And perhaps some people do make some money that way. But after over twenty years as a freelance writer, I can't imagine a better way to work from home and earn a decent income.

Here are my top 4 reasons why I think freelance writing is perfect home based business...

>> 1. It costs you almost nothing to get started.

If you are reading this, you already have a computer and an internet connection. And that's pretty much all you need. Maybe some sheets of paper and envelopes from time to time.

With freelance writing you can start earning right away and you don't need to invest in any additional software or equipment. Your brain and a keyboard are all you need.

If you have some background in commercial writing or copywriting, you really can get started right away. If not, you might want to invest in a good writing course to give you skills and knowledge to do great work.

>> 2. You can adapt your work to your circumstances.

Freelance writing is something you can do full-time or part-time.

Number 1, you can set up Wordpress to automatically ping all RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you'll be quickly developing backlinks to your blog almost automatically.

Think about how long it can take you to build a regular site, get search engines to index it, get backlinks to improve your listings, and then start getting traffic. A blog like Wordpress can do all that "grunge" work for you automatically.

Number 2, Wordpress allows use of Categories. Categories are a very powerful way to improve structure of your site both for human visitors and for search engines.

Let's say topic of your site is Widgets. You could create a Category for black widgets, one for orange widgets, and one for green widgets.

Now when you add posts to your blog, you can choose which of your categories your post belongs to. Now your blog will archive your past posts not only by their month and date, as Blogger does. But also by Category.