By Leonard Bartholomew

Publishing an e-zine, often thought of as a great Internet marketing tool, can also be your best internet home based business opportunity. An e-zine can make money online. While an e-zine is not necessarily the same as an electronic newsletter (the latter is generally longer) for the purposes of what each of them can do for your bottom line and your Internet networking, we are going to assume they are identical.

Publishing an e-zine can be a very enjoyable internet home based business. To know that you can write about yourself and your business, you can work at any hour of the day and night, and you are imparting your wisdom to people who have actually asked for it, and will benefit from it, can be a very satisfying experience.

We are all experts at something. Take stock of what you have done over the years and what you have learned. Think about what you enjoy doing and what you do well. Surely, there is something you do better, and that you know more about than anybody else does. That is the focus of your new e-zine or newsletter.

As an internet home based business, your e-zine will take some patience but there are few businesses, of the thousands and thousands out there, which make any money right off. This is true despite some of the hyperbolic stuff you read on the Internet about spending a few dollars to buy someone else's internet home based business opportunity and then all you have to do is sit back and watch the money roll in from day one.

No matter what the internet home based, business opportunity is - unless it is some sort of scam - that is just not going to happen.

With your e-zine, you will spend several months building your subscriber base. Once it reaches about 1000, you can start selling advertising, or sponsorships to relevant businesses. They will probably jump at the chance to tap into your highly targeted market for their products. Of course, you can also sell your own products and services as well. What you want to be very careful about is not selling advertising or sponsorship to a competitor. The advertisers on the ezine should enhance, and not compete with your internet home based business products and services.

Once you have a steady following for your e-zine, you can start charging for a subscription. Alternatively, you might run two ezines, one condensed free one, and another paid one that offers more help, more advice, more resources, and so forth.

The message is that if you have an expertise, a product, an opportunity, an idea, an industry, or a service, then you know more about it than most other people. If it is a product or idea or service that enough people want to know more about, you can make a lucrative internet home based business out of publishing an ezine and helping others learn.

Leonard Bartholomew, B.S. Computer Science. Leonard is a Cardiac Computer System Administrator for a large hospital chain in the Carolinas. He invites you to investigate the best internet home based business opportunity (http://www.moxie-drive.com/) the internet has to provide today.