Like many people today, you may find yourself out of work and at home due to a job displacement, to a cut in hours, or simply as a choice that you've made to be a stay at home parent. Regardless of the reasons that you are at home today, there is no parent who could not use a little more income. By virtue of the fact that we are parents, an extra income is a helpful addition to any household.

There are always extra expenses when it comes to families. One way to be able to stay at home with your children and to address your need for a second income is to work from home. Work from home jobs are available today, but in some cases, may require an outlay of time or skills that the work from home parent does not possess.

In most cases, the stay at home parent will be a mother who is seeking an ethical way to add to the household income, but who may not have a lot of computer skills. One of the best home based business for women today--even those who do not have vast computer skills is affiliate marketing. This type of home based business is a low cost business opportunity in that it takes very little to get the business started and typically there is no income or other outlay. Aside from a website and perhaps some time and content, an affiliate marketing career is relatively easy to begin and takes just a little time to learn.

Affiliate marketing requires very little aside from some initial knowledge and skills which may be learned by nearly anyone. The use of a small website or a portion of another website is one of the few expenses that may be incurred by the affiliate marketer and typically this is nominal.

Writing your own content or hiring it done is somewhat time consuming or may be an initial cost, but with the proper content and reviews of the items which you are considering to promote, your niche marketing efforts can take off in a fairly short time and provide you with a reasonable income from your home.

Learning affiliate marketing takes a little effort on your part, but can be done by using some of the instructional websites which are available online. Many of them require only a commitment of time to take something away from them, with no charge for using the information there to help you to learn a new craft that can give you a viable second income.