Many people want to start a home-based business these days, whether it is to supplement their current income or to break away from corporate America, it is possible to build a successful business from home as long as you understand how its done and then take massive action to become successful.Now there is one big problem with the home-based business industry, and it is that there are so many “opportunities” out there that promise you big money as long as you purchase their “how-to” product. Let’s make two things clear right now: 1 – You can build a successful home-based business rather quickly, and 2 – You need to develop your own products or services in order to create a real business and be successful.So what this means is that you should stop looking for that one “magic bullet opportunity”, and instead focus on a business that is built around good quality products or services that you develop on your own. Now you may not think that this is something you can do, but you really can and I want to show you exactly how. What I am about to give you is a very basic breakdown of the exact steps I took in building my home-based business, but they are in fact exactly what you need to do if you want to create a real, long-lasting, highly profitable home-based business.Step 1 – Find a niche that is profitableThis simply means you have to find an area where there are plenty of people who are actively looking for products or services to help them fix a problem in their lives. When people have a need for a solution, they are going to be willing to pay big money for good solutions. Now many people will tell you to avoid industries with too much competition, but where there is competition there is money.Step 2 – Create products to fill the needs of the peopleI highly recommend you create digital information products, which are ebooks, audio products, video products, etc. It is insanely easy to put together these products today, especially with the amazing software that come with most computers. You can charge good money for these products, especially beneficial is the fact that these products are digital so there is no need to store them, and sending them to your customers is free because they are sent through the Internet.Step 3 – Put your products on a websiteEveryone is online these days, so if you want to reach the largest audience possible and make the most money, you absolutely have to go an get a website. This is very cheap and easy to do these days, so even if you have no experience with this sort of thing, it can be done reasonably quick and painless.Step 4 – Get people to visit your websiteAgain, since there are so many people online these days, all it takes is a few creative methods and you can drive tons of hungry consumers to your website. Things like article marketing, creating YouTube videos, and even having a blog are great ways to get people to check out your business. The key to making this work on a larger scale is to try a few things out, see what yields the best results, and then do that on a larger scale.