Are you looking for a home based business that you can start on a

shoestring - or free? Your home computer and a stable connection to the

internet can provide you with free home based business opportunities that

weren't available just ten - or even five - years ago. If you're

creative and willing to work hard at marketing, you can have a successful home

based business that cost you nothing at all to start.



Open an Ecommerce Store for Free



There are a number of businesses that will give you a free web site,

built and ready to go out of the box. Turnkey ecommerce web sites may

come with pre-stocked catalog templates, completely installed shopping

cart software, banner ad software - even one-click search site submission

engines to get you up and started selling with your own free home based

business web site in next to no time at all. Depending on the products

you choose to sell, they may even provide all the record-keeping you'll

need. You provide the advertising, promotion, marketing plans and

customer service.



One of my personal favorite types of free ecommerce home business

opportunities is the type that allows me to combine my own creativity with

their products and support. Print-on-demand web sites are a great

example. They stock 'blanks' - t-shirts, book bags, coffee mugs, mouse pads -

anything that can be printed. You can set up a free storefront using

their easy-to-customize templates, choose a few products, and then upload

your own designs to be printed on them. Mix in a little creative

marketing, and you have a unique home based business that cost you nothing at

all but your time.



Sell Ad Space On Your Web Site



Affiliate internet marketing is one of the biggest moneymaking home

based business opportunities on the internet today. Experts estimate that

companies will spend nearly $20 billion on internet advertising this

year, and most of it will be spent on small web sites just like yours.

The internet offers marketers an unparalleled opportunity to fine-tune

their marketing and put their advertising dollars where they'll bring in

the most customers. By choosing web sites that cater to the market that

they want to sell, merchandisers get far more mileage out of every

advertising dollar. If you run, or can create, a web site with a focused

subject and steady traffic, you can sign up with an affiliate marketing

program that places 'contextual ads' on your web pages, and reap the

benefits of other business' internet marketing efforts.



Your investment? A monthly web server fee, and the time it takes to

create, maintain and market your web site.



Create a Direct Sales Web Site to Help You Get Your Home Based

Business Off the Ground



The internet takes direct sales to a new level. You know direct sales -

door-to-door and home party businesses have been one of the most

popular ways for home based entrepreneurs to make extra money for years.

Direct sales offers you a time-honored home business opportunity with a new

twist. Instead of schlepping door-to-door with a sales kit, you can find

a good wholesale drop-shipper and set up a web site marketing their

products. It may take some serious research to find legitimate drop

shippers, but the best wholesale companies will provide you with templates

for marketing web pages, pictures of their products that you can use for

selling, and marketing materials that you can quote in your own

catalogs. You take orders for their products, and forward the orders to the

drop shipper - they fill the orders and send them directly to your

customers. Some even bill the customers and send you your commission, leaving

you with nothing to do but the marketing and customer service.



There are new home based business opportunities opening up on the

internet every day. You can buy into most for very little financial

investment up front. Shop around, read up, and then find a product or service

that you like, and join in the fun.





About the author:

Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web. Visit this Business and Entrepreneurs Website and Majon's Business and Entrepreneurs directory.