Trying to find the top home based businesses available for you can be a bit like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack. You want to change your life style, perhaps pay off some debt and you do not have a lot of money to get stared. Or perhaps you just want something you can potter away at in your spare time now that the children are at school. (After all there are still the school fees to pay!)Perhaps you have just got sick of the daily grind of having to get up to go and work at a job (J.O.B. Just Over Broke) you do not really like with people and a boss you would rather not be around.Whatever the reasons you may have all you want is a home based business you can call your own and provide some income. Where do you start?• Brainstorm. Sit down with a cup of coffee and paper and pen and start writing down ideas of what you could do. Write down the things you like doing, sports you like playing, pastimes you enjoy, hobbies etc. Perhaps you have some technical or professional skills that you feel you can pass on to others.• Next, decide whether you want your business as a physical type such as teaching children to swim or helping young people with maths or even making something at home to sell. You may also consider that you want to get involved in marketing on the internet as an affiliate marketer where you are not required to develop any product but rather to promote someone else’s product on a commission basis.• The next step is market research. Is there a demand for your idea? Talk to others; family, friends etc. Check the internet forums and see if there are people looking for answers to problems that you are able to help with.• Once you have decided what it is you would like to do, check out how much it is going to cost for you to set it up and what your return is likely to be.Many people today are turning to the internet to develop their home based business and finding that they are well able to make a living from it because of the ever increasing number of people turning to the internet to make their purchases.Affiliate marketing is now a multibillion dollar industry and with more countries coming online and people being able to afford their own home computers it can only increase all the more.If you want to develop a number of top home based businesses then take the plunge and invest in an Affiliate Marketing Training Course that will show you how you too can become a winner working from home either part time or full time.