• By Cynthia Minnaar
• Published 04/11/2011
• Article Writing

If you have good writing skills, you could turn them into one of the best home business ideas available on the Internet today. A lot of internet marketers prefer to outsource all of their writing needs. This means that internet writers who can provide quality content are in big demand! Also you can use your writing skills to develop your own websites or blogs. Then monetize your blog by selling affiliate products, which you can find by joining free affiliate programs. Let’s take a look at three online opportunities that are available now, writing for other marketers or writing for yourself. 1. Start your own blog. Even if you are going to write for other Internet marketers this is something you should do. An idea is to start a blog and use it as a source for samples of your work. As your writing skills are your actual product this allows you to write on any topic you want. It is easy to monetize your blog with the Google Adsense ads when you approach it this way. Google will then automatically match the adverts to the theme of the article you write. Also you can develop theme blogs in areas that you have an interest in. You will want to target specific niches and branch out into multiple blogs once you become more experienced. 2. Start writing blog articles for other marketers. Right now millions of blogs need content added to them. So you could quickly turn this into a full-time business. You can choose whether you want to write about a specific niche. As an example, say you were interested in Internet marketing you could write blog articles for other Internet marketers. You could become a professional gardening blogger if your passion is gardening. This allows you to write articles on something you are interested in as well as you can become a specialized blogger this way. 3. Do article marketing. Articles are used as a tool by internet marketers to generate traffic and build backlinks for their websites. Article directories accept articles written by authors. You can generate income by writing those articles and giving 100% of the copyright of them to your customer. Because many Internet marketers want to do article marketing but do not want to write their own articles, means you could turn this into a full-time business very quickly as well. Many people are just too busy to write their own articles while others are not really qualified to do so.

In summary these are three home business ideas you can start using your writing skills. Blogging and article marketing are things that will always be in demand as long as the Internet is looking for fresh and unique content.