I’d like to share with you a scenario that I’ve seen happen to many colleges, and I have also experienced myself. As an entrepreneur bringing your business online, you will find that as in any business, you will be wearing many hats.

These hats could include anything and everything from being a writer, researching keywords, managing outsourcing, and learning the technological end – even if you swore you never would. As this process forms itself into your daily life and activity, you can become isolated. I hear the stories over and over, which I mentioned, I can relate to. The beauty of having an online business is that you can work from home, make you own hours, work in your PJ’s and build a business of your dreams while enjoying your leisure, your family, your life.

SCHREECH! What happened then? Why are you stuck behind your computer, not engaging in activity, often not leaving your home for a day or two…and leisure, what’s that?

I call it the Online Entrepreneur Rut. This rut can leave you feeling down, lacking energy, lost, alone, and questioning your reasons for starting this business.

Here’s how you can avoid that:

Immediately, reach out to build your community, your village, your tribe. Surrounding yourself with the support of others that you can share successes with, support, and can call on in a time of need will make your experience as an Online Entrepreneur a much more rich, fulfilled and satisfying experience. Because you can gain vast knowledge, feedback, creative ideas, it will also help your business flourish more quickly and smoothly.

There are many ways to reach out, join, or build a community. I highly recommend in the process of discovering what will work best for you that you step out, perhaps pushing beyond your comfort zone a bit by meeting people in person – off-line.

By attending various networking meeting, business trainings, weekend events, you will begin to build relationships that can become vital to not only your success, but also to the joy you experience on the journey.

Here are two groups that I have been an active participant in. They are both online and offline. I’ve build some wonderful relationships and alliances with experts that are just plain good people. Feel free to check them out as a place to start. Perhaps you and I will get to meet and network live one day. Hey, you never know.

Helen Rappy’s 30 Day Productivity Challenge: ActionBasedBusiness.com

Jarom Adair’s Internet Marketing for Business Owners: Basic Membership for $1

 

Together we can take the steps to achieving goals and living dreams!

Dance, Move, Live!

Patty Rose

 

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