You need something else! Well the good news is that the Internet has developed in leaps and bounds and has so much growth potential left. More and more people are getting connected and more and more people want to start a home business online.

So you want to work from home, you want an online business but you desperately need to avoid the ridiculous amount of scams that are promoted so richly.

Well the only way to Avoid Scams is to be one step ahead of the online tricksters! Knowledge is your power. The more knowledge you have, the less chance there is to make the mistake of getting involved in the wrong Home Based Internet Business.

If you want to start your own online business then approach it properly. Do preparation and planning. Work out a budget that takes into account not only what you need to earn but what you can afford to set up and start. All businesses need: Hard Work, Effort and Money to start - so start by setting yourself a realistic budget.

Then set yourself guidelines that keep you motivated - Why you want to work from home? What benefits there are to you? Make it a nice BIG list that keeps you motivated.

Now, where to you start - like any job, you need to have training, skills and knowledge. If you have never got involved in Online marketing then you need to start at the beginning. You need to educate yourself to ensure that you do not get caught.

Remember that all the really wealthy people in the world have built massive empires but the thing to note is that you do not find them sitting on a beach sipping cocktails, they are constantly busy. They spent an enormous amount of Time and Effort and Hard Work and yes Money to get their empires to the state that they are and yet they still need to work.

Money does not just fall onto our laps, that winning Lotto ticket seems elusive. So decide here and now - YES I can work, I have the ability, I have the determination and I am committed to making this work. I am going to succeed at starting a Home Based Internet Business.

The simple secrets is that there are 7 basic fundamentals that are critical to Internet Marketing and you need to make yourself aware of these steps. You need to learn the basics to go forward properly, learn from the knowledge sourced and - R=Research; D=Develop; C=Cultivate. The 7 basic internet business steps are:

- Niche Market: Finding yourself the ideal Niche Market, understanding what a Niche Market is and being able to investigate whether the service or product is ideally a Niche Product.
- Keywords: This does not sound like much but is more important to understand than you could possibly know. Know what keywords are, what short-tail and long-tail keyword phrases are, how to find the rights ones, where to find them and how to use them is key to success.
- Customers: If you were setting up a business in the real world you would not go place a Pizza Parlor in the middle of the desert. It is no different for any online business, you need to know where to find potential customers, how to find them, how to interact with them and how to monitor your progress.
- Competitors: Every business owner knows the importance of doing proper research around your competitors. It is no different on the internet. You have to know where to find them, how to find them, how to analyse them and how to adapt your situation to be better than them.
- Traffic Generation: If you intend doing any business on the internet you need to be able to understand Traffic Generation in order to get web browsers to your product or service.
- Search Engine Optimization: the basics of every web site, being able to get the Google; Yahoo; etc to find your web site and promote it.
- Plan a Website: Knowing how to plan a good website, what to use, what to avoid, how to capture your audience etc. Did you know that Setting up your own Website has become extremely easy if you know which program to use? There are some fantastic build a website packages available.

If you want to ensure a profitable Home Based internet Business, then do the required work: Research your idea, Develop your idea and Cultivate It. Do not believe that any sustainable long term business opportunity is going to work with hitting a few keys and sitting back sipping cocktails.

Working from Home and avoiding online scams.