People trying to start their own home based business have failed from time to time. This is because these people started their business getting advice from the wrong people or reading up the wrong articles. This is why they think that they can earn god money from the internet without working too hard. The truth is that working from home in an internet business requires more, if not less work than what you would do in a normal business. Most home based businesses require a lot of work in the beginning and some later too. A lot of people also wrongly believe that network marketing and e-commerce sites do not require any work once set up.So it is important for you to know and understand that to succeed in an internet business requires a lot of hard work. In fact your chances of success are directly related to Even the amount of work you do. Even if you have an e commerce website, it is important that you keeping touch with your customers. You must have a list of all your regular customers and you must try and retain them as far as possible while continuously looking for new ones. This is to ensure that no economic slowdown hurts your business.In order to make an internet based home business you need to be well trained and eager to work hard. Every business on the internet is different from the other in some way or the other. The amount of training that you need to succeed will depend on the level to which you intend to take your business. The amount of time that you are ready to invest is also very important if you want to succeed. It is important to understand that you will not get the kind of success that you intend to achieve working a few hours every week. You must be ready to invest more than 20 hours a week to take your business to the next level.Eventually though, the amount of time that you need to invest in a particular business depends on your skill level, your needs and what you desire to achieve from your business. If you want to earn your living out of a home business and if you want to support your whole family from those earnings then the amount of time that you will need to achieve that goal will be longer. It will also require greater efforts and commitment to achieve that goal. But a few hours every week might just be enough for you if you are not the main earner of the family.