And first thing you should take a look at is what do you like to do. Love to mow lawns and trim shrubbery? Own a lawnmower? Bingo! You now have one of your own free at home businesses. A great place to look for places to put your expertise to work is in your own neighborhood for free at home jobs. Ask your neighbors if they need a helping hand with their lawn care. Next, ask them for referrals. This is a business that can grow more quickly than you ever imagined—especially if you do leaf and snow removal during off-season months.

Now, do you have a computer? Great. You now have one of your own free at home businesses. You can do anything from typing for companies in your area to writing ad copy for companies in Japan. Do a quick Google search, and you’ll be blown away by all opportunities available for your free at home businesses.

You can also get paid to do Internet research, answer surveys, and many, many other things with your free Internet home business. You might even mix and match your online jobs to add some diversity to your daily routine. Probably easiest free at home work would be answering surveys. This is something you can do in your spare time. I know, I do online surveys myself.

You can also catch one of hottest trends around if you choose online auctions as one of your free stay at home businesses. Not only can you get rid of things around house that you no longer need or use, you can sign up with wholesalers and distributors and sell products for them.

What exactly is residual income anyway? Simply put, residual income can be defined as any payment system where you receive regular, ongoing payments as a result of a single sale. The frequency of payments may vary – they could be weekly, monthly, quarterly etc. – but they are regular and ongoing with no further selling activity once initial sale has been made.

Some potential residual income opportunities are listed below:

Telephone calls and line rental Mobile phone supply, line rental and calls. Electricity supply . Gas supply. Web hosting supply. Autoresponder supply (monthly rental). Any software which is supplied based on a rental basis. Property rental.

These are just a few examples, there are plenty more. Any product or service which is provided on a lease or rental agreement has potential to provide you with residual income. Ideally, your customer will automatically renew each week/month without any requirement for action (effort) by either your or your customer.

There may also be some scope for residual income with disposable or consumable products. In this case, mechanics of reorder process have a critical bearing upon your earning capabilities. For true residual income, reorder process should be automatic as described above. This is not simply a matter of semantics or a pedantic definition. There are several reasons why you should target genuine residual income.

Many people who set up their own small home business do so with express intent of eventually replacing their salary. Due to regular nature of payments, residual income is ideal for this. In fact, it’s considerably better than having a salary as you continue to get paid for work that was done in past.

With genuine residual income, automated reorder process means that you don’t have to spend time servicing and supporting your existing customers. You can focus your energies on finding new customers and/or recruiting new distributors/affiliates, thereby continually growing your business at fastest possible rate.