>> Do
people that are successful in home based businesses
share
some common characteristics and, if so, what are the
primary
ones?
The dictionary defines successful as:
*having a favorable outcome, or
*having obtained something desired or intended, or
*having achieved wealth or eminence
When applied to a home business, I think the definition
of the
word successful involves a combination of financial gain,
time
flexibility, and being able to call your own shots (being
your
own boss). The order of importance will vary from person
to
person.
I have had the good fortune to be quite successful with
home-based internet businesses. No, that is not
completely
accurate, I have had success because I have invested a
lot of
sweat equity in my work at home business activities.
Having spent many years in the corporate world, I am a
firm
believer in the team aspect of business and so I
naturally
gravitated toward network marketing instead of trying to
go
solo selling products/services and competing with the
big players
like Yahoo, Amazon and the other well known names.
After doing considerable research, I found a very well
established and financially solid internet-based company
to work
with. Using my business experience in the "offline world"
and
developing my internet marketing skills on the fly in an
OJT
(aka: on-the-job-training) format, things have gone very
well and
I recently spent some time trying to identify some of
the primary
traits that are common in my most successful team
members.
Whether you're breeding bird dogs, or race horses, or
drafting
college football players to play in the NFL...it's
important to
develop "markers" that can be very useful in predicting
success.
From my offline, traditional, business experience I have
known
this from the get-go, but for some reason I was slow to
learn
(or, was it re-learn?) that identifying the people with
a high
likelihood of success is even more important when
developing an
online network marketing business that depends upon
teamwork.
Reflecting back on many of the truly successful people I
have
worked with in network marketing, I made a list of the
numerous
success factors that emerged when I assessed each person
individually. After compiling the list, three factors
seemed to
stand out as being the most common success indicators.
In no
particular order, these factors were:
*approaching the business with a long term perspective.
It takes
a lot of time to become an "overnight success"
*exhibiting the tenacity of a pit bull
*being able to ride the emotional roller coaster (two
steps
forward and one step back) in the early stages of
developing
the business
Just because a person has these characteristics, it does
not
ensure success and, on the flip side, a person is not
necessarily
doomed to failure just because he or she does not
possess them
all.
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