From tradesman to businessman – you need more goals
by BillStewart on Jun.01, 2009, under Business Opportunity Comments
Your goals should be what you want in your life, not just in your business. Life goals influence your business goals. For example, if you want to have a lifestyle that enables you to have a Ferrari, an Aston Martin, and a Lamborghini in the garage, it’s not likely you can achieve that by exchanging your own time for money, working as an electrician or any other kind of tradesman. That would mean that you have to progress from your trade to doing something else as well, or instead, to achieve your goal.
This shows that your life goals must affect your business goals. Your fundamental decision is to consider what you want to get out of your tradesman business. Here are 6 possibilities for how you might plan your future:
- Do you want to work as a tradesman and make the best possible living from that?
- Do you want to run a trade business and grow it by employing other people to actually do the work?
- Do you want to use your business as a starting point, and perhaps move into property maintenance, property renovation, property development?
- Do you want to support yourself working as a tradesman, to pay your way while you learn something completely new with a view to creating a different kind of business altogether?
- Do you want to support yourself working as a tradesman, and develop another sideline business that overlaps your trade? For instance, there are Multi-Level Marketing businesses which you could join where the products and services could complement your own services and which you could quite reasonably offer to your customers. There are very reputable MLM opportunities which could give you an income to overtake that from your full-time business in just a few years.
- Do you want to support yourself working as a tradesman, and develop another sideline business which is quite separate from your trade business? One example would be internet marketing, which you could work on out of normal business hours without impacting on your regular business.
There is no reason why you should not make decisions that can lead to a wealthy future. If you can work 40 hours as a tradesman and earn a certain amount per hour, then there is a limit to what you can earn through your trade business. If you grow your business by employing others to carry out your trade, or to expand into a related field, then you have the possibility of earning significantly more. If you add on other lines of business through MLM or internet marketing, then there is no limit to what you can earn with a passive income, eventually allowing you to give up the 40 hours and concentrate on living not just working.
August 29th, 2009 on 10:43 am
When you start earning online, you could choose Google Adsense but when time goes on, you could use other programs.
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