Many people fall into trap of believing that because they are doing business on Internet, some of these steps can either be skipped or they need to overemphasize one area or another.

The bottom line regarding an online business is that you will need to advertise and you will need to take care of your customers.

Run your online home business just like a real company because it is, in fact, a real business and you have a real opportunity to either be successful or to fail. The primary difference between an online business and a traditional business is location (no traditional "storefront"). Nearly everything else is essentially same. You have products and your objective is to sell those products to people who want/need your products.

Remember, building a business takes time, determination, and patience. Far too many people seem to think that traffic is just going to pour in once they have put up their own website on Internet. As anyone who has had a website for a while knows...this simply is not true, but it is often reason people get frustrated and quit. The fact of matter is that you need to diligently promote/advertise your website in order for your online home based business to flourish and prosper.

One of most important bits of advice that I can pass on to you is that you must be patient. Most people start their online home business with great enthusiasm and high expectations. Often, after a few months, they become disappointed and frustrated because they are not already making a large amount of money.

These impatient home business entrepreneurs then often start to jump from one program to another every few months (never allowing themselves enough time to succeed at any of them) and, finally, throw up their hands in frustration and declare that they just can’t make money online.

Stick with your business and don’t give up. Dogged persistence (much like tenacity of a pit bull) is an absolutely vital key to your eventual success. Don’t give up when things become frustrating and you are not achieving immediate success you expected. Give your online home based business sufficient time to develop and you realize success you are seeking.

There is nothing magical about running an online home based business. It should be run same as any traditional "bricks and mortar" business and it will succeed or fail depending on time and effort you put into it.

There are many very ordinary people working at home and making a very good living on Internet, will you be next one?

8. The Ability to Use Judgment and Work with Little Supervision: a good personal assistant will need to be self-motivated, making many of their own judgment calls concerning business.

9. Leadership Qualities: there will be duties required and chores given personal assistant which will require taking charge of others at times, and accomplishing goals.

10. Organizational Skills: with amount of chores and diversity of chores required of a personal assistant, a good one will have high end organizational skills, will be able to prioritize effectively, and will not suffer from "analysis paralysis", but will be able to make decisions quickly and efficiently.

11. Self Confidence: a good personal assistant will need to be aware of their own needs and needs of others, and will have to stand by decisions without backing down, therefore confidence in themselves and their decisions is necessary.

12. Customer Service Skills: many of chores that a personal assistant performs will bring assistant into direct contact with clients, therefore great customer service skills are also mandatory.

A business owner seeking to hire a personal assistant should look for qualities above and also use their own intuition about an individual applying for this position. The business owner should also seek to hire someone whose personality and goals meshes with their own, as personal assistant and business owner will spend many hours each day together, and will need to be of "same mind" about major issues.

It is also important when hiring a personal assistant to determine how much business can afford to pay a personal assistant, and also to be realistic about costs of a "quality personal assistant". Many personal assistants will work for reasonable rates, depending upon country in which business owner and assistant reside. This usually doesn't translate into "minimum wage requirements", however, as diversity of job itself would require a higher pay scale in order to attract more talented applicants for position. A good rule of thumb, is to pay as "high as possible" while still staying within budget of business.

After all, in a situation such as search for a qualified, reliable, energetic personal assistant, "cheap is not always better".