The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow

"At no other time in recent history has it been easier or cheaper to start a new kind of company."

If you are thinking about starting a business, here is an article that might give you some good ideas and some inspiration.

Don't get the idea that we are talking about easy money. This is not "easy" for most people. It is hard work and can be lots of work. What you can learn here is that there is lots of opportunity if you can find it, and you can do it for very little money if you are capable of putting everything together.

The article describes the startup of a web site that would summarize car reviews from other sources and rank every model of new car. The creator put it together himself by contracting for development help through various sites on the web. He is not a developer himself. The article provides links to many sites where you can find contract help.

One of the investors quoted in the article says, '"The biggest problem facing any website is distribution." In a world where it's so easy to start a company, how will anyone find yours?' For participants in our free Internet Marketing Clinics, this sounds like an invitation! That is exactly where the skills and techniques we teach can become a competitive advantage to help make your business one of the successful ones.

One other point made in the article is that the cost of failure is low, and that is important because it means you can try lots of ideas in order to find one that works for you. In other words, you might expect that your effort will not succeed, but that does not mean that it was not worth trying. With a low cost of failure, you can go on to try other ideas which might become successful.

My grandfather always told me, "There's more than one way to skin a cat!" (apologies in advance to cat lovers, I never actually skinned a cat, nor intended to!!) So keep that in mind as you start out on your business venture and be prepared to regroup and start over if it doesn't work out. Successful entrepreneurs often have multiple failures before they hit a success. Keep swinging until you connect with the long ball!

Work from Home Opportunities?

Lots of ads and lots of unsolicited email messages offer opportunities to make big incomes while working from home. Most of these are pure junk, but their sheer volume testifies to the interest in the topic. This article describes what appears to be a real opportunity to work from home in a flexible environment where one can make real money.

As you might expect, it does not offer you a chance to become a millionaire, and it involves real work that is monitored and measured. You can't "put something up on the web and watch the money roll in!", as so many ads seem to offer.

On the other hand, you can get a real opportunity to free yourself from a daily commute, work flexible hours at your own discretion, provide a real service, and collect real pay. The better you are, the more you can work and the more you will make. And, you can review your own performance statistics by which you are evaluated!

If this is of interest to you, read the story behind the link in the title of this posting and look in the article for the name "Dawn Linseman". Her story will give you an example of a real opportunity. Keep in mind the statistic cited in the article, "...the company accepts only about 2 percent of all applicants..." This is a competitive situation, but that reflects the real world, not the imaginary one featured in the compelling ads!

The article describes other sites that feature freelance programmers and other contract services that may be of interest to you, either as an applicant or a consumer. You can list yourself as a resource there, or you can look for the kind of support you may need to start your own business.

I am seeing a lot of articles about how people are starting up their own businesses today specifically because of the downturn and the current job market, and I will b eposting more information about some of these in the future. Keep your eyes on this space for more information!