Handling The Stress Of Online Business
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: cardio, depression, exercise, happiness, health, home business, home office, mental, other, recreation, stress, Uncategorized, work, worryAre you thinking of making some extra capital on the internet? You definitely would not be the only one. Millions of individuals are turning to the Internet to discover means of making an extra income from the comfort of their own homes and some are even hoping to be able to give up their day jobs and work online full-time.
There is no place like the Internet. No country can offer the same access to a global market for such little cost as the Internet. Being online, can cost less than a dollar an hour and for that dollar you can have access to hundreds of millions of people through their computers.. That is admission to several tens of millions of people per cent of outlay.
That makes an Internet-based business the most cost-effective in the world and it permits you to operate from a laptop or cyber cafe anywhere in the world. The one thing that working online cannot do for you though is prevent the stress that builds up from owning any business. Therefore, how can you reduce the stresses of running an online business? I do not mean financial stress or delivery problems, they are common to all business models.
Changes take place very quickly on the Internet. A new style or method of doing things can take place within a week or even less, whereas it may take months or even years in a land-based business. This means that you have to devote some time every week to keeping up with ‘current affairs’.
The easiest way of doing this is to subscribe to a few forums. Join say two forums that are relevant to the industry that you are in and one general ‘techie’ forum. That way, you will always be conscious of the latest developments and cannot be caught napping.
The Internet can be fairly flakey, when you think about it. You could spend years building a couple of hundred websites, but if you host goes down, so do you, unless you are ready. In 2009, that happened to me twice, so it is not that uncommon. It is very easy for someone to set himself up as a web space reseller, but if he stops paying his bills, he can take hundreds of website owners off line with him and you may not even know it for a few days.
There are several precautions that you should take to dissolve the stress of going out of online business over night through no fault of your own.
Take regular, very regular backups and do not put all your backups on the same medium. I backup everything every time I alter anything. One day the backup goes to a CD and the next day it goes to a portable hard drive. If I had a big enough flash drive the third day would go there. That way, you can never lose more than two day’s work, and believe me, that is sickening enough.
Sign all your websites up to a ‘pinging’ service. These services check to see whether your web site is on or off line several times a day robotically and tell you if they are down. You can get this free, but otherwise it costs just pennies per site per month.
Have a second host ready. You can get a year’s hosting for a $60 or a few dollars a month. Have your account open and ready and you could even load your websites on to it, so that if disaster strikes, you only have to modify the name servers and you are off again.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with office stress. If you are suffering from any sort of stress, please go over to our website now at Stress and Heart Disease
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