Free Home Based Business Ideas Are Not Free

Home based business ideas are a dime a dozen with everyone on the Internet including your mother's brother telling you that their idea is the best. Type in the words "work from home" and you will get hundreds of pages with thousands of offers telling you everything you need to hear to crack open your purse or wallet and slide that smooth plastic out. Some of these sites are legitimate information sites and for a small fee, you can learn what they did to earn money from home. Guess what, you are looking at what they did to make money. They are selling you the idea that you can make money telling people how to make money by telling others how to make money. Are you dizzy yet?

Remember the Pyramids

MLMs (multi-level marketing) are also everywhere and yet most of them have no product to sell and no amazing secrets to tell. These schemes tell you that if you can get others to do what you do, you will get a slice of their profits and they in turn make money by showing other people how to do it and they earn from them. It is the oldest trick in the book and it started out as a form of pyramid fraud. But do not fret, because there are a legitimate ways to make good money without leaving the house. You can run your own business from the comfort of your home.

When is Enough… Enough

Free home based business ideas are here to stay. Let them do what they do and pay them no more mind than you would if they were the painting that has been hanging in your grandmothers parlor for 50 years. It was fascinating at first but hey, you were three. You thought the coffee table was an amusement park. Now you can earn money from home and the best part is that you can do it without actually doing it. It is called the second oldest profession in the history of the world and most people are terrified of trying it. The thing to remember is when you hear about free home based business ideas; the only free part is the idea. The rest will cost you.

Automation: Now We Are Talking. (Or Are We?)

Automated stock trading software is simple, easy to use, and does not take a genius to operate. Stock trading, on the other hand, is a complex and intricate process of mathematics, calculated maneuvers, and extreme luck that is sometimes better left to the automation. Anyone who has ever used automated stock trading software will tell you that it is, where trading stocks are concerned, the best thing since sliced bread. In case you did not know, your granny had a big white box in her kitchen that she had to use to slice bread. It was a pain in the proverbial tush but that is the way things were back then.

A Plumb Good Idea

If you are not into stock trading, there is another idea whose time has come, gone, and come again. You can find free plumbing courses on the internet if you look hard enough and want to start a home based business that takes you out of the house every day. An influential neighborhood I visited recently held a surprise for me. As I stood in my Neurosurgeons driveway chatting with him after loading the entertainment center he sold me at a great price into my van, our conversation turned to his neighborhood. It seems his home, which was a big as my block on the other side of town, was sandwiched in between two plumber's houses. That is how much money a really good plumber can make. Free plumbing courses are starting to sound pretty good right about now.