helpful to get these kind of tips.

I reached the six-figure mark with my blogs and websites this year, and I’m kind of shocked that I’m still doing all my own writing. I’ve hired folks, of course, to redesign my sites and install techy doohickeys and such, but I’ve been reluctant to give up content creation.

I’ve finally decided that rather than worrying whether to invest my money in stocks, commodities, real estate, or what, it’d make the most sense to funnel it back into my sites, by hiring writers to blog for me and expand the amount of content being produced every day. I’ll still produce content, since writing has always been my passion (much more so than business!), but outsourcing to double or triple the amount of content my already profitable sites put out is going to be my main goal for 2009, and I’m looking forward to seeing where this can get me.

Thanks for all the business-minded posts, as they help get me thinking in that direction.

Thanks for all your great information. I’ve recommended your stuff on my blog.

Alan

I’m at the start of my blogging journey, but I have a vision in mind that I’m determined to achieve. I hope to one day have little involvement in my current business (day job) and focus on blogging and consulting. Articles like this help me to see that it’s possible.

I agree outsourcing items is very important and will help you be more successful in the long run. Currently I am focusing on the cash flow and then once it hits a certain level will begin outsourcing a few items.

Thanks
Stefanie

The idea of being my own boss sounded great, because everything would be under my control. I make what I put in instead of some “lucrative” salary. And an online business really offered the type of flexbility and lifestyle I enjoyed.

This is a really good post, and it hit the nail on so many aspects on starting a new business. Yaro, where abouts are you in Australia? I live in Melbourne.