Useful Insights On Being An Entrepreneur Today

by Jimmy Cox⁽¹⁾
Nicolas Darvas Trading

Some time ago, I was reading a book called The One Minute Millionaire. There's a story there about Paul Hartunian and he sold the Brooklyn Bridge. What happened, they were doing some renovations on the MCG. I got pieces of the MCG, bits of carpet and wood and things like that. I cut it up into little pieces and then sent out a press release: Melbourne Man Sells the MCG for $24.95. I sold little pieces and got picked up by the media. That was my being an entrepreneur. I felt like that was an aha moment.

I continued my search going through looking at different gurus. Then I got interested in the whole internet marketing game. It started off with direct mail but then shifted over into small business internet marketing. I really saw that was the way forward. The internet is where it's at when it comes to business. We've done a lot of offline business. We used to have a clothing store called Planet 13, it sold punk metal, gothic and rock and roll clothing, the triple stud belts and Rolling Stone t-shirts and that type of thing.

We were on Flinders Street, we had a store there. We had a store in some shopping centres and that business vehicle, when you compare it to online, it's just worlds apart. We had $11,000 rent just to start per month for our city store. Then you've got wages, then all the other expenses that come on top of that. When you compare that to internet business opportunities, it's just like chalk and cheese. The benefits of doing online business are so great. It plugs into existing business as well. So if you've already got that existing business, adding that on could potentially be one of the most profitable things that you do.

For what we did for Planet 13 now, we've shifted and it's completely, one hundred percent online. It was and still is, the strongest performing component of our business. We get the best return on our investment by what it is that we market online.

So after going through different workshops and things like that, it's very easy once you first start learning this material, it can get a little bit addictive, just learning that information. You feel like you're progressing forward because you're learning. You can see our Gotowebinar review for some cool ideas related to this. Going back, once the rubber hits the road is where you start taking this material and then start applying it in your own business. There needs to be a point where you just say, enough is enough.

I had attended all of these different workshops that would help on being an entrepreneur. I started to get a little bit frustrated. Any internet entrepreneur gets this. It's almost like you're digging a whole lot of holes, little holes. If you imagine a big field and you're digging all of these little holes trying to find gold but you never go very deep in any hole. So you've just got tons of these little different opportunities that you've tried but you've never really taken one thing and just worked really hard at that one thing and made that successful.

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Article submitted Thursday, December 29, 2011 & read 17 times.

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