What Is the Best Online Work at Home Business?
This is the most important question that everybody who wants to work at home has. This general question includes two other questions:
- Which online work at home opportunity is the best and most reliable to join?
- Which online work at home opportunity makes money for me and is not wasting of time?
I know you want to know my honest answers. Yes, I am here to talk honestly. There are two kinds of online work at home opportunities over the Internet:
1. Scam business opportunities
For example the data entry opportunities that you can see their ads every where, surfing, HYIP, MLM and Ponzi scheme programs are all scams. Their targets are people who are eager to make some money.
There are a lot of people who have lost loads of money in these scam programs. Most of these scam programs are fly-by-night websites or companies that become disappeared after they succeed to collect some money from investors.
The others like MLM programs, make money and survive just by the monthly membership fee that the members pay. They encourage the members to refer others to make more money but everybody knows that it is not easy to make a big downline that makes a reasonable money. So most members spend lots of time and money and then become realized that it is wasting of time. Only the company makes money because each member pays the monthly membership fee at least for a few months.
2. Legitimate business opportunities
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I have been working online for several years. When I started working, I could change a new websites to a popular one that had thousands of visitors every month. I learnt how to do it and I could do it easily. Then I worked on other websites and so in less than one year, I had several websites that made thousands of dollars for me.
Why was this possible at that time? We didn’t have so much competition; search engines were not so picky and … … … .
But we have a different condition now. Even with paid advertising methods, you have to spend much more than what you were used to pay two or three years ago. For example three years ago, I was used to bid about $0.30 on each keyword in Google AdWords but now I have to bid over $3 to receive half of the clicks I was used to receive.
Now lets say you join a legitimate online business opportunity. What can you do? Even with the legitimate business opportunities, you need traffic. You have to advertise, make sales and … to make money but as I explained, it has become so hard and expensive and you can not make any profit in most cases.
So what should you do? Do you have to forget about working online and making money? No, you don’t 
There are still some good opportunities for everybody.
1. Blogging
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I don’t say that blogging can make you a millionaire in a very short time. It needs hard working and it may not make any money for several months. But if you learn blogging and focus on it seriously, it will make money after a while.
If your blog becomes popular, you can take the advantage of its traffic and sell different products and services. For example when you achieve to create a popular weblog about insurance, you can advertise good insurance offers on your weblog and make money.
The good thing about blogging is that it is free and you don’t have to join any paid affiliate program, MLM or … . You only join some of the most famous and well-known programs like Google Adsense. The only thing you spend is your time. I agree that time is more valuable than money but you have to spend one of these two things and sometimes both of them to make a change in your life.
Even if you don’t like or can not have your own blog, you can join some of the blogging programs and just post your articles and get paid.
Nowadays that we are surrounded by the scam programs, blogging is the best and safest online work at home opportunity. I will post more about blogging on this work at home blog.
2. Forex and Stock Exchange
Forex and stock exchange are one of the other good work at home opportunities. If you learn the technique and then join a reliable trading company, you will not have to be worried about anything. Even you don’t have to compete with the others, refer and recruit and advertise. You just invest and withdraw your profit. Although a lot of fly-by-night scam Forex websites come and go everyday but it is very easy to find a good, reliable and well-known company that has been working for many years.
There are only two obstacles in these businesses: 1. You need to learn the technique and it can be a little hard sometimes and 2. It needs money to start investing and trading and of course if you don’t know how to trade properly, it can be risky too.
3. Pay Per Click Arbitrage
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Bottom line:
So what is the suitable online work at home business?
You don’t like to waste your time and money or be scammed definitely. So you should not join any of the scam programs I mentioned above.
You can learn Forex or stock trading and start investing. You have to spend at least a few months to learn and then start investing. It needs money to invest and of course it can be risky.
You can run a pay per click arbitrage website and advertise it on pay per click search engines. It is a good business but in most cases the profit is not reasonable and sometimes it is even hard to make any profit.
But the last option:
If you have time and you are able to write about a special topic, you can start your blog and keep on working on it. Blogging is not just limited to writing and posting articles. You have to be able to promote your blog and introduce it to people also. It is not easy but on my opinion, blogging is the best online work at home opportunity nowadays.
It takes times to start making money through your blog but it is safe and joyful. It connects you to thousands of people who are interested in the same topic. They will know you and keep in touch with you through your blog. They appreciate the information you give them for free. You will love and enjoy blogging.
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I do not agree that all MLM are scam but it is really hard to spot which is illegal and legitimate one. MLM is just a marketing strategy but it’s abused by almost business starters and for those who only really SCAM people.
Avon, for example, does MLM for marketing their products isn’t it?
I’m also an associate of a certain US company that their business model works very much like MLM, or I can call it they are an MLM company. The site is http://www.juvio.com
I agree - blogging is fun, and you meet all kinds of interesting people. If you can make money doing it, so much the better. If not, it’s still a good experience.
Dear Ramil,
Thanks for your comment.
Not all MLM programs are scam apparently but when you look at the way that they make money, you will realize that they are at least immoral (if not illegal) because only few people who are at the top of the pyramids make money and all others just pay the monthly fee and spend their time and money to refer others and then give up because they can not make reasonable money.
Vahid
great article, very interesting…I will look forward to visiting this site for interesting read.
I thought the best is Forex. But I am want to try blogging business; monetize blog or site throught ads and paid posting/review, and also building community. But it’s harder than forex.
With so many online business nowadays it is really hard to tell which are legitimate and which are not. You really have to be very careful in choosing the online business you want to invest in.
Very good and informative Article Vahid.
I think this is one of the best I’ve read about how to start working home.
To Your Success,
Juri
I have a blog I started about a month ago and I’m trying to learn how to promote it. Blogging sounds like a great idea but it definitely takes more work than I expected. I probably have to improve on
my writing skills too.
Take Care,
Al Marshall
http://www.workforyourselfonline.com
Hi Vahid,
Great article! I agree with most of what you’re saying. I’m currently both blogger and MLM-er, but I have to say I’m making more money with my MLM business. I think whatever way of making money online you choose, it needs to be something you’re interested in, invest your time and be willing to learn and develop your skills and only then you will see long lasting results.
I prefer blogging.. low risk even i’m not serious blogger right now
Good.. Blogging is the safest way to make money and away from scam and ponzi schemes..
Thanks
As a “newbie” to both online entrepreneurship and blogging, I find the total concept both exciting and fascinating. After 33 years with the Feds, I wanted to retire and do some kind of business on the side at my leisure. I ended up working 16-18 hrs. per day x 7 days per week on my new adventure online :>) The monies are starting to trickle in (affiliate marketing) and my site has yet to be completed. It can be done. Good luck to you all and will be gabbing with you soon.
Great article. I totally agree with #1. My wife and I decided that blogging would be the perfect 2nd income opportunity for us. Right now we have three blogs, but we’re always looking to add additional blogs on topics we feel strongly about.
Our strategy is to blog for 6 - 9 months before any expectations of income — so far so good.
Hi Astanton,
Thanks for your attentions.
Your plan is really great. I just suggest you to focus on one or two weblogs. It will have better results than focusing on several blogs. Of course it also depends on the topic. Some topics have higher demand.
Also it is highly recommended to run your blog under your own domain name. Having a free hosted blog is not a good idea.
Vahid
Although I am not keen personally to embrace an MLM networking business , I would have to agree that with many of them the potential is there to make a great deal of money if you have the staying power. Some of my friends have been extremely sucessful marketing this way and have built up huge downlines of hard working folk below them. But, every one to his own. But it is important to note that certainly not all MLMs are scams. If you are ever contemplating joining an MLM, have someone who has been successful in that arena carefully vet over the marketing system. If it stands up … then you may wish to investigate it further.
But it sounds like you are like me Vahid … give me building up a successful network with blogging any day!
Cheers
Dale
Vahid,
Great article. Yes, I agree that most online home biz opps are scams. But many are legitimate How can you tell them apart? I wrote a good blog article about this here:
http://workfromhomegroup.com
It’s called Seven Questions to Ask Your Home Business Opportunity and explains when MLMs are scams and when they are great.
Thanks!
Wayne
Hi Vahid.
I feel motivated when reading your articles and researches on internet business. I have never done any of this IT Business and still don’t understand it. Perhaps it is because of my poor comprehension on the IT terminology.
Honestly, after reading your articles on this topic, I would like to start one but, I feel that the ads and promoted links in this pages sounds like a scam too (forgive me if I’m wrong here). This is because those ads and promoted inks lured us to do such business… (scam?)
Bottom line…. business is selling…. what do i sell here if I have a hit website with lots of traffic? How do I get paid?
Thanks and sorry because Burn is BLURRED
I started blogging to try and build an additional income after discovering that it is next to impossible to these days to build a strong downline for MLM. Don’t seem to have a problem getting people to join directly under me, but actually getting them to promote the product or program seems to be the problem.
Besdies, blogging is a load more fun, and I can at least feel I am contributing to the online community with the experiences I have - no matter how limited.
I agree with Dale that not all MLMs are scams but, unfortunately, many are.
As for blogging, it’s great fun, addictive almost. It is hard work though, even with large traffic you need to have a good plan in place in order to monetise it.