
This list is by no means exhaustive – it's really more the result of a brain storming session when I sat down to figure out why some
succeed online while others haven't succeeded. Yet. :-)
1. You gotta sell something. I've known people who were "in
business" for months, yet hadn't sold a thing. Until you start
selling somebody's product (yours or someone else's,
doesn't matter) you don't have a business.
2. Get into profit as fast as possible. If you're buying traffic,
figure out how to make that traffic pay as soon as humanly
possible. If you're outsourcing work, find a way to make that
work more than pay for itself. Sure it's common sense, but
I've seen a few folks go into serious debt.