Mary Poindexter asked:


y to make money using the Internet is to start a home business of your own. Because there are so many options when it comes to doing this I thought we would narrow it down to what I consider to be the two top home business ideas right now.

1. Research via the internet and start a blog in a market where people are currently spending money. Whenever possible build your blog around an area that you have an expertise in, or something that you have a passion for.

An example of this would be a person who has worked as a sales rep with small businesses. You could create a blog on the Internet that helps small businesses become more Internet oriented themselves. The blog articles you write could be based on your real life experiences dealing with small businesses.

Another example would be a person who has a hobby working in their garden growing flowers. Although at this point you might not be doing that for financial gain you could create a blog that teaches people how to become better gardeners growing flowers themselves.

You can write blog articles that specifically give instructions about various techniques you use to become a successful gardener.

The way to make money with a blog is to monetize it with affiliate programs and products. An easy way to do this is to start by joining the Google Adsense affiliate program and placing Google ads on your website.

2. A second popular way right now to start a real work at home business is to do niche affiliate marketing. Niche marketing is where you take a broad based theme and narrow it down to something more specific.

An example of this would be a person who is interested in sports and more specifically in golf. You could set up a niche affiliate website of your own that sells products in the golfing niche.

The biggest advantage to niche marketing is it allows you to target is market where people are currently spending money. By doing it as an affiliate marketer you do not need products of your own to sell because there are a large number of affiliate products available on the Internet today. You will never run out of ideas or products to sell.

This is two of the top home business ideas people are using to make money from the comfort of their own home. Starting a blog of your own, or doing niche affiliate marketing makes it possible for anyone to make money regardless of their current situation.

Juhani Tontti asked:


As said above, the Business Plan is the starting point for everything, so the question about whether we should use AdSense or affiliate programs only, should get the answer from there too.

1.What Is Your Target Group And Your Business Concept?

The marketing of internet home business ideas is all about making sharp choices. The sharper your choices are, the better you will do. Let`s take an example, you have a site, which offers internet home business ideas for newbies.

When you further sharpen the idea, you have to decide if your site is highly informative, i.e. no banners for example, or wether you will use some nice looking ads, including AdSense, because they will improve the success of those chosen items. Do you see the difference?

One big question is, what you wish your site visitor shall do on your page, what is your call to action? If you have a small site, which just tries to persuade the visitor to sign in to your newsletter, then maybe AdSense is not for that mini-site.

Your keyword selection, affiliate links, layout and other services follow the plan, ideas for newbies how to start their internet home businesses. Now, when you think, whether AdSense fits to this plan, the question is, what kind of ads AdSense will show on your pages?

2.You Can Influence On What Kind Of Ads AdSense Will Show By Section Targeting.

Section Targeting means that you just add a certain code before and after the content, which you want to become targeted.

AdSense crawlers read also the keywords, which your page uses in order to be able to target the ads correctly. This has a very positive impact, because now the ads will fit for a newbie reader.

3.The Monthly AdSense Income Should Be On A Good Level.

How much is enough? I have used an idea that if AdSense income is at least 5 times your average affiliate commission per month, then it is ok. But if it decreases lower, I should improve it or skip AdSense from my site.

The number of clicks is simply a sign, whether my site visitors see AdSense useful or not. I would reveal my key numbers here, but unfortunately it is against AdSense TOS.

4.The Success Of The Website Content Depends On Testing.

You may have noticed that people love new things. To the marketing of internet home business ideas this means that you have to make some changes regularly, so that the site looks fresh.

To be able to find out the best place for a single item, the only method is to test. One method, which gives you lots of ideas for testing, is to follow what other successful marketers are using.

I hope you will very quickly notice that certain locations on the page will give the best results. Also certain AdSense formats, colours etc.

5.Ads Have Their Purpose.

The marketing of your internet home business ideas needs a big amount of targeted visitors. Every single person, who lands to your page has a different need at that very moment. Generally speaking they all are looking for useful information, which you can offer in the form of AdSense too.

Rami Doleh asked:


Most of the people who are interested in starting their own business and opt for online business, do not know where to start. There are many questions related to the starting point in online business. Such questions would be:

-Where do I start looking for an online business idea?

-Where do I start learning about marketing online business?

-Where do I start looking for online advertising media?

Then most people will go for the search engines and start typing in what they are looking for, hoping that they will find something that will suit them. There is nothing wrong with this methodology. The problem here is that in most cases people do not really know what they are looking for.

In this article we will try to give recommendations and guidelines on the things that a person should be looking for when searching for the online business opportunity he/she would be most relaxed with.

In a previous article titled “Choosing An Online Business Is A Tricky Business” we categorized the different types of online businesses a person could be involved in. We will not repeat them but our advice is to begin with one particular type and then move to the other types when the person feels relaxed with the idea on online marketing.

If a person is totally new to the idea of online business he/she should start with an affiliate program. An affiliate program is one that allows you to sell other people’s products and services in return for a commission. Yet a person should not be involved in just any affiliate program. There are special requirements that a person should be looking for in an affiliate program if he/she is still new to the idea of online marketing.

We will look list and explain each one of these suggested requirements:

1-Design and setup your own website: There are a lot of affiliate programs out there that give you an assigned web page that you can promote. Although it is a very good feature that saves you the hassle of building your own web pages, yet it is limited in the ways you will be able to market it as most online marketing media do not accept affiliate pages. Therefore, you will need an affiliate program that incorporates setting up and designing your own website; in addition to advising you on the hosting service provider you should get. “Your own website” means that you should own the domain name. I have written a complete article about the benefits of owning a website with comparative analysis with the option of not having your own website.

2- Provide a systematic training: Most affiliate programs provide you with what they call marketing tools. But if someone is new to the internet and to online marketing, then there is no way that he/she would be able to use those tools effectively. Therefore, the affiliate program that you should be looking for is one that has a systematic and detailed training that can take you by the hand to show you how to promote your business.

3-Systematic and not individualistic support: Most affiliate programs depend on the sponsor support for their team. This system is very weak. This means if the sponsor is away, ill, vacationing or for any reason cannot and would not answer the support questions, the sponsored team is lost and cannot proceed with their business. The affiliate program that you should be looking for must have the following support levels:

a.Sponsor Support

b.High traffic and high quality forum especially dedicated for the particular affiliate program you are thinking of promoting.

c.Help Desk

With this system a person might not even need a sponsor support.

I have heard many recommend having a mentor that will be able to teach all the ins and outs of online marketing. I completely agree with them, but would not include it in the above criteria. The above criteria are recommended so that a person can examine any affiliate program against. Thus, they will facilitate for anyone the decision making process for choosing an affiliate program to work with. Therefore, a mentor is not a must have in affiliate program for the newbie. Still, I would highly recommend searching for and getting a mentor, as a mentor can act in many dimensions especially on the motivational and technical aspects.