Almost all people looking for work at home opportunities to make money, look towards data entry, researching, envelope filling or typing. However, legitimate opportunities in the above categories are hard to find and are mostly scams.

In today's existing opportunities, one has to telecommute or freelance or begin a online business from scratch to succeed otherwise the possibility of making money by working at home becomes more of a challenge than a means of livelihood.

Most people moreover are averse to doing telemarketing, cold calls, multi level marketing or pyramid schemes or sales. They have outlived their short existence and people have grown beyond getting scammed or being under paid.

With the above facts in mind, working at home in niche market to make money helps and probably is he best option a person looking for a work at home opportunity could opt for. However, this would involve making a website and marketing your products and services that would take a lot of discipline, planning, enterprise and resources. When people start looking for simple work at home opportunities, they have to limit their options to freelancing like offering content building, web programming or similar services.

It is good to do some soul searching and come up with what your core strengths are and where your interests lie. It would be beneficial if your prior professional experience is in the same line as the freelance work you want to pursue to make money by working at home.

Some avenues open to freelancers are provided and grouped under a few freelance websites that take act as middlemen between the customers and the providers. Most of these websites are auction websites where a freelancer or a provider needs to bid on services he is interested to provide, whereupon the bids are reviewed by the customer and awarded at their discretion.

There is very little room to complicate matters, since these sites advocate the use of their escrow system for payment and it works with equal control of both the customer and the freelancer or provider.

Upon completion the monies are transferred from the escrow to the provider's account whereupon he can withdraw to his bank or any method he chooses to. These sites have built up a reputation for themselves in the recent past and there have been no incidents of scamming or whatsoever to my knowledge.

These freelance websites offer the best and the easiest way to make money by work at home. A word of caution would be to not bid on something you cannot provide, since the reputation is built on customer feedbacks and once it goes bad, it is difficult to survive. All your dreams of making money by working from home would come to a nought.