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If you are thinking about starting an online business, or have simply stumbled from one business opportunity to another for several years, chances are you are not looking in the right place to forward your business.

If you are not sufficiently funded to survive the start up phase of your business online or offline for that matter then you will quickly run out of cash, you will become desperate to make things work quicker than a natural pace and you will find yourself in self destruct mode.

The difference between building a sustainable long term business and a flash in the pan, fingers crossed I hope this works is investment. It’s investment in yourself, and your continuous self education, it is also an investment in your marketing skills. If you are just starting out with NO previous sales, business or marketing skills and you buy an advanced strategy for fast cash — expect to fail.

You simply CANNOT leap frog experience and expertise. You only have to look at the popular TV Show The Apprentice to realise that you simply CANNOT turn up one day and expect to know everything and be an expert from day one. These skills HAVE to be learned.

Even with an MLM Business opportunity, or an instant “website business in a box” scheme, you will not succeed in anything without first investing time and education in yourself. The online world is very much more a sharing world than offline, joint ventures are more frequent, partnerships are formed more easily and there are an abundance of Affiliate Schemes and products for you to create income streams from.

However, the biggest killer of all new businesses is lack of cash in the business, because without it you will not be able to MARKET your business, so make sure you have funding to pay the bills for at least 6 to 12 months BEFORE you even start to think about starting a business online.