We begin our first business lesson from a quote from Yaro Starak in his free ebook about "How to Start an Internet Business…and Make Your First $1,000 Online". This was an eye opening principle for me especially since I came from an employee background with ZERO business experience. And it goes like this…

In business your happiness must come before your profits!

I told you I came from an employee background where your boss often talks to you about the bottomline, about being more effective, more efficient, reduce costs, doing more with less. And all those blah blah they keep talking about in management meetings and cascading down to the staff.

I guarantee you it was NO FUN! Especially when you have to tell your staff to squeeze in more work in their already full schedules.

And I thought business was that way. It was finding the most profitable niches, getting the right keywords, setting up a system to automate tasks, getting more work done in less time, cutting costs.

I never thought of it as HAVING FUN! That you have to do it because you love it and not simply because it is profitable.

Part of me agrees with it but I often see people in business doing it simply for the profit and they still succeed. What do you think?

Is this a hard rule or a good place to start for us beginners? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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1. Internet Business Lesson Series

First off this is not a typical "training series" in a sense that I will not be doing any teaching. Instead it’s about us teaching one another on important lessons about internet business building.

How do we go about it?

The idea is very simple. Every post in this series I’ll share with you an important business lesson or principle that I have learned or am currently learning. Then the comments section open for your insights on the topic.

Share your thoughts on the subject and let’s learn from one another’s experience. Keep your comments in answer to the following as much as possible.

1. What are your thoughts on the lesson?
2. Do you agree with it or not? Why?
3. How do you think can this be applied in your business?
4. Have you applied it in your business? How did it help you? Or how not?

Free Gift Awaits You

To encourage more sharing and learning from among all of us I’ll add in a little bit of icing for this project. 30 days after the post is made I’ll be picking the top three comments and send them a gift.

Three of the best free ebooks on Internet Business building written by the most trusted names in the industry. These are the references I currently use. You will hear from

Yaro Starak of www.entrepreneurs-journey.com
Rich Schefren of www.strategicprofits.com
Brian Clark of www.copyblogger.com

So let’s get started now. The first lesson comes in a few hours.

Check out these related posts:

1. Internet Business Lesson #1: It’s About Your Happiness
2. Internet Business Lessons from a Parking Lot
3. How Do You Start Your Internet Business?
4. Internet Business Lessons: How Blogging Changed a Man’s Life
5. Who is Looking for an Internet Job?