There is so much information available about starting and succeeding in a home-based Internet business, it can be overwhelming. At EBiz Granny, we’re going to keep it simple, providing quick, easy tips and access to the best resources to help you get going. If you’re looking for great hype on how to make a million dollars overnight, this is the wrong place to be. But if you want to create your own online business and have fun doing it, welcome aboard and tell us about it!

Even in good economic times, most of us could use some extra money - as little as an extra hundred dollars a month can make a difference in some households. To seniors on a fixed income, minimum wage workers, and a lot of other people, a hundred dollars can pay for medicine, gas, utilities or food – and a few hundred dollars more monthly can mean a whole new lifestyle!

When I hear someone talking about not having enough money, I usually ask them if they have their own business.

Almost every time, I get a shocked response along the lines that “no, I’ve always wanted to, but I have to work for a living”, or “I wouldn’t even know where to begin” or, ” I can’t afford to!”, and variations of these comments…

The simple truth is that being in business today only requires the decision to do it. If you decide to sell a service or product for the purpose of making a profit, you’re in business. That’s it – that’s all that separates you from millions of other small businesses – the act of deciding you’re going to sell something for a profit.

Naturally, there are a lot of variations in HOW you set up and run your business, and what or where you decide to sell affects whether you need special licenses, permits or other legal actions. We can get into that later – for now, it’s important to focus on the most basic facts and actions.

Whatever YOUR dreams, needs, wants or goals are, the Web offers a way to reach them.

…and you don’t have to redo your life, spend hundreds of dollars and months of learning to get going. Think about the following four concepts:

  1. Do you know a lot about something? If you have good information that will help others learn, you can sell it…
  2. OR, you can provide a service to others, helping them achieve their goals with your knowledge…
  3. Have a hobby or talent for creating things that you’re really involved with? If you make products, you can sell them…
  4. Best of all, if you don’t want to create information, sell your services or make a product you can sell, there are hundreds of thousands of others that will let you market and sell their products and services for a commission! You do this through affiliate programs – and your choices range from some of the finest companies in the world to small, talented entrepreneurs…

 Okay, just grab a cup of coffee and think about the above – which of the four categories do you want to be in? Next post, we’ll talk about the first three paths, talking about how a few others have approached making money on the Web, in really simple ways.