What's all the fuss about?
I'm sure by now,
most people have heard about the digital life in some form or another.
If you visit the internet on a regular base, you're bound to come into
contact with terms such as
the digital gold rush, or
leading a laptop lifestyle.
The
internet is often depicted as a place of quick and easy money. A place
of abundance where millionaires are born almost every day! But is it
really all that?
In order to give an honest and correct answer to
that question, we need to look at it from both a realistic and a
relativistic point of view.
From a realistic point of view, we can
argue that even the internet can not make you a millionaire overnight.
Unless you are already rich and have tons of money to spend, it takes
time to build any type of business, whether it's a real life business or
an online business.
And as for the "easy" part, I speak from
experience when I say it's really not that easy! Virtually any person
who tries to make a living online will need to learn not just 1, but
many new skills in order to simply give himself "a chance" on getting
successful.
However, we could also argue that words such as
easy and
quick should be looked at from a relativistic point of view.
Today,
in many parts of the western world, starting a real life business is
becoming increasingly difficult in that you're often legally required to
have certain degrees or certificates before you can start any type of
business.
It's also becoming increasingly expensive to start a
business, due to the increasing amount of regulations and a strong
increase in the cost of the many items and assets you usually need to
start a real life business.
Many types of online businesses don't
require any degree or certification and are very cheap or even free to
start with. Most part of the work can, in time, be automated and any
task you find too difficult to master yourself can be outsourced at
often very low prices.
So from that point of view, we could say it's easy to start an online business.
And
because so many tasks can be automated and outsourced, we could also
argue that you'll usually start earning money more quickly than would be
the case with a real life business, especially since most real life
businesses need years to pay off the debt they had to make to start in
the first place!
We all know the internet has become a gigantic,
international shopping mall, where you could potentially reach billions
of customers. Consequently, it is much easier to get rich quick with an
online business than it is with a real life business!
Is a digital life really the life for you?
This is an important question you should consider before venturing into the online business world.
In
order to create a successful online business, you're going to have to
spend countless hours in solitude, working on your computer, learning
all kinds of technical skills and applying them.
Most people who try to create
a digital life, do
so while combining it with a real life job. After all, we do need money
to live during the period we're building our online business!
This
makes things much more difficult though, since most of us have friends
and family, maybe even children who require our attention as well. It
takes a strong will and some serious organisation skills to go through
all that without destroying your social life!
These are all important things to consider before you decide to start building
a digital life.