There’s no doubt that a home based business is sought after. With the advantages of working from home, being your own boss and having your own schedule, having a home based business is becoming the career of choice for many. But is there a home based business out there that I can do to earn money?

Although there are many opportunities out there to make money that you can have as a home based business, there’s only one that really caught my attention which is being an affiliate marketer which is what I think is the most practical way of making money from home.

Affiliate marketing may sound sophisticated but it is not. Affiliate marketing is the work of bringing customers to the website where they are going to purchase the product that they are looking for on the internet. To do that, you need to build a website and set up marketing campaigns to drive the traffic to that website so the customer can make the final purchase. In return, you as an affiliate marketer get the commission that is set by the company that is selling the product. How's that for a home based business?

Now, all these steps that I mentioned may sound like things that need to be done by professionals in computer programming and information systems fields, but it’s not. Technology in affiliate marketing has advanced so much that regular people like you and me can sit down and do these things on the internet, as long as you know how to type and have access to the internet, you are more than able to do it.

The problem is that if you decide to become an affiliate marketer right now, you have some options like buying some books on internet marketing, buying internet marketing tools and building your internet businesses online to make money. What’s the problem? If you do that you are bound to build online businesses that don’t make any money.

For you to be successful as an affiliate marketer, you need the right guidance, the right tools and the right knowledge.

Wealthy Affiliate has been put together by very successful affiliate marketers. It has all the right tools. It has the written, video, and PDF tutorials that teach you just about everything there is to know about affiliate marketing and that direct you step by step in building the different pieces that you need to build, with the correct principles applied, in order to have successful online businesses.

Come and join me along with fifty thousand others and counting, in this most practical home based business anyone can have where all you need is a computer and access to the internet. Some pointers for if you decide to join.