Can you run this business on <10 hours per week?

Ashwin83 there are a number of things that you can do where you won't have to put a lot of time into eventually but like most businesses you have to build it up till it kinda makes a life of it's own. Member sites work well but you will have to develop a lot of material upfront to get it started.

Software of course is always good but unless your a programmer I urge you to avoid trying to create the next big software application. Bugs, hackers and fixes can take a lot of work.

Information products seem to be the easiest to set up and maintain. There are a lot of people you don't hear much about that are making huge money and working very little.

The only thing I can say is true success comes from hard work and determination. I's not always how much work you do but how smartly you work at it. Not sure if I helped ya.

Just a comment from an old marketer

Answer to OP title:

"Yes". The trouble is that most dont even put IN 10 hours, and they feel like they put in twenty because they spread it out on busy work over the week, and they think they put in 20 hours and have actually put in 2-3 focused ones.

5 hours per week of cold calling even appointment setting will yield a few thousand dollars in business if you write good appointments for yourself, which anyone can do.

I have seen ONE person not have those results, but he had alot of personal problems at the time and was doing it from home and the suituation wasnt very good...

If you are willing to work about 4 twenty hour weeks then you could cut it down to ten easily and make 3-5k per week.

You wont be like Iamnameless making 100k per month mind you (however, that doesnt have to be true either) , but you can absolutely make a few grand in ten hours per week.

On another note 3-5k per week is really good by most peoples standards. Even 1-2k is better than most seeking opportunities are making currently.

If you will actually PUT IN the ten hours and do the right things then absolutely the answer is yes.

I'd say anything is possible! But yes, you'll have to put in more hours to establish your business. Work smart, follow Tim's advice about email & stuff - how to be more productive...outsource most of the work...And one day, you might be able to execute your initial plan!

Many (most) people around here work over 40hours a week. Most of them will tell you it's not doable...some might even say its lazy of you...or you aren't willing to work hard

I say do what others aren't doing, and let us know if it works Nothing to lose in working differently!
Good luck!

Make sure you figure out your sales funnel before you begin:

http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...ml#post5727652

The best thing to do is to manage client expectations. What I mean by that is, some clients will be ideal, you do your work and if they are on a monthly agreement with you, such as hosting or seo, they will seldom bother you. (as long as you deliver of course)

Some want to contact you for every single little thing. That kind of thing gets old quick, and that takes your valuable time from you. Manage that by offering additional coaching or mentoring at X amount per month, and it will be at a certain time. That will do two things, make you more money at your convenience and or stopping them from bothering you.

Also make sure you have at least 3 go to people or services for all of the things you need done.
Things like 3 web designers, 3 SEO providers, 3 video providers. Have your rolodex ready.

This way you are set for just managing projects, eventually you might want to hire a manager to do this as well.

Wait, Iamnameless is making 100k per month? SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

I found a similar thread to this one, if anyone is interested: Click here

anyone want to establish a new business have to work hard, no hours counts. as the business grow, less hours can make big money.

Why not if you can make yourself capable of doing that then you can obviously expect that kind of outcomes.
But you have prove yourself before going to action.

John Durham is absolutely right. Most people only put a couple of focused hours into it. If it doesn't work they quit.

I saw Iamnameless's post the other day about how he got into offline marketing. He made a great point of your back being against the wall. So, I wanted to put it to the test to show everyone out there that he's exactly right. This is my first venture into offline business by the way. (I've always done SEO/PPC and info products)

Here are my results:
I bought an aged domain on google auction and I built a website for my company (I did this a couple of months ago because of wanting to get into this. Just got sidetracked along the way). It's just a wordpress site with a woothemes theme on it. Took me a couple of hours max to build. I have done absolutely no SEO or anything else to the site. You all know this is the slow time of the year August. December is the other big slow down. So, I hit craigslist. I replied to about 100 gigs in major cities over about a 4 hour period. 3 hours Thursday night and 1 hour Saturday. So far I have closed one deal for $1500 and have begun work and am negotiating a second deal for $800. That's $2300 in 4 hours worth of work! I've also upsold the $1500 one into a monthly SEO deal as well. I fully anticipate making $8k this month and $15k next.

Next steps:
I'm going to continue through the rest of this week to contact people in major cities for about an hour a day. Then, next week I'm going to take some of the upfront money I've made and hire someone to take over those efforts of contacting daily. I've got guys to outsource to I've used before for website design, one for seo, one to handle ppc, etc. But to make this realistic I'm building the sites for now. I'm only using wordpress and not doing a bunch of custom high end stuff. In a week of more jobs I'll have too much to do and turn it over to my outsourcers. I'll ramp this up to what should turn into a $40-$50k per month business by Jan-Feb of next year. Out of that I'll likely make around $25k per month profit. I'll then start taking profits out and actually spend money on advertising. I'll be pushing for $100k per month by summer next year.

I started this venture with a $12 domain name I bought on an auction. Not bad for $12 and some taking action. Sorry if it seems like I'm hijacking your thread. I just really want you guys to see what taking action will get you. I did all of this without even picking up a phone. Imagine if I went through and built up my business and hired a call center to do out bound cold calls for me? Easily $2-3 million per year. (Don't think I'm not working on that too.)

The key is taking action and being focused on your objective. Also, using your time wisely. You will put in a few weeks of hard work then put it on autopilot.