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Common Work At Home
Success Characteristics
By: Kirk Bannerman
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
often takes a long 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 all
three of them.
About the Author
Kirk Bannerman operates his own
successful home based business
and also coaches others seeking to start
their own home based
business. For more information visit his
website at
Proven Work At Home Business
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