Do You Have The Right Stuff For Home Based Business Success?
by: Kirk Bannerman
Have you ever wondered if people that are successful in home based businesses
share some common characteristics and, if so, what are the main ones?
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
depend 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 years upon years in the corporate world, I am a great 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 a NFL team...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.
