I hear this question so often, and the short answer is yes. As it happens, the motto here at MasonWorld.com is “Building Internet Businesses One Night at a Time.” That is exactly what I do, because I work a full time job in addition to my various online projects.
So, I thought it might be helpful to provide some tips and discuss this topic a little more to help you find the best success in your part time internet business, so welcome to Part Time Tips! This will be an on-going series for the next several months here in our Part-Time Internet Business Series at MasonWorld.com.
Building an internet business, creating offers, solving traffic problems and getting traffic to your products and websites can require sustained effort over time. This series that I’m offering you here teaches you exactly how to do that both as a part time internet entrepreneur and really as an entrepreneur in general.
Three Kinds Of Internet Marketers
From my perspective there really are three kinds of internet marketers out there. First, there are the serial entrepreneurs. Those are people that go into internet marketing full blast because of an unbridled passion or a strong sense of where they’re headed.
You sometimes hear about these “high passion” people. One day they wake up and they want to be internet entrepreneurs. To some extent Sterling and Jay are like that — they just leap headlong into it and are very successful.
Then there are entrepreneurs of circumstance. You hear about those people as well. They’re people who have greatness thrust upon them so to speak.
These are the people that are forced to make change unexpectedly, they’ve got to succeed to survive. A lot of times you’ll hear about single moms who lose their job and they turn to the internet to make money so they can feed their kids.
The Rest Of Us
The final group is really what I call the rest of us. People like me, people with a day job who are just interested in internet marketing or want to make extra money to pay a car note. Sometimes I get email from people looking for help to reduce debt or take a vacation and they’re trying to make a few dollars with internet marketing. I call those people the rest of us.
I’ve got some tips for the rest of us, and I’m part of the “us.” In fact, I’m a regular guy. I’m a father with four kids. I’m a husband to a beautiful wife. I have a dog and a cat.
I note that the cat is for sale. If anyone out there wants my cat you can have him. You have to talk to my wife, but as far as I’m concerned you can have the cat.
I also have a real job. I’m a director at a large electronics company in Texas. I run a department and my department has numerous employees and quite a large budget.
At night under cover of darkness when no one is watching I run a successful (and by successful I mean profitable) internet business that I really love. You can do it too. The question is how can you do it?
That's what we're going to discuss throughout this series. Stay tuned for valuable part time business entrepreneur tips right here every Thursday for the next several months.
This has been the first post in our Part-Time Internet Business Series at MasonWorld.com, where we build successful internet businesses one night at a time.
I guess I fit into the “hated my job so I worked part time until it was able to be full-time” category, but YES, I fully agree with you Mark that you can definitely run a successful internet business by working only part-time hours. However, in order to do that, you have to use your time VERY wisely and stay very focused, because part time only gives you a little bit of time to work with. It’s all about consistent and regular effort though.
This post got me hungry for more, looking forward to the next one in the series 🙂
Thanks Jonathan. I currently have about 12 posts written and scheduled for each Thursday. Appreciate the feedback.
Mark, I got into IM because work has slowed down. I am at work for 8 hours, but I only have about 5 hours worth of work. I work at a computer, so I thought what can I do with the rest of the time.
I found IM and I’m hooked. I do some IM work at home, but I could do more. I have 4 kids, but only 1 at home. I do all the family things, but I don’t watch any mindless TV. I used to read at nite, now I work until I’m ready to sleep.
I’ve only been at this for 2 months, so far my wife supports me. And if I can get some money rolling in, probably no future problems.
IM is exciting and fun to read about. It’s easy to find a forum and spend an hour checking it out, rather than working on an article or a website.
I know we read it all the time, but GOALS, ACTION & MORE ACTION is what it takes.
I look forward to next Thursday’s post, thanks Bovic
Your singing my song Mason 🙂 I’m a full-time PR/marketing manager in the education sector. I love my job but throughout my 20 years working in this field I’ve always managed a freelance writing business on the side. In 2007, I discovered that the Internet (a place I visited to indulge my interest in travel forums) could actually support my side-line business.
It’s been an exciting ride since then. I met some wonderfully smart and successful online business owners and mentors who have had a tremendous impact on my business – 3 people I think you know – Kelly McCausey, Nicole Dean and Lynn Terry 🙂
My challenge is keeping all the balls juggling – one night at a time, just like you! I’m expanding out beyond my writing business to do some of what I do during the day (creating information resources for professionals and small businesses) as a core part of the business I’m building at night.
Sorry for the long post…but I sense you’re a kindred spirit 🙂 Enjoying your blog and all your excellent insight and information.
Hi Mark:
Love the information. I like Jonathan want you to hurry and write some more. Your blog is always informative and of the real world stuff no fluff or B.S.. Thanks ever so much for your honesty and intgerity.
On another note sorry, I don’t want the cat at any price.
Regards,
Peggy
Hi Mark,
Nice to see that you’re doing a series of part-time tips for those who are still doing this part time. Most people suffer from information overload and lack of focus as well as direction (especially when they’re still doing it part-time), so it’ll be great to cover those in your series.
I belong to the 2nd group (have to succeed to survive).
Best!
Welly Mulia
Great post as always. I find it so hard to come home from the crazy day job and knuckle down into some serious IM hours. I was getting burnt out. So now I make time to do other things like yoga, swim, movies and it’s crazy but for some reason I can get more IM work done! The motivation/mindset/faith part is the toughest part of IM as sometimes you’re working away but you don’t see any results for weeks, even months. it’s easy to let self-doubt creep in at that point. Thanks for this helpful series for part time workers like me
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