Hello, This question is directed towards people that actually OWN their own legit business. How did you first get started? Were you holding down a job when you started your business? See, I'm having some issues trying to find enough time to run my business and work as a Systems Administrator at the same time. I finally decided to cut my hours at work, but I can only cut them by 5 hours a week in order to keep my health insurance. I was just wondering if anyone else was in this situation, but wanted more time to grow their business? How did you make the transition to working for somebody else to working for yourself?
Years ago before I moved into a FT business owner I worked doubles. 7am till around 5pm M-F at my real job, then I worked from 7pm-2pm each night on my start up. After a couple years I was pulling double my day jobs income, so I quit, and moved on. Frankly unless you have the money to take the time off, your just going to have to get less sleep for a while.
I used to work for my own biz at night after working hour. After i found out that my own biz can earn more than full time job. I leave the job and concentrate on my own biz.
Unfortunately, not all planets can align in order to give you the amount of time you really need to start your business. You have to be a master at multi-tasking and be so devoted that you don't mind working two jobs, living on 4 hours of sleep a night and not having any days off for months. I worked constantly at my own business while holding down a job as a trader at a brokerage firm for nine months before I had enough clients in my business to allow me to concentrate on it full time. It was exhausting, at times discouraging, took a toll on all my relationships and gave me new wrinkles...but it was so worth it
Found a need based on what I wanted, which with research showed what others needed and filled it at a suitable time.
Starting own business need lot of time and money. If you can spare both, you should start your own business as there is nothing like own business.
it was all of sudden. The idea appeared from nowhere, I just picked it up and everything went extremely smooth
I started my business out of necessity. The company I used to work decided one day that they were going to shut down without any notice to any of its people. No backpay, no severance pay nothing. Afterwards,I got this brilliant idea to get together with all of the webdesigners, graphic designers, programmers, writers and whoever else and start our own company. We all planned on doing this company during our spare time but ater 3 months it became a full time job for all of us. The best part about it is that we became succesful(as we can feed our families and still put back money in our savings account) after just a few months and spent nothing on advertisment. All we did was SEO, social network marketing and actively acquiring clients from places like free ads websitesm getafreelancer.com and places like that.
I've found the best way for me to start a business was to find an easily scalable idea. The idea is the more time you put into it, the more money you make, and of course the inverse is true. This allows you to fill up your free time, but not overwhelm yourself until you're ready to wean yourself off the 9-5. What this means in practical use is that you might be better of doing something like selling items online than trying to open a brick and mortar store which has to be staffed constantly.