Back on Track

I’ve been meaning to post this for some time, but I wanted to find the right software on my mac for editing images – I’ve finally managed to figure something out!

The gist of this post is that I started years ago playing around with internet businesses and in 2006 launched a few online personals sites. These had a nice steady growth for the first 8 or 9 months. Then the opportunity came along for me to work personally with another company, on a full time basis. I did this, but in doing so my own business stopped growing, until very recently. The past 5 months I’ve been dedicated 100% to my own ventures once more……

This graph shows the history.
Red line is my sites income, blue is other personal income from employment/consultancy. Comments below show the key areas.

1. Steady growth from launch
2. From Feb 2007 – Jul 2008 while I had a slowly increasing personal income, as I was not working on my own business the sites instantly stopped growing, though obviously I did have some other slowly increasing income
3. From Jul 2008 onwards I stopped working elsewhere, and very quickly turned around the static state of my business.
4. Had I not done other work and the trend continued from as it did in the early days then I would, in theory, revenues would be at exactly the same point I am now. In reality I think they would be easily higher due to faster growth I am currently seeing and I know will come again.

Moral of the story!?
This is somewhat stating the obvious – but if you are an entrepreneur and have a business or idea and faith it will succeed then stick to it!! Thankfully, I never abandoned what I was doing all together and have been able to pick it up again very quickly. Originally I hoped I would have been able to spend more time still driving my own business and less “working for da man”, but in reality it went very much in the opposite direction. Still I have no regrets especially with the future outlook looking good on all my current sites and ever nearing the launch of other sites which have excellent prospects – even worst case scenario!

Finally – I’ve not been paying close attention to December’s running totals. From seeing a few days figures I had thought that there would be a dip this month. Not surprising with people spending money elsewhere on gifts on the lead up to Christmas. But having just reviewed it I see that though it was a slow start to the month, and initial sales are down, the last few days have started to pick up and we again up a few % on last month.