Patience and Planning
“Oh the first days are the hardest days…” – Grateful Dead
Patience: that is what is needed in the early days.
Patience and planning.
Before you can even start selling online there are a lot of things to learn and a lot of things to do. And if you don’t plan what you are going to do then you’ll be overwhelmed and try to do everything at once and get nowhere fast.
But the good side is that everything will get easier and quicker as you learn more. And that’s where this blog comes in – the aim is to save you time by cutting down on “trial and error” learning. I’m doing that for you 
Researching and learning and setting-up the structures all takes time. A lot of time.
Once you’ve learned how to do something, it’s quick. Learning how to do it isn’t quick.
When you’ve researched what needs to be done, you don’t need to research it all over again, you just get on and do it. That’s quick. Researching takes time though.
Setting up the structure of the business takes time – once it’s there it will function but there’s a lot to be learned and done.
I do forsee that once it is set up and making sales then the ‘internet dream’ of working anywhere for a few hours a day will be possible. But it takes a lot more effort and hours than that to get it built.
And the patience to wait for sales: reading forums it seems that starting a few sales a month after four or five months is a realistic expectation if you keep working to create and promote the products. That’s a lot of work, and patience, before seeing even small returns.
Slow, slow quick quick, slow:
- Doing time: quick
- Learning time: slow
- Thinking and planning: takes time but saves time
- Creating time: well, that may be quick, a flash of inspiration, may be a lot of time completing. There is the old saying about “1% inspiration 99% perspiration” and another that says that “the devil is in the detail”.
Still, once the foundations are laid it and is all set up then I can concentrate on the doing and the creating.
Patience and planning. And just keep on keeping on. And enjoy it!
Hi Syd,
How very true it is, it does indeed take a great deal of pateince and planning to get any business off the ground and i’m sure around 99% of Internet Marketers fail because this stage is just to much effort for them. Persevere and the greater rewards will come our way!
Check out my blog post: http://steve-wilkins.com/succeed-as-if-it-were-on-purpose/
Good luck with the rest of the masterclass Syd.
I look forward to hopefully working with you some time in very near future.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
Thank you for the positive comment.
One of the first things I did when I started the project was a ‘mind map’ analysis of everything I need to learn about, know and do. There is a lot on that sheet of paper!
i also made a month-by-month plan (based on JT’s planetsmsblog post about success) and a weekly planner of my time so that I have time set aside for the project in my week. I am not always able to stick to these plans but at least they give me a structure to work with.
Good luck with your own projects too!
Best wishes
Syd