How to Build an Online Business by Doing Less
Many online business owners started an internet online business with the desire to achieve great success online.
While the idea of creating an online business sounds great, the process of building a profitable online business often takes too much time. Because of this, some impatient online business owners give up their business halfway.
When building an internet business online, many people want to create the business the easy way out. They want to win in their business.
For many online business owner, winning allows them to achieve the goals they set for themselves. The idea of winning and achieving great success online often drive online entrepreneurs to work harder . They are also willing to take on more task and responsibilities.
Today we would like to explore the possibility to achieve more by doing less while creating your business.
How to Achieve More by Doing Less
If you are an online internet marketer, it is always a good idea to achieve more by doing less.
By doing lesser work, it does not mean that you can skip all your tasks at work. Less means to allow yourself to focus only on the critical things that helps to grow your online business.
Another way to describe this is to hone your focus on the most important tasks and allow yourself to become a “master in selectivity.”
You can concentrate to build a successful business online by letting go of distracting tasks that is preventing you from improving your performance at work.
Morten Hanse is a management professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author with Jim Collins of The New York Times Bestseller, Great By Choice, and the author of the book, Great At Work.
In an article on Wall Street Journal titled, “How to Succeed in Business? Do Less,” by Morten Hansen, he shared the story of how a co-worker was able to have better solutions without having to stay late or worked nights or weekends. Through research and studies, Hansen discovered that successful outcomes has little to do with one’s talent or natural ability.
What was found out is that for one to have successful outcome, he has to show the willingness to work hard at positive outcomes.
Therefore, to create a successful internet business, you just have to master the art of selectivity in your online business.
Steps on How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Here are some ways you can use to fine tune your way to online business success.
First, you can do this by writing down your goals and list down all the things you need to do in your business.
At the same time, you need to learn to let go of tasks that are not serving you .
From the few priorities of tasks left, you will need to apply intense effort to make your work excel.
According to Morten Hansen’s research, the best performers do not simply pile on more hours or tasks at work. Instead, they cut back and focus on what really makes a difference which is known as Occam’s Razor . Occam’s Razor is also known as the problem solving principle.
While creating a successful business online, you should seek for the simplest solutions.
With lesser steps in your business building process, the more effort you can put into the steps involved. You want to concentrate on doing things that can bring the best results with the least effort or your time and commitment.
Create System to Help You to Succeed
Now that you understand the art of achieving more with less.
You can always follow a full proof system to guide you to success. Here are a five steps system to help you in this process.
1) Time Management
Having good time management is essential to getting things done.
After you list down the things you need to do, you can allocate specific time slots on your calendar to get them done. Make sure you follow your schedule time no matter what.
Give yourself some time to evaluate what’s not working.
You can also coach yourself to be successful in your online business by just watching your thoughts.
2) Productivity
To be productivity over time, you have to learn to measure your results. You can take note of your results by paying attention to what is working well for you.
When starting to create an internet online business, you do not have to feel alarm when things don’t turn out the way you want. It is a natural to encounter mistakes when starting out.
You need to get used to measuring your results so that you know what’s really working and focus on the strategy that worked well for you.
This way, you can achieve more results in lesser time.
3) Evaluation
To measure your results online, you can track your performance by simply measuring your total revenue after all expenses.
You can also track your performance by your conversion rates.
At the same time, you can change what is not working. Don’t let yourself get to the stage of confusion when you do not know what’s working.
4) Planning for Obstacles
In your process of building an online business, there will be times when you will have to deal with obstacles. You can make a list of your list of obstacles and turn them into strategies .
Building a business by doing less does not mean you do not have to deal with any obstacles.
To ensure success for your internet online business , always plan ahead of time.
5) Make Money With the Right Mindset
No business owner comes to the online platform without the desire to make real money.
However, not everyone who tries to make money online makes money.
Before you want to run an internet business, you want to make sure that you do not have desperate energy that is preventing you from creating value online.
To attract wealth, you will have to give value to the world from the state of abundance. Before you do that, you can create a good feeling within yourself by imaging that you already have a profitable business online.
After Thoughts
Building an online business is always achievable as long as you allow yourself to focus on the critical aspects of the business on what really works.
However, nothing can be done if you do not have a system that supports your intention in your business goals.
Last but not least, stay patient and always fine tune your process as you grow your business online.
Well, its truly the joy of every online business owners to make a lot of money by doing less but trust me it takes a lot of work prior this moment to be able to work things around working less. I believe a load work comes, you can’t expect a novice or a beginner to have the kind of delivery someone who has spend up to 3 years in the business. So, it’s possible to make more by doing less but it’s going to be a step after the other.
I see this as a very effective way to combat doing so much unnecessary things when trying to build and online business. I understand very well your concept of doing less and I think that it will help a lot of people. I like the last line of this post that talks about patience because not so many people have this attribute. When building an online business, we need to remember that it will take time and hardwork. Even Rome wasn’t build in a day
Nice work here.
Wow, this post is a very nice one that talks here about concentrating on the productive stuff when starting an online business. To be very honest, I really like the fact that you could dish this very valuable information because many people do not understand this and even myself. I have learnt a couple of things from what you have written. Thank you very much
Hi Cindy, thank you for sharing this article on How to Build an Online Business by Doing Less. I really misunderstood what “Less” means, but I got what it means when I was reading the post.
I totally agree with you that building and focusing on critical things that helps to grow your online business is one of ways to achieve more successes.
Best regards!
Wow! This post is comprehensive and complete. I know it will be very effective if properly applied to businesses around the world.
I love mostly your five steps system to help us in the process of growing our business for greater heights and success. And finally my favourite: Giving Value = Receiving Wealth.
Good Vibes!
To some people, this is really not possible, but in the real sense it is but just that it is surrounded by some conditions, one of them is that building a good and stable online business needs a kind of consistency before it can be a thing of less efforts, there’s always the need to hustle and bustle before you can sit back and watch your business rake in income. I’m not disputing the tips here, they will relatively make it easier.
One thing I’ve learned from my online dealings is that no matter how much money a business can be making, you definitely need to be patient with it, doing less does not mean you’ll make the money as soon as possible, so it’s good to understand this simple fact. Also, for someone willing to do less, you need to widen your scope in order to know more, by this you’ll be able to device short cuts. It’s a good information you have here, i love it.
As I have just jumped into the online business idea in the last two weeks I have had the opportunity to look at a ton of websites. I like the layout of your website first of all. Second the article on doing less is going to be very helpful. I need to learn that time needs to be taken just to make this work and it really won’t happen overnight. With a positive additude you can go places for sure. I have learned that asking questions is one of the best ways to help in learning how to build a business online. This will really help with planning and helping to ensure that I can take this on and make it work for years to come. You can’t make money instantly online i have learned but with the right research and reading posts like yours I feel that what I am creating will help me in the future. As I looked over your website I feel more confident as the information of doing less really helped me with some questions that I had on will this really work. Just need to give it some time only been a few weeks. Thank you for putting this information out here it was very helpful for me as I said before. Good luck in the future and thanks for letting me check it out.
Douglas
Thanks so much for reinforcing this idea in me. It is so important not only in building an online business but in all aspects of life. I have always put int the time and effort and often come away with the feeling that I did not do enough.
You make some excleent points here. It really is not about how much you do, but how well you do it. It is much more important to do less in an efficient and focused manner, then rushing through the process just to get done without proper attention to detail.
I have read several articles recently about the importance of avoiding distractions when working on a specific project. Also multi-tasking takes away from our focus as well. It is a red flag when things get too complex. The simpler the better. In this way it is much easier to deal with the obstacles which occur.
Continual fine tuning of one’s business process is also critical. You have provided a wealth of ideas, when taken to heart and applied, cannot help but to increase the effectiveness and results of one’s business. Much appreciated. Joseph
Thank you for your great article Cindy.
I agree with you that its true that in any walk of life if you have structure and cut out the distractions to enable you to become more productive and efficient in what you do. This is relevant when setting up an online business as it is an industry filled with potential distractions and temptations to copy someone else when you may be best served being organised and following your own path.
I think it is also important that as well as prioritising and removing unnecessary tasks that an individual has a real passion for their business as this will carry them along way especially in adverse times.
Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing secrets on how to build an online business by doing less. Many a time we tend to misunderstand the concept of doing less and earning more to skipping the necessary tasks to carry out in order to earn more. I on my own path have been a victim of but this article has thought me how to deal with my challenges.Thanks I am grateful.
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Wishing you all the success!