By Elaine Currie
Starting an Internet business can be a
life changing experience. Whether the change is for the better or
the worse, depends upon you making the right choices when you are
first considering the idea of starting an Internet business. If you
start an Internet business that is wrong for you, it will very
likely be a miserable experience right from the beginning and
swiftly end in failure. Before you even take the first step towards
starting an Internet business, long before you start thinking about
domain names and design, you should think about your personality
type and decide whether starting an Internet business is really the
right direction for you to take.
Are you the type of person
who is happiest working alone and gets so involved in work that
hours fly by without you noticing? If so, you have definite hermit
tendencies. maybe you are more the type of person who works with one
eye trained on the clock because you don't want to miss a second of
the coffee-break gossip. If this sounds more like you, you are of
the party animal persuasion. Of course these are broad stereotypes
and most people will fall somewhere in between, having attributes of
both types. Just decide which type comes closest to describing you
before you go any further with starting an Internet
business.
To be a successful Internet business owner you need
to be the type of person who can work happily without supervision in
complete isolation for long hours - does that sound grim to you?
Actually it is not as bad as it sounds. You won't have to work long
hours forever but, when you are first starting an Internet business,
you will most likely need to put in some extra hours. You will need
those extra hours because there will be a learning curve to work
through while everything is new to you. You will speed up as things
become familiar and you settle into a routine. If you have
pronounced hermit tendencies, you won't even notice the time
passing.
If you need the input of other people to feel
comfortable in your work or if the social side of your working life
is of paramount importance to you, starting an Internet business
might not be a good idea for you at all. If you know deep down that
you need human interaction to be happy, you would be far better to
forget the idea of starting an Internet business. If your
personality is more suited to an occupation which would bring you
into face to face contact with your customers, an offline business
would be a much better idea.
Starting an Internet business
could work out very well for you if you are balanced somewhere
between both types of character. If you are the type of person who
enjoys the company of other people but can work happily on your own,
starting an Internet business could work out well for you. If you
have characteristics of both the hermit and the party animal, you
might find it a bit of a struggle to cope with working online at
first. However, once you are through the learning curve, you could
be very happy to live the solitary life of an internet business
owner on a part time basis. Working part-time on the Internet means
you will still have time to indulge the party animal side of your
character.
Find safe work at home opportunities at http://www.HuntingVenus.com or visit Elaine
Currie at http://www.elainecurrie.com/workathome
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