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To be a good business owner, you do not need a huge marketing campaign or media appearance. What makes a business work is sales, plain and simple and not millions of dollars or some big IPO. You need cash to come in the door each and every day. And to make that shift from nothing to something makes all the difference for a fledgling enterprise. Once you get that first sale, everything changes.
What is the difference between a passion project and an actual business? One dollar. That is all. And that everything. One simple sale that with the right effort and focus will be the first of many. How do you place your fortune side bet and start making real money? To start selling, you have got to do a few things right but this is as complicated as some people make it. The sooner you start bringing in money, the sooner you have a real business. And until you do that, all y9ou have got an idea. Idea are great but cash is better. Instead of jumping at the first business idea you have, try to take your time ensuing the product will sell and that there is sufficient demand for it. The goal is the beginning is not to grow so quickly that you cannot keep up, it is to start making steady sales.
Your definition fast may be different from theirs but the real consensus is that making money within thirty or ninety day is pretty quick. If I were to start all over from search without an audience without any connections and any businesses al all how would I make $1000 as quickly as possible?
You are not building anything of value and it is not a good use of your time. If you want to make $1000 fast using a method that can be scaled into a real business with the potential to replace your day job income, this is how you do it.
Whether you need the money or not, doing an exercise like this will give you great feedback on how solid your business idea is and how sustainable it might be. This step is called validation and when we stress test our business with a clear and measureable goal, we force ourselves to get serious. So let us get into it.
