Online Business. Whether you can succeed in making an income from home exclusively from the Internet, particularly to the extent that you can comfortably quit your day job, depends on a lot of factors. As with any entrepreneurial ggoal, success is rewarded to those who put in a degree of time, effort and skill. Long gone are the days when people could get lucky flipping domain names and launching basic affiliate websites to make a bit of cash, if indeed they really even existed at all. It must also come from a genuine passion and interest in the niche that you choose to get involved in. You need to have a skill, or be prepared to learn one, that you actually enjoy working .