Comments on: Knowing When To Cut Your Losses and Stop Building A New Business http://www.startupdaddy.com/knowing-when-to-cut-your-losses-and-stop-building-a-new-business Start And Grow A Business And Still Make Time For Your Family Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:56:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ian Gordon http://www.startupdaddy.com/knowing-when-to-cut-your-losses-and-stop-building-a-new-business/comment-page-1#comment-31 Ian Gordon Mon, 19 May 2008 04:33:53 +0000 http://www.home-based-business-startups.com/knowing-when-to-cut-your-losses-and-stop-building-a-new-business#comment-31 @ Rob, It's never easy to scale back. Let's face it, leaving money on the table is one of the hardest things we can do. When it's the right thing to do though, you know it right away. You feel relief, then liberation. When you get back in touch with the reasons you started the business, and it becomes fun again, that business will come back to you. Hopefully, with lessons learned, you handle growth smarter, and outsource ... A LOT And Congratulations!!! Get all the sleep you can now. I hope you keep in touch here, and let us know how the new baby changes the way you run your businesses. @ Rob,
It’s never easy to scale back. Let’s face it, leaving money on the table is one of the hardest things we can do. When it’s the right thing to do though, you know it right away. You feel relief, then liberation. When you get back in touch with the reasons you started the business, and it becomes fun again, that business will come back to you. Hopefully, with lessons learned, you handle growth smarter, and outsource … A LOT

And Congratulations!!! Get all the sleep you can now. I hope you keep in touch here, and let us know how the new baby changes the way you run your businesses.

]]> By: Rob http://www.startupdaddy.com/knowing-when-to-cut-your-losses-and-stop-building-a-new-business/comment-page-1#comment-29 Rob Fri, 16 May 2008 14:48:52 +0000 http://www.home-based-business-startups.com/knowing-when-to-cut-your-losses-and-stop-building-a-new-business#comment-29 Recently, I had to make a similar decision: Not too long ago, I started a home based business for fun and it quickly exploded in popularity...too much so...my weekends and evenings were being spent entirely on handling customers, shipping products, answering emails etc. It wasn't fun anymore...and with a baby on the way, I had to make so changes. My decision wasn't to stop altogether but to simply scale it back, to remember why I started the business in the first place...for fun...and stop doing some of my promotional activities and even saying "no" to some customers. It's a tough decision to make but listen to Ian, and to Kenny Rogers "Ya gotta know when to fold 'em" Keep up the good work Ian. Rob Father to be...3 months and counting Recently, I had to make a similar decision:

Not too long ago, I started a home based business for fun and it quickly exploded in popularity…too much so…my weekends and evenings were being spent entirely on handling customers, shipping products, answering emails etc. It wasn’t fun anymore…and with a baby on the way, I had to make so changes.

My decision wasn’t to stop altogether but to simply scale it back, to remember why I started the business in the first place…for fun…and stop doing some of my promotional activities and even saying “no” to some customers.

It’s a tough decision to make but listen to Ian, and to Kenny Rogers “Ya gotta know when to fold ‘em”

Keep up the good work Ian.

Rob
Father to be…3 months and counting

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