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Hehe funny that the thread was created and revisited in May though.. When I decided I wanted to work on my websites full time.. I found a job online (pay was crap.. job sucked.. but i had lotsa time online
) as an online bingo chat host.. until a CAP member recently saved me from my fate and hired me 
~LadyH
elgoog wrote:Webzcas started this thread a year ago, loli wonder Webzcas, can you report how things are going now?
Me myself, im having a 10 months sabattical, so i can try this thing out and see how it works without risk.
Hopefully i can decide to work for myself (and my family) after these 10 monthsGood luck to all of you self-employed!!
:highflyer
Wow. Saw some hits to my sites from this thread in my weblogs, amazed this thread has been brought back to life after a year LOL.
Well nearly a year on, no regrets at all and am looking forward not back
.Best decision I have ever made. If you are willing to put in the long hours, you can make a success in this industry and meet some great people along the way.
Good, good
You got any specific advice?
What a monumental grace working for yourself can be. This thread alone is inspirational to know it can happen to anyone who puts their mind to it.
Mahalo for the motivation Webzcas.
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Bump, would love to hear more on this from people who’ve gone fulltime.
Have you got an office?
Have you stayed working from home?
Have you hired fulltime people to work for you (non-remotely)?
What’s the progress been like?[Have you got an office?
– Yes
Have you stayed working from home?
– Out grew the home office.
Have you hired fulltime people to work for you (non-remotely)?
– Yes, and it’s been a challenge. To give your staff the information they need to make the business more successful you also giveaway things you have learned (the hard way) which they can potentially use on their own.
What’s the progress been like?
– Honestly – I had a better bottom line without employees, but in the long run I expect to make up for things.
Summary – For me real employees actually cost me alot in the short term because I got one really bad techie who made some really bad calls and set me back over $200k in losses in 1 year (mistakes and potential lost income). Be careful about growing your business, the right people make all the difference, and they are not always that easy to find.
ty Kevin
good post!
Have you got an office?
Work from Home
Have you stayed working from home?
Yes
Have you hired fulltime people to work for you (non-remotely)?
Nope
What’s the progress been like?
If you put the hours in over a couple of years, you will reap the rewards. Progress has been very good
Nick0r wrote:Have you got an office?
Yes
Have you hired fulltime people to work for you (non-remotely)?
Independent contractors, and they work remotely.
What’s the progress been like?
It took me years to get here. Now, the more people work for me, the better I do. Or maybe, the better I do, the more people work for me?
This is good stuff, keep it coming people!
The more information you can give about going full time the better.
Cheers.
Congratulations Webzcas!!
That is great news.
Best of Luck to you…maybe we can meet up at CAC in Vegas in the fall for a beer or two!!:drunk2:
I would like to add something –
Although my casino site is only 2 months old, as I mentioned before, I have other non-casino related retail sites, 5 to be exact and I have to speak from my experience from those.
I still work from home (do my web work at night when its quiet) and during the day I work from my office which is in the back of our store. We have 5 employees, and I have to agree with Kevin on what he says. Good employees are SO hard to find. When you find them, do whatever it takes to KEEP them!
I’ve found that I’ve had to train in and teach many of the things I learned the hard way to our employees too, just as Kevin has. This can be scary as they can walk away with all this knowledge handed to them the easy way and you’ve lost a good employee. But then, growing a business is all about risks, isn’t it?
I have a partner in my business, who is my significant other. Four years ago, he quit his $250,000/year job to join me in growing my business. Everybody thought we were both crazy! We were sitting good financially at the time and we knew it was a HUGE risk, but I couldn’t continue to grow the business without his help and he saw the potential in what I was doing.
If I had to say what has been the most trying during these years, I would have to say that many times I thought we were going to kill each other! Many times we almost broke up and destroyed the business. In fact, one time it went as far as all the sites being taken down and we seperated. It almost happened. What a mess that was to put back together when we both finally came around.
Whew – Hang in there, nomatter how tough it gets. We’re still in this and its much easier now. We still have our differences from time to time, but over the years we’ve each learned to settle into our own parts of our jobs and a system is in place. He manages the sales, shipping and receiving and I manage the store, accounting and all web related stuff.
Today – its the best decision we have ever made. I still put in some really long hours, but those hours are at my discretion and we have a fine business that continues to grow every year.
ewhitaker wrote:Today – its the best decision we have ever made. I still put in some really long hours, but those hours are at my discretion and we have a fine business that continues to grow every year.Yep, I put in huge hours, 7 days a week.
I enjoy what I have created though, the site rocks every way I look at it and gives me much satisfaction.
In terms of personal tasks I’m working the same quantity of hours than when I had my offline profession.
The only thing that’s a little tough in this biz, is that “location” is not a concept to be applied in the net.
I mean that if I have a good kiosk in a good corner in my city, I will be selling something every day yes or yes.
Instead in this venture we have to push each and every day for SE presence, PPC, ezines,etc etc.For that reason I’m thinking to build some off business too.
I got into this with a couple of business partners. We have 4 other businesses as well both web-based and real-world based. From my perspective, I have always looked at the casino affiliate business as the cash cow of what we are doing. Something that can be put together, built up, and continue to grow in revenue whether we spend time on it or not.
However, I have seen and felt the tons of time that is required just to build up the business to a resonable level. It has been fun and quite a learning experience. I came into this thinking I knew a lot about the web, and I did, but the additional learning I’ve put myself though has been amazing and has been applied to all of our other businesses.
I do forsee highering some people eventually, though they will likely be working remotely. The need for a programmer, content writer and link builder would be the starting points I would think.
