Working from home has a great appeal, we can all understand that. It would be great to buy a franchise and start raking in the money. However many people don't have huge stashes of cash to spend to get set up - but doesn't mean you can't have a successful business. Here are a new set of 10 best home based business ideas - one might just be what you have been looking for!

1. Offer your services as a writer. You can find work on freelancing web-sites and then work your own hours to deliver the result. Outlay: zero, you already have the internet and don't require any tools.

2. Design Websites. If you have technical talent there is a huge market for people wanting their websites developed or created.

3. Write e-books and sell them on your own website

4. Offer your services as a desktop publisher. Often smaller firms and organisations require newsletters, magazines or promo material to be created. You can design and create material for them.

5. If you have graphic design skills offer these. Websites and online advertisers need material for various projects they do.

6. If you are a talented photographer create an image bank and sell your images.

7. Run a photo printing and gift service. You send the photo orders to a printer and provide them back to customers who order from you. This is about building a successful database and using marketing skills.

8. Provide customised reward certificates for children. All you need is a colour printer and a laminator

9. Work via e-bay selling items for more than you paid for them

10. Become a virtual Personal assistant. This is a growing area where you offer your skills for any number of administrative tasks which can be done from home. Services include ringing for quotes, researching products, making travel arrangements.

All of these suggestions involve effort; there are no promises of $1000 a day for only 10 minutes work. Home based businesses do succeed, sometimes it is just finding your niche - and going for it.

Now that you have a great idea that there are a variety of ways to make money from home.

There is one last step that I would like you to take to in order to find the right online home business for yourself.

When you find a home business that you are interested in; go to the search engine and look up the opportunity that that you want to join and look up reviews and success stories ot know if the opportunity is legit enough for you to join.

If you have a great review of the business, then you will be a heck of a lot more confident to gamble your cash to start up.