Internet Business Opportunities – More Time with Your Kids

Author: Bill Schnarr
If you are a parent looking for Internet business opportunities in order to be closer to your kids and spend more time with them, the sheer number of options available to you appear staggering. In fact, with the Internet business scene the way it is these days, and the projected growth of Internet business in the future, finding the perfect business opportunity to fit your needs and desires can seem a little like sticking your big toe into the ocean before trying to swim across it.

There must be a better way to find the perfect Internet business opportunity.
If you’ve made the decision to be at home and be a big part of your children’s lives as they grow, then good for you. If only more parents took the initiative to be there when they were needed most. In order to help you with this important life altering step, here are a few Internet business opportunities for you to consider.

Writing for the web is a creative and artistic way for you to express yourself while still making enough money to live comfortably. In the past ten years, information on the Internet has grown exponentially, while the number of writers available to write content for web sites has only grown marginally. Those who have been there from the beginning have paved the way for writers to live and work in cyberspace, and with a little training, it is a skill you can master and be successful at.

Consider investing in some training before becoming a published author and professional web writer. All too often web sites are written by ‘hack’ writers who have little or no skill writing professionally. You can attract significant amounts of business if you can prove you can write for the web, and taking a training course or finding and learning from a writing guide or two can really help you distinguish yourself.

Sales and marketing is another great Internet business opportunity you can take advantage of, and it will still leave you with plenty of time to be with your kids. Internet sales sites such as Ebay.com put sellers in touch with over 50 million potential customers. All you need to do is find a product (if you can make it yourself or get it for cheap then so much the better!) and market it in such a way that your customers will keep coming back for more.

Selling online has become such a great success that you can even find large companies posting products on auction sites. Don’t let that discourage you! There is always room for competition, and if you find something others can’t do without (it’s called finding a ‘niche’) you’ll soon see your profit margin explode.

Finally, one of the biggest and potentially explosive areas in cyberspace for Internet business opportunities is in the affiliate marketing industry. Affiliate marketing, also known as “preselling”, is one of the fastest growing industries in Internet business today.

Originally the brain child of the mighty Amazon.com, companies looking for business will often pay you a commission based on the amount of customers and sales you can bring to their sites. Sometimes it isn’t much, but if you consider that the amount of money you earn grows every time you come up with a new product to spotlight, there are really no limits to your earning potential.

Successful affiliate marketers make thousands of dollars a month building and designing websites with good information for potential customers. Once they have read about the positives of the product you have chosen to market, you provide them with convenient links to a site where they can purchase the item. Once they order, you’ve earned yourself a commission. It’s just as simple as that.

All you need to become an affiliate marketer is a home computer and some time to study a product, join an affiliate program, and write content rich articles. There is a lot of information available on this exciting Internet business opportunity, and you can reduce your learning curve dramatically by picking up a copy of the Affiliate Marketers Handbook - "2006" by James Martell so you can get off to a fast start.

You’ll learn the ins and outs of the industry, and when you are ready you’ll be able to follow in the footsteps of countless men and women before you, from professionals to college students, coming from all over the world.

Perhaps the best part of all is that you can be an affiliate marketing professional in as little as a few hours a day. How you spend the rest of your day is up to you. Ask your kids, they’re sure to have plenty of great ideas.

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About The Author
Bill Schnarr is a single parent and freelance writer who works from his home in Calgary, Alberta. As well as writing about various home based business opportunities, and having dozens of online and print publishing credits, you can also look for him in the recently released "Chicken Soup for the Single Parents Soul", which was published in February 2005.