Setting the Record Straight
As a senior or retiree, you may have heard a lot of myths about online business that are simply not true. We want to set the record straight for you, so you know what is fact, and what is fiction. These myths can prevent you from starting an online business altogether or send you down the wrong track.
You need to be a Technical Genius
Some people think that you need to be some kind of technical guru with computers to start and run a successful online business. This is total nonsense. There are plenty of examples of successful online business owners that do not have a clue about how websites work or how the Internet works and couldn’t care less.
Do you know how electricity works? How about the telephone, do you know how that works? What about the internal combustion engine – are you an expert in the technical workings of this? The point we are making here is that you have used these things all of your life whether you knew how they worked or not.
When the Internet first started to gather pace in the mid 1990s you needed to know how HTML code worked to create a website. These days everything is very easy, and you don’t need to know anything about the workings. It is just a matter of “dragging and dropping” or clicking a few buttons to create a website.
Never think that you need to know how everything works to be successful online. There are plenty of resources available online if you want to learn how the Internet works and websites if you are interested. If you want to do something that requires technical expertise you can always find people that will do the work for you.
Push Button Miracles
There is a belief that it is possible to make a huge amount of money following some method and pushing a few buttons. Many vendors peddle this garbage to unsuspecting people and make money from products that promise these miracles.
If it was as easy as pushing a few buttons to make money online then everyone would be doing it. Wild claims of instant traffic and instant commissions are just totally untrue. You are bound to come across some of these shiny objects that promise you the world for a few bucks. Steer well clear of them all.
You can work for one hour a day
This is another dream that the push button miracle crowd will try and sell you. They know that most people are lazy and want to live the dream by only working less than an hour a day to make all of the money that they want.
You will need to put in some time, effort and money to establish your online business. Once it is up and running then you can ease back on this if you want to. It may be possible for you to only work an hour a day after that but most successful online business owners will spend more time than this.
It is too Competitive
There are certainly a lot of online businesses out there and there is a lot of competition in some niches, but there is always room for you and your online business. You need to be committed and focus on driving traffic to your online business.Â
When you do this, you have as much chance of success as anyone that is currently doing something similar to you. You just keep doing it, find a plan and work the plan.
