Who is your Mentor?

A Mentor is someone who guides you on a particular course.

A Mentor can have a tremendous impact on the life of anyone who follows his/her instructions. He/She can affect anybody who is willing in the following ways;

A Mentor has passed through that road before and so can show you the way. If you are going on a journey, you will find it easier to get to your destination if you know the route. A Mentor already knows the route and so you will find it easier if you follow his/her directions.

A Mentor saves time, money and energy. becoming successful in any endeavour will require you to spend time and money and also expend energy to achieve success. Imagine the time you will spend in research, how about the money you will spend to do a lot of things that may eventually yield no positive result, not to talk of the energy you will expend in getting to your destination because you will probably make failed attempts at getting there before finding out that you took the wrong route. A Mentor can guide you to be successful such that all that time, money and energy will be saved. This is not to encourage laziness on your part, but you have someone to guide you so that you don't waste resources.

A Mentor helps you get to your destination faster. Imagine one person does not know about a particular business, but has someone to guide him/her and another person is in the same shoe, but on the other hand, has nobody to guide him/her. who, between them, do you think will achieve success faster? I believe it is the one with a guide. A Mentor will help you save time and so you can become successful faster.

A Mentor gives you confidence. If you are investing in a business, you might become uncomfortable if you take notice of the risks involved in the business. Your confidence level might drop and you may eventually lose your interest in the investment and subsequently, the money you would have made from the investment. However, with the assurance from your Mentor, your confidence level can increase. There are some people that give a 30-day, 45-day, 90-day or any specified-day money-back guarantee, in which case, if you are not successful with their product, they give you back your money. This kind of guarantee gives you confidence to invest and go to sleep so to speak. If you meet one that has been successful in business before and he offers to be your Mentor, you will be confident because you are being guided by someone who has been successful in the business, especially if he/she offers such guarantee.

As Internet Business Marketers, we need Mentors who will be our guide and impact our lives in the above-mentioned ways. We can also develop ourselves and become Mentors to other people as well.

We have people here in Nigeria who have risen to the point of becoming Mentors and have actually become Mentors when it comes to Internet Business Marketing. Some of them, if not all, most probably, had or still have foreigners as Mentors.

As an Internet Business Marketer, who is your Mentor and how has he/she affected your life and Internet Business Marketing?