Sunday, June 17, 2012

Persistence: The Pillar To Success In Your Online Business

Persistence is an important factor in online business. Success in online business demands a high level of persistence. It should be clearly understood from the beginning that for you to succeed, you have to persist a lot despite any hindrances you may encounter in the course of running your business. You have to consistently work on your business now and gain to convert your desires into their monetary equivalent.  Your will-power to continuously work on your business, day in day out, coupled with your ability to turn obstacles into success stories are key ingredients of persistence.

Since I started online marketing, I have realized that quite a good number of people want to start online businesses. In fact some even start by joining affiliate and networking programs, hoping to make a lot of money within a very short time. But after joining, they work on the businesses for a short time and withdraw. Others just join and leave it to luck. It’s one of the reasons why I have come out to share with my readers, in this article and other subsequent articles, the importance of persistence in online business.

Persistence is one of the great secrets that have helped many online marketers to accumulate a lot of money. Generally, all successful online marketers have persistently worked hard to get money. Hard work and persistence are the driving-forces that help you to turn the impossible into possible and to convert your desires and plans into their monetary equivalent.

If you are really determined to make money online, you must have the energy to work and to work persistently on your business. In online marketing, you can consider yourself successful, if you have been able to make some reasonable amount of money. But one thing you must know is that this kind of success does not come so easily. There are always ups and downs, disappointments and losses that may break down your will-power.

When the journey gets tough as it sometimes will, rest if you should but don’t quit”, said Robert Schuller. The majority of would-be successful online marketers give up when faced with a temporary defeat. It’s only a few, who carry on until they attain their objectives that make money online. Don’t you want to be among them?

To elaborate this further, let me use an example of my former workmate a reputable organization 4 years ago, who abruptly decided to leave formal employment to do personal work of writing books for sale on Self-Discovery. When he mentioned this, everyone who knew him, especially his family, got concerned as to how he was going to survive without any reliable source of income. But he was tired of working for others and wanted to be a master of himself.

When he finally resigned, he used his terminal benefits to publish the useful books. But the going became so tough. Little did he know that his success depended not only on his skill and knowledge on the subject matter, but depended more on his ability to market the products. He didn’t have any marketing skills. He had used up all his terminal benefits and the books were not selling, as he had anticipated, to raise good income for him. Worse still, he had to attend to his family’s never-ending financial obligations. Each day, he was losing weight, getting disappointed and contacting his colleagues for support. But he never gave up with his business idea.

He worked on his business and looked for the market for his products. In the course of doing his business, he also realized that he could earn from organizing workshops and seminars mainly in schools on the subject. He also realized that he could use his books to advertize other people’s businesses and earn from providing advertising space. Actually his books are now full of various companies’ adverts.

As we talk now, he has established himself as an expert of self-discovery and earns a good living from his business. He is a self-made motivational speaker, writer and a publisher. The key factors to his success are mainly hard work and persistence.

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure in online business and a weakness prevalent to the majority of people. To make money online, you must overcome this weakness by having some effort to work on your business consistently and by keeping your desire to make money online burning. How deep is your desire to achieve from online business?

The stronger your desire to make money online is, the stronger the results. The weaker your desires are, the weaker the results. A small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. My friend, keep your desire strong and burning. It’s a key element of persistence!

Marketers who have made money online are those whose minds are prepared to attract riches. If you find yourself weak in persistence, it’s high time you learnt how to acquire this important behavior of successful entrepreneurs. In my upcoming articles, I will provide you with tips on how to train yourself to become persistent and how you can assess yourself to discover whether you have the character of being persistent.

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