Their has been a recent surge of new business owners across the globe due to the advent of the internet. The world wide web has allowed entrepreneurs everywhere to start up their own home based business with little or no start up costs. Here's four work from home opportunities that people are using to make money online.

Work From Home Opportunity #1:

Sign up for a click bank account and promote other peoples products and services. You can end up earning a great income from all the commissions you can make doing this. Some of the affiliate commission percentages are over 75%!

You can promote these products effectively both on and off-line. Set up a free blog and make a sales page on the blog promoting the different products. By posting and pinging new blog posts and by passing out flyer's and cards you can easily bring traffic to your new blog.

Work From Home Opportunity #2

Start up your own website. Really anything is possible with your own website and domain name. You can promote the click bank products mentioned above, other affiliates, or make your own product and service.

Even without a product or service, if you can provide good information on a subject, you can bring traffic to the site. Just by simply bringing traffic to your website, you can make money by selling advertising space and/or through Google Adsense.

Work From Home Opportunity #3

Get paid to take surveys. The best way to make paid surveys work for you is to sign with multiple survey companies. You will usually be compensated between one and ten dollars for surveys that normally take 10-20 minutes to complete.

Taking surveys will not net you enough to money to make a decent living but it will help ease some of the stress from your normal monthly bills.

Work From Home Opportunity #4

One of the most effective ways to work from home and make money online is to start a list and use email marketing. The list that you build can provide income forever. All you have to do anytime you need money is to email a helpful product or service to your list that they might be interested in.

So there you have four legitimate work from home opportunities that anyone can use. There are many people using these exact methods to make money online. In order to make enough money to be able to pay the bills and live comfortably it would be wise to diversify your income opportunities.