Everyone has some sort of passion. Your passion can be a great place to start if your want to start an online business. I have made a lot of money off my passions once I understood how to use my talents to generate profit. In the beginning I did them just for fun. Eventually, they turned into great businesses.

One of the most important reasons a passion can usually be turned into a profitable business is that you are probably an expert (compared to most). When it is something your love, you find out everything you can about it and you spend a lot of your “free” time on your passion. You are always learning more and more about the details. You are probably “hands on” with your passion which solidifies your knowledge and gives you valuable experience that others would probably like to know.

One of my passions is Christmas displays and really going all out with fancy displays. Since I am a total geek (or nerd - whichever you prefer) I always have to take things to the extreme when they are technical in nature. So, I designed and built some hardware to control all of the Christmas lights from my computer. I wrote software (in Linux - a whole other passion of mine) to interface with my hardware that would synchronize the Christmas lights to Christmas music that I transmit from a low power FM transmitter (that I built). I take great joy every year around this time in computer controlled Christmas displays.

If this kind of geeky stuff tickles your fancy, you can take a look at http://computerchristmas.com.

So, since I loved doing computer controlled Christmas lights, I learned everything I could about them in my spare time because it was fun. I spend a lot of time designing the circuits, building the hardware, and writing the software. I learned more and more as I went. I became one of the few experts at the time (around 2000). Now, I have taught thousands of people how to do the same thing on my website and through other forms of consultation. Now it is a continuous revenue stream that I never intended to profit from in the beginning.

Another passion of mine is developing websites. I am one of the founders of a web hosting corporation that has built up into an extremely profitable business and it is something I love to do. We get rave reviews especially on our customer service since it is something we love to do and therefore excel in. If you treat your customers right and give them great products and services, they will be with you for the long term (and will refer others to you as well). Again, I point this out because this passion has also turned into extremely good profit.

You can turn your passion into your profit. What are your passions? You ARE an expert in the areas of your passions to many others out there wandering around the internet searching for the same information that you already have. There is profit to be made. Take action and go get it.

- Hill Robertson

There are a lot of things that make having your own business very attractive. Having your own internet based business can have even more advantages than your own “traditional” business. It can give you a tremendous confidence about your future and a great amount of joy as you fulfill your wildest dreams.

Having your own business of any type can give you a great sense of control over your future and potential security that you may not have at a JOB. You can better control your income (and your own raises) once your business is thriving. If it is built properly, you can eventually have more flexibility in the hours you work. You can even design it where you work less hours and earn more money! With your own business, you can gain great freedoms that you will never achieve in a typical JOB.

With an internet based business you will probably have extremely low expenses compared to traditional brick and mortar businesses. You also have the flexibility of running your business from anywhere in the world (that has internet access). Typically all you need is a laptop and an internet connection. You can also have more flexibility in the hours you work. If you are a night owl like I am, you can do your email communications in the wee hours of the morning instead of having to be right by a phone during “normal” business hours in many cases. This can be a huge advantage to your family life. You can spend the day with your family during their “normal” hours and run your business at night while your kids and spouse are asleep. This is what allowed me to start my internet business without having to sacrifice quality family time.

A lot of the online tools and services you need to run an internet business are very affordable and can be very automated saving you time and money so you can focus on the important details of your business.

Your potential customers are limitless. Virtually the entire world is online and more and more people are using the internet for all types of products and services with more and more people getting online every day.

An internet business can bring you joy and freedoms you never before imagined. You can even start one up in your spare time to see if it is something you would enjoy doing without spending much money at all.

Do you want to start up an internet business? Do you want to earn an extra income in your spare time? That’s what this blog is all about. Subscribe to this blog by filling out your name and email on the right side of this blog to get the latest updates and information on running a successful internet business.

- Hill Robertson

For many years, I never realized how valuable my talents were to others. Since I began playing with Linux and building websites in the early 90s, I got really good at doing some fancy things because it was one of my passions. For fun, I would set up old PCs I had laying around and load Linux on them (for you geeks, I used the Slackware distribution on a bunch of floppys - those were the days). I started networking them together and learning the inside and out of tcp, upd, sockets, and anything else related to networking. I loved it. It was my passion (and still is).

Since it was one of my passions, I naturally enjoyed being around people with similar “hobbies” and skill sets. So, when the people I associated with knew the same things I knew, I didn’t “feel” like I had a marketable skill to others. I had the false impression that “everyone” knew about the same things. Sure, I felt like I knew more than a lot of people and might be able to make some money by selling my skills or knowledge but I WAY undersold my services. After many years, I finally realized how many people wanted the information that came so natural to me. Because it was second nature to me, I didn’t realize the value that information was to others.

What are your talents? What are you skilled at? Do you realize that there are a lot of people interested in your “second nature” skills and will pay good money to acquire some of your knowledge? All you need to do is to blog about it and create a product to sell. This can get you started on your way to success.

So, find your talents and realize how valuable they are to others. Don’t underestimate your value. Use it to be a success!

- Hill Robertson

What if you didn’t have to go to your JOB because you didn’t need the money……..

What if you didn’t owe on a mortgage……..

What if your cars were paid in full…….

What if all your debts were paid off…….

What would you do?

What would you do with the “extra” time?

Think about it…..

Really think about it…..

Would you spend time with family?  Would you spend time on your hobby?  Would you travel?

Find that special thing you would do.  Now, that very thing that you WANT to do can be the very thing that ENABLES you to do it.  It is your passion.  Take that passion and blog about it.  Your passion will shine through in your blog.  You will be known as an expert on that topic.  Create a product about that passion and sell it on your blog.  As you grow your site and visitors to your site, your sales and income will increase.  As your income increases, you will have more time to spend on your passion which will again improve the content and quality of your expertise and of your blog.  It will begin to be a snowball effect where you will begin to achieve your dreams (and passions).

Your passion will drive you.  If you focus it in the right direction.  It will be what makes you free.  It is right there in front of your nose.  Just notice it.  And JUST DO IT!

- Hill Robertson

Looking back on decisions I have made in the past and why I failed or quit at anything was quite often due a quiet little creeping creature called doubt. It usually isn’t obvious at the time but its grip is strong and deadly. Doubt will absolutely kill anything worth while if you let it.

Doubt creeps into your thoughts saying things like “you can’t write a good article”, “you’re not an expert”, or “no one will ever buy your product”. If you listen to doubt, you will never succeed. You will always come up with a reason not to do something. However, all of these reasons are just excuses. Nothing will ever get done when you dwell on what you can’t do.

Remember one of the most important rules is to “just do it”. If you wait to long or you try to make everything perfect, you will start letting doubt creep in and you will start focusing on the negatives and you will paralyze yourself and you won’t do anything. You will convince yourself that it wouldn’t have worked anyway. Once you realize you are sliding down the slippery slope of doubt, STOP IT! Focus on the positive and JUST DO IT!

- Hill Robertson