Millions of people across the world desire to work for themselves from home. Some of us want to be our own boss because of the flexibility we can gain as a result of working for ourselves. Others are very much attracted to making extra money or more money than what they earn from the 9am – 5 pm normal job, while working for lesser hours. The cost of setting up an offline business can be mind-blowing and breath-taking as compare to setting up an internet affiliate marketing business and an online home business. Only few people can really distinguish the differences cost while.Many people, who do not understand starting an online business or an online home base business involves lesser cost than starting any offline business, are very scared of starting one. Internet affiliate business and home base businesses are increasingly becoming very popular since most people have now realising that the cost for setting up one is minimal or can even cost nothing at all than they ever have thought of. This has led to the increasing rise of internet affiliate marketing business and other online home base businesses. As a result of this rise, this has fetched a fortune to many people. It is now a booming business, yet the market is just too young than you would think.Now the basic essentials for setting up your own home base business are, a computer with an internet connection, a mobile phone or home phone, and a little space in your bedroom or sitting room. Some people will even work sometimes with their top on their bed in their bedroom. Only your laptop with an internet connection will make a complete office for setting up a very big business from home.Affiliate marketing is a big business as it can provides anyone the opportunity of selling products and services to millions of people across the world via the internet. It is a very lucrative business if it is done properly.The starting point is to pick the kind of market, (that is product or services you would be interested in promoting). Ask yourself, is the product or services you have picked a hungry market? Are there many people out there who will be interested in that kind of product / services? If the answer is yes, then you have landed yourself a business and an opportunity to make some good money. If the answer is no, you must not continue with that product or service because that will not make you money. That means you have to research other markets in order to find a hot niche market that will sell like a hot cake or candies.The next thing is to evaluate your skills. Do I have the skill that is required to become successful as an online affiliate marketer, or a home base business owner? If the answer is no, then you have to learn and acquire that knowledge. Like said earlier, it is a very lucrative business / industry, and for that reason it is worth acquiring the right skills for becoming successful.There are ten thousands of already made products ready for anyone to promote them and earn commissions. Hope you have heard of Amazon and eBay affiliate programs, though as a matter of fact the earnings is not much to writing home as compare to some great affiliate networks out there.All the hard work in producing the product has all being done for you. All you have to do is promote, earn commissions and enjoy your life at home with friends and family. Choosing the right niche is the key to succeeding in your new business. Imagine promoting a hot product that pays out $45 per sale. $45 x 500 sales per month will fetch you a fortune of a whopping $22,500 in just one month. There are supper affiliate marketers who will make more than 500 sales in just one day. I know you will doubt this fact but I am going to prove this in just 2 simple ways out of several.The best way of running a sustainable and profitable internet affiliate marketing business or online home base business is by using social media and building a great list. There are some people who have up to 200,000 to 500,000 and even more than 1 million followers on twitter alone. Let us say they intend to promote a product that is paying out a $45 commission per sale. Again, let us say they tweet this product to their 1 million followers and only 1% percent of the followers choose to buy from their affiliate link. That affiliate just made $450,000 from just one tweet (1,000,000 followers x 1% followers buyers = 10,000 followers buyers x $45 commission per sale = $450,000 for tweeting that one particular product). That is a whopping $450,000 and can happen in a day.There are lots of online marketers with an email marketing list of more than 500,000 to more than a million subscribers. You compare that list to the twitter marketing illustration I discussed earlier above and decide for yourself why it is worth to set up an internet affiliate business and an online home base business. Also see for yourself why millions of people across the world are diving into the online industry. This reason has led to the increasing rise of millions of people setting up an internet affiliate marketing Business and an online Home Base Business.