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Start A Business For Under $100 - Thad Collins
There are a multitude of magazines and websites devoted to the sprit of Entrepreneurs, who by the way provide almost seventy percent of private sector jobs. The dream of almost every employee is to fire their boss, and start a business of their...
Complaints Are Actually A Good Thing! - Diane Hughes
Nobody likes to get complaints. They make you question your judgment, they can ruin your day, and they almost always leave you in a bad mood. But what if I told you that complaints are actually a good thing? Really! I’m not kidding. Complaints...
A Fast Way to Find Clients - Suzanne Falter Barns
So you’ve gotten the training certification, made up your business cards, and started your web site. You’ve discovered your niche, and you have been marketing – aggressively even! But still, no one’s exactly beating a path to your door. Kind of...
College and University Professionals for Human Resources to upgrade their association management software - gomembers Inc
gomembers, Inc. (http://www.gomembers.com), a leading provider of association management and membership software announced today that the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPAHR: http://www.cupahr.org/) has...
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Identifying Work At Home Success Characteristics
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Kirk Bannerman
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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.
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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.
Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and resides in California. For more details, visit his website at http://business-at-home.us
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Real Estate Condo Crazy - Mark Walters
Making money through real estate investing can be a fickle business. Here's a surprising trend that can put money into your pocket. Traditionally those of us who own rental property looked upon condos as competition. They offered a relatively low...
Book Summary: The E-Myth Revisited - Regine P Azurin
Ever wonder why most small businesses-- no matter how huge effort they put in their endeavor--still fail? Micheal Gerber reveals the answers in this book. Accordingly, the future of small businesses revolve in only three philosophies: the...
Why I Need A 16 Hour Work Day - Joe Bingham
Often, I gripe about being behind on my work and how I have so much to do. I'm not unique in this, we all do it. It's just part of human nature. What's funny about it, however, is when I take a close look at the real reasons why I am behind and...
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