Best Online Business Opportunities To Earn Extra Money And Work From Home!

Many people want to work from home and in order to earn extra money, working an online business opportunity can achieve your goals. However, without the right sites to go to, you're just trying to weed through the Internet scams and pitfalls most people latch onto. In fact, most of these people would tell you their email Inbox is stuffed with ridiculous offers trying to lure them into spending money they don't have rather than earn them the money they need.

Let's take a look at some of the legitimate and free online business opportunities which actually can give you the extra money in these hard economic times.

Yahoo! Associated Content

Over and over again, I've stressed the one thing you've got which is free is your ability to write. Whether you're good at writing or not doesn't really matter when it comes to Yahoo's Associated Content. Here's why:

You can post articles after your first two or three without the review process. Your writing is posted immediately if you keep the rights to republish as I do and get paid per view. I would rather keep the rights and get paid per view for eternity than sell something to someone else. I don't care if people want to repost my article on their site - I still get paid per view. That means after I posted my initial couple of articles I can now just keep posting and it's a numbers game from there. I'll get paid as long as the Internet is a viable communication vehicle and never lift a finger to re-write the same thing ever again. It might be pennies to start out with on Associated Content, but pennies turn into dollars which turn into hundreds of dollars which turn into thousands of dollars. Catch my drift?

Blogging for Dollars

Again with the writing you say? Yes - but if you've noticed the Internet is about writing, pictures, sounds and photos. How else are you going to see what someone else is thinking? Keeping this in mind, you can picture blog or video blog if you're hands are just killing you! There are also programs you can get with voice activation typing what you're saying. Since I didn't want to spend unnecessary cash, I just type the old (new) fashioned way with my keyboard.

Blogs can be profitable however. Some of the blogs generating a ton of cash are BoingBoing, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Engadget and Gizmodo. These are not only informative, they make money for their owners. Obviously Facebook which is the most popular Social Media site is generating billions, but start small, you'll get there some day.

All of these sites are free online business opportunities you can participate in and if you've noticed, every single one of these have content. Sure you can pay other people to write for you but then you have to spend money again and you're not making money when you do that. Why not just buckle down, use something you have for free and build your own content rich site. Working on your own and moving ahead is one of the best online business opportunities you'll ever find on the Internet.

Affiliate Marketing

Some people swear by affiliate marketing. In fact, John Chow, one of the biggest bloggers online, says that's the way he makes most of his money. For example, Barnes & Noble is a great affiliate link. If you go to their site, you'll see they not only have great products everyone can use, they have a place for you to sign up directly as an affiliate. Otherwise, you can go to Google's Network Affiliate site and sign up to be associated with all kinds of different companies all at once. When you display them on your site pages, you'll get money for every person who goes to their website.

I also like WeUseCoupons.com because they are free to the consumer and are trying to spread the word about paying much much less for groceries by teaching people about Extreme Couponing and how to use coupons to lower your grocery bills. When the economy is bad, you need all the help you can get and Nathan Engels, Mr. Coupon himself, will teach you how to stockpile and save money. This is one of the best ways to save money I know of and with the Affiliate Program he has, you can also accumulated money which he pays out once a month. That's not bad if you ask me!

Since I really like games, I like SecondLife which is a role playing site. On this site, you can create your own character and interact with others. You can create businesses which can bring you real cash eventually and again, you can create an online business opportunities from home just by playing the game! One of the biggest virtual real estate transactions in the history of the Internet was first bought and sold with real cash on SecondLife.

Although some people might not believe it, Hooked On Phonics not only worked for my kids, it also is a great way to earn affiliate marketing cash. When I'm looking for an affiliate, I try to choose something my readers will find helpful rather than just stick a bunch of crap on a page and call it a day. If it's not useful, what's the point of advertising it for the company? I can't do something or recommend something if I'm not completely satisfied it's a good product.

MarketLeverage is another good spot to find affiliate marketing banners or text you can add to your site. Not only do they give you ads you can make money with, they will also pay for referrals themselves. It's free to look around their site and it's free to sign up. Like I've said before - if something is going to cost me money, it better be worth it otherwise - I'm not buying. So - check it out and see what you think!

Real Estate Auctions Online - Government Seizures

If you've got a little money to spend, you might check out a site called Bid4Assets.com. This is tangible property all over the United States which has been seized by the government from the US Marshall's service to the IRS. People bid on the properties and they even had $1 no reserve houses and land auctions. Read the descriptions before you bid however so you know what the auction if for. I just checked a minute ago before I wrote this and I saw a house in Detroit (yes - I know) going for $101.00 with 17 minutes left on the auction. It is a no reserve house. So it is possible to gain property even if you don't have a lot of money. This is one of the best legitimate online business opportunities for gaining real estate I've seen in a long time.

I know buying really low and selling at a reasonable but still low price is profitable because I've done it. I actually bought a piece of land investing only $500 - $250 for the attorney to clear up the deed and $250 to the property owner. My real estate agent was looking for a buyer while I was getting the property cleared up which took about 30 days. The same exact day I closed on the property, within a few hours, I resold the property for $10, 000. The agent got $1000 and I kept the rest. Now that's a good deal.

Can you imagine if you would buy a house or property on Bid4Assets.com and then use a real estate agent in the area to find a buyer for you? What are the possibilities? They are through the roof even in this really bad economy!

So - the key here is to find something money making websites that don't ask you to join for a fee or do something crazy and haven't already saturated the market for home based business opportunities. Just weed them out - "Google" them and most of all have patience and look for the scams!