Starting an online home based business may be the answer to your dreams. Most people, when asked, will admit that they fantasized about owning their own home based business at some time in their life. It spite of all the hoopla and excitement surrounding home based businesses, there are still many myths that are keeping people from starting a business from their home. Here are some of the most common myths about home businesses.* You will get instantly wealthy with an online home based business. While you may earn a nice income with your home business, winning the lottery or inheriting riches from a wealthy relative is about the only way you’ll become wealthy.* Starting an online home business is so easy, anyone can do it! Few things are further from the truth than this statement. While owning and operating a home based business may be the most rewarding and satisfying thing you’ve ever accomplished, it will be far from the easiest. There’s a lot of work, time, money and commitment that goes into running a successful business out of your home.* Once my website is done, everything else is easy. I can sit back and wait for the money to roll in. You are really in for a surprise if you believe that. Once the website is built, your real work begins including generating traffic to your site, which is an ongoing process.* An online business won’t cost me anything. While you may not have the expenses with an online business as you’d have with a real-time business, there are still costs.* Once my online home business is running successfully, I’ll never have to do a thing again. There is such a thing as “auto-pilot”, put you’ll still have to keep an eye on the business frequently.