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If you are a person who thinks maybe I can just hide at home and put up a few canned sites to sell stuff, you are missing the main point about what it takes to be successful online. We aren't out here just selling stuff, we are communicating, sharing, educating, helping, gaining friendships, supporting, and acquiring business partnerships. Since communication is such a huge part of an online business, its helpful if you enjoy it. Successful people enjoy communicating or sharing their ideas and personal experiences with other people. Having a successful business involves putting yourself out there. The more people you communicate with the better. Its helpful if you like to write. A natural ability or love of writing will put you way ahead of the game since there is so much writing involved with communicating online. You need to communicate by putting information about yourself and your business on a website. You need to communicate through ads, emails, articles, sales letters, and press releases. You also communicate through online forums or by recording videos or screen shots. Customers and other marketers communicate with you through comments to your blog or website and by sending testimonials. Its true that much of this can be outsourced, but even then you need to have a pretty good handle on the project yourself before you even try to explain it to someone else. And besides, isnt that why we wanted to be entrepreneurs; because we want to go out there and do it ourselves? I would rate communication as the number one skill needed to be successful online. And I didn't even mention follow up phone calls, social networking, voice messaging, text message marketing, or Twitter which are all important for communication online. Before I go on to discuss other success skills, consider this idea for a minute. Your weakest skill is determining your current income. How could you double your income by developing that weak area of your life to make yourself more effective? As you read through the following list, you might want to take a personal inventory or an honest evaluation of your own skills. Notice if you are stronger in some of these areas and weaker in others. After this self evaluation is completed; work on developing your weakest skill set to make it stronger for online success. 2. Organized Thinking, Organized Knowledge, Organized Planning It starts with an idea, and then it's implemented with a plan. Unorganized knowledge is useless without a plan for using it. An organized plan for the information is the fastest and most efficient way to get from point A to point B. Make a straight line plan to reach your goals. Get it on paper, write out the details, set a date to accomplish your goals. Work out the details so you know where you are headed and keep your focused attention on the goal. 3. Creative Thinking Always thinking of new ideas and creating solutions for problems as they come up in your own business is a necessary activity for your success. Create new products that solve other people's problems. You use your creative juices for writing blogs, emails, ad copy, sales copy, and creative graphics; the list is endless. We need to continually create to succeed. Become a creative idea person. 4. Continued Education If you love to learn and are continually studying, you have a quality for success. Are you always looking for new innovative ways of doing things? Do you like to research? Do you have a natural curiosity that keeps you motivated to keep learning? Study sharpens your mind. Personal development is an ongoing process. We need to continually work on ourselves. We need to work on improving our business by learning new technologies, learning new marketing methods, or new systems for efficiency. The Internet is changing rapidly everyday; we need to be continually learning to keep up! 5. Discipline and Time Management The Internet is there for us to gather information, as well as for our entertainment. It's the information age. I don't know how we survived in the past without it! People are becoming addicted to this machine that practically gives them all the answers to almost anything they want to know. You can connect with friends, hold meetings, take online classes. You can even have dinner with someone online if you both have a plate of food in front of you with your web cam on. So, do I need to say any more about time management for an online business? It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the possibilities online. So this requires discipline. You don't need to read every email or every sales letter or get lost in searching for new products. If you don't pay attention, hours can fly by and you don't know where they went. You were lost in the moment and you accomplished absolutely nothing. And might I also say... there are other things you need to accomplish in your life that doesn't require being in front of the computer? Hey, you need to get out and spend time with your family or your pets and dare I say exercise? Well, you get the point. Manage your time for online success. Here's a tip I use that has proven to be very effective. At the end of the workday, make a list of the 5 most important tasks to be completed the next day. The next day you have your tasks in front of you, start cracking away accomplishing one at a time. Believe me, this works! 6. Risk Taker, Decision Maker A successful person makes decisions quickly and changes them slowly. They also take action on those decisions. It takes self confidence to make decisions quickly and to act on them. Successful people are also risk takers. They not only have a confidence about their ability to make decisions without wavering, they also have an inner knowing or sixth sense that their decisions will turn out as planned. 7. Passion for Your Work Finally, my favorite success skill; finding your passion and designing your life and work around it. Statistics show that the most successful people are doing what they love to do. Success comes naturally to people who follow their passion and find work they enjoy. Can you say that about your work? If you don't enjoy what you are doing for a living or anything else for that matter, you will not be very good at it. Sell products in a niche market that interests you. Avoid trying to market pet supplies if you don't own a pet and don't care about them. Do what you love and the money will follow.
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