Are you thinking about creating a legitimate home based business? Your main problem might be deciding on a particular business because there are so many options. Below you can find a small list of some of your choices. You ultimate decision will have a lot to do with your personal background and individual proclivities: booking or accounting business, arts & crafts creation, resume writing service, cake decorating, tax preparation, party planner, massage therapy, custom jewelry designer, Internet marketer, free-lance writer, virtual assistant, beauty product sales, pet day care, child day care, computer repair, computer training, eBay seller, or personal shopper.
Take a look at the list above and you should be able to see that with a little imagination, you could start a number of these businesses with very little investment. In fact, some of them, you could get going for free. There is one that isn’t just free, but when it comes to how much money you can make, the sky is the limit: Internet marketing.
The kind of Internet marketing that is perfect for newcomers to create a legitimate home based business is called, affiliate marketing. Assuming the you have access to the Internet, since you are reading this, you can literally earn money online at no cost to you.
As an affiliate marketer, you don’t need to have products of your own to sell. You will make a commission every time you sell a product that someone else owns. You do not have to worry about creating and maintaining a website. You will be given as many affiliate websites and you can possibly handle, and more. You don’t have to collect the money. You don’t need to concern yourself with making sure the customers get their products.
Furthermore, affiliate marketers do not deal with customer complaints of any kind, including the actual refunding of the money when the client takes advantage of the money back guarantee. There is only one thing for affiliate marketers to focus on: sending targeted traffic to their affiliate site. That it is, period.
Warning: do not make the mistake that most new affiliates endure, which puts many of them out of business. Don’t think you can make money, as a newcomer, using pay per click (PPC) search engine advertising. You need experience for that. It is tempting to think you can do it, because the only time you have to pay for it is when someone actually clicks on your ad and gets taken to your website, but that is deceiving. The truth is that only a small percentage of visitors to any website actually make a purchase on the site they are visiting.
Article marketing holds the key for you to have a legitimate home based business as an affiliate marketer. You will be able to get extremely targeted traffic from the search engines without having to pay anything at all per click. You will get many first pages listings in Google search results.
If you want to create a legitimate home based business, the possibilities are endless. Affiliate marketing is a fantastic choice, because as long as you already have Web access, it will not cost you any money to get going. Your only concern is to drive traffic to your affiliate sites. PPC (pay per click) advertising is tempting, but newcomers almost always lose money. Instead, use the free technique known as article writing to get a never ending stream of targeted traffic to your sites.