Why You Should Start Getting Paid ASAP In Business

Today, we’re going to be talking about why you need to start getting paid ASAP online.

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely because you’re either interested in starting an online business or you’re passionate about making your already existing online business work much better.

Why You Shouldn’t Wait A Second Longer

The first immediate steps are fairly obvious. You need to have a basic product or service that you’re providing, detailed in other articles on this site.

But almost more importantly, having a product or service isn’t enough: you need to start getting paid for it right now.

The reason for this is as psychological as it is financial. Getting paid immediately makes the entire evolution of your entrepreneurial career much more “real”.

Up until the point you start getting paid for your products and services, everything seems theoretical and there is little to no ego investment.

You feel yourself saying things like, “Oh, I’ll just try it a little bit, but if I fail, it’s not my fault…”

You find yourself making all of the classic excuses that stopped you before. This will lead to failure, it won’t lead to business.

Start Getting Paid ASAP The Intelligent Way

You need to start testing if your “idea” for a product or service is good enough. You need begin to investigate how badly the market really desires your idea and finding out if you need to upgrade it, make it more streamlined, and an overall better experience for the customer.

You need to start getting paid immediately, plain and simple.

Now you might start looking at this and encounter another classic success barrier thought loop like “I don’t know what to get paid for… my product or service idea isn’t fully developed yet…”

Well, look up what other people have gotten paid for in the past and see if you can offer the same thing. Then do it as a freelancer.

The Quickest Way To Start Getting Paid I’ve Seen Lately

Most people who are into entrepreneurship start freelancing to get into business because it’s very simple.

As I’ve mentioned in other articles, this has the advantage of putting money in your pocket quickly and making your journey in business “real” in an immediate fashion.

Getting paid right now has a very specific psychological reason behind it. See those dollars in your bank account makes something click in your brain where you think,

“Wow, this is actually a real thing that I can do… that I HAVE done, it’s not just written in the books… it’s not just the business ‘gurus’ I see on YouTube… I can make this happen myself”

Even people who are starting online from scratch should do this, even if it’s just a small amount of money. A low-paying job on Fiverr for freelance will still put some cash in your pocket and get you on your way.

Why You’re Feeling The Fear Of Doing This Immediately

We’re completely surrounded by online entrepreneurs. Business is moving online. The banks can’t keep up. The lawyers can’t keep up. The old-style traditional corporations can’t keep up.

If you still don’t believe that being online and successful is possible… just prove it to yourself by becoming one of the many already making it happen.

If your fear that making money online is “scammy” or only “scam artists” do this, then it’s understandable, but unwarranted.

There are indeed people who are selling “get rich quick” schemes all over the place, but guess what?

There are also tons and tons of legitimate, highly successful business on the internet who are making those dollars you’re afraid of accumulating already helping real live people every day.

If anything, offline businesses are busy trying to hop on to the online bandwagon. What you consider a legitimate brick-and-mortar company wants to be in the web 2.0 space.

The First Few Steps To Start Getting Paid

All of these benefits will apply to you, but you need to get started. The first few steps and the first few paychecks are key.

Take the freelancing option seriously. I’m not telling you this as a theory or a new “idea”, I’m telling you because I’ve seen tons of new entrepreneurs already succeeding at this and getting results really quickly.

Another thing people seem to do when they start an online business is think that they immediately need “the perfect solution and the perfect product”… THEN they will ask for money. It’s a strange kind of perfectionism that doesn’t really work in the real world.

This line of thinking doesn’t produce results because what ends up happening is you only half start a business, waiting and waiting for that “perfect idea”, you run out of money, and you get a job again. I’ve seen it too many times to count.

Most of the people who think this way just kind of dabble around and don’t get much accomplished.

They work two hours a week waiting for their “perfect idea” and then go back to spending the rest of their free time on pointless leisure activities that resulted in nothing really useful for them.

To The Victor Goes The Spoils

So, if you’re really serious about this – GET PAID RIGHT NOW. GET YOUR FIRST CLIENT RIGHT NOW.

Just sign up, deliver a product, provide a service, learn something like simple copywriting, writing articles, Photoshop, all those things are easy to learn and you’ll be able to learn them in your future business.

In  your first freelancing gigs, you’re going to learn how to SELL to people. You NEED to learn how to sell to people.

You need to learn how to close that sale. That freelancing gig is a SALE. You need to learn how to talk to business owners. You need to deliver him or her a satisfactory product or service… and then get paid ASAP.

Once you get momentum going, clients actually start coming to YOU.

You get the foundational skills and before you know, people are coming to you saying,

“WE want to do business with you. What kind of service are you offering again? What kind of products do you sell? We’ll work with you. Whatever it takes.”

If you want excitement in business, THAT’S what it looks like. Putting yourself on the frontlines for a bit, seeing what works, getting paid ASAP, and people eventually coming to YOU for work. And I’ll tell you… it feels amazing.