Top Business Jobs

By: Sambi O'jon

Ideas from which you can earn some extra money are everywhere on the internet and some of them will even make you realize just how important that it is to find the perfect opportunity for yourself and your family. Knowing what you want out of one of these opportunities and what you expect to get back out of the investment of your time and energy is important to knowing exactly what kind of business you should work with. Ideas are always available through different sources; however, it is the application applied on these ideas, and timing that makes all the difference in failure or success.

The top 5 Business Ideas for earning extra income online are;

• Being an independent virtual assistant: This is like you offering to be somebody's personal office assistant online. It mainly involves administrative tasks that are done remotely for you.
• Writing articles for other websites. With the average fee around $5 - $7 an article, that could quickly mount up over the course of the month and do not forget there is software out there that actually helps you write articles too.
• Converting your hobbies or skills into a business. When you are passionate about something it is a lot easier to pass as an expert about that thing. Being an expert means now that you have information about a particular niche that other people will be willing to pay for. All you have to do is set up a few pages for a website and you should be on your way to earning that all important first online dollar.
• Running a website or a web based business. If you are willing to learn or be taught, you do not have to be an expert in something to run a successful business relating to a particular field.
• Buying and selling products on auction sites such as eBay and QXL. There is a lot of information online about how this is done and most of it is centered around drop shipping (which is entails you advertising goods and services for a third party and not having to buy any stock upfront nor get involved in the logistics of shipping).

To grasp these opportunities successfully sometimes you will have to be able to stand out from the crowd, try and think outside the box - be creative. Creativity also brings an excitement and freshness to the work. Creating profitable business ideas is not rocket science. Being creative does not necessarily mean you have to invent something from scratch - it could be something as simple as a different sort of packaging, a different type of advertising. For people who have good marketing sense, specifically creative advertising skills, this is a viable option. New business ideas are developed day by day, every day, online business is 24/7! Online product selling is among the most popular internet business ideas.

The internet has created more millionaires than anything else in the past 50 years! Since the beginning a lot of common folks have found a home business opportunity that suits them. An internet based business would mean doing all the work online and hence no paid workers thus keeping costs down and a lion's share of the profits to yourself. The good opportunities are those which allow you to do the same as well as allow you to get out of the home occasionally and meet people of different walks of life.

Probably, the only issue which everyone searching for new business ideas should review systematically is their own strengths and weaknesses and to use this as their key building block and jumping off point. Probably the biggest mistake that many people make is assuming one factor alone will guarantee success. A lot of budding businessmen seem to think if they work hard enough, they will make that first million no matter how lousy their product idea is, how crowded the market is, how much talent they have etc. Unfortunately in the real world there will be a lot more factors at play and there should be an awareness of all of them.