Let's talk about a couple of overlooked legitimate work at home businesses that might make sense for you.

1. Start your own network marketing business, but concentrate on Internet based products. For whatever reason, many network marketing businesses concentrate on nutritional supplements as a primary product line.

I would be willing to bet you can go online right now and find over 2000 MLM opportunities that have nutritional products, vitamins, weight loss products and so on as their primary product line. The biggest problem building an MLM business with this type of product line is you are not selling anything that is unique.

If a person can go down to Wal Mart and buy the same thing for half of the price that you are currently offering, you will have a tough time building your business. As a matter of fact, I would say that network marketing companies that sell nutritional supplements in many ways are not legitimate work at home businesses.

Creating a network marketing company around Internet based products makes much more sense. For example, building a MLM business around web hosting, domain names, Internet marketing training, membership sites, graphic design, and so on, gives you an upper hand when it comes to building your network marketing business

Plus, these products can provide instant access to your distributors and customers. This makes it possible for you to build a worldwide business without having to ship products anywhere. Think about the advantages of that when it comes to competing against Wal Mart!

2. Another overlooked legitimate work at home business idea is starting your own service company. Traditional service companies might include providing heating contractors, carpet cleaning, plumbing, and general maintainance issues.

Today, a service company from an Internet marketing standpoint is something you can provide to other Internet marketers that they have a need for. One good example right now of this is starting a work at home business as a blog writer.

As more and more blogs are started, the demand for writers who can produce great quality content goes up and up. There are endless opportunities you can take advantage of by starting a service company to provide blog articles.

These ideas are often overlooked, so by carefully applying them you can create a very lucerative niche for yourself, and build a legitimate work at home business for your families future