What keeps you motivated?

[mattsgame]

Good afternoon everyone,

Now I have spent many hours on my site and its still no where near the standard of some of the basic ones here. I get impressions after impressions clicks after clicks but no sign ups.

Don't get me wrong, I am not in it for the money I love playing around with my own site, learning new things and before trying this out for myself I only knew some basic html.

I'am just wondering what keeps everyone motivated with there websites even the successful ones?


Cheers
Matt

 

[belgamo]

I am itching to see the response to this myself. I have hit the wall several times and everytime find it harder and harder to get remotivated.

 

[KasinoKing]

Good question Matt!

Don't get me wrong, I am not in it for the money

Nor was I at first... but when you catch your first whale - you will be!

I started my first website in March 2006. Because I was also working full-time with a fairly well paid job (just below national average salary), and my wife was bringing home slightly more (due to "unsociable hours" shift work) I was able to basically save up all my affiliate earnings.
The earnings were a slow trickle at first, but gradually built up. By the time our first child was born in March 2008 I had a years worth of salary saved up in the bank, so I quit my job!

My motivation is simple; I don't want to go back to working for someone else in a job I wont enjoy. I love being an affiliate and I love being at home to look after my kids (2 now) myself without having to entrust them to child minders.

The only downside to my situation is I'm finding it VERY hard to simply get the time to do the updates my sites urgently need - a big problem for anyone working from home with family interruptions and demands. This leaves me very frustrated.

KK

 

[Eugene]

For me it is big desire to build up stable internet business in gambling field.

 

[Aussie-Dave]

The only downside to my situation is I'm finding it VERY hard to simply get the time to do the updates my sites urgently need - a big problem for anyone working from home with family interruptions and demands. This leaves me very frustrated.

KK

I've been self employed most of my life. Pre internet I had a bricks and mortar business (no I didn't sell bricks and mortar)...But I left home every day to go to work.

What I've found since working at a home office (done since 97) most people are stuck in the notion you work at home...your not really at work. Hence your asked to odd jobs around the house etc...etc.

It can be extremely frustrating.

When the "can you do this that or the other" crop up that affect my work, I ask my partner do you enjoy all the extra creature comforts we have...etc...etc

Well we wouldn't have all that if I didn't do what I do...So when I say I've got work to do, it means I've got work that needs attending to.

After drumming that into her for 3 years or so (bless her heart) the penny dropped. Now she doesn't throw all these expectations on me which before interfered with my work time.

Granted you've got a new born at home plus another young one & your wife works. Maybe you could work at your sites two nights a week, least give yourself x number of hours per week for "your work time" and nothing else.

You'd be surprised what you can knock over when you have no interruptions.

Just some food for thought.

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As far as what keeps me motivated...

I look at all the poor suckers getting up at 6 or 7am having to get dressed in suits and what not, leave home and go to work 5 days a week. Their basically told what to do and most don't get paid what their really worth.

Besides who would want to do that all their life.
Sure it's a regular income but what a price to pay!

I've always been a risk taker, it's what keeps me motivated and there is always a new challenge around the corner. Then there's the benefits. Some days I wake up and say "screw it" I'm taking the day off. Try doing that in regular job.

I don't have kids at home, my partner works and we don't have the responsibilities most families have with kids. So the need to have a 9 - 5 job ain't there.



Cheers



Dave

 

[Perc]

My motivation is simple; I don't want to go back to working for someone else in a job I wont enjoy. I love being an affiliate and I love being at home...

I look at all the poor suckers getting up at 6 or 7am having to get dressed in suits and what not, leave home and go to work 5 days a week. Their basically told what to do and most don't get paid what their really worth.

That's my motivation right there. I've been spending 16hrs a day at the computer these last few months, though lots of it is spent reading and learning, trying to get things going so I don't have to find another job.

I just don't want to go to work for another jerk-ass. I even went to University and got a degree thinking I would enjoy work more. Sure I got to work inside in the winter, and the work was a little more interesting, but every boss (that I've had anyway) is a prick. I always got into arguments with them that hurt my future, even though they were wrong.

Example: My last job paid well and was with a good company, the job was kinda boring but workable. My boss hated me from the first year I was there due to an argument. He would sometimes spend ALL day, other days just a few hours, arguing with his wife on the phone. He'd scream and yell and slam things around, while we would be working in the next room (or even the same room as his "office" was a desk in our area when I first got there). Apparently this had been going on for years and nobody liked it, everyone was made quite uncomfortable by it, but nobody had talked to him about it. So I did, and he stopped. Stopped arguing with his wife on the phone, and stopped being nice to me. It's like he resented the fact that I had the balls to talk to him about it or something. I stuck it out because it paid well and then I was laid off earlier this year.

The wife works full time and we have some savings, so I've been putting all my effort into this rather than finding another crap job. That's what motivates me, being able to work at home and be my own boss. Plus I enjoy gambling, so I don't mind writing about the subject all the time.

 

[Engineer]

My main motivator is the fact that I can be my own boss. It's nice to be able to work on whatever I want, whenever I want. I can work late, sleep late, work a 2-hour day or a 20 hour day if that makes me happy. No need to get out of my sleeping clothes until I feel like it. ;D

 

[Aussie-Dave]

No need to get out of my sleeping clothes until I feel like it. ;D

Robyn luvs me she only has to wash boxers and t-shirts. No wonder my clothes last so long, I never wear them

Scary as this is...I ventured outside into the backyard today. Last time I saw it the grass needed a good mow. Well it's all neat and tidy..ah the mower man's been!

Yes I've been working a bit lately ;D


Cheers



Dave