Got an Idea? Start an Ebusiness

One idea can become a dream. One dream can become a reality. Most of us will leave a dream behind for the sake of raising children, paying bills or keeping a family together.

It’s always “something else” that gets in the way of turning a dream into a reality.

The dream eventually fades after time. It creeps back into the narrow hallways of the mind - every now and again piercing your memories of “what could have been”. All that’s left now is a heavy sigh, maybe, a hollow sadness rustling through your disappointed frame reminding you that you will never be who you wanted to be and you’ll never do what you dreamed you could do.

I mention these things because I had reached my mid – thirties and found myself making those same heavy sighs. Feeling as though I somehow cheated myself out of life, cheated myself out of the possibility of turning my dream into a reality. A dream is hope. Well, without hope, what really is there in life? I was tired of tiptoeing through my valley of broken dreams. I was weary of wandering the hills of heartbreak and hopelessness. So, I decided to do something about it.

I will share with you this: My dream was to start an EBusiness and work from home. I wanted to finally do something that I enjoyed. I wanted to stop the drudgery of my half- lived life. Through the years, I had very much become skilled in the intricate workings of the Internet. I taught myself how to design webpages and learned the skills of a webmaster. I gained knowledge of search engines, back links, reciprocal links, rankings, seo, etc. You name it, I learned it. I wanted my dream to become a reality. I started to publish a daily Ezine (electronic magazine) to get myself familiar with the daily workings of on line publishing and Internet audiences. I figured if I started out small, then I could move up to bigger things – like my dream.

The Ezine started off slow. In fact, the readership numbers were discouragingly low but, when pursuing a dream, you some times get disappointments, set backs if you will, to drive you harder and to remind you that turning a dream into a reality is not for the weak willed or faint-hearted. Little wonder why some have chosen to live with the “heavy sighs” rather than deal with the scars and punches that meets you on the road to dreams. At least I was giving it a try, which was far better than burying my dream in the graveyard of crushed ambitions. After about 6 months of “day in and day out” researching for daily topics and ideas, my Ezine started to do well. It hit Page 1 of Google and before I knew it, it was sitting in the number one spot in all the major search engines. Was it generating money? Well, … no. If you measure success by the amount of money that one has earned well, you may just say my effort was wasted and my “dream chasing” was in vain.

It wasn’t. I proved to myself that I could pursue my dream and through diligence, it would eventually become a reality.

After about 9 months of publishing my Ezine, I decided to make the leap into establishing the EBusiness that I had been dreaming about for years. I bought the domain name and found a web host and moved into the final phase of “idea = dream, dream = reality”.

To fast forward you to today, I will tell you that about 11/2 years have passed and I now have a successful EBusiness. (Fulfilling your dreams doesn’t have to take years to do). Everything I learned from my start up days with my Ezine has benefited me a great deal.

All the directory submissions and press releases for web promotion have helped my current business to thrive. Submission after submission has actually been incorporated to my current EBusiness. NOTHING was in vain! Struggles, yes, I’ve had a few. But my hopelessness is gone and my life has returned.

A final piece of advice: If you dream it, you can do it. It won’t be easy but with persistent diligence and honorable intentions, your dream can become a reality. My idea was an EBusiness. What’s yours?