Success comes to those who Focus on Goals
While many people are starting home businesses all over the world, over 97% of them are going to fail. Some failures will be due to the fact that the business was not based around a solid idea. Others will fail because of simple mismanagement. More often than not, however, the business will fail because the owner failed to set goals. Home business success comes to those business owners who have set goals for both themselves and their businesses.
Goals should be categorized as either a long-term goal or a short-term goal. Your long-term goals should be set first, as you must have a very clear focus on what you want your business to achieve. What do you expect home business success will be? By answering this question, you will be able to focus better on setting the long-term goals for your business.
Short-term goals, on the other hand, are always a little easier. Take one of the long-term goals and determine what it is going to take for you to achieve it. For example, if your long-term goal is to get 10,000 visitors to your website each day, how are you going to do this? Your short-term goals could include joining two social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook, and utilizing them in your marketing campaign. Another short-term goal could be to use promotional items to gain more attention for your business.
As you can see by the above example, the short-term goals you set for your business will lead to the big picture and your achievement of long-term goals. Each one of your goals should be aimed toward your reaching home business success. However, before you start setting your goals, there are still some things you need to consider.
One of the most common mistakes you can make with goal setting is to set unreachable goals. The fact is you have to be realistic about the potential success of your business. While you can still dream big, the goals you set must be attainable or you are simply setting yourself up for disappointment. In turn, this disappointment can lead to a loss of interest in the business and potential failure.
Along with attainable goals, you have to set measurable goals. If you set a goal to reach success, what does this really mean? Instead of setting a goal to reach success, you need to be specific. For example, if you are selling products on a website, you could set a long-term goal of selling $100,000 of product in the first year. Your second year goal could be to sell $150,000 and so forth. This is measurable and to find out how close you are to your goal, you will only need to look at your financial statements.
While 97% of new home businesses fail within their first year in business, your business does not have to have the same outcome. By setting both short and long-term goals, you can easily achieve home business success. It is all about focusing and knowing where you want your business to be and determining what steps are going to get it there. If you do not have goals for your business, you may not have any idea of where you are going.
Why going Back to School will help you achieve business success
Here is an important question. If you could be earning typically $5,000 a month in six months time on top of your current monthly income, would you be willing to go back to school for six months for less than ten hours per week to learn?
To build a successful network marketing based home business you need to teach / mentor folk in your downline to become successful. Average MLM distributors are far too concerned about how much money they are making, they should instead spend more time teaching and working with the folk they have sponsored into the business. The quicker you and your team members begin focusing on training the quicker you will find real success in your home based business. Of course this enlightened approach to network marketing will take time. Please remember, before you can teach others you have to go back to school and learn what to do yourself.