So you want to make money working at home! You are not alone. According to a recent search I did term make money was typed in almost 100,000 times in one month. There are a lot of people wanting to make money working at home.

I was one of them and now can excitedly say I do just that. No more traffic jams, bosses, co-workers, 8-5, Mon-Fri., 2 weeks vacation etc.

Don't get me wrong! A J.O.B. certainly is needed to pay bills and provide for lifelong essentials for millions of people.

But it is interesting how many people have figured out that there is more than one way to do that. And making money working at home is one of them.

What proves to be a little harder is finding a job working at home. There are a lot of companies that are willing to sell you information lists that claim to have companies looking at work at home employees or sub-contractors.

My own opinion is that only one who makes out on this method is person selling you information. My advice is Do Not Pay To Buy Information On Companies Looking For Work At Home People.

How about this.....Start Your Own Home Business providing a product or service that there is a need for. Finding a niche in marketplace is not as hard as it would seem.

The best place to begin is with a topic you have a personal interest in. If you are going to be doing this everyday you might as well like doing it.

In my case I chose 2 topics. The make money at home opportunity seeker and small business sector. I like working with people and I understand how small businesses operate because I have personally worked with small business owners for past 20 years.

Next is to choose a product that could fill a need to your market you are going into. Make a list of everything that you can think of. Nothing is to off wall. I have even heard of a farmer in Kansas who sells colored tumbleweeds all over world.

One thing I have found helpful is to see what people are searching for on internet. A really good tool for that is search term suggestion tool with Overture.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion

Go ahead and type in words and phrases and see what people are looking for relating to a topic you might be interested in selling a product for.

First I want to tell you I don’t believe it is possible to “make money fast”, online or off. Any business, online or off, takes time to build and to see profit. I do believe that if you want to make money faster than you need to spend a little, but, as I will show you, you can do it with no cost to you, it will just take longer.

About 95% of programs out there are scams and many advertise that you can “make money fast”, but first give us your credit card number. This leads me to my first tip:

Never join a program that wants a payment upfront. I don’t know about you, but I’m much more confident joining a program that tells me I can make money and don’t have to pay for it. It shows me company is “real.”

Get a Website You joined. Ok, next step. You now have something to sell or promote. But how? With a website. You need to show people what you are selling or promoting. Some companies give you “gateway” sties and that’s good, but not good enough. You need another avenue to “show” or link to these sites. These sites alone will not make you any money. There are many of free hosts out there that provide free web space and html editors.

When looking for a place to host your free site you have to keep a few things in mind. How much space will they give you, do they put ads on your site, and do they have their own program to help you make your site if you don’t know html. Here are some free sites but there are others:

Tripod Geocities Angelfire

Keep in mind that most free sites WILL put ads on yours. Because of limited space you are going to want to upgrade to a better web host…one that you will have to pay for, after you start making money with your business.

Now we will talk about how to advertise your website.

Reciprocal Linking This is simple but time consuming. Even if you spend money on your business this is something you are going to want to do. This is what helps get your page listed higher in search engines.