You may have the best idea in the world for a website - except you will never make money with it because you’re just sitting on it. Either that or you developed it but then decided to stop marketing it. The fact is you’re lazy. You have all these great ideas and you’re not doing any single damn thing with them… other than parking the domain.
That’s my problem anyway. That’s why I’m working a 9-5 and not out there doing what I want to be doing. Now, don’t get me wrong, I pretty much love my job/people I work with… But no one ever got rich working for someone else.
The hardest part about making money online is the follow through.
There are hundreds of thousands of ways to make money online so I’m not even going to get into that. I have made a little, a paltry sum for the amount of ideas I have yet to make happen. You just need to get out there and make them happen. You need to stop getting hung up on the ideas that fail - let them go for now come back when you can - it was/is a great idea just needs more baking… cast a wide net, produce 20 ideas and hope that 2 or 3 start bringing home the bacon. Then wash, rinse, repeat.
If you are sitting around waiting for someone to do the leg work for you, you’re an idiot. Get out there and make your ideas happen, someone else isn’t going to do it for you… but even if you do get some sap to be your partner and do all the leg work - he’s taking half of YOUR money that came from YOUR great idea. It’s far more fun to split $1 one way.
Responses to “Your great idea means nothing, idiot”
January 15th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Nice stuff - Good some advice.
Sometimes we all need a good kick up the backside and just get out there and do it. The secret is to break up your goals into small attainable steps and achieve them 1 by 1 - Stop bloody procrastinating!
Think I might just do that…
Maybe tomorrow?
January 15th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I’m with you on this one. I have a ton of ideas myself.
The hardest part for me - when it comes to following through - is maintaining the energy. Working fulltime, spending ample time with the wife and kids, getting sleep and maintain sanity gets pretty tricky after awhile.
That said, if you keep chopping away and reaching little goals things happen.
-Corey
January 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
My favorite post thus far of 2008. That’s the advice I give out to everyone that asks “well how do I get started online?”
Just do it. If you fuck it all up, do it again. Once they get to the do it step, they get some real help.
PS - I’ve still got you on my to do list for that other thing, trying to find some spare time