subject: Understanding Your Motivation – Young Entrepreneurs [print this page] Author: Colin Palfrey Author: Colin Palfrey
When starting out online with the intention of learning essential business skills, it is important to remember why your doing it. There aren't many times in your life when you will get the chance to learn new skills without causing your self massive inconvenience. By this mean taking time of work, and the expenses of education. However while your young you still have time to learn online, and as a young entrepreneur, I'm sure you've already started. Make sure you take the advantage you have recognised, as by learning to start making money and more importantly build an online business at an early age, you will have plenty of time to develop your skills before it becomes necessary. I feel the most important thing to remember as an online young entrepreneur, is that the education you give yourself in online business isn't for now, its for your whole life. It just so happens that the perfect time for you to learn is as young as possible. Have you looked at any of the people who have started any of the big online companies recently? It seems the vast majority are 25 and under, and nearly all of them started learning their skills at the pre-teen age. Make sure you don't spread your time to thin. Many when starting to learn the necessary skills of running an online business, it is easy to slip in to the practice of trying to learn everything at once. Make sure that you learn each thing completely before moving into the next. I recommend writing out a list of the skills you feel you will need, and crossing them off as you master them. Of the important tips to learn, I feel these are the most important: Learning to set up a blog/website Learning basic HTML Understand the basics of SEO and building backlinks to a website Building contacts online I'll expand upon some these as they are important for young entrepreneurs to learn. Learning to set up a blog or website is an essential part of your education as a young online entrepreneur, as it gives you a means to create a platform to show case your ideas. As you should know, if you cant show your ideas it will be very hard to get others to back you. Learning basic HTML is very useful as it give you the ability to change the way text looks within a page. By being able to centre headers, and bullet point your lists as I've done above, you will create a much more professional looking presentation. The reason it is important to learn good SEO for any young entrepreneur, is due to the fact that this is the means any website or blog uses to drive website traffic to their page. If nobody sees your blog/website there is no point writing it, so by learning to send floods of people to see your offers you assure you will be able to make the most of any online proposal you make. Building contacts is equally important for young entrepreneurs as it is for older online business owners. By surrounding yourself with successful people it will rub off on you. Success is contagious, and your contacts will help you to learn the tips and tricks of the trade.About the Author:
