Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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There are two important things needed for being an entrepreneur - time and passion. You have to ask yourself honestly if you have both of these.
"Time" is simple - you gotta be able to spend at least a few hours every week, with the same level of focus and concentration, as you would at your primary job. This is the time in your life you are willing to sacrifice. Imagine this time is gone, never to get back again, all the missed parties, all the missed time with kids, all the missed gaming, movies, music etc etc. Do you really have Time ?
"Passion" is tricky. Passion to make money. Passion to make something that everybody wants and loves. Those are not the passion I am talking about. By "passion" I mean passion to do the steps you will be doing, hour after hour, using the "Time" we talked about, day in and day out, for a prolonged period of time. Do you really have Passion ?
Only if you honestly believe you have both can you consider becoming an entrepreneur. The real difference between an Entrepreneur and a businessman is - one is in it for their passion and the other is in there for success.
Being an Entrepreneur is a way of life. Its a state of mind. Best Entrepreneurs are those who cannot go to sleep at night, but rather keep thinking about the thing they are passionate about. They will sacrifice all the time they can afford in pursuit of that passion. Some manage to convert that passion into successful business, some just enjoy the process their whole life, and in the process discover many other fulfilling things.
If you are able to enter this state of mind and implement this way of life, then you will be ready for the next stage of being an Entrepreneur - A successful Entrepreneur. As in, an Entrepreneur who can convert their passion into a viable business. But thats for later.
I wish I could. I've kind of tried it myself too.
I wouldn't want an e-bike. Exercise doesn't hurt.
Been there; done that. Every one of us has specific skills and interests. Use them. In my case I was good at writing and at electronic circuit design. I designed slightly illegal frequency-conversion kits for CB radios. I got people working at home to assemble them. I got a mail-order shop to sell them. I wrote the instruction sheets and manuals. That was my niche. What's yours?
I also did drop-shipping, but I didn't use any of the companies that advertise this facility. I used warehouses that sold only to the trade and persuaded them to ship direct to my customers without an invoice. The customers paid me in advance. The warehouses invoiced me after 30 days.
I paid a guy to write the website shopping cart software specifically for my business. That way I was able to automate stuff. For example, if a customer ordered, say, product X, the shopping cart would email him/her a link to the web page where the user instructions could be downloaded and to a FAQ page for that or similar products.
And every order acknowledgement email contained offers for my books and other items. Viral marketing.
Which moron doesn't like my attempt to give helpful suggestions? I worked fucking hard to made a living; I didn't get rich.