Are You Afraid To Write An eBook Or Start Your Internet Business?
If so, you’re not alone. Getting started can seem completely overwhelming-there’s so much to learn. And it’s a new vocabulary for many people, especially those who are not tech savvy. In fact, I was speaking to a friend the other day who was asking my advice on starting her own online business because she was feeling overwhelmed.
She had an idea, but very little money and came to me to find out how to get started. I told her where to go where she could build a website for free (www.weebly.com) and how she could start a blog for free (blogger.com or wordpress.org, but I’ve found wordpress a bit daunting for newcomers) and explained to her how to do the research to figure out what she could do differently than everyone else in her niche…and she chose a domain name.
After looking at the competition and seeing that there was a lot of free information in her niche, we decided she should expand her niche. She could offer the original service she wanted to provide as an upsell to coaching on the broader subject. Glad we got that handled!
Then she emailed me. She wasn’t sure about moving forward and she wasn’t sure about the domain name. She was afraid the website would look cheap (I had recommended writing a sales page and getting her own hosting). She wasn’t sure she could do it and she wasn’t sure it would work…..and…..and…..and…..
I guess we didn’t get it handled. But I kept probing and I told her she wasn’t going to like what I had to say, but I let her have it straight. I thought maybe she just wasn’t motivated enough. She didn’t have a big enough “Why?” so I asked her what would it take for her to get motivated.
Did she have to get a roommate, or worse, lose her apartment before she got motivated enough? She wasn’t sure. She said she’d have to think about it.
Then I reminded her that she was used to being taken care of. Her mom had been supplementing her income for years and couldn’t do it any more. But that didn’t mean she was ready to take responsibility and take care of herself financially. So we hashed that out.
Then she said she didn’t know how she was going to get clients and she didn’t feel like she was an expert, and somehow we started talking about what she’d done in the past.
She had been singing for many years at retirement homes and other paying gigs. I asked her how she got started. She said she got a free gig and someone there told her that she shouldn’t do it for free, walked her through what she needed to do to get paid, and the rest as they say was history.
That’s when the light bulb in her head went off and she said she got it; she could move forward. I asked her what made the difference. She said it was familiarity. She said she could relate to that and it made sense to her. I said, “See, you’ve done this before; you can do it again”. She agreed with a sigh of relief!
Getting on the Internet had felt so foreign and unattainable, but when she looked at it as really being no different than what she had done in the past, it became doable and the fear of moving forward just melted away! (Note: if you think it’s the technology holding you back, it may not be the core problem!)
So what it takes is a mind-shift, and if you are having trouble making that shift, I can help. Go to www.localendar.com/public/theebookcoach.com to set up a free 15-minute consult if you’re ready to break through and if you feel that you are coachable. You can also grab my free pdf “How Much Do I Have To Spend To Start An eBook/Internet Business?” a primer on exactly what you need to start making money online, at www.ebookwritingsecrets.com
Ellen Violette, The eBook Coach, (www.theebookcoach.com) is the creator of the Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Program, the eBook Launch Secrets Coaching Program, eBook Profit Marketing Secrets, The Accelerated Wealth Blueprint, eBook Empire Builders, and the Virtual eBook Expo.
She teaches writers, coaches, independent professionals, speakers, and entrepreneurs how to stop trading time for money and create massive passive income online starting with an ebook, and she’ll teach you how to write one in 72 hours or less!
Ellen is a best-selling author in her own right and co-author of Sell More eBooks, Low And No-Cost Tactics To Explode Your eBook Sales & Downloads with Internet Marketing Guru, Jim Edwards.
You can get her other free report: The 1 eBook Solution, on the right side of this blog.