Here's where it gets a little bit interesting. Many people think they have to sell a product to make money on the Internet. In reality there is a huge opportunity to work at home selling a service you provide to other Internet marketers.

Making money as an article writer for blogs is one of the best services. Being a blog writer opens up a potential market of millions of blogs right now that do not have content being added to them on a consistent basis.

Many people start blogs with the idea that they're going to make money with them. The amount of effort that it takes to keep up with blogs often causes people to abandon them. Some people just do not have the time or the energy to blog as often as they should.

However blogging can be big business and there are people who are willing to pay someone such as yourself to write blog content for them. Targeted articles of 250 words or so that relate to the theme of the blog are sufficient and do not have to be masterpieces.

One strategy you can take is to contact blog owners in an area that you have an interest in. For example if you like pets you can Google search the words "pet blogs" and contact the owners that come up.

The same strategy will work by using Technorati.com and entering your key words there. This should give you plenty of blog owners to start contacting.

The nice thing about this strategy is it gives you a chance to write some blog articles in something interesting to you. And it gives you an opportunity to work at home making around five dollars per article. It's not unusual for a person to make $10-$20 an hour or more as you gain experience doing this type of work.

Another way to get started is to join Blogger.com and write blog articles for yourself. As you begin to build up content you can use this as references for the quality of work that you do.

Being a blog writer is an excellent way to make money working from home and one that will always be in demand.