Can You Go it Alone Learning All the Skills As a One Person Online Small Business?

How often have you dreamed of owning your own business, working from home, having loads of free time and then the reality is that you are drowning under the weight of things to do? The day is not long enough and the peak of the mountain just gets higher and higher.Gone are the Days when you could stick up your shingle or web site and the money would come rolling in. Actually it never did. Driving traffic to a web site and convincing people to buy has never been that easy. It was however less complicated a few years ago.The web has filled up with millions of sites of all sorts and the number of people surfing these sites is constantly increasing.There are more and more ways of inviting surfers and serious buyers to your sites, so how can one person manage to cover enough marketing strategies to ensure that a sufficient number of leads manage to find your site?Automation helps a lot. With one click you can send articles to a number of different sites. You can do the same with classified adverts. But you still have to write them. It is recommended that you write four articles and as many classified adverts a week.Blogging is the current method of making your presence known in the virtual market. Even this needs a considerable number of hours to find equivalent blogs to link yours to.Any efficient business, however small requires a number of skills. Book keeping, research, administration let alone a number of marketing skills. It is true that quite a few of the skills can be outsourced but this considerably increases the day to day running costs. The whole business cannot run on auto pilot otherwise we would all be rich.Looking at the present day successful internet entrepreneurs they all have a team working with them whether it be an outsourced or an in house team. So how can the single owner business survive and make a success of his/her business? Team work is always more effective than one single mind, so could it not be possible for a group of single owner businesses form a co-operative to pool expertise and work.In my previous working life I have worked in a number of teams of independently minded people. Yes there are problems but the results you get from a team are nearly always greater than the sum of the parts. This alone keeps the team together.