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Are you an online Business Owner or want to be? Well, here are some statistics you may like to know:

- 10,000,000 new, static pages are being added each day.

- The number of internet users have gone from 16 million in 1995, to 1,802 million at the end of 2009.

- The latter equates to 26% of the world's population.

Another statistic: the number of people who searched in Google (global) for the term ‘home business' in April 2010 alone was 4,090,000. ((And whenever you're reading this, this will have grown hugely as time goes on). And this is just one home business related term...(In actual fact this number is likely to be under-represented as the Google tool displaying this data usually under-reports searches.)

No other search engine keyword has as many scams associated with it as the phrase 'make money.' This is because such a term offers a large amount of prey for scammers. Being able to make money is the goal of every person, because without money you cannot have a good quality of life. It is even better if one can make money at home, so they can spend more time with their families. Yet, hope is not lost. With E-Bay it is possible to legitimately make money without worrying about getting scammed. This article will explain how.

First, you will need to decide the way in which you will make money with E-Bay. Are you going to make money selling a service? Some of the most popular services auctioned off on E-Bay include web hosting, website design and even ghostwriting. You can add to this list if you offer a more unique service, but keep in mind the E-Bay audience. Many of them are trying to find ways to make money at home just like you, so they're going to be interested in services that can assist them in this venture.

Of course, if selling a service is not the way you want to make money, you can always consider selling actual merchandise. To do this you will need to deal with a wholesaler or dropshipper. With a wholesaler you have to buy a large amount of inventory up front, while dropshippers will ship out inventory as it is ordered. Both types of these enterprises will usually require you to have a business license before you can officially work with them. However, there are 'middlemen' dropshippers and wholesalers that will allow you to work with them without a business license, but you will have to pay a subscription fee. Additionally, the profit margins available through them tend to be significantly lower since they charge you more for their inventory. In fact, sometimes you may only make a few cents in profit working with these companies. Yet, don't overlook them. Middlemen dropshippers or wholesalers that offer a large amount of inventory can still be profitable if you properly research which items are in high demand yet low supply on E-Bay. An example is http://Doba.com, a dropshipper that allows everyone the opportunity to make money on E-Bay.

Once you have decided what you are going to sell, you need to decide whether you are going to list your items one-by-one or get an E-Bay store. If you are selling a service, it is best that you send one listing at a time. However, if you are selling merchandise, you may want to consider using an E-Bay store. The cheapest E-Bay store costs $15.95 a month and will allow you to make money through 10 listings. The most expensive E-Bay store costs $299.95 a month. With this store you will make money through 500 listings.

In conclusion, it is possible to truly make money at home if you're open to using E-Bay. Through E-Bay you can make money selling a service or merchandise. Granted, both ways may be a bit challenging at first, since you have to get bidders and feedback, but once you have established yourself, you'll be able to make money in no time.

Everyone dreams of the perfect business, one where you just sit back and collect cheques for doing nothing. Some unscrupulous Internet businesses would have you believe that this is possible. It is not possible, and it never was.

The Internet marketplace is becoming more crowded every day. There are soon going to be more Internet marketing companies than there are punters. Most Internet marketing consists of selling Internet marketing opportunities. The punter has seen it all before. The only people who fall for this ploy are total novices who still believe in fairies and treasure at the end of the rainbow.

What should you look for in a genuine Internet marketing or home business opportunity?

1. A tangible product that is totally unrelated to selling Internet marketing opportunities.

2. An affiliate scheme that gives you your own website.

3. A recognition by the provider that you must spend some cash promoting your affiliate link.

4. No up-front fee

Let’s consider these points one at a time:

1. Tangible products can be as diverse as selling Self-Improvement courses and Personal Wedding Sites, but there must be one, otherwise you are just putting all your hopes into a Multi-Level Marketing scheme that is doomed to fail.

2. Affiliate schemes pay you a percentage of the price paid by the customer. Affiliate schmemes can make money, but 97 out of every 100 affiliates never make a cent because they fail to recognise the need to promote their affiliate link. You only earn money from people who buy by following your affiliate link.

3. Many affiliate schemes grow by providing a free website and going along with theoptimistic idea that all websites are found by search engines and that every one will make money. Search engines only find sites that have links pointing to them. If a search engine finds 2,000 identical sites, it only displays one, and that does not give you a lot of chance to sell anything.

4. All information is available for free on the Internet. An extremely small number of people have anything worthwhile to say that is not freely available. Those that do charge thousands of dollars for it, not $39.97. You are paying for promotion of the product, why should you pay for the opportunity to spend your money on advertising.

One more tip:

Now, I am going to give you one of free easy ways to make money online today in order to burn your hot niche markets in 2007. My highest recommendation for small business home based internet marketing strategy is to provide great unique articles to your niche markets – Burn Your Hot Niche Markets through Great Articles!

From Overture, a keyword suggestion tool, you will see the millions of searches done to a certain keyword. When these keywords are typed on search boxes of search engines, indexed websites containing articles with those keywords will be displayed. And this is what leads traffic to websites with keyword-rich articles. Yes, the magic word is articles. Those articles give you a lot of free easy ways to make money online. You can use those articles in several ways to earn money easy at home.

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