A guy full of drive, ambition, and ideas sent me these five question about getting his business of the ground. These are really fantastic questions. So great, that I need to split them up into 5 entries. If you have answers or feedback to these questions, please leave them in the comments OR on my Facebook discussion board.

1) Where do I begin?

Part 1)

Everyone’s industry is different. Without knowing details, I cannot give industry or business specific answers. However…

No matter what your dream, knowing who you are, what makes you tick, and what gets you out of bed in the morning is absolutely paramount to being successful in the future.

I had the priviledge of listening to the top executives at Clickbank tell me about their business on Tuesday night. One of the biggest pieces of advice they gave prefacing any of the prescriptive steps to succeeding with your products on Clickbank was simply: you must be passionate. They said that time and time again, they see vendor’s with a great product and huge potential give up just moments before they succeed. They said that if they had just pushed a little harder, hung in a little longer, then they would have been successful. The people who have made $1.7 million on their first day of sales at Clickbank are the people who took at least 6 months to prepare for their launch, followed the prescription for success, and who persevered.

So before talking about the mechanics of starting, I would say………. READ FULL ARTICLE