Do you want to join the bandwagon and start earning money online? You dream big but would like to start small? You have limited budget but would like to start your online home based business within weeks or even days?

If your answers are "Yes!", follow the following simple steps and you will be able to start an online home based business for free.

Step 1. Sign up for a Paypal account

You could sign up for a Paypal account for free. It is an account, among others, for you to receive money online from your online customer.

Step 2- Conduct Research for a profitable niche market

Conduct your own research to find out what is the highly demand online niche market? Visit ClickBank, Amazon, ebay websites and find out what products are ranked high or popular. Get a glimpse of what is a profitable niche market. You may also use google adwords keywords tool to find out the top keywords search to determine what are the popular niche markets. A high demand niche market is the key to earn money online. All these researches could be done without spending a single cent. Once you have determined your profitable niche market move on to the next step.

Step 3. Source for a product to fulfill the demand of your niche market from the affiliate networks.

Affiliate program is a program where you make commissions from promoting the merchants’ products or services through online means. Affiliate networks are the sources for the product of your online home based business. You could get all products for your niche market from the affiliate networks (for instance ClickBank, PayDotCom, LinkShare, etc) for free and you may promote as many products as you wish. This is the easiest and quickest way to earn money online. It is a perfect online business model for beginners to earn money online.

Step 4-Create your own blog as a platform to market the products to your niche market

You could create your own blog for free, for instance at Blogger.com. Creating your blog takes just a few easy steps. In a matter of minutes you will be able to post text, photos, videos, etc. on your blog. Post or write something about the affiliate product that you are promoting. Make sure you have your affiliate link on your blog and start to market your affiliate product to your niche market through your blog. Your blog is the platform for you to market your product and earn money online.

Step 5- Promote your blog and affiliate product through article marketing

There are various ways to generate traffics for your online home based business. But for a start, you only need to focus on one i.e. article marketing.

You could sign up a free account with article directories, for instance EzineArticles, GoArticles, etc. You just need to write 250-500 words articles in relation to your niche market. Alternatively, you may outsource the articles writing to the online professional writers. These articles will help you generating traffics or getting online customers.

Place your blog’s address at the resource box of all your articles. When the niche readers read your articles, if they find your articles interesting or resourceful they may be enticed to visit your blog and will find the affiliate product at your blog. Therefore, they are your potential niche customers who are seeking for a solution for their problem through your affiliate product. This is an effective way for you to market your online home based business.

Now, isn’t it wonderful to be able to start your online home based business for free? Follow the above simple 5 steps and start your home based online business at the comfort of your home. What are you waiting for? Start earning money online for free now!