Experts Advise on Avoiding Scams when starting Real Work from Home Online Businesses

In a down economy, more people than ever are looking for ways to earn an extra income or, for many unemployed, any income. According to the experts, now more than ever, the internet offers the best time to start an online business and earn an income working from home or virtually anywhere.

“Beware of online scams,” warn the experts. While it is possible to create a real and lasting online business which creates a real and lasting income stream, it does take effort. The internet if flooded with “work from home” and other “make money online” offers. The reality is that the vast majority are scams. The only people making money from most of these are the ones selling the programs.

To make real money online and work from home takes real effort, focus and time, but it is certainly something that virtually anyone can do. Putting all the scams aside the most straight-forward and widely successful online business involves selling a service or a product, as is true with and traditional business. The advantage offered by the internet is that it “levels the playing field” allowing an average individual to compete with, and be successful against, retail giants.

Steve Clayton is the co-author of the highly successful “Blueprint” guides to internet marketing. A former tradition marketing executive, Clayton is now one of the most respected marketing experts in the online arena. Clayton’s success is due to the most important factor in creating a profitable online business – getting customers to your web site by getting ranked high in the search engines like Google as well as other social media channels.

Getting customers to your web site is key to success, just as getting customers into a store is in the brick & mortar retail world. In a recent video (watch here), Clayton explains that, because of recent and upcoming changes in internet marketing, now is perhaps one of the best times to start and online home-based internet business.

After several years of successful online marketing, Clayton and his partners, including Dave Hermansen profiled by Fox News in the image above, have now become one of the top resources to help others become successful online. Through a variety of “blueprint” training videos and online forums, Clayton has created training programs which take novices step-by-step through all aspects of building a successful e-commerce internet business including: building a web site, finding products that can be drop-shipped, and most importantly getting traffic (free traffic) to your web site.

Regardless of where you turn for help with starting your home-based internet e-commerce business, remember that despite the opportunity provided by the internet, real businesses take time and effort to become successful. However, by working only a few hours a day in your spare time, it is realistic for an average person to build up a very successful and profitable business working from home online say the experts.

More information on Steve Clayton and his “Blueprint” internet e-commerce marketing and online business training, can be found online with their newest video series Blueprint Pro.