Jul
To Succeed in Your Top Home Business: Find A Mentor
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Trying to go it alone in your new home business, while learning from your mistakes is a slow, frustrating and expensive option.
The old principle of learning by trial and error can certainly be an option, provided you have endless determination, lots of time on your side, and no shortage of spare cash to finance your mistakes! There is also a high risk of becoming disillusioned, losing focus and consequently joining the endless numbers of people who having tried and failed, throw in the towel and walk away.
It is possible to be luckier than most, or perhaps have a superb sense of judgement, thereby reducing the ratio of failures in the trial and error process. Most ordinary folk, without perhaps the benefit of extensive business experience might not be so fortunate.
The question one might ask oneself is whether it is really necessary to keep re-inventing wheels, or perhaps easier (and smarter!) to learn from successful people who have gone before. This is why you are urged to find a suitable mentor.
In selecting a business-mentor, one should consider a number of criteria:
• Does the mentor have experience in your chosen field?
• Has he/she an established, visible track-record?
• Does he/she have the skills and motivation to be a successful mentor?
• Is there an acceptable mechanism to facilitate a question and answer/discussion process?
• Is this process formalized and established? It is extremely difficult to build an unofficial/informal relationship with a mentor, unless he/she is especially motivated to fulfill the relationship.
The ultimate is to be able to participate in an established business opportunity which offers a linked mentoring programme – even if a fee is payable for the privilege. In the end the cost is likely to be significantly less than that of trying and discarding a series of failed programmes.
Membership of and participation in a successful mentoring programme will probably be your best investment ever, in establishing your own top home business!
You will also gain a significant advantage from participating in online forums related to your business. You will probably start off by asking questions and seeking advice on matters of concern to you. In this way you will get to know other, possibly more experienced people, from whom you can learn.
With time you will become more knowledgeable and will eventually be able to assist others with answers from your own experience. (This is indeed a truly valuable, enriching and worthwhile experience.)
Do yourself a favour and lock in to a real, business mentoring programme, preferably with a direct link to your field of business. There can be no better way to accelerate your online home business towards success!
More tips and useful ideas will follow in the next article in this series.