You Are Never Too Old To Start An Online Business.

Yesterday I was going through my feedback emails. I do this every once in while. It helps me to refocus on what I need to do to move my site (mathatube.com) forward.

The following email got me thinking about age and starting an online line business.

email received Sun, Apr 22, 2012 10:10 pm.

comment = I am a sixty-one year old woman doing college online. I am going for

my BA in Psychology. Needless to say it has been a v-e-r-y long time since I did

anything like geometry! I am now in College Math and this site has helped me

tremendously, especially in finding formulas for area, etc. You are now in my

favorites.

Thank you

Kathleen Wilhelm”)

You can not let age stop you from starting your website or blog. I was 45 when I started my first website. There are a lot of sites started by people a lot older than me. With age comes experience and that is what online business is all about. Teaching what you know.

I know you keep hearing about all these 21 year old starting website and getting rich. But there are over 30 million websites online all of them are not started by college age students.

Social security

You can not just depend on S.S any more. A lot of retirees are taking part time jobs. If you start your website today, in about 5 years you can have a nice residual income. Your website will be your part time job.

Think about starting an online line business instead of going back to school.

I applaud people like Kathleen. I have family members that are doing the same thing. My sister is 53 and working on her bachelor degree in teaching kids with special needs. My mother is 70 and is about to take the California bar exam to become a lawyer. But that is not for everyone I know it’s not for me.

So if you are more like me why not think of starting your own website (your own business).

There are a few reasons why I think you should consider doing this.

First, you learn by doing. When you're in a school you are learning through theory. With your own website you are learning by creating your own content.

Second, you get a wide range of experience. You will become an expert on what ever topic you choose (your niche). You learn marketing, branding, designing when you are doing that part of your site. You get to learn all these areas instead of just focusing one.

Third, it could be a better investment. It cost a lot less. For less than $50 dollars your website could be up and running. The amount of time it takes to go back to school and spend a couple years there, you could take that time and start your website. In a couple years your will be generating a decent income.

I started my main site 5 years ago. I made a lot of mistakes in those 5 years. But it’s been a great learning experience. Know make enough to consider it my part time job. There is nothing like knowing you have built something people fine useful.

But like I said going back to school is not for everybody. Take a chalenge a start your own website. Your biggest investment will be time.

Remember, age is just a number.