It seems to me that the phrase work at home has different meanings depending on who is saying it.
What exactly does it mean? 1.
Home based business.
You could have a home business that is home based yet takes you outside of the house.
Many small business owners work out of their house and conduct their business out in the marketplace.
Carpet cleaners, plumbers, and so on would be examples of this.
2.
Internet home business.
Many people stay at home running their own Internet business.
Yet in reality you can operate in Internet business anywhere you have a computer with Internet access.
This is why so many people are able to travel and run their business at the same time.
An example of this might be somebody who lives in Hawaii and takes a month off to come to Colorado in ski in the winter.
They can conduct their business as normal and the people doing business with them have no idea they're not in Hawaii doing it.
3.
Some people are actually looking for jobs they can do at home and end up on websites that offer work at home businesses.
These phrases become somewhat interchangeable because most work at home opportunities do involve you setting up your own home business in some form or another.
This could be true with affiliate marketing and network marketing business models.
As you can see the phrase work at home business does have different meanings depending on how you apply it.
However the opportunities to make money from home are universal.