Online Money Making At Home By Home Based Business, The Making Of Dreams

Starting a work at home online business is a perfect way to create multiple streams of income to supplement your current earnings, or to build up into a full time job. Many people tend to get a little lost along the way when searching for information on starting a home based business, and understandable so. With so many websites out there that are touting ways to make you money online, it can become quite confusing as to how to get started.

I started working online part time in 2007, and had a heck of a time weeding through all the hype and figuring out the best approach. After about a year of frustration and trying just about every offer I found, I was absolutely ready to give up my dreams of starting a work from home online business.

I actually stepped away completely from working online for about a month to clear my mind, and only after I took a surprise pay cut at my day job did I finally get back online and start my quest over. It was with a fresh mind, and a little lucky research, did I finally develop my own way of doing things. Here are the 3 steps I discovered to finally get things to work for me.

3 Steps to Getting Started Working Online

Step 1: Finding Affiliate Programs - Using affiliate programs is the fastest and most direct way to start earning legitimate money online. There are many companies, including major online retailers, that have online affiliate programs that offer to pay you a commission for sending visitors to their site.

You can find listings and sign up for these programs by just searching in a search engine for "affiliate programs." Important note: You should never pay to sign up for an affiliate program. All legit programs are free to join.

Step 2: Finding Keywords for Products - Once you have your affiliate programs signed up for, you will want to research a little and find the "keywords" that people type into the search engines to find products or services.

There are many free tools online that will help you with this task. Once you know what people are typing into the search engines, you are now ready to move to step 3.

Step 3: Create Useful Content - In order to get the commissions these programs offer, you will need to send visitors to the vendors website by having them click on your special affiliate links. There are many ways to do this, and the easiest way is by writing content and getting it published online with your links in it.

There are thousands of places you can submit a simple review article for publication online for free. The most popular places are article directories, and you can easily find these by searching on a search engine for "article directories."

So there you have it. Three simple steps to starting your own work at home online business. You get your content and links seen by internet users by creating articles with your links in them and submitting them to various online sources.

Understanding affiliate marketing really unlocks many doors for you to succeed in making money owning your own online business. Simply writing one article online can bring you commissions for years to come.

If you still have questions and are ready and willing to get to work earning income online, I have created a more in depth resource that you can access for free that goes in deeper detail for you.