When most people start looking at the idea of starting a home based business, they generally start with looking at the most profitable home based businesses.� That?s perfectly fine so long as you also choose something you can stick with and enjoy!� But finding the best opportunities is tricky; there are so many sites devoted solely to selling their best home based business opportunity!� No tricks here though; we?ve taken a look for ourselves to see the best (and hopefully most profitable) home based business opportunities!

Those who can, do, those who can?t, teach: Consultant.

Probably the most well paying home business is consulting or teaching or mentoring; call it what you like.� This is for two reasons: one, everyone hits the ?net to learn things, from how to cook without milk to how to get over relationship issues to how to fix a radiator.� There is an entire world out there hungry for information; all you have to do is find something you?re good at and teach it.� The other reason is because you can do several things with your knowledge: you can write articles, sell e-books, sell audio, sell videos and do live lectures.� While simply selling e-books and videos may only net you a few hundred to a couple thousand a month, depending on how well you sell yourself and where, if you can start selling live lectures, you?re looking at a nice bundle of money, with some consultants making $50.00 an hour or more.

Reality Check: You have to show yourself as a real expert before selling out lectures and that takes time.� Start small with articles and e-books and work your way up.

Sell, Sell, Sell! Internet Marketer

It probably goes without saying, but right near the top to is the Internet Marketer; the person who sells products on his or her website and markets these products all over the web.� Internet marketers run a huge range when it comes to profits though, with many people making nothing, some people making a few hundred or maybe a thousand a month and then a smaller portion of people making several thousand a month.� Internet marketing successfully is a tricky way to make money online; there are entire sites devoted to how to do it after all, so that should be your first indication that it?s tricky.� However, if you can find a good niche, stick with it and push it, you too can break away from the 9-5 corporate world and make even better money.

Reality Check: Most successful internet marketers can?t quit their day job for at least 2-5 years after getting the business site up.� However, this is only part time; generally only about one to two hours a day are necessary; more if you?re really passionate about it or you don?t outsource anything.

Never Gonna Settle Down: The Freelancer

Freelancers of all shapes and sizes are likely the epitome of freedom: given enough time and experience, you?ll get to choose your own jobs, you decide how often to work and on what, and you get to work with different people on different projects every week or month (though you may have your favourites and regulars).� There are many different kinds of freelancers: writers, coders, designers, programmers, artists, the list goes on.� The more of these you can do the better; if you can write and do webiste coding, you?ll be better off than someone who can just write.� Freelancers can pull down some decent money if they are dedicated enough and fortunate enough and furthermore, they end up learning a ton about every other kind of web business out there that they can try at the same time.

Reality Check: This is likely the slowest of all the home based businesses; it can take years to make an appreciable amount of money and it can be frustrating to deal with the competition that always seems to charge too little.� It is a highly successful field, but not necessarily a highly profitable one.

Of course, the question of the ?best home based business opportunity? is largely academic; rather like asking what the best job in the world is!� It boils down to what you enjoy doing, how much time you can commit to it and how much pushing of yourself and your products or services you?re willing to do.� Instead of chasing after a job purely on the premise of profits or growth, take a look at what you enjoy doing too; that way you can succeed faster and enjoy doing it at the same time, even when the going gets rough.

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