Dave Kotecki – Road To Freedom

An answer to a forum post on Better Networker

Any Other “Business” Owners Here?
by freemoney on Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:35 pm
It never ceases to amaze me the comments I see in the forum regarding money.

Some people think $1000 (or a couple of dollars short, so we can get the “9″s and “7″s that sell better) is very expensive.

Some people even think $10 a month is way to expensive.

I can tell you as a business owner that these figures are cheap! Just today I paid another $660 dollars in advertising for my offline business – a small ad in just one directory publication.

In the past couple of weeks I shelled out over $1k on a training program for my own education.

If you aren’t making money, them maybe you should look how much you are investing in yourself and your “business.”

We don’t have to buy every product/opportunity that comes our way – but seriously, if that kind of money scares you, you aren’t running a business.

Rant for the day over.

Re: Any Other “Business” Owners Here?
by dkotecki on Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:07 pm

I don’t know the exact number I’ve spent on my business.
It kinda scares me.
I do know that it’s over $75,000 in the past 18 months.
Ouch.

Has it been worth it?
Well, the train has left the station.
Still chugging under full power at low speed.
Momentum is picking up.

I will achieve a profit this year. Yay! 

What have I learned?
Money is just a number, unless you don’t know how you’ll get enough.
It’s critically important, yet is in such abundance that you can always
get more.
Every single person here started a business  to make money, but for some
reason they won’t admit it, and even go so far as to say they didn’t.
You can burn through $100k a year just as fast as $35k a year, and still feel
like you’re not getting anywhere.

I teach people how to own a business, not run it.
If you ever want to have that time on the beach, you’d better start thinking
about how your business will run without you.
Your job is to be the General, not the Captain.
Strategic thinking, developing plans, financing the operation, etc.
The day to day management is best left for your team.

If you don’t learn the difference between being a business owner and
being in business for yourself (self-employed), you’re doomed. You’ll soon find
yourself trying to do everything, achieving nothing, and failing.

You simply can’t do it all yourself.

From AC/DC:
“I tell ya folks, it’s harder than it looks. It’s a long way to the top,
if ya wanna rock n’ roll.”

Rock on, regardless of the cost.
It’ll be worth it.