The list is a long one and one I am not prepared to detail here. You have found your way onto net and if you have been surfing for very long at all you know it is a gigantic super shopping mall. Who to you think is making most money online? Aside from big corporations, most of web is made up of sites put up by little businesses people work from home.

I sell information and I love it. Most of products I sell are other merchants’ products. I just drive traffic to my site, provide information, and point to relevant products related to information I provide people looking for a way to make money online. I love helping people make their first few sales.

After that, they are always hooked and cannot do enough to learn everything there is to know about how to make money online. Many people I have worked with now have a couple to several websites selling everything from reports to hard goods that can be shipped direct to their customers. Most people start out to make money online as affiliates of certain products or authors. This is a great way to get your feet wet and learn what making money online is all about. People then either work to create their own products (which they get 100% of profits from) or expand their website into other related niches.

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Life can sometimes be a series of tradeoffs, so spending all that quality time with your family also means that you'll no longer have social interaction that was once a part of your 9 to 5 routine. Now that you have a home based business, you will have to go out of your way to gain some of that same social interaction. Joining local small business organizations is a great way to make new friends, network and have your business become known in your local community. Alot of these organizations have weekly or monthly meetings with guest speakers at either a breakfast or afer work social event. In any case, socializing will now become a great way to network and spread word of mouth about your new business venture.

MOTIVATION

You have to be motivated to start any home based business. This motivation is twofold. I am talking here about both internal drive to take action and get your business off ground, as well as vision you have in your head of what your business will eventually look like once it is established and what it is you want to accomplish with your business.

A home based business can bring many financial rewards, but alot of people will get discouraged with up front work that is required to get any business off ground. I have often heard an analogy used by folks who do business on internet that I like a lot because I think it is so accurate. The analogy is that starting a home based internet business is like a rocket taking off. For those who are not NASA afficionados, a rocket apparently uses something like 80% of energy that it will use during it's entire mission just during those first few minutes of liftoff. That momentum then helps carry it throughout rest of it's journey. It's a lot like that with a home based business. It takes alot of up front energy, but one day you realize that hardest part is over and you've created enough momentum to help make it easier from now on in. You have to have motivation to get through those early days, otherwise you'll never create kind of momentum that you need to see yourself through.

You're also going to need to identify your motivation in terms of what it is you want to accomplish with this business of yours anyway. Do you have a great idea or product that you want to promote? Most people actually don't, and that's okay. Selling your own product is often thought of as most lucrative way to make money on internet, but you can still make quite a bit of money by finding other people's products and promoting those as an affiliate. That means for every sale you make, you get a commission. And you can also generate residual income for yourself by recruiting other people to become affiliates under you. But no matter which way you go, you have to like what you're doing and what you're promoting. Starting a home based business will not bring financial rewards you are hoping for if you are not doing something that makes you feel energized, excited, challenged and, perhaps most importantly, that you are providing a worthwhile benefit to those people who are buying your product or service.

Well, I certainly hope those few points have given you enough to ponder as you go through process of deciding whether or not a home based business is right for you. I hope you come to conclusion that it is, because there is no better way that I know of to take control of your own financial future. If you don't take bull by horns and do it for yourself, nobody else will. But don't forget to have fun along way. Pick a home based business that you'll look forward to tending to day in and day out and that benefits other people in some way, and I promise you that financial rewards will follow......