How To Deal With Gloomy Days And Concentrate On Business

How To Keep Moving When You Are Feeling Low

There will be days of high energy levels when you feel highly motivated and actually do accomplish a lot. And there will also be days of very low energy levels with no motivation at all and all you want to do is go back to bed and stay there till your mood hits the bottom only to rise back. There are many factors influencing your level of experience. Negative thinking is one such factor. But more importantly, your low level of energies and lack of motivation or interest to go out feeling gloomy may also be due to your hormones.

It is okay if the low energy gloomy days are very few. But if you are person with lot of these days then maneuvering your raft effectively through success rapids would become difficult. Staying in bed or couch and watching TV is not going to help you. Exercise always helped me to get into good mood. Vigorous exercise can lift your mood and will help a you a lot in dealing with the depression.

Controlling your moods is very important especially when you just started your small business when your small business is dependent a lot directly on your effort. When you are feeling depressed your world outside will also looks boring and depressed and this state of mind is not good for your business at the beginning. Positive thinking or speaking to your mentor or someone who always encourages you during these days would definitely help you come out of the gloom. It is very important to seek help from someone who is good in motivating others are read success stories and quotes. Chicken Soup To The Soul is one of the best books I keep for these days.

As someone said most of the days as a businessman is very routine. You don't encounter challenges everyday, not every task is exciting, business in not fun, but it is very important to continue enjoying the routine days attending calls and managing the business day. Work is the best treatment for depression and I believe that procrastination itself is a reason for depression.

So get out of the bed, exercise vigorously, take hot water shower, go to your office and try to finish some of the pending work which you have been postponed for a later date. Don't try to take up the tasks where you need a lot of creative thinking. Don't take big decisions on that day. Just complete all the small little pending work like sending emails. Keep yourself busy, and at the end of day look back, you would actually feel good about the day.

Once your small business is running well, you don't have to worry about low energy days, your business will bring you out of the that bad mood. Busy businessman don't have time to think negative and feel depressed. But at the beginning of your career as a small business owner keep in mind that it is very important to keep moving forward no matter how you are feeling on a particular day.

Delayed Success In Small Business

My two cousins are the first from a family of job holders venturing into small business. They have started their business about 15 years ago and both of are very successful at present running a couple of small business. I have started a small business around the same time, but my success was not anywhere near to them. It took a long time for me to identify the basic flaw in my system and rectify it.

While majority of the thoughts or my cousins have on a daily basis are about money making and they think in numbers, my thoughts were not that focus and were rather diffused. When you are not that successful or you have just started the business, you have to try hard to focus on making money. When the business is successful, you will not have enough time to lose your focus.

So, I stopped reading news papers and watching news on TV, the two main culprits which are responsible for my inability to concentrate. My mind use to become busy thinking about terrorism, religion, corruption, entertainment, and sports. If you have good focus on your business you don't have to stop reading news papers or watching TV, but on the other hand if you lack focus then avoid anything which will distract you. Now as I am having a couple of successful small businesses, I read news papers daily and watch TV, my businesses take care of my focus.

With no books, no news papers, no TV and not even internet, I use to sit in my office and think about business and money for long hours, this focused thought process made me to take massive actions which resulted in success. Now I am so used to get into focus of thought voluntarily that I became adept in controlling and focusing my thoughts on things which are important to me and and which I have direct control on. As I said earlier, thinking in numbers and about money is essential for success in small business. But there should be emotion of want and desire attached to the numbers and money. Not all you thinks in number and about money make money, ask the teller in your bank how much he makes.

Focus in important when you start your business, once you are successful your business takes care of your focus.

Why Search Traffic Is Life of Your Small Business

Search Engine Traffic To Make Money

When you start a blog as a small business model, three types of visitors start visiting your blog depending on how aggressively you start promoting your business. The first type are social traffic visitors as the result of your social directory submission like stumbleupon and Digg. The second type of traffic which slowly build up is subscribers traffic. This depends on how well you write and market your blog. Your subscribers return to your business because either they like your writing or the information you provide through your blog. The third type of visitors are called search traffic which depends on search engine optimization of your blog.

It is a known fact that social traffic hardly convert into money, because most of the social traffic are internet addicts who obsessively browse, they rarely keep or have any credit cards with them. So your blog as a small business will be a dud if you depend totally on social traffic.

For building a successful small business based on the second type of traffic that is regular returning visitors who are your subscribes, you have to sell something by overtly writing reviews about the products or covertly influence them to click on the ads on your blog. To be successful in this type of business, you need to have special skills of a shrewd marketing agent to sell things without hurting the sentiments of your readers. I cannot teach you anything about this method, because selling is my weak point. Our real offline small business strives on just a couple of big manufacturers and we do sell our services to them, but selling to retail customers is not our strength. And my view is that, this type of blogging is more of a self employed type and not a small business. This type of blogging totally depends on you writing to sell regularly. Sales drop to zero once you stop writing.

So the best method of blog as a small business is to optimize your blog with money making keywords and links which would bring loads of traffic from the search engines which convert well and the business runs on autopilot with very little maintenance.

Money, Hard Work, and Small Business

Money The Principal Motivator For Small Business Success


The most important motivation factor for the success of a small business is money. You should train mind to think in terms of money. In India to start a business which can make 1000 dollars per month, we need to invest at least 30,000 dollars. I am taking about the type of businesses we are involved in. We manufacture and supply small stainless steel and steel parts for bigger machinery. We are vendors for big manufactures.

We raise most or all of the capital through bank loans. As I said to make 1000 dollars per month we invest 30, 000 dollars, we buy machinery, we employ at least 4 people to work in the small industry, we procure orders from bigger companies, and run the business. So right from the beginning, our motivation is a result of thinking in terms of profit and profit alone. From the start till making our small business run automatically producing 1000 dollars per month, profit drives us to work and finish every big and little tasks we have to complete like getting the loan, selecting the location for our business, buying the machinery, hiring people, getting the orders, and starting the business on an auspicious day.

Within months, our business starts making 1000 dollars in profit. You can have the same success with your online business, if you ready to spend and invest money and spend a lot of time working hard. Where and how to spend money online to is beyond the scope of this blog. The great fact is you can make 1000 dollars per month using a free blog like blogspot for your business. But you have to substitute the capital investment with time and hard work for your success with your blog as a small business


It was very difficult for me to keep my focus thinking and motivated by money when I started a free blog like this 2 years back. The small business owner in me told me that If I tackle that one difficulty, I and focus and optimize my blog and make 1000 dollars per month. With a blog as a small business you don't deal with calculating the cost of material, salaries of your employees, hiring vehicles to transport your goods, dealing with tax, and many other overheads where you always deals with money and calculations. And you fail to think in numbers. This is both good and bad for a blogger who wants his blog to be a business. It is good because a blogger with no business skill can successfully run his blog as a small business. And it is bad because, even a business man like me tend to lose focus.

Think money when you are in small business. Massive focus hard work with keywords, posts, articles, writing, posting, marketing, linking, reading (helpful blogs) makes you a successful business owner. Think in numbers, think in number of hours you work for your blog, number or links you need to get, number of articles you need to write, number of dollars you want to make. Always think in numbers and dollars. Link all these activities with success and money making and with a short period of time you can taste success with small business.

How To Convert Your Blog Into A Small Business For Success

If you take a look at the blogs which are not money making blogs, you will find that most of them are just online diaries. But some of us begin blogs because we think we have something useful to tell to the people but either forget or refuse to make money from them. These types of blogs can be converted into small businesses which can earn money for us.

If the blog is not about your opinions, your daily life, your family, or your frustrations but about something which can help people in their daily living by giving information, knowledge, tips about any particular subject and educating them, then you have a fair chance of converting it into small business. I am stressing about turning your blog into a small business because once you consider your blog as a business, your working style change. There will be a paradigm shift. You will work meticulously with enhanced discipline.

You don't have to stuff keywords into your posts. Search engines no more consider keyword density for authority because many spammers stuff their blogs with keywords. just using the keywords in the heading and at the end of the post and just twice or thrice in your post depending on the length of the post is enough. You don't have to change your writing style. You don't have to be a great writer as you are not writing a novel here and online novels don't make money. You don't even have to change your creative title of the blog.

Once you decide to convert your blog into a small business (this may eventually grow into a big business depending upon the scope of the subject you are covering), you need to look for and research for keywords which suite your subject or subjects. You need to see whether there are adsense ads for the keywords and how much they can earn for you. Google provides many different tools for complete research on this subject of keyword optimization for adsense.

A Great Small Business Idea

I started blogging like many of you for self expression and to share my thoughts and ideas. I started using Hubpages for this and registered with Google Adsense. The very next day, I saw both Hubpages and Google sending me visitors and I made 10 cents the first day.

I started my second blog using free Blogger blog. I wrote a couple of posts, installed adsense which once again was prompted by Google to make money with my blog, submitted to directories, and forgot about the blog completely for a couple of days.

Within a couple of days after writing my first post , Google started sending me traffic just a couple of visitors per day and I started making money (just cents) from both Hubpages and my blogspot blog steadily without actively working anymore other than trying to know more about making money.

The reason for my immediate success was Google indexed my hub immediately and took about a three weeks to index my blogspot blog. Without knowing much about SEO, I accidentally wrote keyword rich posts and build links by submitting to the directories and commenting on other blogs. I never knew that these activities (linking and keywords) actually help me make more money. I just followed what other bloggers told me to do by their blogs. And within a month, I made 5 dollars.

The businessman in me who runs a couple of small businesses successfully recognized the potential of building and optimizing blogs as small businesses. For me a business is a system which once started and optimized continues to make money with little maintenance, which grows with little more effort, and which can be sold. A blog which is optimized for certain money making keywords continues to make money with little maintenance, it grows if you continue to put effort, and it can be sold (though I never thought of selling my businesses or real and online).

And I started building blogs as businesses and make money..... cents.... dollars....tens... hundreds...thousands....

Start building blogs as small businesses.