Which is the best of the 3 home based business opportunities

[Ronald]

The newest trend in businesses is working from your own home. As the Internet is spreading its wing across the world, the count of people using the same has been growing at a similar pace. Thus, the same can be said about homebased business opportunities, which are being the attention of many moms, young ones & elderlies.

Can you please help me out in picking the best out of these three homebased business opportunities:

Affiliate programs
Paid Surveys
Network Marketing

[BernardMaree]

Hi Ronald,

It depends on a persons experience with these different types of businesses to know whether they are good or not. My experiences are below.

Affiliate programs
I've not had much experience with Affiliate programmes. I used to have a heath related website and had an affiliateship with a programme offering hypnotic training to overcome many problems. I know that a number of visitors to my site clicked through to the Affiliate Programme but I never received any feedback. I never earned any commission from them. I have no way of knowing if any of my referrals bought or not.

Paid Surveys
Within the Squidoo(dot)com webpages, I have seen others promoting surveys. They said that they were paid from $5 upwards per survey, and if you were fortunate enough to get enough surveys per day, then you could get some nice pocket money out of it. I've never been involved with it myself so I can't confirm or deny these comments.

Network Marketing
I used to be part of a network marketing programme for many years and finally left, burnt out and disallusioned with the whole thing. I was not any good at finding customers and without customers, I could not make any money. I was fortunate enough to have sponsored a few people into the business, and they too had trouble getting & keeping customers, so in the end they would drop out. Over time, I could not rightfully try to bring people into the business knowing that they would soon drop out as they were not making any money, and that the business would actually cost them money. It takes the right sort of person to succeed with network marketing. I know that I wasn't the right type.

Last year though, I found a Cooperative Marketing business that appears to be the same as Network Marketing but the company finds customers for you in exchange for your partnering with them in their advertising programme. I've had customers from Day One and have earned commission cheques every month that grow.

If you can find the right company, this area has potential.

Cheers,
Bernard

[abhi]

Currently Affiliate Programs should work for you. I know Bernard had a toughie. But this is also sure that there are many affiliates that do receive feedbacks. And even you will get the money or commission involved.

[mattdaily]

Yes, there is still alot of money in affiliate marketing, I'm waiting for twitter to launch a CPC platform

[eager4green]

Affiliate programs are wonderful from my experience... I have been freebie-trading..where I receive for example $40 for a referral to complete 1-2 easy, cheap offers for a site and then I pay them 1/2 of my profits, for over a year now..part time I made $7000 last year. It is a great concept and for a newcomer it gives almost instant results..can be paid within the hour.

Paid Surveys from my experience are not my cup of tea. They are extremely time consuming and it just doesn't hold my attention...lot of effort for very little return. With that said, however, whichever direction you decide to turn, I do believe you get out what you put in..everything that we actually make money at takes time and due diligence. Good luck with your endevours.

[abhi]

Affiliate programs are one of the most popular online business opportunities. However, Paid surveys are not far behind. The fact that it requires minimum skills, make it a thing, which most online business aspirant yearn for.