It almost boggles the mind how many people are using the Internet to make money. They are working from the comfort of their own home running a business online and getting paid handsomely to do it. We are not talking about people with special skills either.

In this article we want to talk about why a work at home business can work for you just like it is working for people all around the world.

The reason anyone can start a work at home business today comes down to two things.

1. Products

2. Internet Advertising and Promotion

The Internet makes it possible to find products to sell online that you could have never found before. Affiliate marketing is a perfect example of this. Merchants in almost every industry are looking for people to sell their products.

When you make a sale you earn a commission. Amazon.com pay people to sell books with their affiliate program. Today you can earn commissions selling everything from coffee and sporting goods to information products and music books.

Virtually anyone can promote products on the Internet making it one of the reasons you can earn money. Although this is not as easy as it sounds anyone with hard work and a little bit of skill can learn how to do Internet advertising.

Some people choose to master just one method of advertising. Others prefer to take on many different ways to promote their products on the Internet. Some of the ways that you can promote on the Internet today include.....

1. Traffic exchanges

2. Ezine advertising

3. Classified ads

4. Forum marketing

5. Article marketing

6. Blogging

7. Social directories

8. Social networking

9. E-mail marketing

10. And many more

One way, we didn't mention is pay per click advertising. This is an extremely effective way you can work at home and promote just about anything online. Programs such as Yahoo Marketing and Google Adwords make it possible to be on page 1 of the most popular search engines in the world.

You only get billed when people click on ads that you submit. This becomes an excellent way to start your work at home business, because you can get targeted traffic to your site and control how much money you want to spend on advertising.

This should give you some valid reasons why a work at home business can work for you. It all comes down to developing skills and putting in an honest day's work before you will get paid.