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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 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 theword 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 completelyaccurate, I have had success because I have invested a lot ofsweat equity in my work at home business activities.

Having spent many years in the corporate world, I am a firmbeliever in the team aspect of business and so I naturallygravitated toward network marketing instead of trying to gosolo 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" anddeveloping my internet marketing skills on the fly in an OJT (aka: on-the-job-training) format, things have gone very well andI 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 draftingcollege football players to play in the NFL...it's important todevelop "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 haveworked 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 tostand 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 stepsforward and one step back) in the early stages of developing the business

Just because a person has these characteristics, it does notensure success and, on the flip side, a person is not necessarilydoomed to failure just because he or she does not possess themall.