Being an online marketer is the dream work of most people because it can gives anyone ultimate freedom to do business with anyone they like, where they want and when they want.

The best part of this business is that it requires little startup capital to begin with and some of you can even keep your day job as a security and continue to do this business part time until the point when you earn enough income online to quit your day job.

However there are several factors that will determine whether you are going to be a successful affiliate or not.

1)Discipline: This is one of the most important factors of anyone who wanted to start their home business. There are times when people joins a home business system on impulse and later find out that they are not making any money from the business.

Most of the time, these people are not putting in any effort into the business as they thought that the home business system can run on autopilot and make them money simply by placing an ads somewhere and people will start to buy from them continually. I hope this is true but the hard fact is it is not true at all.

A home based business works exactly the same as any real business that you want to do, be it a franchise or what. It requires continuous advertising, marketing, monitoring and improvement on your side to improve the sales of your business. Therefore if you want to start your own home business, you must have the discipline to contribute a few hours every day to your business. If you can’t do that, i suggest you better stay where you are now and work for people because that is the minimum your home business needs from you to make profit.

2)Perseverance: This is the factor that those people who failed in home business lack in. A home business is like any real business you are doing and it requires time for it to be exposed to people through your ads and it requires time to build credibility in the market so that it can bring customers to you.

Most people think that they can make big bucks from the home business system that they have joined within a few day or a few weeks. It is sad to say that this does not happen as most successful home business owners actually started making money only on the third month of their business and eventually earn big bucks only on their eight to ten months.

These are the people who believes in what they are doing and focus on what they are doing. They put in consistent actions every day like clockwork and eventually they make a break through on the third months and eventually become what they are today. Remember this: Perseverance is the key to success in anything you do, be it home business, your career, your health and so on.

3) Minimum Startup Capital: For anyone to success in the home business, they must prepare a minimum sum of money to sustain their business for at least four to six months. The sum should include monthly fee of the home business system they join and advertisement costs. If you have tight budget, you can rely on free advertisement methods to advertise your business and there are some free methods that i am using when i first started my home business that are very effective and i am still using them now together with my other paid advertisement methods.

If you can commit yourself to these three factors, you can be a successful home business owner one day and lead a life of complete freedom and enjoyment. But if you think that you are not ready for it, you had better stay away from this business as you will definitely fail and end up wasting some money on it.