Thoreau once remarked that “No man flies too high if he flies with his own wings.”This is especially true of home based businesses in recent years. Before, you had to rely on mail outs, door to door sales or have so-called parties all over to drum up business. To work from home required years of effort. Frequently, these businesses would die out quickly as people grew tired of hosting the parties.With the advent of the internet, the world is at your disposal. The largest market that has ever existed is at your fingertips and there is no price of admission!Here are the 3 top home based businesses. Any of these will allow you to work from home.1. Build an internet affiliate business. This involves setting up a small web site, attracting visitors to it or buying advertising on the web and selling something to these visitors. The beauty of this system is that you are an affiliate only. You do not have to create, manufacture, stock or ship anything. Someone else does that. All you are is basically a sales organization of your own creation. What you sell is up to you. People have made fortunes from selling everything from ebooks to bulldozers online. There is no charge to becoming an affiliate.2. You can create and run your own online store. There are many ways of doing this, but the simplest is by becoming an affiliate like the step above and then creating a virtual store with the help of the company you are affiliating with. Probably the greatest one is Amazon.com. They will help you set up anything from a virtual bookstore to selling almost anything. This takes a bit of trial and error, however. Training is provided free. It, also, is a great opportunity and an easy way to work from home.3. Another excellent home based business is to become an eBay dealer. You can either buy and sell or just use eBay as a way to bring people to your e-store from steps 1 or 2. eBay has many rules and regulations regarding this. Read all their guidelines and policies. Ask them many questions so that there will be no mistakes in what you do. They are a huge organization with plenty of potential for someone ambitious and not afraid of work.Those are the 3 top home based businesses.The internet is a river of gold. The only thing determining whether you walk away from it with just wet feet or buckets of gold is your personal ambition.