No more polluting the net with crap. Although thin sites can still do well if created and linked correctly, it looks like that model will slowly be fading away. The general direction of future sites now are sites that have high quality, useful content and serves the users as well as having the right links from the right places. Many people in the IM world have probably quit this business all together due to the recent Panda updates.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve known this was the way to go all along and I know the people who’s been creating sites for some time now knew this as well. So why did we create all of those pointless sites with less than stellar content? Because it was easier. Who would want to spend more time than necessary creating a site just to make money? Throw up a site, spend the rest of your time building links, make money.

We got accustomed to cranking out articles in less than 15 minutes. We got used to the quick and easy money that was produced from content that we would be ashamed to put our names on. Thinking about spending a few hours on one article makes me almost nauseous but if we’re going to stay and thrive in this business, it’s time to treat it like a real business.

The reality is that Google’s search engine is becoming smarter. Sure, you could continue putting out crap content and hope you don’t get caught and slapped but if you want the best bang for your time, then quality content along with quality, relevant links should be the focus.

Does this mean you won’t get smacked around anyway? Of course not, but at least you’ll know deep down that when your site is ranked in the top 3 for your term, you deserve to be there. When I see a competitor’s site that just sucks big time in terms of quality, I think, “No way will this guy keep his ranking. It’s just a matter of time before Google slaps him.” Yet, I’ve failed to apply the same reasoning when one of my crappy sites rank #1.

Here’s the point. If you want to build a long term business online, work on delivering value. That’s how real businesses thrive. Money goes to the people who can provide the most value to the most amount of people in the marketplace. Period. Even if you do temporarily succeed in making money without providing any real value, sooner or later you’re going to get caught like the people featured on The Salty Droid who will forever be known as greedy, heartless, lying scumbags.

If this means you’ll have to cut down to just 1 or 2 sites, so be it. Be the site in your niche that if you were a real customer looking for something in the niche, your site would be the site that you’d personally want to land on because it’s just that good. Yes, it’ll be harder and will take more work but did we already forget that true, long lasting success doesn’t come easily?

As long as you create content where you could look at it and truly say, “Damn, I’m good. If Google doesn’t rank this #1, they’re idiots!”, then you’re probably on the right track.

This post was really written just as a reminder to me to deliver value. From now on, no more junk, except on this site where I obviously just ramble about pointless things.

To Your Success,

KS

I’m going to keep this short and simple. I make enough residual income online to do this business full time. I’m about 2 years away from hitting an income where I can walk away from this business and not really have to worry about how I’m going to pay my bills. Just to be clear, by residual income, I mean income that keeps going into my bank account each and every month without much effort on my part. Yes, this means I make money even when I’m sleeping, but I have to point out that it took a LOT of work to get to this point. True success in life never comes easily. You have to work your heart out to obtain and keep it.

I started this whole online business venture about 2 years ago. For the first 8 months or so, I didn’t make squat. Why? Simply because I didn’t really know what I was doing. I had bits and pieces of information on what to do and how to do it here and there but it was all scattered. I didn’t have a step by step plan of action to get from where I was to where I wanted to be with my internet business.

This all changed when I found The Keyword Academy. They gave me a blueprint, a step by step plan on what to do to make money online which includes finding profitable niches, creating a website, and most importantly, how to drive traffic to your sites. I followed it and that’s when my life started to change financially. Did I have doubts at first? Of course I did. Who wouldn’t? But at the time, I had a job that I hated so I had to do something. The first month is free now but back when I signed up, it cost $1 so I really didn’t have anything to lose except for time.

Since joining the training program, I’ve learned a lot about how making money online works, but most importantly, I put what I learned into action. That’s the only way you will succeed in this business or in any other business. Learning what needs to be done is necessary but it’s pointless if you don’t take action. I’m sure many people join The Keyword Academy and end up quitting because they were looking for some get rich quick scheme that involves no work and found that the program was anything but an easy way to instant riches. But hey, those types of people are the ones who will keep looking until they realize they will have to work for some job they hate for the rest of their lives.

Anyway, learning and APPLYING what I learned at The Keyword Academy is how I make residual income online. The first month is free and you get full access to everything. After that, it’s $33/month. The main reason for sticking around is to get ongoing support as well as being able to use their tools to accelerate your progress. You can cancel anytime. If you decide to just stick around for the first month, learn as much as you can and put what you learn into action. Success isn’t complicated. Figure out what to do and just do it until you get the results that you want.

If you have any questions about the program, feel free to leave it down in the comments section below. If you want a more in depth review of the program, read my Keyword Academy Review post.

KS

Here’s an awesome video of Gary Vaynerchuk talking about where he sees business heading and how to stay in business as the changes are taking place.

The Census Bureau today stated that 1 in 7 people are now living below the poverty line ($11k a year for an individual and $22 for a family of 4). With unemployment rate hovering around 10%, home values declining, people losing their homes, people who want to work and are not able to find work, over 50 million American without health insurance partly due to increasing prices, it can be pretty easy to seem like there is no hope of a bright future.

I don’t have the answer to these problems but if you are in a situation where you’re able to make ends meet, then it’s time you did something about your finances. Since the lack of money seems to be the common factor in all of the things mentioned above, it only makes sense that putting yourself and your family in a situation where money is not an issue should be a top priority.

For most people, this would normally mean to get a second job or to have the other spouse work if he or she isn’t already. Many people are probably thinking of starting a business but with people spending less and less, it can be a pretty big risk to do so especially if it’s a business that will require you to use up a lot of your savings or to take out a huge loan.

So what options do you have at this point to increase the chances of your future being bright despite of the things that are going on with our economy at the moment? Since I can only speak from what I know, one solution that I see is to start your own internet business.

I have already written about the advantages of having your own home business so I won’t repeat it here. However, I will say that if you want your life to be better off 5 years from now and not worse off, then the time to start doing something about it is today. If an internet business isn’t for you, then find something that is. The objective is to make residual income through anything you can. The more residual income you have, the less financial stress and problems you will have.

Merely having a job has its flaws as we are all starting to see. Working 2 or 3 jobs is honorable but how long can that realistically last until you break down mentally and physically? If you’re not in a situation where you’re about to go broke or about to lose your home or job, then you have time to take control of your future. If you are in that situation, then I can’t offer you much advice but to do what you need to do and to keep the thought of making residual income in your mind so when things get better and the situation is right, you can start doing what needs to be done to make your future something worth looking forward to.

Starting an internet business is just the path that I have chosen. It may or may not be for you. If not, then research and find out other ways to create residual income that will be a better fit for you. If an online business is right for you, then you must first learn what to do and the best place to learn in my opinion is at The Keyword Academy. The first month of complete access is free so you have nothing to lose.

Regardless of your situation, if you’re not making any residual income, then you need to at least consider it. You can still not only keep the American Dream alive but you can make it a reality as well. I’m tell you, just having a job alone isn’t going to cut it anymore. You need to find a way to build a source of income that can keep making you money even after you stop working.  Don’t wait any longer, start today!

What is the best internet business to start? This is a question that many people ask when first starting out. Although it’s a good idea to evaluate your options and get opinions on what type of business is the best, you will discover that finding the answer will be quite difficult. The challenge is that no internet business opportunity is right for everyone. In other words, what will work for one person doesn’t necessary mean it will work for another person. You can look for a list of the best internet businesses out there and it will basically just contain the opinion of whoever put the list together.

Now some of you may want to know which online business has the best chance of succeeding. There is a problem with asking this question as well because when it comes down to it, what will determine whether or not you will succeed with your home based business will be your work ethic and determination. Other factors include things like whether or not you like doing the things that needs to be done in the business. If you hate going to the post office to ship out products for example, an Ebay business might not be the best online business for you but for someone who enjoys it, it may be a dream business to them.

Obviously, you will want to look out for scams and doing research to figure out what’s legit and what’s not is important. However, what you will want to look for is which internet business is best for YOU. There are a ton of businesses that you can get into using the internet but many of them will require work that will drive you nuts. As I said earlier, if you want to succeed in this business, you need to have determination and a strong work ethic. However, even if you have these things, it will be hard to keep it up if you hate what you do. At the very least, if you have money, you can outsource the tasks that you hate doing.

In my opinion, the best internet business is one that has the following criteria:

• Unlimited residual income potential

If your aim is to be able to retire and have time freedom, then you need to make sure your business will produce residual income. If it doesn’t, you’ll be working for a long time unless you are able to make a load of money. Make sure the business can keep earning an income even after you stop putting in the work. It may not be a set it and forget it situation, but at least have a business where you don’t have to do much to maintain it after you hit your income goals.

• Requires work that you’re okay with doing

If you absolutely hate doing the things that must be done, you’re not going to last very long. One of the things that I do on a daily basis is write articles which I’m totally fine with. It might not be my favorite thing to do, but I also don’t hate doing it. If I hated writing articles, then either I will need to have money to hire other people to write for me or I would have quit this business within a few months of starting it. I have several friends who have done just that.

• Has a successful track record

You can have a business that has a potential of residual income and you can even like the tasks that needs to be completed but if the business or program that you are following doesn’t work, you will fail. In other words, make sure the methods and strategies that you are using will get you the results that you want. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Find people who are already successful and just do what they do.

The best internet business opportunity that I have come across is The Keyword Academy. It’s taught by some of the best in the internet marketing industry. They have thousands of students and unlike most programs, they have actually helped many people make an income online, myself being one of them. And yes, my income is residual. It may be or may not be for you but give it a try. The first month is free.

If you searched for Mindset and Internet Program Scam or Review then read on. This program was created by Les Brown (well-known speaker) and Antonio Thornton. I decided to investigate to see what this program is all about and if it was a worthwhile internet business program.

The Claim

So what’s the claim and promise of this program?

Make $6k in 6 months with a set it and forget it internet system. Super easy, guaranteed to make you money, recession proof, very little time involved… hmm…

The Deal

This program is valued at “$7,000″ and which apparently many people have paid, BUT if you take action right away you can have access to the program for $1 for 14 days (30 days if you click the back button while the sales video is playing) and $97/month for 6 months after the trial is over.

If you’re still not interested, there’s a link that leads you to another sales page for a product that will teach you how the creator made over $98k in 5 days for just $19.95!!! What a deal right???

The guarantee is that you will make money or get your money back. So theoretically, you can pay nearly $600 and make $2… woohoo!

They also say the program is for 193 people only. Why not 200? Because the co-creator gave 7 “spots” to friends and family. C’mon! Typical sales letter using scarcity to make you act.

They also sell some other “strategy” to make $1,200 in 48 hours. And they say it’s not a get rich quick program? They even try to get you more excited by telling you to agree to send them pictures of things you buy like a new car, HDTV, a new home, a boat with girls in bikinis… Okay, I made up that last one but you get the idea.

Some warning signs…

• Sales letter and video doesn’t say anything about what the program consists of. All it says is that it’s not MLM or some “scam”. Sorry but legit opportunities are up front with you and don’t try to keep it a secret until you pay them. Not saying they aren’t legit but seriously, what do they have to hide?

• The get rich by doing nothing appeal. What’s that saying about a fool and his money?

• Pictures of homes, new cars, vacationing, etc.

• The co-creator of this program was one of those people you see on those late night get rich quick infomercials. I guess he figured out how to get rich, by doing what most get rich quick infomercials do… target the broke and oblivious by promises of quick riches with little work.

• His income proof. Basically, he makes the money by selling some $50 product. This means that you will need to be good at selling or writing sales copy. Sales is the highest paying professions you can have but it’s also the lowest as well. And if they provide you with some sales letter template or something, you can be sure there will be a ton of copy cat sites out there. Plus, they never say anything about PROFIT. There’s a difference between making X amount and making a profit of X amount. You can make $6k but spend $6k to make it. Just saying.

After signing up for the $1 deal, you are taken to a page to buy a DVD that will teach you how to make even more money in less than 48 hours for $47. If you click “no thanks” you’ll get a second offer for the digital version of the DVD for $17. Apparently, it costs $30 more for shipping and burning the stuff onto DVD. Another sucker punch to the people who acted right away instead of passing up on the deal.

With these types of programs, there are almost always more stuff you will need to buy in order to “make more money” or be more successful such as extra coaching sessions or “better” packages. I don’t know if this program has any of that but with those extra upsell products thrown in before you even get to the main page, I wouldn’t be surprised.

The Catch

So how do they pull the full amount out of you instead of just $1? They give you limited access. Their reasoning is that they don’t want to “overwhelm” you by giving you too much information at once. Seriously? So it’s a 24 week program, forcing you to pay up if you want to learn the whole system.

The Program

Obviously, I didn’t go through the whole 6 month Mindset & Internet program but they outline it for you after you pay your $1. Basically, the first 4 weeks is all about buying and setting up a website. You don’t even get to any money making stuff until after the 1st month is over which means you’ll have to fork up $97 to find out. Sort of a waste of a dollar. One of the selling points they use it that you can create more than 1 site so your income is unlimited. Really? You can build more than 1 site? No way!

Of course, they make more money from you ($50) by telling you to sign up with a hosting service but don’t tell you that they make money off of you.

During the 1st month, you will need to come up with your site topic based on your “passion”. In truth though, they give you a list of suggestions which basically are just affiliate programs for you to sell like, “Squidoo Empire”, “The Craigslist Blackhat System” (sounds dandy) and hundreds or thousands of others. I’m guessing they got this list from Click Bank. So pick a passion and see if there is a product related to it and sell it. Not a bad idea actually but then again, not worth paying that much to figure this out.

At the end of the 2nd month, you will have to pay the second payment of $97 if you want to find out some “quick money making ideas”. At the end of the 3rd month, you’ll have to pay another payment to learn about some “passive income strategies”.

Obviously, this program is made for beginners which is fine. Heck, most people will be happy to just have a website that they can tell their friends and family about.

So how is Les Brown a part of this thing? He basically takes care of the mental side of this business. As I’ve written before in other posts, a lot of succeeding with an internet business is mental so perhaps just listening to Les is worth the investment but probably not.

Going back to the program, as I said, according to the sales video where Mr. Thornton shows his income for one of his sites, the creator makes his “$6k a month” through selling some program for $50. This means it’s partly an affiliate sales type of internet business.

If you know anything about affiliate sales, you know that you will need a good sales copy and the most important thing of all, traffic. How do you get traffic? By ranking well in the search engines and you do that by getting links to your site with the right anchored links. You can also build an email list and do things like joint ventures as well.

They also talk about advertising which most likely means using Adwords. They also talk about setting up membership type websites as well as creating and selling your own products. All good ideas, but to pull it off in 6 months where you’re making a profit of $6k? Well, it’s highly unlikely but who knows.

The Bottom Line

Is Mindset and Internet a scam? Definitely not. However, you can learn almost everything they are teaching for free. Why? Because most of the stuff they are teaching are the basics of making money online. Choose a niche, create a simple site, and drive traffic.

Besides, as I have said many times on this site, succeeding with an internet business takes a lot of work and patience. More than most people are willing to put up with. This is why most people fail, that and because they fall for get rich quick programs and go in believing they’ll make a ton of money quickly and with little work. This is the mindset that will make sure you become one of the 99% who fail at making money with an internet business.

You can save yourself $600 and join the Keyword Academy (my review) instead. Yes, they offer a $1 trial free for the first month deal as well but no, they don’t “do you a favor” and block off access to the full program in fear of overwhelming you. They believe that you’re smart enough to go at your own pace. You get access to EVERYTHING for a month for free. You can basically learn what you need to know to succeed with an internet business and cancel before the month is up if you want.

Here is a list of internet businesses and internet business ideas that you can start from the comfort of your own home. Each one will have its pros and cons so you will want to look at each and decide which one is best for you. Remember that the best internet business is simply one that you will enjoy doing long enough to actually succeed at it. Many people fail because they can’t stand running the business and end up quitting way too early.

1. Affiliate Marketing

Most people don’t really want to think about or even have the desire to invent and sell their own products. Although creating your own product can be very profitable, it can take money, time, and lots of creativity. So what you can do instead is to sell other people’s products. Having an affiliate internet business can be a good start if you don’t have a lot of capital. Someone else has put in the time and money to create a product. All you have to do is get people to buy your products and you can do that by driving the right type of traffic to your site. In terms of which affiliate programs to use, Amazon and products from Commission Junction are some of the best.

2. Blogging

Starting a blog is something that anyone can do within a few minutes. With so many different free blogs out there, starting one isn’t the problem. The challenge is to actually make money with a blog. Thousands of people have blogs. The things people write about are endless. In order to make this type of internet home business work, you will need to pick the right topics to blog about. Posts about how you went to the mall today might not bring in a lot of traffic compared to posts about how to find the best deals at the mall for example. When it comes to internet businesses, a blog is the easiest one to get started with but actually making money with one will take a bit more work.

3. Ebay Business

Do you have a bunch of things stored up in your garage that you don’t need? If so, you might want to try selling those things on Ebay. This is how a lot of people start off. They create an account and start selling random items online and before they know it, they’re looking for more things to sell. The key to success with a home based Ebay business is to sell the right type of products.

Can you sell Ipods on Ebay? Sure you can but hundreds of other people are as well. What you will want to do is find a product that has decent demand but doesn’t have too many other sellers competing for the sale. If you are deciding to buy products and sell them on Ebay, before doing so, do some research to see how many of those products are actually being sold and for how much. You can do this by logging in and looking at the “completed” sales. This is give you an idea of what percentage of the existing sellers for a given product are actually selling it.

4. Ecommerce Business

If you would rather not have to pay Ebay any fees, then you might want to start your own online store. This is basically where you set up a website to sell products. The key to being successful in this type of internet business is to not only find the right products to sell but to also find a place where you can buy the products for cheap, i.e. at wholesale prices. The problem with this is that there are a lot of scammers out there selling fake wholesalers lists. If you want to find true, legitimate wholesalers, then the site I recommend is Worldwide Brands. You can get access to thousands of wholesalers. You will need a tax ID number though. From there, what you can do is find businesses willing to sell you products in bulk at low prices or even use dropshipping where you make the sale, they send your customers the products with your business name on it, and you give them a percentage of the sale.

5. Freelance  Business

This type of internet business involves things such as writing, editing, being a ghost writer, bookkeeping, website design, programming, and a slew of other things. Basically, you will be doing tasks that employers want to outsource but from the comfort of your own home. A great place to find this type of work is on Elance. You can also try being a virtual assistant as well and do customer service and secretarial type of work.

6. Consulting Business

If you have a lot of skill and knowledge in a particular field, you can charge people money to consult them and help them build up their business or help improve their life. You can be a life coach or a business consultant for example. What this home based business involves is basically giving your clients advice on what they should do. Depending on your experience and expertise, you can make quite a good living with this business.

7. Membership Sites

This internet home business involves creating a website and having people sign up as members where they will be paying a fee on a monthly or yearly basis. This can be a service that you provide or a product. The key for success with this type of business is to create tremendous ongoing value. It’s not all that hard to get people to sign up and be a member for a month if you have a great product but in order to get them to keep paying you, you will need to come up with a good enough reason for them to do so. What you will want to do is provide a service or product that is only accessible through your membership site and is something that your clients need in order to make their life easier, more efficient, help them make more money, etc. If they feel that they will be worse off if they cancel their membership, then you have a winner.

8. List Marketing

Being a list marketer basically entails getting people to sign up for your newsletter or email list. This internet business will involve selling a product or having other people pay you to use your list to market their products. One of the keys for this type of business model to work is to build a lot of trust with your subscribers. You can do this by giving away a lot of valuable information for free. Once they are hooked and trust that your recommendations are gold, you can pitch different types of products. Just keep in mind that no one likes junk. If you’re going to do this, make sure you actually provide your list of subscribers with services and products that will actually help them and not just something that will make you money at their expense.

9. Joint Ventures

Another type of internet business you can get into is a joint venture. This is where you basically team up with one or more people on a project. Many times, when you’re just starting out, you might not have the traffic or customer base to really make much money. If you can get someone with a bigger list to team up with you however, you can leverage their list to give your income a boost. The key to making this work is to have something that will make it beneficial for others if they team up with you on a project.

10. Internet Marketing

With this particular type of home based internet business, you will be creating websites or webpages and getting them ranked in the search engines. A lot of the internet businesses mentioned above will require you to drive traffic to your website. There are different ways to do this but one of the best and sustainable ways is to use internet marketing strategies to get your site at the top of the search engines. This way, you will be getting targeted traffic who are ready to buy. You can make money through different methods including Google Adsense, affiliates, or even selling your own products.

This is just a small list of online business ideas that you can get involved with. Before getting into any type of business, make sure you do thorough research and understand what it takes to succeed in that business. Also, watch for scams. There are a ton of them out there. Remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Having an internet home based business is one of the best ways to get away from the everyday grind. Instead of having a regular 9-5 job, you can have a business that is based out of your home. One obvious benefit to this is that the start up is usually a lot lower than a traditional business. Many people also choose this type of business simply because they want to stay at home to be closer to their kids. Whatever your reason for wanting to start an internet based home business, knowing your options is important in helping you choose the right path.

There are a lot of different types of businesses that you can start up. Two basic types of home based internet businesses is one that provides a product and one that provides a service.

Product based businesses will deal with selling goods. The goods don’t have to be physical if you are going to sell information such as ebooks for example. Service based businesses will deal with providing a service such as consulting or being a free lancer.

The type of internet home based business you choose will depend on your financial goals and what you hope to gain out of starting this type of business. If you have a skill that you would like to provide, then a service business will do well since the amount of money you make per transaction will usually be much larger than selling a product. The problem with a service business is that you will be limited in terms of the amount of time you have.

With a product business, you can sell tons of products. Your income isn’t really limited. One disadvantage is having to deliver the products as well as deal with customer service. This all depends on the exact type of business you start. Let’s look at some home based businesses that many people do to give you an idea of the different options you have.

Some Internet Business Ideas

1. Selling products on Ebay.

This is something that almost everyone has heard of. You might have even sold something on Ebay before. In order to make this a business where you will actually make a decent income, you will typically need to choose a specific niche. Although selling stuff you find in your garage is a good way to start, once you run out of items, your business will stop.

What you will need to do is to find a couple of products that will sell well. From there, you will need to find a place to buy these products at wholesale prices.

I knew a guy who sold antique toys on Ebay. These were toys that dated back in the 50′s and earlier for the most part. Doing this part time, he was pulling in about $3,000 a month. The way he got those toys was by going to garage sales. Since he got good at spotting good deals, he was able to pick up antique toys for a couple of bucks and sell them for many times more. Some of those toys are worth hundreds of dollars.

2. Creating and selling your own products.

If you have a skill, some knowledge, or an invention, you can sell it online. Since most people don’t see themselves as capable of actually inventing anything, an easier path is to create an ebook about something you have a lot of knowledge in and sell it online. Of course, you’ll have to be able to find out if there is a demand for your type of ebook or product as well as how fierce the competition is.

3.  Find a home internet based business opportunity.

This can be in the form of joint ventures or where you simply provide a service like writing articles. A great place to start is going to Odesk. That site offers a bunch of different tasks you can do such as web design, virtual assistant, programming, etc. Many people work full-time from their home doing this stuff.

4. Home based internet marketing business.

The reason why many people start selling on Ebay is because it already brings a ton of traffic every day. If you are going to sell on your own, meaning with your own website, you will need to be able to drive traffic. This is what internet marketing is all about. If you happen to already know how to drive traffic, then you can set up a business where people pay you to help get their website ranked for certain keywords and terms.

5. Creating niche websites.

One of the cheapest ways to start a home based business on the internet is to start your own website. If you can find niches that have decent demand, low competition, and you know how to get ranked in the search engines, then you can make a lot of money from the comfort of your own home. In fact, this is one of the reasons why this site exists. Since a lot of people want to start an internet home based business, they will go searching for free information about it online.

Of the many visitors that come to this site, most will just read and/or leave but a small percentage will buy something I recommend. This is also a part of affiliate marketing as well. Since less than 5% of visitors actually buy something, in order to make money, you will need to drive a lot of traffic. The more, the better.

Legal Stuff

When you are first starting out with your internet home based business, you probably don’t have to worry too much about creating a business entity. However, as you grow and make more money, it’s a good idea to set up your business in a way that will give you some protection in case something were to happen such as a lawsuit. Things happen so it’s best to be prepared.

Where to go from here?

You’re probably thinking right now that knowing what type of business is good but HOW do you start? Or you may be asking, “What is the best home based internet business?”

The best internet business is one where you actually enjoy. Making money online isn’t easy. Many marketers and scammers will make you believe it is. Don’t buy it. The fact is that 99% of the people who try to make any type of decent income online fail and end up having to stick with their regular job.

In terms of the “how”, this is what this site is about. I’ll be going over different types of internet businesses tactics. If you’re looking for a free home based internet business, then you’re in luck because I’ll be going into that as well.

I’ll do what I can to help you start and actually make money with an internet home based business. Having an internet business, in my opinion, is one of the smartest decisions you can make. With thousands of people logging on to the web each day, learning how to create an income and actually making an income really is within everyone’s grasp.

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Are you looking for some real internet business opportunities? If so, then you are probably sick and tired of the journey that most people take in life which is to trade their time for money until they are way too old to really enjoy life. The single biggest reason why anyone would want to start an internet business or any type of business for that matter is to have financial freedom as well as not having to work for anyone. If you have been looking for an internet home business opportunity then my bet is that you have actually tried some of these so called “opportunities” and ended up either losing money, wasting time, or both. If this is the case, then you’re not alone. I’ve been there myself and so has a ton of other people. So why does this happen, what can you do to avoid it, and how do you find real opportunities that will help make you an online income? Let’s find out.

Everyone Wants A Piece of Your Bank Account

The main reason why people pitch and sell internet based business opportunities is to make money off of people who are looking for them. The hard part is figuring out which ones are legit and which ones are scams. Almost every company is going to tell you that they are the best and that they are out for your best interest in mind. Almost all of the sales pages you will see will have pictures of happy people, positive testimonials, and even pictures of checks. That’s all good and grand but how do you know if those testimonials and checks are even real?

In a world where anyone with a computer and basic photoshopping skills, creating a fake check is as easy as making a bowl of cereal. I’m not saying that all opportunities with long sales pages are fakes but many are and you need to be aware of them. Another thing that you will come across often is “expiring” home internet business opportunities where they make it seem like if you don’t start right away, with the next 20 minutes, your chance of owning a successful internet business will be gone forever. This can also come in the X amount of slots left form. For the most part, it’s all just a sales tactic to get you to act right away because they know that the longer you think about it the less likely you are going to buy.

In other words, most people/companies that sell these things are only out for your money regardless of how many times they use the words, “I want you to be successful.” Sure, it would be great to have real, success stories but most people out there sell crap businesses with the intent to make some quick cash from oblivious people.

In order to avoid falling for some fake internet business opportunity, just use common sense. If they make it sound way to easy or the opportunity sounds way to good to be true, then it probably is.

Finding Real Internet Business Opportunities

In order to find a true home internet based business opportunity, you will need to know what to look for as well as how to do some basic research. Although there are a ton of phony businesses out there, finding a true internet based business opportunity isn’t entirely impossible if you can figure out to separate the treasures from the garbage.

1. Reputation

Before investing your money into any type of internet business, make sure you do some research on the person or company behind the business. With access to the internet, this should be too hard. All you have to do is search for the name of the company or the person’s name with either the word, “review” or “scam” behind it. You’ll have to be careful though because many of these shady companies know that people will do this and will purposely write up articles with titles that make you think it’s a negative piece about the opportunity only to give it positive feedback. This often happens when you have programs that offer affiliate programs where many people will aim to rank for the terms that you are searching for.

Another thing you will want to keep in mind is that most people simply don’t put in the amount of time and effort that is needed to be successful with an internet based business. This means that you can research on a legit and real opportunity only to find complaints from people who never even put in the work.

Checking the Better Business Bureau is another thing that you can do to see if they have any complaints file against them. Now although you should take other people’s opinions into consideration, you shouldn’t let those opinions dictate your future.

2. How does the seller make his/her money?

The best internet business opportunities are the ones where the promoter or marketer of the opportunity is making most of their money from the same type of business that they are trying to get you to buy into. There are tons of “businesses” out there that tell you to make money by selling ebooks on how to make money. These don’t even make any sense! If the ebooks actually showed you how to make money, then why not just use what the ebooks tell you instead of selling them?

Listen, if I make most of my money off of selling a program to you on how to build a successful internet business instead of from the type of business that I’m trying to sell you on, then it’s best not to listen to me. However, if I sell you on a business and it’s also something that I personally make most of my income on, then chances are, it’s the real deal.

Searching through the hundreds of internet business opportunities out there can take a lot of time if you have to do research on every opportunity that comes your way but unless you have a ton of money to just burn as well as a lot of time on your hands, you’ll be glad you did your due diligence.

There are many really good reasons why you would want to start an internet home business. The advantages of having a business that you can run from the comfort from your own home are many but the problem is figuring out what to do. If you have been looking into different types of internet businesses, then you that a lot of them can be confusing. So let’s look at some of the basic steps that you need to take in order to have your own internet home based business.

Product or Service?

The first thing that you will need to decide on is whether you want a service based business or a product based business. There are different advantages and disadvantages of each. With a product based business, you will typically need to make a lot of sales in order to make good money. This will depend on the cost of your products though. Many people will do choose this business model by doing things like selling products on Ebay for example. The advantage of selling products is that your income is quite unlimited. With a service based business, you will typically be able to charge more for your time. The problem with a service is that you are limited in how many hours you have in a work day.

There are, however, different types of businesses that take advantage of both such as a subscription based website where you are providing a service based off of a product that people pay you every single month to use. Things that fall into this category are things like website hosting and training courses.

With that in mind, realize that there are different start up costs for different types of businesses. If you want to simplify everything and just get started with your own internet home business quickly, then the best thing to do is to get a website. There are a couple of things that you will need to do. The first is to get hosting. The second is to choose a domain name. Once you have those two things in place, you will then want to work on driving traffic to your website.

Obviously, there are a lot of crucial steps in between those steps such as finding the right niche and learning how to actually drive traffic to your site. Home based internet businesses can be cheap to start up but unless you know what you are doing, you won’t really get anywhere in terms of producing a decent income.

Things to Avoid

What many people will do when first starting out is to buy get into some type of internet home business opportunity. You will want to be careful with these. Many of them sound really good but in reality, the only one making money are the people selling the opportunity. Such businesses are ones that promise to do all of the work for you and tell you that all you have to do is point and click and make money. If making money with an internet business were that simple, you’d know more people making money online but chances are, you probably don’t know that many people that do.

You will also run into a work and home internet business that involve things like filling out surveys or signing up for different products or becoming some type of mystery shopper. There are a ton of these on those job sites and basically advertise saying that you can make X amount of money from home with absolutely no experience. With these types of opportunities, you just need to be logical about them. Why would someone pay you so much money to do something that requires no experience? Sure, you can make some money with some of these types of work, but they hardly fall into the category of a home business. If you’re looking for some pocket change, then these things might work out for you but not if you’re looking for a long term internet home business.

As you can see, starting an internet based home business can be difficult because of all of the misinformation that is out on the web. People want to get right quick and companies or individuals are ready appeal to people’s sense of greed and scam them out of their money. This doesn’t mean that all internet home businesses are scams of course. There are plenty of people, including myself, who are making some real money online, from the comfort of their home.

I don’t have a home internet based opportunity for you to buy. What I have is experience and knowledge of how to create an internet business around the right niche and how to drive traffic to your website. I explain it in my niche internet marketing post.