If you'd like to work from home building your own online business, there are many opportunities out there. As you consider how to make money online you'll need to ponder if you want to strike out on your own with your new and creative idea or product, whether you want to buy someone else's successful dream, or if you want to buy into a franchise. There are pros and cons for all three choices, and personalities more suited to one than the other. There are also those who yearn to build an online business but can't afford to take the plunge from secure employment to entrepreneurship. Then there are those that probably can afford it, but just don't have that risk-taker temperament required to be that far out on the financial limb.

One work from home opportunity which is becoming increasingly more popular and far more in demand from employers than even a few years back, is outsourcing. Many firms, frustrated with the high turnover of call center staff are contracting out their call center headaches. Some of these outsourcing firms they hire are partially or completely staffed by virtual call center agents, people who work from home. Some of these virtual call center agents are employees of the outsourcing firm, while most only hire independent contractors.

If you're looking for a Web-based business with little upfront investment, clients already on board, solid training and ongoing support, and you have customer service and sales skills and basic troubleshooting capabilities, you might like this work at home opportunity to create and grow your online business. One thing it's important for a potential work from home netpreneur to understand is that while there are certainly many legitimate virtual call center companies that will help you learn how to make money online you generally won't get rich. What you will be able to do, however, is dictate the hours you are willing to work from home at this occupation on a week by week basis, with the assurance that you control your wages and have something solid coming in to pay the bills while you build a more lucrative online business or go back to school to prepare for the Web based business of your dreams.

No single course will give you all you need to make a full-time living online. When was the last time you picked up a course, devoured it and went on to make tons of money without reading from any other source. Id reckon never because there is so much information to take in online that you can never just learn from one source. I recently went on vacation and made more money while on vacation than most people make a whole month at their regular 9 to 5 jobs. Should I write a course on how I do it? No If I were to write a course it would just be a compilation of all the products which Ive purchased. If you want to make money online you need to figure out a few things about yourself before you invest any money in any course. First and foremost is to figure out if you have the motivation to leave your job and work for yourself? At your job, you are given orders. By working for yourself, youll need to be organized, disciplined and focused. Do you have those traits? If not, it might be easier just to continue working for others until you discipline yourself. If you spend tons of money on courses and dont have the discipline or focus to work, then no course will be valuable to you. If you have the discipline and the focus, you can start earning money by using the free resources available online. Just take a look at the free article directories. Theres tons of useful information to help you get started. There is no one secret to making tons of money online. There are certain insiders tips and tactics to help you succeed with topics such as writing articles, submitting press releases, improving search engine placement etc, but none of those tactics will be useful to you unless you master the ability to be disciplined, focused and consistent. Master those and I guarantee youll have more success. If you dont have those traits, youll just continue to purchase courses, software and programs to build a collection of digital waste. To tell you the truth, when I started off, I wasnt sure if I had what it takes to work for myself. I overcame my limitations because I focused on the end result and not the process of working. For me it was a do or die kind of mentality which made me have success in my business. So stop searching for the perfect course. Someone else?s perfect course may not be what you like to do. Get specific in what you?re looking for and evaluate yourself to see if you?d actually take the necessary steps to follow through what the course teaches.

Craigslist is one of the most visited sites on the internet today, with millions upon, millions of visitors a day. With this many visitors

daily, it is very easy to get a nice chunk of traffic with your postings. I have put some tips together for you guys, apply these, and you WILL

make money!

Tip 1: DON'T POST DUPLICATE POSTS!

Posting duplicate posts will do nothing for you but get your ads taken down. Yes, it is easy to just copy and paste, and make over 100 ads within minutes, but it won't do you any good.

Tip 2: USE DIFFERENT IPS!

Using different IPs is another way to avoid getting your ad flagged. One way Craigslist will know to flag your posts is by looking at the IP you are using. If they see multiple ads from the same IP, they will most likely flag your ad, thus your profits will suffer. (Wait, you won't have any.) One way you can

change your IP is by using a proxy. If you want a list of them, check out proxy.org. They have thousands of them.

Tip 3: DONT BE AN IDIOT!

Being an idiot is the easiest way to not make money on Craigslist. Do not post something, blatantly spamming your URL. This is an example of what NOT to do:

"HEY GUYS CHECK OUT MY SITE ITS THE BEST!!!! LOL11!!! http://myaffiliatelink.com LOL OK GO THER PLX"

Doing this is also a good way to get banned from your CPA network as well, which also is not a good thing.

Tip 4: CATCH THE CURIOSITY OF THE READER!

This is one of the most important tips of all. By catching the curiosity of the reader you have a much higher chance of getting an email from them, or getting a click on your link. Also, make sure to keep your ad short - this will help catch their curiosity.

Tip 5: DON'T GIVE UP, EVER!

That's it, DON'T GIVE UP. Giving up is the easiest way to not make money online. To make money you must stick with it. I know it will be hard, but when you finally do get that first sale, or that first lead, it's the greatest feeling ever. If you can do it once, you can do it a million times.

Lonely people looking to get a lot of spam in their internet mailbox will benefit greatly from paidsurveys.com. This site is merely a portal to "hundreds" of other internet survey sites that promise you everything from the moon to a $1.

If you decide to join this site, expect to receive up to 40 e-mails a day from a variety of online survey companies. Some of them legitimate, others not. It will be up to you to figure out. A better way to decide which online survey companies you wish to participate in is to do a little legwork yourself.

Paidsurveys.com is open to anyone in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada who is at least 18 years old. They promise a free membership and access to 30 different companies that will pay you cash and "prizes" for participating in online surveys right from your home.

Although the site promises security and privacy, I made the mistake of joining and began receiving e-mails from virtually every known site in the world that offered me money, prizes and trips simply for filling out a questionnaire. They do not offer to send you to corporations that "spend billions of dollars a year" finding out what the average Joe is thinking, they merely flood your inbox with hundreds of e-mails from different survey companies.

One of the scariest things about this site is the offer to do "data work from home." Anyone with an IQ over 60 can smell this scam. It is the internet equivalent to "stuffing envelopes from home." It usually requires an upfront fee to "connect" the participant with people who are just dying to pay big bucks for someone to type all day into their computer. It's a scam. And an old one, at that.

There are approximately over 500 internet sites that offer people "cash" for participating in surveys from home. Many of them are legitimate. You can usually tell these sites by their disclaimer that you will not "get rich" off of them and they normally tell you up front about what you can expect to earn and how you will receive your earnings.

Other sites simply exist to get your information so they can sell it to telemarketers. If you are taking a survey and frequently directed to different websites where you are asked about receiving a quote for health insurance, do yourself a favor and click out immediately. In the month that I've been participating in online surveys, I have received (and I'm not exaggerating here) at least 10 calls from people who want to sell me health insurance. One afternoon I received two calls, fifteen minutes apart, from the same company. Unless you are really desperate to talk to people on the phone or get e-mail from strangers promising you riches, stay away from these type of sites.

Paidsurveys.com is merely an information gathering website that will give your e-mail address and telephone number to a variety of different companies, all of whom will want to sell you something. If you are looking for a way to make money online, do so at a legitimate site. Check out the website, read as much of the information carefully before signing up and beware of any site that promises that you will get rich overnight. You will not make a living doing surveys at home. This is merely a way to supplement your income and buy a few extras. There are plenty of legitimate sites out there. Paidsurveys.com is not one of them.

Doing business online can be a real challenge. It can be difficult to keep up with the latest technology and product trends. If you don't have time to do your homework because you are too busy working a full-time job and taking care of a family, it may make things seem impossible if you are not internet savvy. There are definitely some perks having a technology, marketing and product development staff at your place of employment. Just thinking about all of the people it takes to operate a viable business is overwhelming. I have spent many hours reading e-books and watching videos about how to make money online. Because I grew up in the 80s and graduated from college just before the internet was born, like a lot of us, I was never formally educated on the subject, so it was not second nature. I have been labeled by some as "the internet queen" because that is where I can be found during most of my free time. But let me set the record straight, I am far from living up to that name.

Here is a little background about myself just to give you an idea of how my mind works. It doesn't involve much technology. I hold a bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in sociology. Most of my work has involved kids who are neglected and/or abused. Fighting the desire to throw the laptop on my desk out of the nearest window because it won't cooperate, is probably the most technological thing that I do at work. Don't get me wrong, I have learned a lot about computers over past seven years. Sometimes I get lucky and fix the office printer or help someone with who is having problems with their computer. I will admit that sometimes I have no idea how I did it, but please don't tell anyone. It would ruin my "internet queen" reputation.

So, what I know best is kids. One thing I always say to parents is that, unlike adults, kids are like sponges. They can watch T.V, play a video game and hear every word of your adult conversations, all at the same time. One thing I always tell kids is that, just because I am an adult, does not mean that I can't learn anything from them. Kids seem to have the ability to retain a lot more information at once than adults, so the internet is not as frustrating for them as it is for some of us. So, what does all of this have to do with operating an online business? I used to think it had nothing to do with it until I came to my senses.

Kids these days have grown up on the web. They are aware of fashion and the latest trends. They know what they want and how to push all the right buttons so their parents will get it for them. They also know the limits of what to ask for. So, where do I go when I need help with understanding a program that makes no sense or want to know about the hottest selling items? I ask kids. My eleven-year-old niece and her friends helped me choose jewelry from one of my wholesalers to resell. I had no trouble selling what they chose. They know what their parents and other adults are looking for also. If you don't think your kids ever listen to you or know what you want or are interested in, ask them. You might be surprised to find that they listen to you more than you think. My niece tells me everything her friend's parents are looking for also. She listens to them, too! Kids are great marketers and know what advertisements make them want an item and why. Want to know a great blog site to advertise a product? Chances are a kid can tell you. They are also great researchers. If they don't know, they can find out, and usually it is faster than you can find it. Also, don't overlook the local high school and college computer geeks. That is where you should go when you need a webpage designed or get the answers to your tech questions. They work cheap and sometimes for free. Always reward them in some way, even if it just taking them out to dinner or helping them with something in return. You don't want to take advantage of them just because they are kids. They learn how to treat others by observing their parents and other adults and will mirror these behaviors. It is good way to teach moral values to our future adults. Keep in mind that this is the generation that will be responsible for taking care of you when you are too old to take care of yourself!

Hopefully, I have convinced you that kids can be an important and profitable part of your online business. Learn from them! They love to teach and their patience is usually better than ours. They are kids. They know what it is like for others to be impatient with them which helps them to be more empathetic and less irritated when they have to show you the same thing a hundred times. It's also a great way to spend quality time with a child and even teach them the value of work and the rewards to be gained. Give them praises for their skill, knowledge and help. There is nothing wrong with boosting a child's self-esteem along the way. Your business will be more successful when you give back to others in the process!