More and more people are deciding to work from home. Why should you consider quitting your offline job for an online one, or perhaps you could do a bit of both! There are many reasons people work on the internet, and many options for doing so. Most commonly young mothers stay at home with their children rather than leave their children with a baby sitter or nanny and pay a large fee to do so. It nearly works out cheaper to work from home and also lets you spend more time with your children. We cant rule dad out here either as they too can work from home and play an important part in their child's development.

In summary good reasons for packing in your day job are :-

1. Get to spend more time with your children with the option of homeschooling
2. Cut the costs of a babysitter
3. You are your own boss
4. Work as much or as little as you need
5. Cut out travelling costs
6. More time to prepare and cook meals leading to better nutrition
7. You will possibly need less clothes as you dont have to buy clothes specificially for work

However there are disadvantages too such as missing adult company and interaction, and there is always the financial stress if things arent going well.

So you have taken the big decision to leave your job in favour of earning online. Most people normally start their online business before leaving their jobs and it is only when they recognise the earning potential that they make the decision to quit their job.

In most cases the key to earn an income or work from home is a website where you can sell products. Affiliate marketing is an extremely popular way on earning hundreds of dollars monthly. The good news is that you can be an affiliate for anything that is online. The most popular products are those from clickbank and indeed amazon and ebay.

First things first you need a website with a suitable domain name. A domain name is extremely important and must reflect your product as well as being easy to remember, therefore making people return. Domain names can be purchased very cheaply from Godaddy,which also does hosting as you will need somewhere to host your website.

Once you have your website and product well explained you will need to generate traffic to your site. You can advertise your site in traffic engines, but this does not get you targeted traffic and therefore you will probably not get many sales. The best way to get your site noticed is by increasing your alexa rank. You can do this and get found on google search engines much easier by creating backlinks.

How to get backlinks

• Create several squidoo lenses related to your products and put your website in the RSS feed as well as referencing your website throughout the lenses
• Create several hubpages doing the same as what you would do with the lenses
• Join forums related to your products and participate actively there as well as adding your website address as your signature
• Write ezine articles related to your product and link these to your website
• Make a video advertising your products and website and add it to youtube.
• Leave comments on other blogs and link other blogs with a high PR

When you get targeted traffic you will get sales and you will see the money coming in. It will take alot fo hard work and dedication but it is a small price to pay for those wishing to work from home.