Many consider business on line but so often they find it hard to move forward becasue it isn’t really clear
how you should start unless you are already on line youself or working with someone who is online. This can be a real show stopper for many people when they really do have the potential to make it big in their own niche business opportunity.
I was out last night at a business party in Copenhagen, Denmark, it was quite hard for me to network and I didn’t really have anythign in mind when I arrived. I am a qualified person and Quality Assurance Manager for a pharmaceutical company, but I also have a residual income from my on line businesses. The party was with the Pharmaceutical company so I was just there looking to have fun.
At the end of the night though feeling tired and ready to go to sleep, because I thought I should, so I could make my flight at 9 am the next day I got talking to one of my team from the event. He is working in a manual job after a period of being out of work. I didn’t really think much about his role at first, he’s young, then again most people seem young to me these days, so I thought he was just starting out. I spoke to him for about an hour about hsi background and of course business.
It turned out he has 2 degrees, his first in business and his second as an Architect. Now to me that is someone going places who with the right impetus can make it big. Why I thought as I sat there are you doing a minimum wage manual job in my company then on a temporary contract basis. Me being me I was interested in his story so I asked a series of open questions. By the way I’m a trained auditor so questioning techniques are something I really do know a lot about.
I found out he and his best friend had made some money already while in college simply travelling to Germany buying soda at 50 to 66% off (his words) and selling them to his “friends” back in university. Now here’s an entrapreneur I thought so why isn’t he making money on line. As I dug deeper I began to realise he simply didn’t know how. I found out he had taken the job because he had been out of work for 8 months so had taken on a couple of contract jobs in a row to get some money coming in rather than none, one of them was even designing a web site for a sole trader like me. All along the way throughout the discussion I was still thinking this guy could be going somewhere, should I offer to help him in business on line.
When he told me he was just doing the job for 7 months and waiting to see how it goes alarm bells started to ring for me. I asked him several different ways about his plans for his future and I could see he just didn’t have any, not a single goal to his name. It struck me then that he was a well qualified graduate going nowhere in a dead end labouring job. It’s a shame because he could have so much more.
I have decided this morning as I prepare to fly back to the UK, I’ve been awake since 4:30 am how rediculous, that its time I dedicated my business blog to helping people to lear how to do business on line. The opportunities are there, the guy I was talking to last night had some excellent ideas and even others to work with and make them happen. What he was missing was a leader, a mentor who can help him overcome his lack of motivation by showing him how easily he could start testing his ideas on line.
Business on line, starts just like every opportunity we take, with the first step.
