10 Good Reasons To Start Your Own Internet Entrepreneurship

Çağdaş Ünal, 03 January 2010 Entrepreneurship

Internet entrepreneurs, the heroes of the new era are realising their projects one by one. Everyday, we read about their success stories and how they spend the million dollars they earn. Giants buy their startups of they become giants themselves. Other entrepreneurs earn money thanks to the services they offer. In fact also we are the member of one or many of those.

Is it a coincidence that successes occupy our lives that much? Of course not. If you are not an internet entrepreneur today, the difference between you and them is only that they have began earlier than you. They have noticed the opportunities much more earlier and worked much more harder. Most of their ideas are not genius but they really are useful.

If you have a normal intelligence, you can find many reasons for not to do a thing. But I don’t care about your excuses. Because today is the day to begin to work for your internet entreprise. Wake up, stand up, the time has come. You have 10 good reasons to start this business.

1. The Market Is Growing

Whereever in the world you may live, connecting to the internet is getting cheaper and easier everyday. The area of usage of the internet is expanding and the number of the internet users is growing very fast. Most of all, the time spent on the internet is increasing. Internet Users are spending more time and money.

Things are going just the way we want them to :). It’s sufficient to have an idea that people could use. Don’t be affraid, there are as many internet users as you need. Do your job, then go and convince them.

2. Technology is cheap

Your job is technology. So most of your expenses in the beginning will be the IT costs. You are lucky, the prices went down with the extension of the usage of technology. You can have useful softwares and equipments for cheaper prices compared to 5 years ago. Besides, you are not the slave of your computer shop as before. You can buy the cheapest computer by searching for it on the internet. Naturally the fast and uninterrupted internet connection you need has also got cheaper.

You don’t have to buy everything. Rent the servers and softwares you need. Or choose open source products for your software needs.

3. You don’t have to work in the office

Don’t bother if you don’t have enough money to have an office. Furthermore, do not spend money if you have some. If you have a new internet entrepreneurship, lowering the costs until you get stabilised is very important. Start small. You don’t need an office but a place to work. Arrange the place you are living for work.

You don’t have to be together with your teammates all the time. You want a new project living on the internet. Then use the communication tools of the internet and others to the end. You can arrange meetings at home or at a coffee shop in the days you determined, if needed you can work together for some hours.

Do you need an official address or someone to pick up the phones? Regus is offering a cyber office service in many countries. Good news! You actually have an office phone number and an address :). You can direct this phone number to any other number or make the Regus representative welcome your phone calls by telling the name of your company. The Regus representative can connect you the callers whereever you are at that time thanks to VoIP. If you are not available at the moment, he will e-mail you the information concerning the missed call. He mails you the cargos arriving to the office and sends cargos in your name.

You can rent a meeting room of one of the offices of Regus and stop by to work some hour in the week. Their offices are generally at the most prestigious buildings in town. You can have a phone number and an adress in Brasil or Poland if you need :). Giants like Google and Microsoft trust in Regus. Give it a try. Of course there are many companies providing the same services but the geographical service area of any of them is as expended as Regus.

4. You Don’t Need Too Much Money

I’m sure you also read the news about the internet startups which are an investment of million dollars. Many among those who want to be an entrepreneur dream about those investments. Wake up of that dream immediately. First of all, those investor don’t invest on people, they invest on projects. The money never ends in your pocket. Besides, investors require more that they have invested in a short while.

Are you going to work for your aims or are you going to search for an investor? You will already have lots of responsabilities and stress. Don’t deal with investors in addition to that.

Think smart, start small and work hard. What can you do with a few people instead of 10 people, in 4 months instead of 8 months, with 5000$ capital instead of 20000$? Can you realize your entrepreneurship while managing your daily jobs that make you earn some money? Can you convince your co-workers to work for a share of the profit instead of a salary? Limited possibilities can make you focus on your main job and success. Think again.

5. You Don’t Have To Be The First Or The Best

Does anybody remember Altavista? Ten years ago, none of us was using Google. Now it is the only thing that comes in mind when speaking of search. And what about Gmail? It disconforted Hotmail and Yahoo while running very fast. Some years ago, you were spending your time at friendship sites or Live Spaces and now you can’t get enough of Facebook. Those are just some popular exemples.

That your idea was used before or that giant companies are master of the sector doesn’t matter. The internet hugged them. Because people tend to use good and useful things. And they loved their job, have done it well and worked hard. You too can do it. There’s enough money on our planet. You don’t have to get it all. Get into the system and take what you deserve ;).

6. A Small Team Would Do It

You don’t need an army, you just need a good and small team that will handle well. Small teams can also realize successful projects. You don’t have to employ someone else for every work. Choose people who have more than one ability, who can work at all phases of the project, in other words, choose people who can wear more than one hat. Like designers who know about marketing, programmer who know about design…

Include everyone to the process. So the departments don’t just live in their small world and do their job like in big companies.

While big companies deal with procedures to realise new ideas, you already get to work with your team. And you can also take better care of your co-workers problems and increase their motivation. All of these things make a team work in the same rythm. Mercedes is beautiful but a Mini Cooper could make you happier.

7. No Need For Sale Experts

Forget about sale experts. It is very important for you to lower your costs. That’s why you shouldn’t build a sale team who tries to sell people things they don’t need. Just produce something people can use or provide a service.

Nobody knows better the internet and your product than your creative team. Get people to contact with the creative team that understands their problems and speak the same language with them. It is more confident and convincing to speak with someone who’s on the ball.

If you can’t trust yourself or your team about this subject, give it a little time… Get to the necessary sorces, read, research, do some little exercises. Anybody who can express himself can sell something.

8. There Are More Varieties For Models Of Income

It has been possible to earn money in different ways as the area of usage of the internet extends. The online publicity sector has grown a lot, the types of publicity have increased, it is now easier to subscribe for publicity programs like Google Adsense.

You can earn money over the publicities you publicate on your website by uploading some codelines. You can publicate publicities by settling with online publicity agencies if you wish or you can rent your publicity areas usind services like BuySellAds. You can develop appropriated publicity models according to your area of service. Think.

You can get commission from the products you advise as the sales partner of shops and services. There are thousands of alternatives, the most prefered ones are Amazon and Ebay.

If you are selling a product or a service, you can get payment from your members. People tend to pay for useful things. Just do something useful, let them trust you and make them happy.

9. It Became Easy To Get Payed

As the area of usage of the internet extends, the usage of payment systems also extended. New technologies have been developped starting by the security matter. In this way, the trust of the users to the online payment systems has been increased.

In these days, you can get your payment by using the cyber pos service of the bank your are working with. If you are not a company or don’t want to struggle with banks, you can use payment systems like Paypal. Paypal and many other payment systems transfer the money you earned to your bank account or send a check to your address.

10. You Can Get On The Road Without Knowing Many Things

You may think that you don’t have enough experience to build your own business. You might not think like that but your entourage might want let you believe this. The system on our planet doesn’t support entrepreneurship and advices you not to leave your job with salary. Who’s going to do the daily work if everybody is a boss? He’s also right :).

Whenever you want to do something new, people object at first. That’s normal. Don’t loose your ambition and desire.

Of course you have the manage your job first to be successful. But that doesn’t require you to know everything. Build a good team, work especially with people who can cover your deficiencies.

Even if you have a quality education, if you read many books before building your business, if you have ten years of professionnal experience… Being a boss and managing are not to be learned in advance. You’ll face unexpected problems when you get on the road. Your family, friends, people you know, teammates, free and paid consultants are for these days. Ask for help. Yes, they might not be helpful forever, then you’ll have to search among your own experiences. Sure, you may make mistakes. But you are not sending astronauts to space. You can learn from your mistakes and go on stronger.

Don’t Wait Anymore

What else do you need to realise your dreams? Today’s circumstances are doing what they can :). Yes, it’s not easy but what is easy? Do something for yourself. Get on the road. Share your questions, experiences and story with me. Don’t forget, this blog is only for internet entrepreneurships and entrepreneurs. Let me tell about you :).

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Author : Çağdaş Ünal

Hello! I'm a freelance web designer who builds useful web sites. Now, I’m working on providing quality and up-to-date content with an ease of use interface at Blogori. You can read my personal blog too, find me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter.