If you are lucky, you have started a home business based on the recommendation of a friend or relative. These are people that you can usually trust to give you good advice. However not everyone has those type of references to fall back on, so let's take a look at three places that you can discover legitimate home business ideas.

1. One thing you can do is join a discussion group that is based around the theme of Internet marketing or home businesses. You can find these by going to your favorite search engine and typing in the words "home and business forums".

You will find that millions of results will be delivered, and out of those, you can come up with handfuls that are worth joining and doing research in. Discussion forums are great because people are very helpful and honest.

As you read through some of the different threads you will find discussions about specific home businesses and the pros and cons of them. You can even ask questions and get answers on home businesses that you may be considering joining as well.

Industry specific forums can be found as well and you can Google search words like affiliate marketing forum, Internet marketing forum, network marketing discussion forum, and so on. This just gives you more potential places to research and find legitimate home business ideas.

2. Another thing you can do is go to various article directories and read articles on specific home business ideas. Some of the more popular article directories include Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Ideamarketers, Moxie-Drive and so on.

These directories contain literally thousands of articles on various topics and you can search for words home business ideas to narrow down the results you are looking for.

Understand that many of these authors have an agenda in that they are trying to promote a home business of their own, but they can provide excellent research ideas as well and as a personal contact for you to get in touch with on any questions that you have.

We have mentioned these two as places to discover legitimate home business ideas because these will contain real life people who are actively pursuing their dream of building a home business of their own.

Not only will you find great ideas on legitimate home businesses, but you'll also meet people that you can bump ideas off of and help you in the future when you really need it.