Home based businesses are gradually becoming popular ways of money making. Women having little kids are very much prone to this kind of businesses. The internet has been a great facilitator in boosting home based business activities. The work from home concept saves on hiring a new employee in place of an efficient regular employee if the later has problems in coming to office but can easily work from home. It saves on the traffic time also, so many business houses are seriously considering this format. A student can use many program available with the internet to make their pocket money. The internet has done wonders in creating home based working facilities. Through the internet a person can earn by writing articles, blogs, creating advertisement space, being forum moderator, being guest writer, selling junk materials of one’s own home in sites like eBay, being a game tester, being a link broker and many more. If a person can write computer programs , then he can earn through internet writing software programs for resale. There are various other options available also. Besides, this a person utilize his/her key skills in setting up a home based business.A person can set up a nursery business in the spare parts of his/her lawns if he/ she has expertise in gardening and can make good amount of money by selling them outside. One can set up boutiques in his/her house if that person has artistic skills. Soft toys can be made professionally to earn good amount of money. One can set up a home based catering service or home delivery of foods to houses or professional institutions like various offices. Other free lancing works like column writing, article writing, free lance journalism etc can be done from home. One can be a successful interior designer operating from home. A beauty parlour can be operated from home. A tutorial can be run from home with huge earnings and almost zero investment. Setting up this type of businesses also can gain from the internet ,as a person search for the latest information related to his/her business or can create a wide range of customer base through the internet which provides a cheap way to get in touch with customers through mails and own website.