The level of effort you apply to your business is important, sure. However, the road to (profitability) is paved with a lot more things that need to be in place - independent of how hard you intend to work at it.
- Mentorship - enables you to avoid unproductive activity and provides a support system that teaches how to transition from a newbie to a professional Home Business Owner. It is the proverbial "shoulder to lean on". However, it is a shoulder you are paying for and this is an important dynamic for both the mentor and mentee to understand.
- Leverage - there have to be components of the overall "system" that leverage your time and money. You can leverage your time with tools and technology. You can leverage money by understanding and ensuring that you are involved with platforms that employ compensation systems that have a leverage component.
- Onboarding - allied with mentorship, there has to be a "structure" that (at least in theory) provides you with everything you need to know, has guidelines and expectations for your involvement, has tools to accelerate relationship development.. and. goal setting, budgets, and much more. This can't take place in a willy-nilly "hope it happens" manner. It needs to be structured and articulated in writing.
- Understanding and Choosing Marketing Methods - marketing is intentional. If you don't know what you are doing in terms of specific activities that gets "what you have" in front of people for them to evaluate - you are not in business.
- Understanding Time Commitment - The reality is this: if you "take on" a home business, your life changes. You add something that didn't exist before. No matter how you slice it, this will take time out of your day that previously did not require definition. To be successful, again, requires intentionality.
This is a shortlist and is not exhaustive. It all requires effort.
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