What? What do you mean work at home for 24-hours a day? You can't possibly do that! You barely have enough time to get your regular job done, and then spend a few moments maintaining your fledgling business - and still have a few spare moments for family and friends. It sometimes seems like you have bit off more than you can chew, but I think I might be able to show you how you can work from home 24-hours a day, and not really be working.

It's called passive income. Sure you can work from home and you can put in an 8-hour day, or you can work on one project an hour a day, and have it make you money around the clock. How you ask? Here are three ways you can do it:

1.) Internet sales site - It doesn't matter what you are selling. If there is a market for it, and you have it on the Internet, then all the work from home you have to do is fill orders or make sure that the site is maintained. People all over the world are on the Internet 24-hours a day and that means you have a virtual store that is attracting sales constantly. For just a little bit of time each day, you can easily 'work from home' for 24-hours a day with an Internet sales site.

2.) Downloadable E-book - Find an information niche that needs to be filled and you can make a decent passive income as each book sells! Literally thousands of people have become instant 'authors' with the growth of the e-book industry. You don't have to be Stephen King or Nora Roberts to make a nice side income from an e-book. Yes, this is a work at home business - but all the work you have to do is: find a writer for the book (or write it yourself), build an attractive sales page, and then watch as the sales grow - along with your passive income!

3.) Affiliate Marketing - This is one of the buzz-phrases in work at home projects. This is literally becoming an affiliate store for certain products on the Internet - ranging from major stores like Wal-Mart or Target - to people just like yourself who are trying to build their marketing network.

Affiliate marketing basically works by pointing different web users in the direction they want to go for product - basically a directional sign for the Internet. Once you direct a person to a specific site - if they buy, you collect a percentage of that sale. How easy is that? And they still call it 'work from home'!

So, as you can see, it isn't as difficult to 'work' from home for 24-hours a day as you might have first imagined. It takes a little bit of business sense, and maybe some Internet savvy to get started - but after that, for a few hours of maintenance per week, you can generate income around the clock!