Publishing an e-zine, while it's often thought of as a great Internet marketing tools, can also be your best internet home based business opportunity. An e-zine can make money online. While an e-zine is not necessarily the same as an electronic newsletter (the latter is generally longer) for the purposes of what each of them can do for your bottom line and your Internet networking, we're going to assume they're identical.

Publishing an e-zine can be a very enjoyable internet home based business. To know that you can write about yourself and your business, you can work at any hour of the day and night, and you're imparting your wisdom to people who have actually asked for it and will benefit from it, can be a very satisfying experience.

We're all experts at something. Take stock of what you've done over the years and what you've learned. Think about what you enjoy doing and what you do well. Surely there is something that you do better, that you know better than anybody else. That's the focus of your new e-zine or newsletter.

As an internet home based business, your e-zine will take some patience but there are few businesses, of the thousands and thousands out there, that make any money right off. This is true despite some of the hyperbolic stuff you read on the Internet about spending a few dollars to buy someone else's internet home based business opportunity and then all you have to do is sit back and watch the money roll in from day one.

No matter what the internet home based business oppotunity is ? unless it's some sort of scam ? that's just not going to happen.

With your e-zine you'll spend several months building your subscriber base. Once it's reach about 1000 you can start selling advertising, or sponsorships to relevant businesses. They'll probably jump at the chance to tap into your highly targeted market for their products. Of course you can also sell your own products and services as well. What you want to be very careful about is not selling advertising or sponsorship to a competitor. The advertisers on the ezine should enhance, and not compete with, your internet home based business products and services.

Once you have a steady following for your e-zine you can start charging for a subscription. Or you might run two ezines, one condensed free one, and another paid one that offers more help, more advice, more resources and so forth.

Basically, the message is that if you have an expertise, if you have a product, an opportunity, an idea, an industry or a service, that you know more about than most other people, and if it's a product or idea or service that enough people want to know more about, you can make a lucrative internet home based business out of publishing an ezine and helping others learn.