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You spoke! We listened! We are so excited to finally be officially launching The BusinessBites Button! It’s a completely different model then what we started with, but isn’t that awesome, that you told us what your challenges were? We love that! We had so many of you that told us how we could help you be better, make more money and use your time wiser. We learned so much, some from you and some from our own challenges.

Here are a few things we learned:
We learned that it is really tough to build another community, especially one with two different customers even with experience doing just that.
We learned that it doesn’t get easier to get people to care about what you are doing. We are all so busy, our in-boxes so full. Who really has time for another start up that doesn’t solve a real problem for you?
We learned there is a lot of noise in the larger entrepreneurship space. Can you say, “Focus?”
We learned that with a boot strapped company, it isn’t smart to go after two markets at the same time.

After all we learned, we launched today as a much more limited, but focused product for solo practitioners. That is who we can help, solo practitioners. So, for now, we decided to focus solely on these ultra important and driven entrepreneurs. Many are what I call, entrepreneurs by necessity. These tough times have forced many of us to take risks we otherwise would not. You say, you are not an entrepreneur because you don’t employ people? Well, read this definition and then decide:

“a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”

Don’t you take risk every day? Don’t you manage a business that takes initiative? BusinessBites is all about helping with the many challenges that these very specific entrepreneurs face. In particular, how to make money from the traffic you have worked so hard to create. We know you are called many things (most of which are good); Lawyers, Marketers, Copywriters, Bloggers, Freelancers and many others.

One thing remains equal for all, we are all given the same amount of one resource; TIME.

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
-Thomas Edison

What you’ve said over and over… is that you struggle with time. You are required to maximize it so effectively that it remains your biggest challenge.

What else we now know from you is:

We know…
You receive emails asking you for a “really quick answer” that you never get paid for. A few of these at one time can soak up a good part of your day.

We know…
You struggle with how to provide real value to customers online and trying to turn emails, web traffic and social media contacts into real paying customers.

We know…
You spend too much time billing and managing your accounts receivables when you really should be monetizing your time.

The result was that BusinessBites had to change its focus and solve these very issues for solo entrepreneurs. So, we created the “BusinessBites Button” to put on your web site and social media profiles. It’s really a new and easy way for you to engage/convert your traffic, track your time, and pre-bill your clients, so you can get paid automatically. No more chasing your accounts receivables.

I would love for this blog to represent you solo entrepreneurs and the challenges you face. We know the BB Button is a new way to do business online, so it will take discussion, brainstorming and learning. We hope you are up for the challenge as we help move the internet to the next level. Please begin a discussion here about the difficulties and opportunities. I believe we are just seeing the beginning of what is possible online.

So, here we go……please comment and lets start talking about monetizing your time efficiently and converting those contacts by providing real value.

What challenges do you currently face trying to provide consulting online?