Once you come to the Internet and consider making money here, you should answer a question whether you want to just make a few hundred or thousand dollars on top of your salary or whether you want to start your own business with everything it brings along and make money you imagine.
If your decision is your business, then you should also consider co-operation in creating your business plan.
Because business is about co-operation. And that is what we are going to talk about now. There are many forms of co- operation but what you should first be interested in is not so much forms of it but the quality. And here we come to the point.
You cannot build a business alone – you need customers and you need partners as the fundamental elements. As I am watching the activities of the vast majority of people thriving to make money on the Net, it is obvious that they do not at all pay any attention to the quality co-operation.
The Internet offers literally hundreds of ‘opportunities’ to join. However, if you decided to build a business of your own, most of them are not opportunities at all because you build a business of someone else’s, not yours.
What is a good, quality co-operation? It helps to build business to all of the involved parties in a balanced way. This kind of co-operation is very rare of the Net.
You have four possibilities when you start:
1) you start a co-operation with an individual or a company that also starts, and when you unite, you can move faster ahead – it could be a balanced, fair way to do things but slow
2) you build someone else’s business, and your business does not grow or it even works against it. This sort of co-operation stops you from building your own business – unacceptable
3) you find an established partner willing to help you – ideal. His business will still grow. It is possible to find.
4) you build someone else’s business but your business grows at the same time – acceptable
The second possibility is the way it mostly works on the Net. You meet a ‘clever’ company or an individual offering an opportunity but in fact it is their ‘clever’ form of co-operation, and you only build their business, not yours at all and consequently, you cannot make money.
Look carefully into every opportunity you are offered to see what is behind and to know to what extent it can help you to expand your business.
It is essential that you know exactly what you can accept because when you start, you are not able to offer a quality co-operation on your side and in fact, you need someone to help you. At that moment, you have to accept a co-operation that is unbalanced or even very unfair for you but still can help you to grow – the possibility number 4.
However, you have to know exactly what you expect and also, you have to be fully aware of the features and benefits of such a co-operation because as soon as it stops you from growing, you have to leave it.
You have to watch your progress constantly. Internet moves so fast that you cannot afford to stand still, not even to stop and you cannot afford to build someone else’s business at your expense. It costs you money in any case. Even if you do not pay for anything, you paid for your computer, you pay for your Internet access, energies and the main thing: you pay with the currency most valued – your time. You can make as much money as you imagine, even more but you cannot make more time.
As you grow, you can offer more and more quality co-operation and expect and require the same from your partners.
Be strict in this. Follow the example of big companies and banks: they fight for every cent, they count every penny and insist on every penny. They would not do anything if they do not profit on it. And you shouldn’t?
I cannot see why. Remember that like an ocean is formed of single drops of water, every big money is formed of individual pennies: take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
So, once you decide to build YOUR OWN business, you should look for a co-operation that enables you to build your own business.
However, there is one more catch in it:
You can even find the ideal co-operation but you have to watch two vital aspects: before you enter the co-operation, read carefully the agreement, and when you decide that all is acceptable for you, stick to all the rules required. And also, watch your partner to stick to his the same strictly and do not be afraid of requiring it. When you are a hundred per cent sure you fulfil everything on your side, require the same from your partner.
Sometimes it happens that you find an ideal co-operation, you fulfil your part but your partner does not fulfil his. He is either too busy or just tests what you can endure or has incompetent employees – the most cases or just pretends to offer this sort of co-operation. In such circumstances, even this co-operation turns against you, and you will only build his business again.
Do not expect to meet a Santa Clause. Everyone is strictly watching his business, and even offering blue skies to you, his own business is on his mind only. You have to behave the same way if you want to succeed.
Again, the same rule applies here: discipline. Watch closely:
1) what you want it to bring you
2) what it brings you in reality
3) what you are expected to do and do it
4) what your partner is expected to do and whether he has done it
5) the moment it stops helping you grow, leave it. (Every day you need to progress.)
Only this way you can steadily move forward, nearer to your goals. But it means that all the time, at every step you do, you know exactly what you are doing and why and what you want. Only your exact business plan can be the right guideline.
Stop now for a moment and think: if you are chaotically chasing someone or something that will give you money for nothing, leave it and start to work systematically.
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