Online Money

As I have already mentioned, all you really need to start, build and successfully run your home based business on the Internet is a good product or service and the means of promoting it.

I'll show you how to promote on the Internet for free later on (or it at least doesn't have to cost you more than a few dollars). But what do you sell? Well thanks to the integral technology inherent within the Internet, that is easy and free too. You don't have to worry about purchasing, stocking and distributing quantities of stock with an Internet based business. Affiliate programs can make all this very easy.

So, what are "Affiliate Programs"? They are free and very easy to set up and apply for. An excellent way of selling other peoples products or services from the comfort of home without having to do anything other than provide a link to your suppliers website. This link has tracking code within it which your supplier provides for you, and you simply get as many people as possible to click through to their website. All resulting sales are then attributed to you and you are paid commission accordingly. That's how simple affiliate programs are, and there are thousands of suppliers throughout the world willing and eager to have you affiliated with them.

Most companies that supply anything online (and that's practically every product you can think of these days) are looking for additional sales, and therefore will pay anyone who can send them customers. All the big companies do it, including Amazon and eBay. In fact you can pick and choose from almost any industry that interests you, and you'll more than likely find many suppliers willing to pay you.

So, how do you get started? Well, assuming you are an absolute beginner, your first task is to decide what subject matter you are familiar with and you'd enjoy writing about (think about what you enjoy talking about, or doing in your spare time). Whatever your answer is, that is your best theme to build a website about. I'm going to show you how to do this step by step. Be aware though, it may take you a few weeks to get to a satisfactory level, and a good few months to start seeing a reasonable income, but if you are determined most people can do it. I think you'll enjoy it too.

So, let's begin. Next I'm going to go over the basics of what you need for your new website. I am assuming you have already got a computer and access to the Internet, so you have already made the financial investment needed to establish and manage an Internet based business.