It is many a person's dream to work at home. That is probably one of your dreams if you are currently reading this, or any part of this blog for that matter. I mostly discuss internet and affiliate marketing when it comes to working at home, but there are many types of jobs available to you if you would like to work from home. Here is a list of some of the different ways you can work from home. Some are online, some are not.



1. Internet & Affiliate Marketing: This is discussed in depth on this blog, so if you would like to know more just look around and read some of the posts. You can also sign up for my Make Money Online Newsletter to get access to free ebooks and also some great information I reveal only to my subscribers.

2. Online Multi-Level-Marketing: Multi-Level-Marketing is considered by most people to be a scam. Although there are mlm scams out there, there are also very legitimate mlms that you can work with to make quite a bit of money. Multi-Level-Marketing generally involves promoting a certain product and also creating a downline of people that work under you, earning you royalties.

For many online MLMs you don't even have to sell a product, you just have to get other people to sign up for the MLM and pay a monthly fee, and you get a certain portion of that fee every month. You also generally earn a percentage from the person under that person, and the next, and so on. The company determines how many levels deep you still get paid for. It ranges anywhere from 2 to infinity! These creates a recurring income, and a desire to get more people to sign up under you. Be careful though, because if one of the top people under you leaves the company, you will lose all of the ?commissions? you were receiving from all the people below them. So once you have gotten people to join the program, you need to make sure you keep them happy, and encourage them to do the same for the people below them so that you do not lose people.

3. Offline Multi-Level-Marketing: There are many examples of online MLM programs, but what about offline? One of the most famous examples is Herbalife. Herbalife is a health product company that covers everything to do with health from diet pills, to skin care, to protein bars. When you work for Herbalife they teach you how to promote your MLM online and offline, so you can do whatever works best for you. With Herbalife you both promote the Herbalife products, and you promote the business opportunity.

Your goal is to get as many people under you as possible, and have each of them selling lots of products so that you can make a lot of recurring income. You can also promote these programs online, in the same way that you would promote the MLM programs that are purely online. If you are not into affiliate or internet marketing, then this is a great source of income for you, as long as you are willing to work hard to get it started, and you do not choose a business without a solid reputation, such as Herbalife. For resources to help you succeed with MLMs check out this post: The MLM Truth (the resources are near the bottom, but the post still provides some basic information for succeeding with MLMs)

4. Freelance Work: Freelance work is generally associated with writing articles, or rewording articles that someone else has written (such as PLR articles) or translating articles, but it includes much much more. For instance, freelance work can include software creation, consulting services, labor services, and pretty much any of your skills. Freelancing involves selling your services to different people as you find people or they find you.

The most common type of freelance work generally deals with articles. You can write articles, reword articles for people looking to submit their articles to multiple places on the internet, or you can even translate articles if you are bilingual. There are many sites on the web where people post these types of jobs so that you can find them and offer your services. Some of the top sites are: RentaCoder.com, Guru.com, and Elance.com

Many people have great ideas for software that could make their life easier, and even many other people's lives easier, but they are not programmers so that software never gets made. If you are a good programmer, then you could sell your services to people looking for someone to create software for them. Many people post these types of jobs on places such as RentaCoder.com, Guru.com, Elance.com, and other similar sites.

If you are skilled at SEO, marketing, web design, or something like that, then you can become a consultant for people looking to improve their web rankings, their landing pages, or their traffic. All you have to do is advise them on what they need to change in order to improve whatever they are attempting to improve. If you want you can even offer your services (for a fee of course) and offer to do these things for them, so they do not have to worry about it. Many people pay thousands of dollars for services such as SEO, so there is a lot of money to be made with consulting.

The last type of freelance work is offering physical labor services. You can offer services such as lawn mowing, decorating, catering, or whatever you specialize in. If you promote your services well, and you do a good job so that people spread the word about you, then you can make quite a bit of money while doing something that you enjoy!

5. Ebay/Auction Sites: One common way for anyone to get started working at home is to sell things at online auction sites. Often people will start by selling things that they have around the house that they no longer need. But what about when you run out of stuff you no longer want or need? You can't sell everything you own! What happens next is a simple concept. Buy low, sell high. You can find great deals on Ebay with auctions that end at obscure times of day when most people are not online. You simply find these auctions, purchase the items at a low price, and put them right back on Ebay and have them end at a better time of day.

Another great place to find items is at garage sales or pawn shops. You can find big bundles of DVDs, or games, or pretty much anything. You simply purchase the items in bulk and sell them individually on Ebay. Depending on how cheap you find the items and what condition they are in, you can sell them for quite a bit of money. This is a common way for people to get started making money online, but they often move to something like affiliate or internet marketing, as there is a limit to how many cheap items you can find, and the effort it takes to find them increases in time, and makes it no longer worth it after a while.

6. Virtual Assistant: Many individuals building an online business grow their business so large that they are no longer capable of managing it on their own. They often search for a virtual assistant to take some of the load off their shoulders. A virtual assistant can do a variety of jobs ranging from checking emails, answering support questions, ad split testing and tracking, finance management, web design, etc. Basically they will do whatever the business owner does not like or want to do.

Individual business owners often end up hiring a team of people to do most of the work for them so that they can focus on the things that they are really good at and really enjoy doing. If you are willing to do things such as checking emails for business owners who do not have time to view and respond to all the emails they receive, then this is a great job for you! Again, you can find jobs like this at: RentaCoder.com, Guru.com and Elance.com.

7. Blogging For Profits: Blogging can be a great way to make some money at home, if your blog becomes popular. All you have to do is blog about the things you love. Post articles, videos, things that happen to you, and whatever you enjoy doing. As long as your blog is interesting, fun and has personality, people will enjoy your blog and keep coming back, and often refer people to the blog. Often all it takes is some initial traffic generation methods and great content and word will spread. Once you start receiving traffic to your blog, simply put up advertisements.

Adsense is a common one, but if your blog is receiving a good amount of traffic then you can go to places such as AdBrite.com and state the price of advertising space on your blog for a week or a month, post the listing on AdBrite and put a piece of HTML code on your website. Then AdBrite finds advertisers, puts their ads up and collects the payments for you! They do charge a small fee for doing this, but it isn't very much and it saves you a lot of time and effort. Often if advertisers receive traffic from your website they will keep paying you month after month and you will gain a recurring income just from writing down the things you love!

8. CPA Networks: CPA Networks are a very simple business model. You sign up with a CPA network, choose an offer to promote, and send people to a special landing page where they enter some information and you get paid. These are generally free trials, or free offers to test out products for companies. The person you send to the website will generally need to fill in their name and email address, although sometimes they will be required to pay for shipping and handling on a product, and sometimes they will only need to enter their zip code! These are very simple, as many people are willing to sign up for free trials or trial offers, so there are very high conversions. It is possible to make over 100k per day if you do this right. (and you will not make nearly that much when you first start out).

9. Survey Sites: Well, if you have seen my post on Survey Sites, then you probably know that I am not a fan. You can make money from them, but often it is very difficult and not worth your time. However, if you are completely unsuccessful with all the above work at home jobs, then you can try out survey sites. With these sites you usually pay a monthly membership fee, and then you have access to surveys that some large companies pay people to take so that they can understand what people want, and therefore attempt to please them.

Often the problem with these sites is you have to take a survey first to see if you qualify, and you often will not qualify for the survey, meaning you just took a survey for nothing. I advise you read the post linked to above to see more about what I have to say about paid survey sites, and why they generally do not pay, before you attempt to start a work at home business with survey sites.

10. Data Entry: Ok, so everywhere you look you see ads for data entry saying that you can become rich just by doing some data entry for big companies that are too lazy to do it. Well, let me tell you that you are wasting your time with these. You will not get rich, you will not replace your current income and you will not be able to work from home doing these. I don't care what you've been told, these are even worse than survey sites. These are scams, so don't even bother trying to find legitimate data entry jobs. You are better off working at McDonalds.

I hope this has been helpful for you in learning what your options are for working at home so that you can accomplish your goals and see your dreams come true. If you seriously try all of these methods and you do not make money while working from home, then I am sorry, but you will need to find a job working for someone else.

To Your Success,

Shawn Horwood

http://top5-workathome.com/blog/