Do You Have The Right Stuff For Home Based Business Success?

 

Have you ever wondered if 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 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.