Patience is one of the keys to success for business owners

[lishiguang]

Patience is the key to success to people who are starting their own business, or business owners themselves. It is true that time is your constant companion but never works at the paste at which you'd like.

The people who are starting their own business often gets frustrated because they want things happen now as they had planned. However, rushing never helps.

For example, you just started your own website, and you spend hundreds of dollars advertising your website. But you are missing the main point - the quality of content on your website, or the quality of products you carry. Your prospects visit your website and leave shortly after. If you run a blog, your visitors need to see things that can turn into values into their lives. If you are selling your products you need to convince your prospects so they can become customers. You might carry great products but that's not enough to convince your prospects. Adding quality content such as "live demo", or gather "testimonials" should be your primary focus before focusing on marketing. You need patience for people to spread postive feedbacks about your products. You need patience to find the right employees.

Your thoughts:

[lishiguang]

Previously I have talked about patience and how important patience is for people to succeed in their business journey. Gary Veynerchuk gave a keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. In his speech he talks about the importance of PP - Patience and Passion.

The quickest way to become financial worry-free, no doubt, is by running a business, online or offline. However, starting a business is not easy. In reality, normally you can't just quit everything and doing something you love due to the financial constrains.

Gary talks about the key aspects, concepts to a successful business. You need passion. If you business is not something you love to do everyday for the rest of your life, stop now.

He also talks about time, which also implies patience. If you have a full time job and are unable to quit the job to focus completely on your business, your passion. Don't worry. We all got plenty of time! It all depends on how you manage your time. If you have the patience, your time to succeed will come

Look for "Web 2.0 Expo NTY: Gary Veynerchuk" on Youtube and you'll find the video. Very inspiring.

[Brian Turner]

Hmm: "financial worry-free"

Does the term exist?

I've spent a lot of time worrying about different aspects of my business - noting issues I need to address to help cement its long-term viability. I'm doing well, but I wouldn't at all claim there's anything "worry free" about running a successful business!

[DavidToohey]

With Brian on this one... and when it comes to "quickest way to become financial worry-free", I doubt it involves running any business. Much more likely to be in employment.

Interesting to start off talking about patience, then to launch into business being quick, then back into patience again!

[paulrb]

................................................ ..............nice info

[Peter Bowen]

I think impatience is a better trait. It drives innovation and growth. Patience is for employees and civil servants.

Sorry to be so contrary about this - I'm an inpatient person looking to justify my own failings.