Whats Your Favorite Reasons For Starting Your Own Online Business?

by entrepreneurjay

Posted: 15 years ago 46 replies

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Whats Your Favorite Reasons For Starting Your Own Online Business?

Mine are as follows:

I love being my own boss, I can set my own hours work when I want, where I want!

I hate trying to make someone else rich.

I hate being underappreciated when I work for someone else.

I love being able to sell to the whole world from my home office. Lol how cool is that? You have to love the Internet best invention ever, hands down!

MY QUESTION TO EVERYONE ELSE?

What finally was the last straw when you said to yourself screw this I am gonna start my own home based business? I just cannot do this 9 to 5 B.S forever!

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Louise Green 15 years ago

Freedom.

There's so many reasons but that's the one I like best, being able to do what I want when I want.
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Kevin_Hutto 15 years ago

The best thing about it in my opinion is the fact that I can do it from anywhere in the world. So I am not chained to one geography.

It is very exciting to think about where in the world you would choose to live if you could live anywhere.
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silver93350 15 years ago

Having the flexibility to be your own boss and enjoy your family. Big learning curve but wants you get it is in great!
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John Atkins 15 years ago

Nothing beats working from home
I work when I want
I wake up when I want
I like being my own boss
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condra 15 years ago

Passive income
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Kella Bella 15 years ago

I currently work from home and have tried some ventures on the past and can honestly say the reason I still work from home for a boss other than myself is my own fault. Most of the time it was lack of knowledge sometimes other reasons but I am always thankful for the lessons in each endeavor.

I am trying to work into something that allows me to be my own boss while growing a lucrative online business because I love working from home and would like to own my own business and make more money than my current job. I also like to be constantly learning and I really see how finding something that makes money then scaling it up and adding other projects and building that business will allow me to learn a lot and always stay challenged and busy. :-)
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Shaun Lee 15 years ago

The ability to prove to others that I can.

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PerfectedWeb 15 years ago

Well, I can work from anywhere in the world and many more reasons. Also, being an entrepreneur has the advantage of choosing when you want to work and when you want to take good time. There is no boss telling you what, when and how you should work.
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- entrepreneurjay 15 years ago
  
  Shaun I love that answer thats a big one for me too. I love the feeling of I told you so lol it feels so good to prove people wrong!
  
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money2k 15 years ago

Hanging out with my 2 little devils.
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williamrs 15 years ago

For me it's only about freedom. I go to sleep at 05:00 am and wake up at 12:00 pm, I play video game at 03:00 pm and can travel on Wednesday. So it's not about money as many people think, but freedom. Now I'm the owner of my own life and it's what really matters for me

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TJCarter 15 years ago

There are many reasons why l started my online business. I use to be a self employed carpenter getting up at 5am and not getting home until 7pm. I use to earn a good wage but the problem was l always had to phone around people to chase up my money. Sometimes waiting over 3 months to get paid from certain jobs. This was one of the main reason l quit my job and became a full time internet marketer.

At the moment l works from home. I get up at 8.30am and start at 9.00pm. I still put in the hours but l no longer gets stressed about when I'm going to get paid. One of the other reason's l started to do this is because of the money, once you now what you're doing is quite simple to make a lot of money from the internet
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entrepreneurjay 15 years ago

That is what everyone chases freedom isn't that what we all strive for? You only live once you might as well make the best use of it while we are here, and do something you truly enjoy!
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- Kevin Riley 15 years ago
  
  Actually, in 1976, right after graduating high school, I did a really stupid thing. I joined the Canadian Armed Forces.
  
  Why? I drove a buddy of mine to the recruiting center. While there, I talked to the officer. Looked at all the cool stuff. Decided, "What the hell! This could be fun. Get to shoot automatic weapons and get an education. What ho!"
  
  A few months later, I was in Cornwallis, NS and being peed on continually - both by the soggy East Coast climate and the NCOs. The weird, twisted part of me loved the deprivation, hard physical exercise, and even the crappy mess food.
  
  What I discovered I didn't like was being told what to do. I got in arguments with the Master Corporals - one of which was twice my size. I decked my squad leader, and got away with it by covering my name pin. I got into a fight with another asinine squad leader. I was threatened with jail by my Seargent, if I ever looked at him "that way" again.
  
  Needless to say, I got out. I could foresee 5 years of jail sentences for hitting stupid officers. I detested being told what to do by those I considered inferior in intelligence to me. I got out during the 4-week grace period.
  
  Returned to civilian life and found that I felt the same about bosses. Decided then and there to be an entrepreneur. Never looked back!
  
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TheRichJerksNet 15 years ago

I got tired of making the company double profits from $40,000 a week to $80,000 a week and I got paid "SALARY" of $350 a week.. (15+ years ago that was not much after taxes)...

So while I did not start off making $350 a week online and some weeks I made nothing at all while other weeks I made thousands, I will never regret leaving my J.O.B. behind over 15 years ago...

James
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thunderbird 15 years ago

For me it boils down to what I can do and what I can't do. I can't do most things (eg work for Cirque du Soleil, research quantum physics, or compose jingles for TV) but there is a very limited range of things that I can do, one of which is online business.
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Flipfilter 15 years ago

For anyone who lives in the UK, it's been able to watch Jeremy Kyle uninterrupted in your PJs at 2pm in the afternoon...bliss
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- Barry Unruh 15 years ago
  
  I'll have to second Kevin Hutto. My biggest reasons is portability. Being able to work in either the Philippines or USA is critical. We are a two nation family, and do not wish to neglect either family.
  
  Then you add in our desire to travel to many other destinations around the world over the next few years, and the freedom to work anywhere becomes even more important.
  
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Mega B 15 years ago

Freedom was the main reason that i started working for myself but it does have some down sides like i miss all my old friends and if you are ill you dont get payed.But i would never go back to the old days
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duia 15 years ago

being my own boss is really my first reason. Everyone wants to live freely and earn much money at the same time.
Fortunately, we can make our dream come true with business online. Through starting online business, we can enjoy a better life freely.
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Michael Oksa 15 years ago

Freedom.

Not having a boss.

Creative outlet.

About the last one. I used to sharpen about 100 circular saws every day. I ran 5 machines simultaneously to do this, and it was dirty, monotonous work. I did an excellent job, and took pride in the quality of my work.

However, there was not a whole lot of creativity needed, and I've always been more the creative type, than the factory type.

Being able to earn money by using my brain, as opposed to being a semi-mindless drone, is an awesome feeling.

Don't get the wrong idea. The job wasn't all bad. It had some interesting challenges, and I worked with and for family, so that was cool. It's just that the job wasn't a good match for me. After close to ten years of working there, I left one Friday afternoon and knew I was never going back.

Thanks Warrior Forum! I couldn't have done it without you.

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redrabbit 15 years ago

Hey I'm Eric and I'm new to this forum.

My top reasons for starting an Internet Marketing Buisness are:
Having total control about what you can do and not being told by anyone else.
When you do a job well by yourself, an being told to by a "boss", you feel so much more satisfaction.
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- entrepreneurjay 15 years ago
  
  Hi Eric welcome to the forum, and this conversation. With the proper mindset, and work ethic, anythings possible in life online or off!
  
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freedomguy 15 years ago

My username and sig says it all!

And we all seem to be in agreement :-)

Freedom to do what we want, where we want, when we want, how we want and with who we want!
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glassextreme

15 years ago

Originally Posted by entrepreneurjay

Whats Your Favorite Reasons For Starting Your Own Online Business?

Mine are as follows:

I love being my own boss, I can set my own hours work when I want, where I want!

Yes, I can set my own work hours, except I spend even more time on my business and enjoy every moment of it.

I hate trying to make someone else rich.

I don't mind making someone else rich, if it makes me richer! There's plenty of money to go around, so if you have such attitude towards money, it's hard to attract more. Cue: Law of Attraction, and T. Harv Eker, Anthony Robbins and many others.

I hate being underappreciated when I work for someone else.

Agree.

I love being able to sell to the whole world from my home office. Lol how cool is that? You have to love the Internet best invention ever, hands down!

Yeah, I love being at home.

MY QUESTION TO EVERYONE ELSE?

What finally was the last straw when you said to yourself screw this I am gonna start my own home based business? I just cannot do this 9 to 5 B.S forever![/QUOTE]

When it wasn't 9 to 5? My day job started from 7am and I usually left the office just before 7pm, and had to do more work at night, and weekends are burnt as well.

Actually, the main reason is I just want to stay at home to spend time with my baby.

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Jay F 15 years ago

To have more time with my family.

However, I'm not there yet as I'm just starting out. But, that is my goal.
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- nooraza 15 years ago
  
  In my country Malaysia, working from home is not popular yet. Especially if you are housewife with good education background. People at the countryside especially will called you stupid for spending years at university yet staying home to care for your kids...
  
  I'm not going to change this people thinking, but i know i am more brilliant than them if i can generate thousands per month just from home....
  
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  kylaj 15 years ago
  
  I like being able to set my own hours. I'm an early riser, and by 8am I should be have five hours worth of work completed. It was frustrating to start at 8am.
  
  My income depends on my efforts only, and my job is secure. I'm less likely to fire myself.
  
  No office politics.
  
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Ruth P 15 years ago

Firstly, freedom to travel, to be able to visit my family and stay with them for long weekends, to visit friends and not worry about getting back to work on Monday at 9 am

Secondly, to give me my chance to change the world. I'm not there yet, but my income is building and eventually it'll give me the time and the voice I need to do things that really matter in life and to help good causes.

~Ruth
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MarkAnderson 15 years ago

Since the time when I was an undergraduate there was a big dream in my life. That's starting my own business after completing the degree. But, I never thought in the way of internet marketing, and my plan was installing satellite TV units for houses. But, I hadn't an initial capital for invest and actually, I didn't think about bank loans too (I had a mind like do it yourself)

How to find initial capital for my business? I thought in few ways......... and one day searched internet............

What happened next??? You can understand
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hireseowriters 15 years ago

The major problem in most of the companies are that, if your superior is stupid, you have to suffer for his/her decisions.

Working on their time and bear with your superior's moodswings! I can keep on complaining when it comes to working LOL
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willyboy104 15 years ago

The norm...
being your own boss,
freedom,
the unlimited potential and opportunity it brings,
no damn glass ceiling,
for bragging sake,

Plus I couldn't work in an office, I couldn't work for someone else, I don't want a limited future.

Entrepreneurial spirit all the way!
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- TammieJJ 15 years ago
  
  The reason that I got serious about my own business is because life is too short to tie yourself to someone else's "dreams" -
  
  I worked a job where I was on call 24/7, worked 7 days a week, usually 12 hours a day, during the busy "season" (which incidentially coincided with spring, summer, and every single holiday throughout the year). I was one of the most dedicated executive level employees in the company, and still every one to two years, the "owners" attempted to reinvent the wheel by reorganizing their business, shuffling employees around, changing even those of us in the highest ranking positions within the company around into different departments, and basically throwing everything into utter chaos with their attempts to be "intuitive."
  
  Finally, enough was enough, and I took a long hard look at my life, reorganized my priorities, took a job paying quite a bit less money, but that is strictly 8-5. Now I work from 6-9 nightly, and all day Saturday-Sunday, on growing my business. It takes more time this way, but within the year, the income should be better than what I was making before at my old job. The best part is, the only one who will be able to change things in my future will be me, and I no longer miss holidays, birthdays, and other special dates with my family.
  
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  hireseowriters 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TammieJJ
  
  The reason that I got serious about my own business is because life is too short to tie yourself to someone else's "dreams"
  
  Nicely put. I appreciate your hard work.
  
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Frank Casey 15 years ago

It is wonderful to get up when you want to and not have to join the throngs in the traffic jams all over town. You can have a sense of freedom knowing that you are in control of your own business, generating an income for yourself.
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FalseRiver 14 years ago

spending more time with my wife and child.
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- Alfred23 14 years ago
  
  Yes, online business allows you to work at your own time and may be from your bedroom. It does not require you to work from nine to five.
  
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- TheAnnoyingOrange 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by darkwizgemz
  
  Freedom says it all.
  
  Sums it up perfectly.
  
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paulie888 14 years ago

For me, it was all about the freedom. Like Kevin said, I was getting sick of bosses throwing their weight around and demanding very unreasonable things not because they were absolutely necessary, but more because they wanted to see you working "productively", so to speak. I was staying back at work late just to fulfill these requests, and for me after one too many of those I just snapped, and told myself I'd never be working for anyone else again.

Paul
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Owen Smith 14 years ago

The feeling of Success
Working the hours I want
Being my own boss
Financial freedom
Enjoyment of the job I want to do
Meeting interesting people
Serving my customers and gaining great feedback.
Providing for my family.

Thats my lot.
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Rukshan 14 years ago

Freedom and less dependencies. What else than money
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myrnasy 14 years ago

I've been wanting to earn money online. It's getting a lot of extra income while having permanent work.

Being a boss - it never came into my mind. All what I'm looking for is an income-generating activity that uses my skill and improves myself eventually.
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tommen 14 years ago

For me the biggest motivation is to build another income stream to have something to fall back on if needed.Being my own boss is also great and the opportunity to work when feel like it.To have money is great and necessary, and the only way I really can become wealthy is by working for my self with my own business.
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SGdarling 14 years ago

extra income of course is the main reason for starting online business
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ArticleGrinder 14 years ago

You get to be your own boss and i decide my own paycheck!
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- evollusion 14 years ago
  
  I am doing this to earn start-up capital for my dream job/life which is owning both a West Texas (or Texas Hill Country) hunting ranch and offshore fishing charter service.
  
  I love these threads because it reminds me of why I'm working the full timer and doing the marketing in almost every spare minute of time I've got.
  
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