Looking to quit my day job!

If it is just you and your partners, go for it. However, if you have a family depending on you, continue to stay at your day job and grow your side business until the day job prevents you from growing your side business any further. Once you reach that point, you should already have a year or so of earnings in savings in case things go south.

Hi there,

I would stick to 2 chosen things to drive traffic! You pick 2, be it writing content, forum posting etc! That's what works for me! Once money comes in, you can outsource but get your site up and running! Choose things that you enjoy doing to! There is no right or wrong way to do it but if you are consistent, you'll get there!

If your first priority is to get some leads then what are you good at? How much time can you spend on it?

That's what I do! I give myself a month and dedicate it to a couple of tasks only!! Much better than doing 40 different things...

My 2 cents!

Good luck
Yoan

Good luck, my recommendation is to have a solid income stream before quitting your job. You can try freelancing if you have other skills.

This will sound a bit crazy, but i built my business by offering to do free work for lots of different businesses in my area and for other businesses around the web. I would literally call business in my area that did not have websites and offer to do it for free! I also found businesses online with very old and outdated sites and offered the same.

This created opportunity for word-of-mouth advertising for my services, for which I charge today.

You will find that people that you do a free site for will often come back with their next "big idea" and ask you to build it... but this time you can charge a bit...

That's a great thing! I wish you best of luck!!

Hey man, I hope you reach your goal. We all need to be self employed

My opinion for your current situation is don't quit your job yet, until your business has generated revenue.

You could be very stressful if you had quit your day job, has no monthly income, and your business still didn't make profit. Just do the business part-time, try to make generate leads in your spare time, and when the business has generate revenue as much as your day job, you could quit your job.

Get your online business up and running, be crystal clear about the amount of money you need to keep your standard of living, monetize accordingly before quitting your job.

wolfmmiii made a good point!

Hey, I can almost see the confusion you are going through as I am in the same boat . Seeing your profile and that you are staying in "New Jersey' makes it even more similar . On a serious note If are not a family guy go for it full steam (make sure you have 3 months bank balance so that you can actually focus on your new business rather than worrying about making a living day in and out), if you are a family fellow like i am and more with kids make sure you have 6 months balance only then make the full leap, the reason you know of course kids do not understand why daddy is not taking me out ... my 2 cents .. good luck though if you are going full team and keep posted on your progress...

I'm sure you've done this, but as with all businesses there's a few things to do when you're starting out.

You have to get a really clear idea of exactly who your ideal customer is. Is it us IM guys who want to build an empire of minisites? Is it local mom & pop shops who want an online presence? Is it local businesses that already have a website, and want to focus on pulling in leads?

Your site talks about a local restaurant that had no website. Maybe you guys could specialize in restaurants. Complete with an online ordering or reservation system. People want to hear what you have was made specially for them. (You can also specialize in other things, but you should have a site for this restaurant thing that shows samples and describes what you do for restaurants, etc).

Maybe the best way to do this is to take a look at everything you've done so far (the types of work you've done and types of clients you've worked with), then look at what was most profitable. Then go from there.

Once you know exactly who you want to target, then you can ask them exactly what they want. If you can understand and describe their problem better than anyone else, and solve it for them better than anyone else. Then you can really explode your business with referrals and word of mouth, etc.

That's just the start...but it's business 101, and it's gotta be done. (Yea, sweet accidental rhyme. I know.)

So your pitch to us was a little vague. Your site is a little more focused on what you want to do, but not really. It looks like you're trying to target everyone. And when you try to target everyone, you end up targeting no one.

Good luck

Keep your day job so that you have an income while you get your new venture off the ground. Once you start seeing consistent revenue and the day job interfears with growing your new venture it is time to consider giving up the day job.

Good luck with reaching your aspirations.

Start networking. Ask friends, relatives, and the businesses you regularly patronize if they need any website help. Like someone else recommended, offer a few freebies to let them test out your services. Hand your business card to everyone.

Don't just quit your job until you have a very solid foundation built for your business and until it starts paying at least as good as your job pays you

Many successful businesses come in this way. At first, the owners only do it part-time. But he keeps grow the business until the business generate more money than his full-time job. Because his business gives him more money than his full-time job, he quit his job.

Just look at the history of Craigslist, eBay. At first, the owners only do it part time, during weekend, and as a hobby. Many successful businesses come from part-time businesses.

I wouldn't quit the job just yet. Wait until the website produces major results, then quit. But dont do a Jeff Paul movement and move in with your sister and live with your family in the basement while you work on your internet business.