Doing business from home has increasingly become the option of choice for many new entrepreneurs, and there is a good reason for it, running your show from a home office will save you a ton of money.

However, in order for this to work, your business should have the ability to stay small enough so that you can run it all by yourself from home without sacrificing efficiency or profitability.

There are several business models that meet this requirement, but really just one that offers the best combination between cost and profitability, and I will tell you about it over the next few lines.

Indeed, when I first started thinking about a home business as a serious alternative to my day job, I tried many online business models, including e-tail (selling stuff on eBay, Amazon, Pricegrabber, etc...), and although this is a profitable business, it was very time consuming (once you start selling a lot).

In this quest for the ideal home business, I stumbled upon the idea of making money online through internet marketing, and since this was a business I could also run from my computer -and therefore from my home office- I decided to give it a shot.

It was a long and hard road before I saw actual profits, because since I had no clear idea of what I was doing, I wasted a lot of time and money in useless junk that really did little for my development. In spite of that, I consider it was worth it because now this business makes me enough money to make a comfortable living and I spend a lot less time than I used to running my online stores.

After all I have experienced, I can assure you that starting a profitable home based business around internet marketing should not cost you more than $100, provided of course that you spare yourself all the mistakes I have made along the way.

Indeed, in order to start making money with a home based internet marketing business you only need a website and the know-how to generate free targeted traffic to it, and guess what, nowadays you can get both a set of websites and first quality education completely free, while you keep your monthly expenses below $5.