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The point is when you decide to promote another person's products or services as
choice of your work at home business, you become an employee of sorts. Although you set your own hours and choose your own means of promoting their products, which makes you an independent contractor or an affiliate by definition, it's still
same concept as
$10.00 interview. If a company has to ask you to pay money for their business opportunity so you can make money from home, then how good is
business opportunity to begin with? Legitimate and successful businesses offering a home based business opportunity have already figured expenses into their marketing budget and know that budget is tax deductible. They realize it's a cost of doing business, and absorb that cost instead of passing it on to their work at home affiliates. The business opportunities asking you for such fees more than likely make their living by charging those fees and NOT selling
products, or services, they want you to promote. If they aren't making their money from their own products or services then how do you expect to make money on
internet by promoting their products or services?
There are many business opportunities that will offer you additional things for their fees; like your very own hosted website. Although you are getting a website, you are getting a cookie cutter website that you can not control, and you are stuck with their design and layout. If their products or services don't make you money, you have no means to insert additional work at home business opportunities into that site as a means to help make money online. But there's another thing they don't want you to know about this process, and that is that
website will not be indexed by
search engines, or if it is, it will show up in hundreds of pages listed for
same business. Worse yet, it is likely that NONE of your pages will even be shown close enough to
top to get you any real benefits from your spending; if you see any benefits at all. The other problem is that your page will look just like everyone else's page who are promoting
same product or service. What benefit does that give you for
cash investment? You'll do much better hosting your own web site where you can post as many work at home business opportunities as you want. By building an interesting, content rich web site, you will bring visitors to your cyber doors while being found and ranked decently by
search engines.
There is only ONE work at home business opportunity I have even found online that I have made money from, and they provide
same kind of cookie cutter web sites for free. They aren't a get rich quick scheme, and promoting their products and services takes time, effort, and money, but they do not charge a fee for
"privilege" to promote their products. This same work at home business opportunity is one that I have actually made money through at home. Have I retired yet? Am I a millionaire? Do I drive a big fancy sports car or own my own mansion? None of
above. A slow, steady process takes time, effort, and money to pursue. Have I aggressively promoted it? No. I have sat back, placed a couple links in my site, and left
sponsor above me place some people in my downline. Yes, it is MLM.
The money I invested in this home business or work at home business opportunity? I've invested roughly $30.00 per month in things that my business needed already. It qualified me for
next income level for
business opportunity, and it gave me valuable tools to tweak my web site and learn to market that web site and home business opportunity more affectively. This investment was money that I was going to spend on
same tools, but I chose to buy those tools from a company I promote that was going to give me something in return for my investment; and that was affiliate checks based on sales volume. Did I mention that
cash spent was normally covered by
affiliate checks I received? That's like getting FREE tools to promote my home business. Did I also mention that my downline is growing in this home based business? Will I tell you how much money I made? No. I won't do that because then if you don't make
same kind of money I do, or more, then you will say that I lied to you and that my information is just from another person pushing work at home business opportunities to make money. You will probably even think that I haven't even really made any money using any of
programs I promote.
The point is you can make money on
internet through a work at home business opportunity IF you know which home based business to promote, how to promote it, and what to watch out for in choosing how you begin making money from home. You also need to be realistic. There is no one work at home business that is going to make EVERYONE rich. If that was
case, then why are there so few people out there that are rich? It simply doesn't exist. Everyone is different. I will make money in ways that you will probably not. Then again, you will make money in ways that I will probably not. The point of this article is using care in
work at home business or make money at home business opportunity that you choose. Spending
time to make sure it is a good fit for you, and is something that you believe in. Failure to realize that a home based business opportunity is like any other business, and requires time, effort, and money, will almost assure that your dreams of making money at home will be fruitless. You need to realize that making money online also requires spending money, but knowing where to spend that money to affectively market or produce your products or services is
important part. Do these things right and you will find a work at home business opportunity you enjoy, believe in, and can promote to gain you
money online.
For those of you wondering what that one company is that I have honestly made money with, feel free to drop by my web site and drop me an email. I'll be more than glad to give you a bunch of links to information that will give you
pro's and con's, educate you on
home business opportunity, and help you make an INFORMED decision. Till next article, may your work at home business opportunity come true, and may
information presented in this article help you to make money online.

James R. Sanders is the owner of Sanders Consultation Group Plus. He has been a webmaster and web site designer since 1997, and involved in self-employment ventures since 1992. He is presently a contributing author of NewbieHangout, and has been published through WebProNews. You can email him at webmaster@sanders-consultation-group-plus.com.