Debt is something that we all want to avoid, and doing so while starting a home based business is no exception. You can start up your online home based business without any debt at all....I know it can be done because I have done it myself.

Now, how do you get started when you have no extra cash lying around but maybe $20? The answer is very simple, you hire yourself to do the work.

If you start an online business that needs a writer, well, you become the writer, you learn how to develop your own website, you do your advertising and promoting yourself. You are the creative process, you are the researcher. All the necessary information is readily available. All you have to do is go to a search engine and search for "how to..." do whatever it is you need to learn how to do.

Let's compare Internet Marketing with Real Estate investing. They are both very profitable, both take a lot of your time, but where one requires a huge financial investment, often requiring a mortgage and a large amount of cash, the other requires only a few dollars here and there and some sweat on your part.

You can be as successful in your Internet home based business as you can in Real Estate, maybe even more so with the market the way it is these days.

You start off simply, nothing difficult. You can start off making some money by doing some freelance work for others. If you are learning how to make websites and writing articles for yourself, then why not use your new found skills and create websites and write articles for other Internet Marketers.

You will find that your cash flow will increase, then you can start outsourcing your work, enabling you to put more focus on your business and watch it grow.

Set up a budget that will allow yourself to use half your income to put back toward the growth of your business. You will then watch the fruits of your labor grow every month. You will be so proud of yourself that not only do you have a successful home based business, but you did it without taking out a loan.

You really can start your own home based Internet Marketing business with $20 or less, build a successful business, all without that ugly demon we call debt.