I am Responsible For My Own Home Based Business And Inernet Marketing Success

“As a business owner I and I alone, am responsible for my business.”

Most people who have an employee mindset rarely work above-and-beyond the scope of their job requirements. They perform a day’s work for a day’s wages and nothing else.

Many will complain when they are assigned a piece of work that requires them to go beyond the call of duty. This is seen often in the corporate world where employees refuse to comply with their colleagues when asked to perform a function that belongs to another department, even though they could easily do what was being asked of them.

They will say, “Wait a minute, this is not my responsibility. Please go and see someone over in the other department regarding this issue.” This kind of attitude is destructive to the company as a whole as it takes longer to get a job done and contributes to inefficiency. If you adopt this attitude when you are running your own business, you can expect disastrous results.

When you are the boss, you can’t pass your responsibilities on to someone else. Even if you hire employees to run the day-to-day tasks of your business it’s just suicidal to put all of YOUR responsibilities on THIER shoulders. Why do you think business owners wake up early to open the doors to their store and stay late to close up shop on a daily basis?

Think of it this way, if you were teaching your teenage son to drive you would sit beside him and supervise him during the learning process. If you didn’t you would be putting him in a very dangerous situation. Also you wouldn’t say to him, “You know son, since you’ve had your first three driving lessons this week, why don’t you go and pick up your little sister from school every day from now on.” Of course any sane parent would never do that.

But the point is if you have to hire employees, for the most part, they will NOT have a vested interest in the success of your company the way you do and just as you wouldn’t hand over the keys of a car to an inexperienced teenage driver, you shouldn’t leave the responsibility for your success in the hands of the people you hire either.

Most of them will just do the bare minimum and go home and couldn’t care less if your company was to collapse tomorrow. They’d just go out and start looking for another job.

So, in order to be successful in business you have to be the one paying attention to every single detail in your company whether it is the financial accounts, the sales, the customer service, the logistics or even the small tasks that your secretary does.

If anything goes wrong, it’s up to you to fix it.

If customers complain, you’re the one they’ll blame.

Get the idea?

Neglecting any part of your duties as the boss and pushing the responsibility solely onto others is not a good business practice. If your business fails it’s your fault. You either make money or make excuses, not both.

Lesson: Outsource work if necessary but always keep your all seeing eye on every aspect of the business.