Proven Online Business Opportunities - My Top 4 Personal Favorites

Believe it or not, making a full time income from working online isn't really as tough as you might think. Nor will it take you as long as you might think either.

However, the fear of failure or the fear of being ridiculed by their friends, family or co-workers is enough to stop most people from even trying. But that still leaves the question hanging in the air "Are there any proven online business opportunities that aren't just outright scams?"

The good news is, there is so; so many ways to make money online folks that this article would turn into a 300-page eBook just cover half of them. So what I'm going to do here is give you a run down on my Top 4 Favorite Internet Based Business Opportunities that have a proven track record in generating a full time income, at the very least, for you:

1. Affiliate Marketing

The best way to explain this is that you'll be acting as a middleman or woman between buyer and seller. You find a product manufactured by another company that you think would sell well online.

You then create a website around that product or range of products. If a web visitor buys the product through your affiliate link you get paid a commission. There are thousands upon thousands of companies looking for people just like you to promote their products through your website or blog - everything from garden furniture and kids toys to web site hosting and telephone services.

2. Create Infomation Products

An info product is basically a digital product or eBook that you create and then sell online. The topic of the eBook will be a huge deciding factor in how successful the product is - info products on making money online and losing weight are particularly popular for example.

The neat thing about info product marketing is that you don't even need to write it yourself. Nope. You can come up with the idea and hire somebody to ghost write the eBook for you but you retain all rights to the finished product.

One of the most popular info product vendors is Clickbank and a lot of the products listed there were ghost written for that purpose. Plus the other nice thing about info products is that you create them once and then sell them over and over again.

3. Sell Your Services

When you're first getting started online you might not really be sure where to start and if that's you then don't worry. A great way to see how easily you can earn money online is to offer your services for hire to other Internet marketers.

If you can write reasonably well you could offer an article marketing service. Or if you know a bit about search engine optimization you could help clients build backlinks to their sites.

Or maybe you've got a real movie star type of voice that people would love as their voiceover for their videos. Or maybe you're really good at creating short promotional videos? Look at what skills you already have and make the most of those - there's always a demand for people who are simply willing to work hard.

4. Drop Shipping

This is one that doesn't get mentioned that often anymore but is still an extremely profitable business model. With drop shipping you use a drop shipping directory to locate a company who manufactures a product you want to sell online - they could be based anywhere in the world.

But instead of promoting the product as an affiliate you're actually going to sell it directly to the customers yourself. But here's the cool part - you don't actually do any of the shipping yourself! Instead the manufacturer gets the order from you and ships the product directly to the customer for you. Again there are thousands of companies with millions of products to sell this way.

And those are just my personal favorite online business opportunities - there are plenty more to choose from. All you need to do is decide which model suits you best, do your research and go for it.