This brings me to a thought I had about Wal-Mart. I just moved from Denver, Colorado, to Imperial, Nebraska. One of the first things you notice going from a metro area of 2 million people to a rural area of 2 thousand people is how much slower the pace is. Everything seems to be going in slow motion. The next thing you notice is there are not very many places to shop.



45 years ago Sam Walton came up with and idea to put a retail general store in every small town in America. That made him very wealthy and filled a much needed hole for rural areas everywhere. Even where I live there is a Wal-Mart only 60 miles away and people drive there to shop. It is just the way it is done. Don't you wish you had bought stock in Walt-Mart 30 or 40 years ago?

I have a friend who's grandma gave him Wal-Mart stock she bought in his name when he was a kid. She bought it in 1972 and he is sitting pretty good financially right now because of it. So what does this have to do with ways to make money online at home?

Here is what I see today. An Internet business is something you can make money on in every rural area in America, too. Then you could earn money in all of these small towns and go worldwide with the right kind of products. If you have a money making opportunity to offer people you can make money offering it to them and they could so the same thing.

Building a website that becomes a mall store is a great way to that. Selling products as an affiliate in your own mall store is a great way to do it. With affiliate marketing you do not need products, you do not collect money, and you do not have to ship products. Same thing with network marketing.

Wal-Mart would be a great thing to copy, wouldn't it. How cool would it be to be able to actually have a website full of products that people do not have to drive even 60 miles to get. Unfortunately Wal-Mart does not have an affiliate program, but there are programs like My Power Mall, and others that you can join for free and make money with.

In summary Sam Walton sure knew what he was doing and he built the world's largest retail business from one idea. When it comes to ways to make money online at home we all have the same opportunity as Sam thanks to the Internet.

Copyright (c) 2007 Jeff Schuman