Heading a mutiny. That is what some people are calling it. The great exodus of people who left the real world of work – transporting themselves to a static, yet extremely vibrant and dynamic environment of the home office. Static in a sense that your desktop, your home office, is an immovable entity, dynamic and vibrant because it is plugged into a matrix that allows for an infinite amount of money-making possibilities. This article delves into a controversial and perhaps much contested arena – finding out the most lucrative methods to generate income in the comfort of your own house – the best home business opportunity of the century.

Two words: Affiliate Marketing. In essence, this involves a marketing strategy where merchants (or businesses) share a small percentage of the profit with the people (i.e. the affiliates) who help to drive large volumes of potential customers to its website. Whenever one of these potential customers completes a sale or takes an action (such as providing contact information to the company), the affiliate is often rewarded with cash or prizes, and in many cases, both at the same time.

Remuneration comes in many forms; revenue sale, cost per sale, cost per action (where a consumer does a specific action that the organisation wants e.g. buying a product, giving their particulars etc), It's all about visitor conversion – making someone who visits a website want to buy a product, get into a programme or just sign up to know more. It's the ultimate security for the merchant, because it is essentially a pay-as-you-perform sale mode. It is also easier for the affiliate manager, who is tasked with only one thing – to reach the objective of the merchant, a focused approach to increasing sales revenue.

Affiliate marketing is truly the best home business opportunity of the century because there are so many ways to increase your leverage on the internet - from search engines, pay per click advertising, targeted list building, display advertising, to article marketing and direct channel marketing. You can use them all, often at very minimal cost. You may also represent more than one product and service, so your revenue streams are only limited by your imagination and your determination to work hard. Once the ‘build-up' work is done, it only requires follow-ups and constant communication with the merchant to optimise and enhance your affiliate marketing operations.

You can do all this and more from the comfort of home. Affiliate marketing has brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars to ordinary people all over the world. You don't need a wealth of experience, neither will you need any ‘prestigious' university degrees. All it takes for you to make a good income online is hard work, an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Many millionaire online entrepreneurs today started out as affiliate marketers, learning the ropes and gaining valuable experience in the industry. And now, you too can walk in the footsteps of the thousands of people who have turned to the internet for a reliable source of passive income. Affiliate marketing is the best home business opportunity of the century.