Business opportunities are in essence, "turn-key" operations, where a major company, or even a smaller company, is offering what are basically franchises or memberships in company. Any person that joins, becomes entitled to use company name, company marketing materials, and of course, company reputation. It is therefore, an easy way for many who have no inclination to start their own business, or who have no ideas of their own, to start a home-based business.

There are, however, as in anything, "pitfalls" and "advantages" to joining any type of business opportunity. Many times, one of "pitfalls" is fact that there is a membership price to pay when joining, which depending upon business opportunity, can be quite a staggering fee. It is wise, then, before paying any fees to join a business opportunity to research and ascertain following aspects of opportunity:

1. How long is business opportunity "in business"? Longevity is important. You don't want to join a biz op that's "here today, gone tomorrow", taking your fees with it!

2. How do other members feel about business opportunity? If you can speak with other members, this would help immensely in any decisions.

3. How much money overall can you expect to make from business opportunity within first month? You should at least be able to recover any fees you've spent within first few months.

4. How many others belong to business opportunity? Too much competition with other members will make it difficult to make sales, while too few members indicates that it is not a popular business opportunity, so how can it be sold?

5. How often will you be paid? Some only pay when an associate reaches a certain amount of revenue (which if you're a newbie will tie up your money quite conceivably for a while).

SOME PERSONAL HISTORY

Just a few short years ago, I was a working stiff just like you.

One day, I bought and read a book called "Multiple Streams of Income" by bestselling author, Robert Allen. Immediately, I began my journey.

Every night after work and after my wife and children went to sleep, I would get online and explore different ways of using Internet to make money.

In 2 years that followed, I spent over $10,000.00 racking up credit card debt buying eBooks, membership sites, special reports, opt-in leads, and joining every "guru" recommended business opportunity that flew into my email inbox...

I stayed up learning, working and drinking coffee until 5:00 in morning month after month filled with hope of making money online.

In my 3rd year of working part-time to build an home based income, I finally broke through and earned over $100,000.00 in just 12 months from Internet.

BECOME THE MASTER OF YOUR LEARNING CURVE

Research lives of all of guru's. The one thing that you will learn is that my own experience is not unique. Most of high earners on Internet experienced a learning curve very similar to my own.

Chances are that your curve will also be similar to mine, but it is my hope that you can get to top faster than even I did. Three years was a long time to struggle, but every ounce of struggle was worth reward I have finally received.

In order to shorten your own learning curve, you must do a few things differently than rest of us did. You must become master of your learning curve.

THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS IS A STRAIGHT LINE

There is only one way to shorten curve on Internet, "you must plan to succeed."

Here is deal. Most people put up a freebie website and select a few affiliate programs to add to their website. Right out of gate, most people are running for finish line without any real plan in mind.

After a few short weeks, people begin to see writing on wall that says, "This is going to be a long hard road."

People check their hit counters daily for six weeks before they realize that getting traffic to their free site is going to be tough.

At this point, they begin developing their first batch of advertising. Then they spend countless months finding places to show their advertisements for free. Some make an even more drastic mistake by blowing thousands of hard earned dollars on their new and untested ads.

These are people who will learn facts of life hard way.

In time, they will learn how to make their advertising work for them. But most will earn very little money from their affiliate programs.

At this point in learning curve, most people throw up their hands and walk away from their dreams in utter disgust. Instead of a walking away point, this should have convinced struggling online entrepreneur that they were simply traveling wrong road.

YOU MUST PLAN TO SUCCEED