If earning money online were easy, we'd all be millionaires. When you're first starting out, you'll probably work long hours to get your business started. As long as you automate as many aspects of your business as possible, you'll eventually work less and less until you may only have to work a few hours a day.

If you're starting a business part time, then it will take you a little longer to get to a point where you're earning a full time income. The key is to just keep working at it until you get to where you want to be financially.

Your first step, especially if you are starting out part time is to start small. Choose one opportunity at a time, set it up, and make it profitable before moving onto another opportunity.

You can shorten the process of getting your business online by doing several things:

1. Research your market to make sure there is a demand for what you want to sell.

2. Look for premade websites or shopping malls on your topic. Although you will pay more for prebuilt websites and shopping malls, most of the hard work will already be done for you, like website creation. Some opportunities will even include prewritten sales materials so that all you have to do is promote.

3. Automate as much of your new business as possible. Using autoresponders, automating your payment processing, as well as any other tasks you can automate, will help you clear your desk so that you can focus on marketing your new business.

4. Buy an established business. There are many places to find businesses already established that are for sale on the internet. Auction sites are an especially good place to find readymade businesses, and you could be in business in just a few hours.

5. Although I'm not a big proponent of outsourcing, because it can sometimes put you at the mercy of someone else, if there are tasks that you simply can't, or won't do, and you have the money, find someone else to do it. As long as you choose your contractors carefully, you won't have any problems getting these tasks done.

Although there are plenty of home business opportunities to be found, you'll want to take the time to investigate the various opportunities first. Once you find an opportunity you're interested in, then you should do a search on your favorite search engine to see if you can find any articles, reviews, or forum posts related to the opportunity you are investigating.