Strategic Online Profit Strategies: Is Getting Started Or Following Through More Important?

One of the most important strategic online profit strategies that is found in every business book you  crack open up these days is to "take action".

Although taking action has long been touted as being the most important thing you need to do; we believe that finishing what you start IS DEFINITELY the most important thing you need to do.

Entrepreneurs that are successful in their online businesses, are the ones that finish what they start.

In fact one of the most common traits found in all successful individuals, is their ability to finish what they start.

The Internet is loaded with business websites that have failed because their owners simply failed to finish or follow through with their business plans.

Finishing what you start is one of the best strategic online profit strategies to generates success.

Virtually every business building resource you find on the Internet will stress "getting started" as the primary goal.

No one ever talks about how critically important it is to finish what you start.

There are a host of consequences to not following through with what you initiate. Some of these are obvious and some hidden but every good intention you have and every effort you make will be undermined by not following through with what you start.

You obviously will not be able to get anything accomplished if you don't follow through. Everyone will tell you that. But that's just the beginning.

• On a personal level, not following through has much greater implications.

Your self image or your perception of yourself will deteriorate if you engage in this type of faulty behavior long enough.

You will eventually begin to see yourself as someone who can't get things done.

This will eventually undermine your self-confidence.

Not following through with what you start will lead to intense frustration and aggravation.

Over time as this continues, it will slowly affect you and eventually damage your motivation to start things or begin new projects.

If you already "know" that you have a penchant for not following through with things, why even bother to start.

Not following through with things leads to procrastination.

• At a business or team level, the effects of not following through can be even more severe.

Team morale will start to deteriorate. You will lose the respect of your employees if they begin to see you as all talk and no action.

Very few employees would consider taking a responsible leadership role when the head of the company can't follow though.

This also gives an unspoken blessing to the entire company not follow through.

Good leadership is all about "doing as I do", not just "doing as I say".

When your employees sense that you don't care or see that you have a lax attitude, you can be assured they will adopt one as well.

If that attitude ever catches on, it will invade every area of your business like a cancer.

Everyone in your company from your marketing and sales team, down to your customer service team, will stop following through trying to implement your goals when they see that you aren't following through with implementing the goals you set for yourself.

Of all the strategic online profit strategies that are touted, not following through is the most self defeating and self destructive to you and your business.

If you ever get into the habit of not following through; not only will you be shooting yourself and your business in the foot, you'll be perceived by your peers as being unreliable, a waste of their time, a bad risk or even worse.

People will not want to work with you or for you.

Is getting started or following through more important?  In our opinion, you need to make following through second nature in your personal life and in your business associations if you expect to become a success.