Are You a Leader? The Truth About Business Opportunities and Becoming a Millionaire in America
You have probably heard about the 80/20-rule, also referred to as the "Pareto Principle".
For example, 20 percent of the salespeople working on a given sales-track may make 80 percent of the money. You've probably heard it before. We have to consider that most businesses in the off-line world fail also, so this is to be expected.
It always surprises me, how many people are trying out for online-marketing that are not cut out for it. And on the other hand, how people brimming with talent will hold off, believing there is something illusive about online-success. In this article, I will explore what qualities, especially character-qualities (also emotional qualities) are needed to succeed online and finally do what we all dream about. Fire our boss!!!
But what does it take to make it? Here are five pointers.
1. Personality or leadership (yes, one of these attributes is enough). In this industry, we actually have people excelling that don't even have that much personality, but they do offer leadership to the community. They are teachers and mentors. However, personality doesn't hurt. Neither does a background in sales. It is often these people that excel online.
2. Money. While it is true that there are many success-stories of people that have borrowed from credit-cards or taken a loan, the best chances to get wealthy fast, is if you have a few grand to invest. Just the truth. Other opportunity-seekers can be targeted more specifically and leads generated in larger numbers. With a few bucks to invest. There is a slow way to wealth as well. But many don't have the tenacity to take this path.
3. Open-mindedness. I talked to a 55-year old insurance-agent the other day, who was not only mildly successful in his job, to say the least. He was a real star. Now, he had too much money and too much time, and he wanted to "go online". Yet I lost him to a competitor that basically had a flashy website promising no work, no calling, no skills to learn (and money rolling in on auto-pilot, of course). This is sometimes hard to take. The people that are most cut out for this, have some sort of fear, often technophopia, that stops them from being the success-stories they could otherwise easily become. Getting a website up and running these days takes a day or
two and is 6-grader-stuff.
4. Passion for your business! You gotta love what you do. You have to see the wealth that you are going to generate in your mind's eye and take charge every day. Be in it with your heart, 100 percent. See yourself really, really firing your boss. Dwell on your pain. It will carry you through the humps and bumps in the road. See yourself being free from it all, forever.
5. The right mentor
That's really pretty much it. It's ironic, that I still get the question "Is this a scam?" a lot. People know that people fail online. And yet, upon opening a pizza-store and possibly failing, I don't think anyone attempting to open a pizza-store has ever been asked, whether or not he is about to get involved in a scam. Online-businesses are still being watched and evaluated with a skeptical eye, I hope this article has made a little contribution to change that.
About the Author:
Mark Tetzner is an German Online Marketer and leader within Global Resorts Network. He lives in Mexico. See him first eaten and then devoured by a wild bunch of dangerous raccoons http://www.globalwithus.com