What Does It Take to Be the Next Mark Zuckerberg?

If you're here, it's probably because you're sick of being a slave sheep. Sick of answering to 'The Big Boss Man.' Sick of working to line someone else's pockets. Maybe you've got a friend, or a colleague, or your brother's friend's colleague, who told you how liberating and rewarding your own business venture can be. Now you're intrigued, too.

But handing in your notice and striking out alone is scary. What if you're not good enough? What if you don't have what it takes?

Be the next mark zuckerberg

That's a completely natural feeling considering that last year nearly 600,000 new businesses registered in the UK. And if you want to start your own business, you need to know that the competition is fierce. While exact figures vary, Senator Rand Paul is known for stating that 90% of new businesses fail–if we put those figures in context to the UK (for last year's newly registered businesses) that would be almost 540,000 failures.

Still here?

The good news is that you could be one of the 60,000 who are successful. You could even be the next Facebook or the next Google. Mark Zuckerberg didn't give up because he was scared of failure, and neither should you.

There are certain traits you'll need to see your business-dreams to the finish line. All successful business owners will not be in short supply of any of these characteristics:

Resilient

As you'd guess with figures like that, starting your own business requires you to be extremely resilient. You need to be the sort of person who views failure as 'deferred success'; someone who takes pleasure in throwing themselves over hurdles all day, every day.

Driven

While you might feel lighter when you've kicked 'The Big Boss Man' off your back, it will, however, mean that there's no one riding you towards success. You won't get fired if you hit snooze, come into work hungover or spend all day playing Candy Crush Saga, but it will significantly impact your ability to build a successful business. In a nutshell, you must be DRIVEN to succeed.

Focussed

The unstructured world of a new business can be a shock to the system, especially if you're coming from the highly structured corporate environment. Starting a new business requires relentless focus, or you simply won't be able to get everything done.

Adaptable

Starting a new business means wearing many hats. Expect to turn your hand to marketing, sales, product development, customer service, operations, back-office, HR, finance or business development. You'll need to be able to switch seamlessly between them and give them your all if you want to have any chance of succeeding. And as your business grows, you'll be able to bring in the necessary talent for the various roles.

Determined

Successfully building a business means you'll need to be aware of the hard work involved and the long hours each day; and you aren't daunted by that. You need to want it more than you've ever wanted anything because you'll have to make sacrifices along the way. Friends, family, social life–everything takes a back seat in the early days of starting a business.

Confident

You need to have faith in yourself because few others will, at least to start with. Working independently means making critical business decisions yourself and backing yourself to do the right thing. If you suffer with crippling self-doubt, starting a business likely isn't for you.

Passionate

Passion fuels determination when things get difficult. And they will. You need to absolutely believe in what you're doing, because in the early days you'll be your only brand advocate. You need to be passionate enough to inspire passion in others.

People Person

New business means networking. You need to be constantly looking for new connection opportunities and know how to build and nurture those relationships. You put yourself out there in your industry, meeting the right people and becoming known as a 'right person' yourself.

Salesman

If you don't know how to sell, you'll never get your business off the ground. You don't have to go all Glengarry Glen Ross on me, but you do need to be able to express, clearly and eloquently, what problem your product or service solves. If a bit of self-promotion has you inwardly cringing, starting a small business is probably not the best path.

Financially Astute

You've got more than your paycheque to worry about now. Think P&L reports, budgets, forecasts, income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, invoicing, expenses and cash flow management. Inaccurate financial forecasting is one of the major reasons new businesses fail–and you will too if you don't have a firm grasp of the finances.

Leader

A successful business is dependent on its leader. You are the blueprint for your business as it grows, so the example you set needs to be a good one. As you scale, you'll likely hire more staff and they'll be looking to you for strength, determination and clarity of vision. Without a strong leader at the helm you'll likely end up with dissent in the ranks, which can be the death knell for any new business.

If you've got the small business fire in your belly, you're unlikely to be happy doing anything else, for anyone else, and that breeds resolve like nothing else. Sales, marketing, finances and the like can be learned. A little humility and a passion for self-improvement can go a long way. But … nothing can teach you innate entrepreneurialism.

MOBE Affiliate Program Review - All Affiliate Programs Are Not the Same See How MOBE Is Unique

MOBE Affiliate Program Review - All Affiliate Programs Are Not the Same: How MOBE Is Unique
MOBE Matt Lloyd Review about Affiliate Marketing - I never really paid much attention to cars.

My first was a little two-door manual shift economy car I got before I started going to college. It was 15 years old and had a lot of miles on it but I thought it was the greatest thing: roll down the windows, turn up the radio, and cruise. That's how I got to and from school and around town. I was proud of that little car.

For the last few years, living and working in Kuala Lumpur, I haven't driven much or really given much thought to cars, except the ones we award to our most productive affiliates through our MOBE Motors incentive program: Mercedes Benzes, BMWs, and other higher-end vehicles.

I've test-driven a few myself, including a Ferrari. That was an eye-opener.

Intellectually, I understood that there was a huge difference between a cheap two-door commuter car and a Ferrari Spider, but you can't really know the difference until you're sitting behind the wheel. Until that point, you might just think that a car is a car—four wheels and go.

On a basic level, I suppose that's true.

Someone with an interest in earning money online might have the same kind of idea: affiliate programs are affiliate programs—you drive traffic and you make commissions.

Again, on a basic level, I suppose that might be true but I'd like to show you how the MOBE Affiliate program is actually the one-of-a-kind Ferrari F12 TRS of affiliate programs.

Commission Size

MOBE Affiliate Program Review - Yes, all affiliate programs pay commissions. You Drive traffic to your offer, a percentage of that traffic buys a product, and you get paid. So, in that regard, affiliate programs are all alike.

What sets MOBE apart from the competition is the size of its commissions. There is no affiliate marketing program that even comes close to the magnitude of commissions that MOBE pays its affiliates.

I am talking about commissions of $13,500 for a single sale.

That's for one of our larger back-end products, but even much of our front-end product line (items priced $500 or less) pays 40-90% commissions.

How many $10, $20, or even $40 e-books would you have to sell to make $13,500 in commissions? How about a $1,250 single-sale commission? The latter has been a very common occurrence in MOBE.

We are able to pay out such generous commissions because we produce and deliver high-value, high-ticket products and services for small businesses and entrepreneurs. High-ticket equals high commission.

So, our affiliates don't have to generate thousands of sales to do well; they just need to drive the right kind of traffic to the offer.

Internal Phone Sales Team

MOBE Affiliate Program Review - The second thing that makes MOBE unique in the market is our phone sales team. No other affiliate program is doing this the way we do it.

Some companies who branch out into phone sales outsource their team from a sales agency—the proverbial "boiler room"—to contact their customers, make sales, and turn over a percentage. But these outside sales teams are not a part of the company. You don't necessarily have any quality control over how they operate. They don't have the same level of concern about developing and maintaining a long-term relationship with customers. They are just trying to make a sale and get on with the next call.

MOBE's phone sales team is entirely in-house. This allows us to do quality control directly. Each salesperson operates in an ethical manner for the benefit of the customer, the affiliate, and the company. They don't try to sell people things they don't need but work to assist the customer in areas they need help in.


Residual Income

Most affiliate programs pay commissions on sales but there's no residual—it's just one sale and done. Because of our phone sales team, MOBE Affiliates can get residual income. Our affiliates drive traffic to MOBE's front-end products and later, the phone sales team contacts those customers and sells them the appropriate back-end products. Affiliates make residual commission on those back-end sales.

In fact, MOBE Affiliates routinely collect commissions on sales to people they have no direct connection to. It's like this: There are several different MOBE Affiliate levels and you can receive commissions up to the level that you've invested in. Let's say the phone sales team closes a customer for a $30,000 service package. If the Affiliate who made the initial front-end sale to that customer is not invested at the level where he or she can receive commissions for a $30,000 service, the commission will pass on to the first Affiliate in the referral line who is invested at the right level.


A Multitude of Products

The last thing that really sets MOBE apart from other affiliate companies is the number of attractive, high-value, front-end products and services that we market. Currently, Mobe Marketplace presents more than 190 products, events, and services for small business owners and entrepreneurs—that's dozens more than any affiliate marketing program offers and it's growing larger every day.

Commission size, phone sales team, residual income, and a multitude of high-value front-end products—these are the four biggest reasons that MOBE isn't "just another affiliate marketing program."


Matt Lloyd
"What makes MOBE unique as an affiliate program?"