Not everyone who works in the workplace knows this. Millions of people all over the world are searching to either make extra money from their own home based business or even leave their jobs and work at home full time. There are plenty of money making opportunities out there for the average people to get started with.
Let's take a look at some of the good businesses that you can get started with: 1. Franchise: A franchise is an agreement between two parties which gives a person or group of people (the franchisee) the rights to market a product or service using the trademark of another business (the franchisor). If you are looking into a franchise business, you need to know that a good amount of money needs to be invested (Usually between $50,000 - $1,000,000) when you first start.
If you get into a franchise business and it is a well known name, you can make a lot of money. 2. Network Marketing: Network Marketing is a business model that allows a company to market their products directly to consumers by means of relationship referral and direct selling. The way that this works is by having the independent distributors develop their organization by recruiting a downline of people under them who also build their own teams. So lets say that person A recruits person B.
Person B becomes very excited and buys the company's products. Person B then starts to recruit his own team and sponsors person C. When person C buys the products, person A and B get commissions on that. Distributors earn a commission on the sales efforts and team building of their organization, which includes their own efforts as well as the leveraged sales efforts of their downline team.
3. Online Affiliate Programs: Affiliate programs are run by ecommerce websites looking for ways to increase their sales. Anyone with a website can actually sign up with their program.
Once a person signs up with their affiliate program, they are given a direct link that they can send customers to. Once the affiliate sells a product through their own affiliate link, they get a commission for that. Here is a small example. If you sell a work at home program, and the product's price is $39, you as the affiliate will earn about $26-$29 for that sale.
The more sales, the more money you can make as an affiliate. 4. Real Estate: It is very true that people are making very good money by buying and selling homes. Usually a person will look for cheap homes that need to be fixed, inside and out.
Houses like these usually sell for less. Someone will put up their house for sale, a buyer will come in and invest money in it. When all the paper work is done, the buyer will fix up the house both on the inside and outside. After the kitchen, garden, bathroom, and living room have been re-modeled, the person who bought the house for the cheaper price, can sell it for more and make good money. This is called "flipping" the house. There are plenty of good books out there that talk about buying and selling houses and making good money in the process.
If you go to your local bookstore, you can actually find very good books on this subject.
Tal Fighel is the owner of The Work At Home Income Directory: http://www.work-at-home-income-directory.com/Finding-A-Work-At-Home-Opportunity.html . You can find more of Tal Fighel's articles here: http://www.work-at-home-income-directory.com