Creating income at home is easier today than it was several years ago. The Internet deserves the credit for this. Let’s take a look at a proven home business income opportunity you can do online.

In this example we want to use proven success methods that have been paying off for several years now.

- e-mail marketing

- affiliate marketing

With e-mail marketing you are sending out e-mail messages to people who have requested information from you. You can buy these names from vendors who sell them, or you can create your own list of names to email to.

You are always better off to create your own list of quality leads if you can, but that generally takes a little bit longer to do. The advantages of buying names are you can jumpstart your list with several hundred or several thousand names at one time.

The key blending affiliate marketing with e-mail marketing is to not always be selling all the time. The way you make money at home using this combination is to establish yourself as someone who has credibility by earning the trust of the people on your list.

Then you gradually work in products from affiliate marketing merchants, who will pay you a commission when someone buys from your affiliate link. This is a great strategy and works well for people who do not like to build websites or spend time blogging.

If you do go the route of buying names you just need to program an autoresponder with messages in advance, and then order your leads every month. The long-term benefit that makes this a proven home business income opportunity is once you’ve built your list of hot & fresh leads you always have it and can sell to a over and over.