Years ago when my ex and I first got married we both lost our jobs and our of necessity started our own business. Since the divorce, I have continued to have my own business and going to share reasons to own and operate your own business.
Freedom would be my first reason as being owner and operator you get to be that boss (the person everyone hates). You get to wear many, many hats and if like me learned a lot the hard way but I would not change a thing. You do have to find the balance in work/life and that can be hard sometimes when you are trying to build your business.
As I have gotten older, I have narrowed down my business plan to working with my traffic exchanges, mailers and doing affiliate marketing. It’s funny how in this online world there are still people that think they know how you should run your business and like to make it public or let you know you are doing this wrong and that wrong.
Another reason that I enjoy having my own business, what most don’t realize is that this is “MY” business to run as I see fit – that is what I love about this country that gives us this privilege. There are going to be times that people don’t agree with how I run things but it is still me that pays the bills, put in the hours, and does all the work behind the scenes and bend over backwards to make you all happy.
When others like to give their opinions that is just what it is their opinion and should not be put out there as guidelines or “rules” as to how the business is run because they are not a partner nor do they pay any of the bills that go along with your business.
That is another reason that I love having and running my own business – I am proud of my online business, I work very hard in my online business and believe that I offer great services. Over the years, I have developed many, many friends and customers and I do bend over backwards to help them and would not trade that for anything.
You know it’s funny as the more competition happens in all business these days it sure seems the more some like to try and dictate how things should be. Having been around the small ma and pa businesses for over 30 years now, I have learned that you just can’t beat old-fashion service. You have to learn to keep your emotions under control no matter how pissed you get, how over the coals someone want to rake you, and think about what is best for the business. You are NEVER going to make everyone happy, your are NEVER going to have everyone agree with decisions you make – but you do have that right to make them.
Does it get hard at times yes it does but I sure would not trade it as the rewards out weigh the bad – the satisfaction you get from helping others, the pride you get from seeing what you created work and people that love your business. One of the best thank yous that a business owner can get is seeing someone else promote them and for all the pages that I have seen – I would like to say thank you, thank you, thank you.
And the most important reason would be YOU, I really do appreciate all of you putting up with me as I know I come up with some pretty Zaney ideas sometimes and I do love the feedback – good or bad – we keep growing the business together. AND as always you can Skype me @ nancyradlinger leave me a message in support – I do answer all my messages.