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I’ve wrote way too much on blogging and making money online, as I’m making my transition into real life marketing wtih Gurilla, I’m using alot of tactics I picked up through the last 2 or so years I’ve been making money online. To be honest an entreprenuer is someone who can establish him/herself on their own and how I explain entrepreneurs is someone who has earned their right to be called a certain someone in their own industry without it being handed to them.

This is Entrepreneurship 101 – The very basics (Kinda like my handbook)
Confidence in what you do.
If you’re not confident in what you’re doing there is no way anyone will take you seriously, to be a leader you need to follow your own passion.

No bullshit.

I’ve seen a lot of people lie to themselves about the “potential” of their project, but that’s where it gets ugly, if you start anything with a lie it won’t end pretty, know the pros but believe in the cons of your project, that’s what you need to focus on.

Do it yourself. Help is your last option.
If you do everything with help from someone, then you’re not really an independent entity of your business, I know for a fact that you need to be resourceful and to know people in places where you can call for favors or whatever but that doesn’t mean you should depend on them.

In my opinion (this is how I judge myself), If I get help from someone, that’s a sign of weakness, I’d rather learn it my damn self then go around asking for help and be seen as some helpless kid. So far, I have earned everything I have and who I am today, I’ve never asked for help from anyone and I pretty much never will, as far as I know at least.

While I’m at this point, I’d like to say that so called “partners” are just another way to say, “Hey, let’s work together, it’s much better! How about you work today I got something to do, yea, we’ll still split the money and fame over the project, see ya.”

No sucking up to sponsors or advertisers.
I’ve been on both sides of the marketing business—an advertiser and a publisher—and I know suck ups when I see them.

If you want to get sponsored, that’s great, it’s one of the easiest ways to come up—but if you suck up to the first sponsor that comes your way, you’ll never get anywhere. I’ve been approached at least 10 times for sponsorships for a lot of my projects and I’m not talking about just advertising, this is some real money that they’ll be providing me with to take my projects to another level in return for whatever they ask for, that’s where it goes wrong, usually sponsors want a lot more from you then they are willing to give you, that’s where I state a plain NO, with a valid reason that I’m being ripped off in this deal and that I can do better on my own.

Don’t take a NO or never leave with a bullshit reason.
If you are approaching a client or a company to work out a deal to work with them and they just keep bringing out new reasons not to work with you then you definitely deserve the right to say, “What’s going on here?”

If you want something really bad then do not leave with a “no,” persuade them with your strategies/tactics and if you still can’t do it, never ever leave with a bullshit reason that would make you feel better. Like I said, there is no room for lies when you want to make it on your own, go ahead and ask them as bluntly as you can, why wouldn’t they work with you, what’s going on there?

Unless you know your flaws you’ll never get ahead.

Money should not be a hurdle.
I’ve learned to work my way around hurdles that require me investing a lot of money, whenever I start a project I have at least 30 free solutions with 2 to 4 paid solutions as a backup and yes, I do use the same tactic with every project, usually people end up blaming their failures on money, that really gets annoying. I know I can do 100 times more things if I had an unlimited budget but I don’t so I’m working my way around it. On the other hand, if I had that kinda budget I wouldn’t blow it all away just because I’m too lazy to work out a strategy.

Giving up is not an option.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, then giving up is not an option on your list, it shouldn’t be there in any case anyway.

I flip a lot of sites and yes, I do call them my projects but the sole purpose for those sites is just to fuel my own expenses and personal financial status in the first place so when they get sold I consider it mission accomplished.

If you give up way too easily then maybe you’re not meant to be an entrepreneur.

No dead end jobs. No employment. No excuse.
If people have jobs and a project on their hand their excuse is: I don’t have enough time or I’m too tired after work or whatever.

The way I see it, I don’t work for anyone, I work for my self, I’ve always been a service provider with my own business model providing whatever services that are being considered at hand, I’m dedicated to what I do but there’s no one looking over my shoulder, that gives me a lot of creative freedom and it always has been like that since I started out online.

Ahson Rafiq