If you can earn money and work at home, it gives you time to spend with your family, shorter commute to the office and it lets you be your own boss. It is becoming easier to earn money at home as more and more people are using the internet each day.

The possibilities of earning money online from your home are increasingly growing and you can either work from home full time or part-time for some extra cash is simply up to you. Below are three popular ways people are making money online.

Ebay and Online Auction Websites Selling products at online auction websites like Ebay is one of the fastest and easiest ways to start earning money online at home, as well as one of the most popular ways many people get started. There are thousands of companies and just as many people earning money from home full time that use Ebay to sell things.

All you have to do is look around your house and find the things you don't want or need anymore. Then go to an auction site such as Ebay and set up your seller account, creating an auction for each item you want to sell.

Once you've sold all the extra items from your own house, you can expand and keep earning money at home by getting family and friends to give you stuff they want to throw out.

If you don't have friends or family with things to get rid of, try visiting yard sales, flea markets, and swap meets. Search and find inexpensive items and sell them at online auctions. Continue to sell, the more you expand!

Services Many people are excellent at writing articles, creating graphics, or designing websites, and these are all fantastic ways to earn money at home. You can join various social communities online to find work, or sign up at one of the freelance job sites and bid on new jobs every day.

Sales or Websites A third popular way to start earning money online at home is to set up your own website and put advertising on it. Then all you need is to get traffic to your website and you'll earn money from people viewing or clicking the advertisements.

An alternative way to earn money online from home is to simply promote other people's products. When you promote their products as an affiliate and a sale is made, you earn money in the form of sales commissions.

There are many ways to earn money at home, but these three have proven to be the best.

Copyright (c) 2008 Kerry Johnson