I want to briefly go over a few good online business ideas in this article. All of them will be things you can do part time at home.

If you are willing to invest a few hours every week you can use your computer to make money.

1. Start your own direct sales business. You are probably familiar with Avon or Tupperware. Now it’s possible to start a business like this and run it primarily online. You do not even have the host parties or deliver products unless you want to.

2. Network marketing opportunities are another thing you can do on a part-time basis. Companies like Amway have grown to become multibillion dollar companies and the Internet is primarily responsible for their most recent success.

3. Start a blog flipping business. You can build blogs from scratch and turn around and quickly sell them.

Or you can buy existing blogs that are undervalued, fix them up, and turn around and sell them for profit. This is like house flipping except you are dealing with virtual real estate online.

4. Start a service business such as blog writing. There are millions of blog owners that would hire you to write content for them if they knew who you were. You can turn this into a full time career if you want to.

5. Become a virtual assistant. Do things such as typing and answering the phone for successful Internet business owners. There’s plenty of work if you have talent in these areas.

6. Sell higer priced items and earn more money per sale. Once you learn how to use the Internet it is just as easy to earn $1000 a sale as it is to make $20.

7. Join a get paid to program. Believe it or not there are people who get paid to do things such as taking surveys or data entry.

As a matter of fact you can go to survey sites such as Cash Crate and join for free. They will pay you to take surveys for companies that value your opinion.

You can even supplement your income by referring people to this program and getting paid for it. There are many ways to make money taking surveys and you can even turn it into an online business if you want.

The same thing is true with data entry. Many companies would prefer to outsource as much of their typing as they possibly can.

These are a handful of good online business ideas you can work part-time. Many people start part-time and eventually go full time with Internet marketing and their own online business.