It’s Tough & Rough Being an Internet Entrepreneur
Can you believe it: the internet recently passed the 100 million page mark. That’s amazing. Personally, I’m proud to be a part of such an evolutionary time that we’re going through. The internet is changing our lives and helping us to do things never before possible.
Many of us young entrepreneurs have ventures focused around the internet. It only makes sense that we work with that we know best, the net. But how well do we really know the net? All too many times, entrepreneurs will decide to start something on the net because –in their minds — they believe that it’s the super easy way to make cash.
Not true.
Sure, the internet allows for us to explore the opportunity to create a successful online venture, but it’s never a surefire deal that you’ll succeed. It’s never that easy. Many entrepreneurs are looking through a cloudy lens of false reality right now.
Many of us are thinking:
- “I don’t need to know anything about building websites because of systems such as Wordpress.”
- I don’t need to know how to come up with creative designs because I can just download a template.”
- I don’t need to know anything about servers because I can hire someone to maintain my system.”
- I don’t need to know how to write web copy because I can just hire writers.”
- Hmm… I don’t really need to know anything.”
- “All I need is an idea!”
Sure, in theory, you’d be correct.
But when push comes to shove, you will need to know about all of these aspects of running an internet business. I strongly believe that you’ll even have to be on an intermediate/expert level with at least one or two of them.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m on the internet to stay. I’ll always, always be here working on various ventures. But after 3 years of trial and error, failures and success, I have come to understand that the ones who really make it big on the internet are not just the idea generators, but the technical people who know how to implement and execute.
