It can be very exciting to think that you can earn extra income from home using your computer. All you need is Internet access, and a little bit of motivation, and you truly can make extra money without leaving your front door.

Here are 8 ways people use their computer to earn extra money from home.

1. Become an affiliate marketer and get paid to sell other people's products. You can also make money getting leads, or by the click with this business model. It's free to join and thousands of people do it every day.

2. Join an Internet network marketing business and build a worldwide business of your own. Selling Internet-based products allows you to avoid shipping and you really can have people in your business all over the world.

3. Write articles for other bloggers. There are millions of blogs that need content and you can earn a part time or even a full time living writing articles. This type of work is never boring because of the many different blogs on the market today.

4. Make money performing a specific action by joining get paid to programs. These would include get paid to read email, get paid to take surveys, get paid to do data entry, and so on. Most of these programs you can start right away for free.

5. Become a virtual assistant and work for another Internet marketer. The are many online businesses that will pay you to do things they are to busy to do themselves. This could include replying to emails, customer service, posting in other people's blogs, and so on.

6. Sell private label rights products and claim them as your own. This is a good way to make money without creating your own products. There is a skill to doing this the right way, but you get to keep 100% of the profits whenever you sell PLR products.

7. Start your own blog and monetize it with Google Adsense. This can be a fun way to make money if you blog about things that you like. You get paid by the click whenever somebody clicks on one of the ads that Google supplies.

8. Build a mailing list and sell products to it via email marketing. To jump start your list you can purchase co-registration leads which makes it easy on you. Affiliate marketing is a good place to get the products to sell so you don't have to develop any of your own products.

In summary these are 8 ways to earn extra income from home using your computer. Many people do one or more of these on a part time basis to supplement their income at a very comfortable level.