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ksundheim just reminded me of some great teachers to study... Are you reading or listening to Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Dan Kennedy, Tony Robbins, or (my favorite... and Tony Robbin's original inspiration) Jim Rohn? These men are main-stays of progress and growth in your personal and business life! I highly recommend taking in as much as you can from each of them ;-)

Expertise and Tracking: I have many pieces of advice on this topic. Though, always remember that people buy expertise. They don't buy on price as today's world has become too commoditized with the last ten years of heavy integration of globalization. Consistently read on your industry and write down (keep an actual log) the different rebuttals you get upon trying to close a deal. Every night, sit down and do your best to solve what you had written down from the day. However, as you progress and study, you will notice an inverse relationship between the amount you learn and the amount of rebuttals ; ).

Consistency and persistence are just few things to implement. Patience above all. Then learning from mistakes and taking feedbacks constructively will improve your business.

The Govt can't teach how to run a business?? LOL... I couldn't agree with you more!! :D

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Taking into account the fact that topic starter is a beginning enterpreneur who is looking for advice on e-commerce website I would like to provide a wew recommendations on making keyword research for online stores. Each website has a standard set of keywords. If for example, an enterpreneur sells mobile phone the list of key phrases will include the following: mobile phones, cheap mobile phones, latest mobile phones and so on. I would say that it is a standard set of keywords. Nevertheless, for online store website there is a list of additional key phrases that is associated with the models of products. Also, when performing keyword research it is makes sence to take into consideration the geographical locations of the market and make use of the countries, states and cities which are associated with your products.

The one suggestion I have for any young entrepreneur is to NEVER TAKE NO FOR A ANSWER!   Don't give up what you're doing regardless of what walls you run in to , otherwise you may spend your later years guessing what would have happened. Good luck with your venture!

I was also once a young entreprenuer in your similar position. I'd say just do it! You gotta go after it full steam Keep us updated!

This was a very well said email, Compaula. Keeping healthy is very important. This is something that I have just learned. I think this also spiderwebs with work-life balance. Second, you hit the nail on the head. If you don't love what you do, you won't make money - at least sustained money.