If you are looking for a way to make money at home with an online business opportunity then I have a great idea for you. The internet is all based on information and someone has to write the articles and posts that appear on web pages. This could be you. Depending on how fast of a writer you are you could be making between $10 – $15 an hour just writing for submission to internet sites.  Or maybe more.

Webmasters are always looking for new articles to post on their sites. Whether it is a blog or a static web page it is important to keep having new written content added. If you like to write about Christian topics then this could be a great Christian home based business. You could easily tie your two loves together. Writing and your Christian life. More and more people are looking for a Christian online business opportunity and this could be just the ticket for a work at home mom or dad.

If you are interested in trying this out then go to some of the forums where webmasters hand out and put up a few posts saying you will write for a fee. The rate depends on the subject and the amount of writing involved. I seen anywhere from $5 for a 500 word article to $25. You could easily write a couple of 500 word articles in an hour with some practice and a basic knowledge of the subject matter.

You don’t have to worry about being an expert though. If you are going to write an article about Christian online business opportunities for example you can easily find enough information to make a good, informative post in just a few minutes. You can also use your own experiences as a basis for the articles. People love to read about how others are doing things or the tips and tricks that others have learned.

If you like to write, or even if you have only wanted to write then this is definitely worth looking into. Do a Google search for Internet Marketing Forums and you will find lots of places where people looking for writers hang out. Make a post and then negotiate a price. I would suggest you work cheap for a couple of articles to get your foot in the door. Just be sure to meet your deadlines. I hear a lot more complaints about missed deadlines than I do quality.

Instead of sitting at home watching TV start making money online today. You can literally be in contact with webmasters and have your first article accepted by tonight or tomorrow. There are all kinds of online business opportunities you just have to go looking and be flexible.

I used to think that some people were just born to be successful with an online internet business opportunity. You know like it is in their genes or something. I now realize this is not true. All successful people work at their craft and that is why they are successful. This includes people who are successful with an online work at home business like you are looking for. If you are looking for a legitimate Christian online business then most definitely find the best one possible but once you have your vehicle you must drive it across the success finish line. You can’t just let it sit in the driveway and expect riches to flow your way.

This idea of some people being born to success reminds me of a story about Frank Sinatra. For you young people he was a very famous singer in the middle of the last century. He was smooth and always seemed at ease in front of the audience. In this story another singer is set to go on after Frank. Frank goes out and does his routine and looks natural and at ease the whole time. Like he was born to sing and be famous. When he was done and came backstage he sat down in the wings breathing hard and the sweat pouring off his brow. The other singer realized Frank Sinatra had to work extremely hard to make it look like he was not working hard. Although he had natural singing talents, Frank put in the effort required to turn those God given attributes into success. It is the same with you and your online Christian business opportunity business.

You may find a great program for your online business, and I suggest you do find a template that will work for you. But that is the easy part. The hard part is then taking that good idea and putting the effort in to actually find success. You have to do the work and no one else can do it for you.

Online Business Opportunities

When I started for a Christian online home business opportunity I found a lot of good templates that could be used to build a strong business. But none of the ones that really worked could be implemented in a few days or weeks. As I looked at the successful people on the web I realized that it is not really a get rich quick medium. The only people who tell you that are people who are trying to get rich quick by taking your money. There is not opportunity online that will allow you to quit your job in a week and lay on the beach watching the waves roll in.

Christian home businesses and a Christian Internet business are the same as any other business. You must be dedicated, work hard, and continue to learn new ideas and tactics in order to be successful. I was listening to webinar the other day by Howie Schwartz. Howie is very successful on the internet but he understands there is work involved and he does the work. A woman called in and asked Howie what is the best way to make $1000 on the internet next week. He said there is no way. You can not expect to make that kind of money until you lay the foundation necessary to get customers and convert those customers into buyers. You can not do that in a week.

Don’t let this discourage you. There are thousands of legitimate online business opportunities you can pursue that are potential money makers. You just need to do the footwork. This is actually a good thing because the majority of the people who want to be internet entrepreneurs will give the effort needed or any effort for that matter. They want an online Christian business but they don’t want to do anything really to get there. This means the possibilities are absolutely amazing for someone who is willing to the work. The internet is ready to explode and it is crying for people who want to provide goods and services to a hungry audience.

Online Business Opportunity Timeline

From what I have seen this is a realistic time line if you want to develop a legitimate Christian online business. If you understand that you won’t get rich overnight it is much easier to stick with it and build the foundation you need for your success. Will most of you do it? Frankly, no. The majority of people who read this will never be successful for the simple fact that they don’t really want to put any effort in. If your still with me then let’s look at what it will take.

First you will spend 6 months to a year finding a vehicle that you will be willing to put the time into. You will read about many different systems during that time and even try to apply a few but you will not really have your heart in it. I suggest you look at many different models during this time and see what seems to be working. You don’t have to spend a lot of money because there is an unimaginable amount of free information to be found. The Guru’s are realizing that people are getting skeptical about spending a few thousand dollars on courses. These guys are forced to offer more and more free stuff to get people interested in what they have to offer. Sign up for all the free email courses because most of the information is very good. Just don’t buy any programs yet.

After searching out prospective online business opportunities you will find one you are really interested in. You will start working the plan and dreaming of all the money it will bring in. Then you will hit the wall at about two months. One day you will wake up and ask yourself why you are working so hard. You have put all these hours in and are making almost no money. This is the second place where people drop out of the internet marketing game. They were willing to do some work but they don’t have the staying power to keep going. They give up and say the internet doesn’t work.

I heard a very successful internet marketer say the other day he wishes he could buy all the websites that people get to two months on and then quit. He knows that the timeline to success is longer but that these people are really close to making it work. If you start your Christian home based business opportunity do not stop at two months. You are really close to making a go of it.

So you get past two months and keep working. At six months you will start to see some real success. You will wake up one day and say, “Hey this really works. I can see how I can build this into a full time income.” Now you are unstoppable because you smell the success that is possible online. Now you are working the business because you are excited again. The possibilities are endless and you are on your way.

A quick note. During the six month incubation period you can’t just let your business sit there. Working on your online Christian business opportunity for six months does not mean you build a web site or blog in the first two weeks and then do nothing for the next five months. The success you see after six months is not magic. It will come from continuing to work your business plan. For example, you will need to be adding more content to your site, doing SEO (search engine optimization) to get visitors to your site, and finding ways to monetize the visitors you do get. Expect to spend at least one hour a day, and preferable more, working your business. It will feel like you have another job because you do. But unlike your current dead end job, a successful online business can give you unlimited opportunities.

A word about scams. There are a lot of unscrupulous people on the web. Like any scam you can spot them by their offer. If they are offering big riches for nothing or very little in return be careful. This is how all classic scams are operated. You can spot a Christian business scam by watching for the people who say you can get rich with out any real work. It just doesn’t work that way.

Do you want to build an online business? If you do you must realize it will be work. There will be many days where you will not want to go on. But don’t give up. Keep slogging away and you will get there. If you absolutely can’t take it any more then go ahead and lay the work aside for a day. Get some rest. But be sure to get started again the next day. Online business opportunities abound you just have to do the foot work required to be successful.

Today I was reading Courtney Tuttle over at his Keyword Academy blog. This site is packed full of great internet marketing information you can use to make your Christian home business a success. Look in his archives and you will find over two years of posts chocked full of tips and tricks.

The post today is titled I Bet The FTC Smokes The ‘Posting Links On Google’ Facebookers. Have you seen the ads recently that say you can make thousands of dollars a day by posting links on Google? Well, Court was talking about the Landing Page that is used when you click on one of those ads. On the page there is a picture of a guy named Paul Steinbach who just happens to be from Provo Utah where Court lives. Kind of strange but not unreasonable right. Well a few days after clicking on the ad Court was in Arizona and clicked on the ad again. This time the landing page said Paul Steinbach was from Phoenix, Arizona. So Court writes a post about the program and how they are marketing it and lists a link to the landing page.

In the comment section of Court’s blog people starting leaving notes about seeing the ad in their area and each time the ad says Paul is from the town where the people lived. One said he lived in Arkansas, one said he lived in New Jersey, one said he lived in Perth Australia and there was even one from Malaysia.

So how can he be from all these places? It is really quite simple. When someone clicks on the ad he has a program that checks to see where the person doing the clicking lives. The program then inserts that location in the landing page sales copy. It’s a trick that is used to try to build rapport with the customer. You are more likely to have an affinity for the guy if you think he is a neighbor.

Come to find out the program is nothing special. People make money every day from posting links to Google. All you do is get a webpage and place Google Adsense on it. Those are the little Google ads you see on blogs including this one. In the near future we will be doing some posts on how to utilize Adsense for you to make money with your Christian home based business opportunity.

There are a lot of people on the web selling programs that really don’t have any more information than you can find for free if you look around. Before you spend money on a $300 program see what you can find in the blogs on my blog roll. You can be successful with your Christian business without spending an arm and a leg.

Maybe you have spent considerable time in contemplation about a particular Biblical passage and you want to share your thought on that passage. This is a noble endeavor. You could go to Blogger.com which is run by Google and set up a free blog in about 5 minutes. Once you have the blog you can write to your hearts content about your insights into the particular passage. I think it is very important to read other people’s opinion on the meaning of passages and how they can be applied to living in today’s fast paced world. With some promotion you could probably get some other people to visit and read your words but you probably wouldn’t make any money. The key to Christian business opportunities is to find something you are passionate about that other people will be willing to spend money on.

If you are looking for ways Christians earn money online you have to find what the market wants and what it is willing to spend money on. Some people may be interested in your opinions about Biblical passages but they more than likely are not willing to pay much. Missing this point is what I think is behind the rash of Christian online scams. People want to make some extra money online, who couldn’t use some help in these times, but for some reason a Christian home based business is looked upon as not worthy of us. Somehow it seems to be dirty to be in business. So you see people promoting cash gifting for Christians plans that are nothing more than ponzi schemes. Somehow using the word “gift” makes the plan more palatable when all the plan is designed to do is transfer your money to the people at the top of the pyramid.

Christian Business Opportunity

I really don’t understand why Christian home businesses have gotten such a bad wrap. How can it possibly be a bad thing for people to do honest work, provide an honest benefit to their customers, and receive honest pay for what they give. To me this is exactly how we should be acting. All of our actions should be win-win for everyone involved and that is exactly what a well run Christian business does. We find a need that people have and fill it for them. In return the customer pays you for fulfilling their need. I really don’t understand how this can be considered a bad thing. This is like saying the baker is doing a bad thing by buying flour, operating an oven, mixing the bread, baking the bread, and then trading the customer money for the raw materials, labor, and expenses that went into baking that bread. This is a perfect win-win solution. The customer is fed and the baker receives money to feed his or her family.

Once you decide that an online Christian business opportunity is a good thing to pursue the next step is to determine what you will provide that you customers will be willing to trade money for. When Christians are looking at how to make extra money online they first business model that comes to mind is a Christian bookstore. This is a good start but now you need to see what the reality is about this type of Christian home based business.

The first step is to find out if people are actually looking for Christian bookstores online because if they are not searching for a product or service you will not have any customers. Go to Google Adwords Keywords. This is a free service that lets you find out if people are searching for you term online. It is really easy to use. You just type in a keyword phrase and Google tells you how many times people on average search for that term each month. A keyword phrase is just the group of words you type into the Google search box when you are searching for something. In our case we are wondering if people are searching for Christian Book Store online. So we type it into the box and then retype the word to prove we are human. Google comes back with a list of terms like our keyword phrase and shows us how many times people have searched for those terms on a monthly basis.

As I write this, Google is estimating that 135,000 people a month search for this phrase. On the surface this seems like a good keyword to target. With 135,000 visitors a month it should be pretty easy to sell to some of them right? Well not exactly. Just because there are this many people searching does not mean you will have all of them come to your website. If you notice when you search for a term you get a whole list of websites that Google says contains that keyword in their web site somewhere. The next step is to find out how many other websites are trying to sell people when they search for Christian book store. Go to the Google search page and type in Christian book store in the search box. In the upper right hand corner of the result page you will see a listing of how many websites are also using the phrase Christian book store. At this time there are 36,900,000 websites that you would have to compete against to get people to notice your website. It is not very likely that you will be able to find many visitors when you are trying to go against that many competitors. So a Christian book store would probably not be a great business to start.

This is the first step in building a Christian business opportunity online. You have to find out what people are searching for and find our how much competition there is. Ideally you find a keyword phrase that many people are searching for and also that does not have very many competitors. This is the most important step in building a Christian make money business and it is the one that most people don’t do. They spend months building a site only to find out that the chances of getting visitors to the site are about zero. Then one of two things happen. Either they give up and quit trying to make money online for Christians or they decide to really learn what it takes for an online business.

This Christian business blog is dedicated to helping you find success online. I would like to see a lot more Christians doing business on line because it is a great way to do business and the honesty and integrity we bring to the job is needed on the web. Keep coming back to learn more about successful Christian business opportunities online.

If you want a home based business that will fit in with our Christian beliefs and teachings this is the perfect medium to build that business.

There are hundreds of Christian ways to make money online. The great thing about the internet is you can target your customers so well. If you want to only do business with other Christians you can do that by limiting who can view your site. Try doing that in the offline world. You don’t have that opportunity when you own a grocery store, or mechanics shop.

Maybe you decide to cater to non-Christians and use your Christian online business to spread the Good Word to those in need of salvation. I meet people all the time who are searching for meaning and are right on the edge of tipping either to the Light or the dark. Your online Christian opportunity business may be the last straw that brings them into the fellowship. There are literally billions of lost souls yearning for the answer and maybe your Christian home based business could be the straw they need.

Another possibility is to offer a main stream online business to both Christian and non-Christians operated by all the tenets laid out in the Bible. Have you ever noticed how much of the Bible is related to working life? That is because it is part of life for a Christian make money for our physical needs.

The reality is most of us do not have the calling to spend our days in a Monastery deep in contemplative thought. We are called to live our lives in Jesus Christ but also physically in society.

There are Christian ways to make money online and I will help you build your online business for His Glory while supporting your family.

Until next time our prayers are with you.