* Goal Oriented

Entrepreneurs take a lot of satisfaction in setting and reaching business-related goals. This isn't surprising, as all humans have a natural desire to find satisfaction in their accomplishments.

* Customer Oriented

Hit and run entrepreneurs don't usually last, but those that focus on understanding and satisfying wants, needs and buying trends of their customers tend to thrive.

* Passion for Type of Business

Entrepreneurs aren't just motivated by a desire to earn a living. They usually have such an interest in their line of business that it rarely seems like work to them. It helps them put in long hours that getting a business up and running sometimes calls for.

*Flexible

Things change rapidly, especially online. The successful entrepreneur is willing to overcome mistakes, meet new challenges head-on, and adapt to change. Doing so can mean difference between success and failure.

* Skilled at Marketing

In business, as saying goes, "Everything is marketing." The world can not and will not beat a path to your door to buy your "better mouse trap" if world doesn't know about it. Regardless of what business you're in, marketing is tool used to present solutions that your products and services offer to rest of world.

As legendary promoter P.T. Barnum said: "Without promotion, something terrible happens - NOTHING!"

Like any other skill, your marketing can be improved through increased knowledge and practice. Invest in expanding your knowledge of marketing. Doing so can serve you well throughout your entrepreneurial career. Benjamin Franklin put it well, when he said: "An investment in knowledge always pays best interest."

Of course, there are lots of other skills and traits that successful Internet entrepreneurs have at their disposal, but above list covers many of most crucial ones. May it help you to also find success as an online entrepreneur.

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3) Exercise Self-Discipline

The best time management system in world is worthless if we don't exercise self-discipline.

It's so easy to log on to Net, just planning to "check your email," and before you know it, get distracted by other things and end up spending much more time on things we hadn't planned, and wonder where time went.

I know, I know: It's easier said than done, but exercising self-discipline will help us stay focused and avoid wasting time or getting distracted on less important activities. If you can stay focused on most important tasks (which you've identified by setting goals and prioritizing your To-Do list), you'll see greater results from your time and effort.

4) Automate Where Possible

I have written much more on this topic than limited space in this article allows, but let me mention a few tools that aren't new to online marketers, but whose time-saving value is often overlooked:

*Autoresponders

Autoresponders are very useful tools for automatically filling your prospects' requests for information on your products and services, non-stop, 24 hrs of every day of year.

*Email Filters

The "filters" feature of good email programs such as Pegasus and Eudora Pro make automation of many email activities a snap. If you're not using them, you don't know what you're missing.

~ Pegasus: http://www.pmail.com/

~ Eudora Pro: http://www.eudora.com

5) Periodically Analyze Your Business

In our quest for more value from time we spend in our online businesses, it helps to stand back and periodically analyze which activities have been working - and which haven't.

From there, we can give more attention to expanding what's been working, and tweak, change, or eliminate what hasn't. We can thus progressively see more profitable results from time spent online.

Conclusion

If you want to get maximum benefit from limited time you have to accomplish things in your online business, or any other area of life, you must manage your time well.

When you do, you'll achieve more, and you'll look back on your work with satisfaction of knowing that you got most important things done, instead of looking back with regret.

As Benjamin Franklin said: "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's stuff life is made of."

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