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Starting an Online Business – Attitude is Crucial!

Nathan Moller, Moller Marketing

Why is having a positive attitude crucial to your business success?
Is a positive attitude enough?
Where can “fear of failure” take you?

If you are considering starting an online business, it’s important to address these questions. So many businesses come and go, the question is “Why?” Is it that their attitude was negative? Were they afraid of failing, which ultimately caused their business failure?

Read this short case study of a new business owner:

Nate,

I just went out and got 6 local businesses to let me look at their websites and make recommendations…Nate when I started I was shaking in my shoes! By the end of my trip down main street with my 6 yes and 2 no’s, I was singing!! I gave out my business cards to everyone and I now remember how good all this feels!!

Thanks again, I’ll keep you posted!

What can we learn from this example? How can it relate to YOUR BUSINESS?

In order to see success in any endeavor, you have to learn to not let fear hold you back. “Fear is the antithesis of faith.” Faith is confidence; confidence is key. The only way to gain confidence is by making a few mistakes, learning from them, making adjustments, and then taking the “bull by the horns” and making it happen.

Think about Michael Jordan – if he would have given up after being cut as a sophomore basketball player, where would he be now? When Tiger Wood’s doesn’t win a golf championship, does he give up and quit? Failure will come to everyone – it’s how we choose to deal with the failure that sets successful people apart.

Think about these quotes:
“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather

As you can see by the case study, the new business owner was “shaking in her shoes”. Like all of us when we do something new, she was nervous – afraid of the unknown. What were people going to think? What if they said no? My answer to those questions…WHO CARES! Nike’s “Just Do It!” slogan is so fitting for online business owners. You just have to step out, take a risk, and EXPECT SUCCESS! Having a positive attitude, in and of itself, will not pay the bills – you have to TAKE ACTION and DO!

Nathan Moller has helped hundreds of people start an online business and market it effectively online.  He has seen first hand how attitude and confidence can help take people to places they never even dreamed of.     Visit Nathan’s business blog today at http://MollerMarketing.com.

Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 am and is filed under Business, Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.