Many are working their businesses as if they were playing with their hobby. Success in any business venture requires going extra mile...reaching beyond comfort zone.

In MLM and Affiliate Marketing, going extra mile requires going beyond attempting to satisfy our own personal needs, wants and desires, and reaches outside of self. It requires going that extra mile to focus on and helping others achieve their needs, wants and desires.

You'll note that successful MLM and Affiliate Marketers are taking time and efforts to focus on their team. They are positioned to offer nurturing through leadership to their down-line. Here they teach by leading, which offers a personal example.

Sure, nurturing your down-line takes time and stretches you. But, upside is it will not only transform you but all lives you are touch.

How can you do that?

* Have faith in your team * Encourage them * Show appreciation for them * Trust them and their judgments * Openly and honestly share with your team * Offer a system of support and training * Take responsibility when you make mistakes

Leadership calls you to be an example to your organization. It calls for taking time to get to know members of your team personally discovering what they need to effectively build their business, and offering acknowledgment for a job well done. It requires you to put your actions where your mouth is...actions speaks louder than words.

Lets see what some of these traits in MLM Entrepreneur are:

* Self-starter * Self-motivated * Creative * Self-disciplined * Self-reliance

The self-starter:

Self-starters are type of people who do not sits around thinking about something, over and over again, and yet don't take any action to get it done. They decide on what needs to be done, and they simple Do It! The self-started is a Self-Motivate individual.

For example: You are in need of your own website, but income limits you from just hiring a web design company to make that site. As a self-starter, you would go to work gathering all information pertinent to web design and development, develop and design your site. In end you would have a website that You have developed.

One vital trait of a self-starter it to know their strengths and weaknesses and be able to accept them.

Self-motivated:

The self-motivated individual has a lot of motivation and drive. Because each person is a unique individual, one person's motivations may be different from everyone else's.

For example, your motivation for starting you home business could be simply to earn $500 or $1,000 per month or $10,000 or $20,000 per month. Or it could be that you want to home school your kids, and that requires earning an income working from home. Your level of motivation to a large measure will be dependent up on your purpose and level of commitment. How big is Your dream?

Creative:

The creative individual has a lots of good ideas. They are usually able to come up with good ideas and problem solving solutions. Many of their ideas are often results of listening and observing other business.

They focus on finding solutions, rather than dwelling on challenges.

For example, if you have a limited advertising budget, you would get to work finding all available free advertising avenues opposed to mulling over and over how limited your budget is. This could result not only in exploding your advertising program, but with your creativity you would now have knowledge from research, which you could pass on to your downline or package and sell. Thus, resolving problem and creating an additional income.

Self-disciplined: