This went on continuously for months and intermittently for years. We always discussed issues relating to start up business. Some years later when business was established and successful I realised from some chance word that I had been giving away free consultancy because my friend had been drawing on our discussions to help him with his problems. He's still my friend!

This is what friends are for and his business is a now market leader in it's sector and I am so pleased that he had for sight to use my ‘free consultancy'. So talk to other entrepreneurs.

As you go on in your business treat every failure as a learning experience. Think carefully about what went wrong, understand it fully and use information to understand your strengths and weaknesses. Take remedial action and don't take failures personally.

If being a successful entrepreneur was easy every one would do it. There are no rules, there is no right and wrong way round most issues. There are just problems with a number of ways of solving them and turning them into opportunities. Be flexible, you will solve them and then you are on to next stage,

Tip:

Never ever be too proud to discuss your problems, and if your are a consultant you probably enthuse about your interests and communicate them freely, beware giving of free consultancy - ‘even to friends!'

Increasing revenues using power of Internet takes vision, planning and implementation. All of this is connected to your systems.

Do you have systems in place? If so, how effective are they? Are you consistent with what you do? Do you track your results? Do you think in short term or long term with your systems?

Anyone who is succeeding using Internet in their marketing has effective systems in place, they are consistent, they track results and they think in both short term strategies and long term.

Do you?