I have been trying to make money on the Internet for over 5 years. Here is what I have found out so far. There are more ways to make money online at home then I could ever dream of. I'm serious. If someone is searching for it online you can make money selling it or make money selling information about it.



This brings me to a thought I had about Wal-Mart. I just moved from Denver, Colorado, to Imperial, Nebraska. When you move from a metropolitan area of several million people to a small town of 2000 you quickly realize how much more relaxing everything is. Everything seems to be going in slow motion. The next thing you notice is there are not very many places to shop.

45 years ago Sam Walton came up with and idea to put a retail general store in every small town in America. That made him very wealthy and filled a much needed hole for rural areas everywhere. Even where I live there is a Wal-Mart only 60 miles away and people drive there to shop. It is just the way it is done. Don't you wish you had bought stock in Walt-Mart 30 or 40 years ago?

I have a friend who's grandma gave him Wal-Mart stock she bought in his name when he was a kid. She bought it in 1972 and he is sitting pretty good financially right now because of it. So what does this have to do with ways to make money online at home?

Here is what I see today. An Internet business is something you can make money on in every rural area in America, too. Then you could earn money in all of these small towns and go worldwide with the right kind of products. What if you had an opportunity to make money that you could also make money sharing with others.

Building a website that becomes a mall store is a great way to that. Selling products as an affiliate in your own mall store is a great way to do it. With affiliate marketing you do not need products, you do not collect money, and you do not have to ship products. Same thing with network marketing.

But how about getting a mall store like a Wal-Mart. If you had a website of your own that contained products people needed and used, and they did not have to drive to get, wouldn't that be neat. Unfortunately Wal-Mart does not have an affiliate program, but there are programs like My Power Mall, and others that you can join for free and make money with.

In summary Sam Walton sure knew what he was doing and he built the world's largest retail business from one idea. The internet is creating Sam Walton's all over the world and giving you and me the same chances to make money he had.

Copyright (c) 2007 Jeff Schuman