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Often, legitimate online businesses sound just too good to be true. Maybe you’ve fallen for some that weren’t for real. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find that even though sometimes they’re scams, there are plenty of others that are perfectly legitimate and can help you earn a solid income. Here’s how to sort through the options and find the real deal.

First of all, if you are promised thousands of dollars for hardly any work, especially right away, it’s probably a scam. I’m terribly sorry to break that disappointing news to you.

On the other hands, there are hundreds of thousands of people doing legitimate online work from home and making a solid income. So why not join them.

You know all the perks of working from home… No commute. No dress for success requirements… You get to work in your jammies if you want to! And almost no overhead. Depending on what you do, you also get to make your own hours.

And legitimate online businesses allow you to work from anywhere — so why not travel to the place of your dreams — while still continuing to work. After all, legitimate work at home opportunities can be run from anywhere where you have access to the internet! Work at home simply means that you won’t have to go to any particular specific place of work. Work from your local Starbucks, or from one in San Francisco, Honolulu, Palm Springs, or anywhere.

There’s even more… Some of the better types of online work offer an ever increasing pay-out, so you can actually make a considerable amount of money — eventually — while working fewer and fewer hours.

But first you need to work.

So how can you get paid to work online? Stop looking at get rich quick ebooks and opportunities and look around for examples of people who make money by producing real value for others. Then follow their lead.

What kinds of work can you do? Pick something you enjoy. You’ll be doing a lot of it once it takes off. Basically, there are three major types of legitimate online businesses:

1) You provide products (virtual or otherwise)

2) You provide services

3) You promote other people’s products (or sometimes services)

Often, these categories intersect.

Examples of products

Information products, programs, themes, ring tones, applications, and graphic designs, and, well, physical products.

Example of services

Ghostwriting, copywriting, editing, proofreading, transcription, design, and virtual assistant services to give you some examples. And it’s the services that sell especially well and that can be a recipe for building a legitimate income quickly.

How do you find clients?

That can be a bit challenging, but if your services are good and you’re willing to start for a modest amount of pay, you won’t have trouble finding clients. Once you have collected a few happy clients who are willing to give you testimonials, you can raise your prices and most of your customers will be glad to pay them. And the next thing you know is that you’ll have joined the ever growing ranks of thriving legitimate home based businesses.

Ready to get started? Here are some legitimate online businesses to check out. And why not grab Elisabeth Kuhn’s FREE e-course on Internet Marketing Step-by-Step. Or go straight to learning about how to create a money-making blog with her new blogging course.