Never in history have so many people been attempting to make money with their own home business. The questions becomes how to go about doing that in the most profitable way. In this article I want to provide a few of the basics and make a case for why the best home based business is run on the Internet.

The basics in a home business revolve around providing a product, to a customer, getting paid for that product, and delivering it to them.

One of the best business models for this is affiliate marketing. The Internet works perfectly for people who want to make money doing affiliate marketing.

Depending on the type of product you are selling it can be very easy to get that product to your customer. For example, if you’re selling digital information the consumer can access that instantly. Ebooks are a perfect example of this. ClickBank is the largest digital affiliate network on the Internet today.

You can sell products as an affiliate for them with one ID number. You can target customers based on the type of eBook you are selling.

ClickBank collects from the customer and provides a download web page for the consumer to get their product. You are totally out of the loop on all of this outside of driving traffic to your affiliate sales page.

Even if you decide to sell physical products affiliate marketing is a great way to do it. A perfect example of this is Amazon.com.

They are the largest online retailer in the world. They also have a great affiliate program you can join and sell products for.

These products are laid out in various categories and range in price from a few dollars to several hundred thousand. Again this is all done online with your own Amazon.com affiliate website.

There are various strategies that home based business owners use as affiliate marketers. There are three ways that affiliate products are primarily sold.

1. Use the affiliate website.

2. Create a review page or a pre-sell page on your own domain name.

3. Build an email list and follow up with it.

Most affiliate marketers will sit at home in front of their computer and do a combination of all three of these. Building a list gives you the advantage of going back and following up with your potential customers to sell your product.

Creating a review page lets you influence the sale and get the consumer in a buying mood before passing them through to your affiliate website where they can purchase the product.

These are several ideas on why I feel the best home based business is Internet based. And the best business model for that is affiliate marketing.