The reason to ask yourself these questions is to determine how ready you are to commit to your new business. Like any other business, a significant investment of time and effort needs to go into it to make it a successful one. Many make the mistake of assuming that an internet business will be easy; and they're half right. It's true that many internet marketing businesses are easy enough to start. After all, it doesn't take all that much effort to set up a simple website and throw a few affiliate links on it. Of course, those who think this is all it takes to have a profitable internet marketing business are the same people who give up weeks or months later since they have made the fatal mistake of not treating their web based business as what it is: a business.

Think about the following: are you motivated enough to keep putting in the time you need to take care of business in the absence of managers and bosses? At your current job, do you take initiative to ensure that things get done without having to be reminded? If so, you're more than likely to bring this same work ethic to your own business and have the persistence to see it through. If you require very hands-on management and deadlines being set for you, then you'll need to work on some things before you're likely to be a success at running your internet marketing business.

Persistence is one of the necessary ingredients to building a profitable internet marketing business. Obviously, it's absurd to verbally chastise yourself when you fail to meet your business objectives as a boss might (unless you really aren't at all concerned about what the neighbors think). However, you do need to have the self-discipline and persistence to make yourself get to work every day on growing your business if you want to make your business viable.

So what kind of boss will you be for yourself? Will you be a hands-on manager who motivates you to get things done and pushes you to achieve – or will you be a less involved boss who pays little attention to the details and is constantly caught off guard when things aren't done or are not up to the appropriate standards of quality? Sometimes the right answer when you're trying to get your internet marketing business off the ground is to be the kind of boss you wouldn't necessarily love to work for; but one that would earn your respect and encourage you to reach your full potential – if you can do this, then your new business is on its way to success.