Stick With It, Be Patient and Pick Your Battles

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Sticking with your online business is a good idea. Immediate success is unlikely, so always be aware that most of your efforts need time to work. This is one of the biggest advantages of online advertising, although even the instant feedback of paid search takes time to refine and develop. If you are losing money or not making your expenses, you might decide that it’s time to make changes to your plan or even take a break for a while and try to come up with some new ideas

Even with individual customers you should explore the opportunities and be patint but only up to a point. If you are importing a product and think that it’s perfect for a major store chain, you will almost certainly not be able to sell to them right away. It will usually take many meetings with buying agents, both local and regional. I have a friend who was in that position recently. The endless process of getting approval finally turned him off, and only a few months later he saw a nearly identical product for sale in his targeted chain store. Somebody stuck with it. Somebody else.

One way to handle this is to continually reassess your prospects and your customers. You should take stock of your business annually and try to project your income and profits for the year ahead. Don’t beat a dead horse and don’t romanticize your abilities, if the projected profits don’t work out to be enough tomeet your needs, you may need to change your approach or look for another source of income for a while (a job).