10 1/2 Reasons To Start A (New) Part-Time Business in 2015 (And 3 Reasons Why You SHOULDN'T)

10 1/2 Reasons To Start A (New) Part-Time Business in 2015

10. You can't sell your job no matter how much you love it.  You can either exchange time for dollars at a job and never seem to have enough of either, or do work once and get paid over and over again for it.  Think about it: Will Smith is still collecting checks from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air". What will you get paid when you quit your job?

9. Find a creative outlet to do what you do best. Everyone was created to do something extraordinary for the world to see. More than likely, that something extraordinary isn't going to be during the hours of clocking in and clocking out of work.  Building a business gives you TIME freedom--the time to do something meaningful for others that only you can offer.

8. Face your fears. If you don't have a business at least part-time yet, it's probably because you've asked yourself "what if it fails?".  First off, yeah it might.  But that's okay, because life will move on, you can dust yourself off, get up, and start a new one because you now have all the experience from that failure.  Second off, what if it doesn't?  What if your business is a massive success and you can quit your job and build a massive organization that runs on its own?  Don't just face your fear of failure.  Face your fear of massive success too.  You deserve to be an immense success.

7. Invest in the highest return thing possible: yourself.  Your business only grows to the size of you.  Become a factor for constant growth and failure isn't an option.

6. Take responsibility for your future instead of expecting handouts.  When you have a job, you have 1 client: your boss.  And they have the power to fire you at will.  When you have a business, you have many clients.  Even if one fires you, you'll have plenty more to keep you in business.  Plus, I don't think the magical imaginary thing we call social security and 401ks need to be mentioned here.

5. Passive/residual income.  The wealthiest people in the world build assets that give them a source of income on autopilot.  That way they can work when they choose, where they choose, how they choose, and not worry about not getting paid.

4. It takes 5-10 hours/week.  As soon as you start a business, the race is on.  It's a matter of how fast can you generate the income needed to make it worth your time.  If your aiming to replace your working income, then you'll need to learn how to produce as much in 5-10 hours/week as you do in 40 hours/week.  Which of course means that by then you'll have doubled your income and could leave your job whenever you want.

3. Learn sales and marketing.  Sales and marketing is nothing more than answering "how can as many people as possible understand that what I have is of value to them?"  Sales and marketing is nothing more than communicating.  The more people you talk to and the better you learn to communicate to them, the more business you'll have.

2. You can get started for as little as $300.  Even if you have a dream of opening up your own restaurant and need $100,000 to get it started, you could start a part-time home-based business and take the profits from there to store up so you can invest in your restaurant idea.  The wealthiest people in the world build businesses and use those profits to build more businesses.

1. Opportunity is everywhere.  When you look past the whole politics, economy, media mumbo jumbo, you'll see that opportunity is everywhere.  All you have to do is take what you're passionate about, find a niche group of people in need of a solution, and the courage to learn the skills needed to serve them.

1/2. Give more.  Who wouldn't love to feed all the starving kids in the world or find a cure for cancer or build a shelter for abused women?  Money has two purposes: pay for the stuff you need, and pay for the stuff you want.  Nothing is stopping you from making more money than you need so you can give it all away to the causes that touch your heart.

3 Reasons Why You SHOULDN'T Start a Business

3. You're already juggling one or more businesses and need to focus more on those.  In that case, keep it up!  2015 is your year!

2. You'd rather try see a return on investment for your Netflix and cable bill. Um...

1. You'd rather listen to the excuses your fears are telling you and fold to the opinions of others.  In that case, definitely do not start a business.

E-mail me at thatninjamark@yahoo.com if you'd like to discuss how you can launch a new part-time business in just 90 days!!