I was talking with my business partner today David Lano about how we have been putting 10 - 15 hours a week into one of our businesses (Control Yours), and how that would be considered part time or less than part time. Normally when you invest only a small percentage of time into something (a hobby, business, relationship, etc.) you can’t put 100% of your focus on it. And not putting 100% in immediately sounded like a negative thing with us, like we weren’t trying hard enough or something, but was it really like that?

As we dug deeper into this topic we realized that if we would have put 100% of our focus on this one business (going after sales everyday, Building a lot of websites right away, etc.) we could have very well damaged ourselves more than we were helping ourselves.

With our business Control Yours, the online technology business that it is, there are a lot of little things that need to be just right before we jump the gun on other things. An example would be that we just found and are working out some kinks with managing our customer’s monthly subscription payments (being able to downgrade or upgrade our customer’s subscription services fluidly and easily for the our customers and us). If we would have sold 100 websites in the first month we were in business, it would have been a nightmare to transfer all the subscriptions to our new customer management system (mainly for our customers). Looking at this example, we see that we couldn’t have noticed this problem immediately and it had to be noticed by time and testing. Working part time on this business is allowing us to build a very secure and steady foundation (all marketing, financial, investment, and management aspects), and being that a lot of businesses fail because they don’t have a solid foundation…this seems pretty important!

Working for our businesses part time has actually allowed us to grow in business maturity and not be rushed into making rash decisions that might have haunted us for a long time. In that way, I am so glad that we have done things the way we have.

Don’t be afraid to start up slow…As long as you are progressively becoming with your life and your business, you’re always moving forward!
Have an Awesome Day!
~Chais Meyer