You think waking up at eleven AM, lounging around in your pjs for hours sipping espresso into the afternoon, working for fifteen minutes and checking your bank balance is how to work online from home, friend you are dreaming. Unless you have a secrete army of nano mites working in a closet someplace, your online experience will be just a little different. To begin with the only way you will be waking up at eleven AM is that you went to sleep at eight AM. There is no time for lounging, however, you can wear the pjs or whatever you like all day and night if you like. As for drinking the espresso, coffee or energy drinks you will need them all twenty four-seven everyday, because the work time might be more than fifteen hours, but never, fifteen minutes.

How to work online from home the correct way starts with a dedicated computer and work space with a lockable door. Anything less will just be an open invitation for the wife, kids, dog and the guy next door to drop in any time. The fact is you will never be able to really work until everyone around you understands that you are at work when that door is closed. You will be able to understand internet marketing and get on the road to success much sooner with the help of those around you.

Assuming you want to earn a full time income from online marketing, the rule we just started to learn is that we are starting a serious business. You are the owner and only employee until you have enough success to hire help. You will never have that success without the effort required to learn the business. The amount of time and effort you need to put in depends on you and your knowledge of a range of things.

You need to have or gain knowledge of computers, computer software, the internet, servers, domain names, hosting providers, html, php, WordPress, keywords, adwords, adsense, SEO, SERP and Google. You could spend months or years of study until you have a thorough understanding of this list and much more or you could just get started with a domain name, a basic WordPress website and learn what you can on the fly. But that is not the way you start a serious business.

The worst that you can do is purchase the latest one click wonder program that will make you a billionaire overnight. It will just not happen, if this one is so great why is the same guy trying to sell you ten other scripts, bots or plugins that do the same thing but a different way. Simple, he is a salesman, once the sale is made, he is just trying to make the next sale. The lesson here is that there are no short cuts to being successful in online marketing business.

You do need to buy that first domain name, get a hosting account and setup your first website. When done you are ready to start learning the way things work and how to make a profit. I have a free Mad Marketing training course that will help you move to the next stage. Which will require someone to work with you at your pace to be your mentor. This function can be filled by the Wealthy Affiliate University an online training facility dedicated to your success.