Posted by ripraprip | Posted in Home Base Business | Posted on 04-05-2009
Tags: business opportunity, home based businesses, make money at home, online business, work from home business
The current recession has made it evident that even a “secure” job isn’t that secure at all. As for myself, I have never even had a really secure job, ever. And this in spite of having a Ph.D.
The reason is that in Academia you seldom get a secure position until you become a Professor; otherwise most jobs are temporary. I never reached as far as to those pinnacles of achievment. Once upon a time I got a fellowship and spent two years at Harvard (one of the top U.S. universities); but that was it for me.
I remember that even back then I hated the academic world, and had vague ideas of starting a business of my own. I thought about maybe getting a degree in Business Administration but that didn’t inspire me at all.
The thing is: suppose you have spent a heck of a long time getting an advanced degree — then the idea of going back to school again is not appealing. The thing is during one period I even had a nightmare: I was back in High School again — and that awful dream kept coming back! A most unpleasant experience indeed. More like in the movie “Groundhog Day”, where the same day seems to repeat itself endlessly.
OK, I did at least manage to get out of Academia and get myself a job — in a small fledgling Biotech company. I got along fine with the bosses and the future looked rather bright. However, in only about a year things crashed. The company I worked for went belly up — leaving me without a job.
Those bosses were no businessmen, they had zero experience running a company. These people had been making several very unwise decisions, throwing money away.
And now what? Now I spent all my energy groping for a business opportunity — it needed to get me on track really quickly. No room for anything else, for a number of reasons. Now I wanted a work from home business. I was totally fed up with spending my days in some office, having to deal with office politics and so on.
Luckily, I had an Internet connection and I had been playing around with HTML coding. Also I realized you could make money selling stuff online.
Now I had the good fortune of reading an ebook about how to make money as an affiliate — by marketing other people’s products and services. If I recall it correctly the ebook in question was by Rosalyn Gardner — I wouldn’t recommend it nowadays since I think it is now outdated. A couple of years back, I’d say it was a useful course.
I gleaned enough from that ebook to begin making some good cash promoting web hosting plans. At long last I could now work from home online — and set my own schedule. That is what I call freedom! Now I have several web sites, visit for instance my blog, dBusinessOpportunity.com.
Summing up: in case you are one of the many people who are searcing for a business opportunity online, then I suggest you take a look at affiliate promotion. You can choose from an astronomical number of things to promote.




