Hello fellow creators! My name is Janne and I'm from Finland. I got excited about everything in the 4 Hour Work Week book about 5 years ago, quit my job and decided to become an online entrepreneur.
As you might think things didn't work out as smooth as I expected.
But like they say, if you keep trying long and hard enough, good things start happening. Now after 5 years I've managed to create a profitable online business that allows me to spend my days doing what I want. January was the best month so far bringing in 3.5k euro gross income. The business only requires me to answer an email or two every now and then, but if I want to keep my rankings (and to improve them), I need to put in some work. Sounds perfect, right?
Well, it's not. And that's the problem.
When I was creating the website and products I was really excited about the work I was doing. Months passed by, I started to make money and my motivation slowly died. One reason for this is that I don't actually find the topic interesting and I started the business based on the demand I discovered. I knew I had the skills to build what people want and it worked out.
Another thing is that I'm alone in this and it makes things even more difficult.
It might be easy to think that bringing someone in would make it easier, but there are many problems in that. For example the money wouldn't be enough after paying all the taxes and as I don't really care about the whole topic, scaling the business seems a bit crazy. I mean, am I really in this just for the money?
Now the monthly income has dropped about 1k and I almost don't even care. For months I've made plans how to create more content to grow the organic traffic, but the motivation isn't enough. I've hired freelancers for that, but still it's somehow difficult. I have 1-2 days when I'm determined to get myself back on the track but then I crumble again. I really don't know what to do.
Have you had your motivation fade away after "success"? How did you get over it?