| As with any venture, whether it be for business or | | | | even have to buy anything; the money is just for the |
| pleasure, the first steps into making money online are | | | | click. So now imagine you have your diet website, and |
| always the hardest. My first months were very | | | | you get 10000 visitors a day. A nice amount of traffic. |
| confusing, and unfortunately expensive, mainly | | | | If you set up some Adsense ads on your page (which |
| because I was going it alone. I had no guidance in what | | | | is really REALLY easy to do) some of those visitors |
| methods were tried and tested, so I found things out | | | | are bound to click on the ads, and you will get money |
| the hard way. I'm going to lay out five ways for YOU | | | | for every single click. The amounts per click are |
| to get involved with internet money making and help | | | | typically pretty small, but there are people that create |
| you start your own internet business. | | | | whole sites full of ads, and obviously get lots of clicks |
| 1-Ebay- The perfect starting point. Most people start | | | | that way. If you have a website I really would |
| on eBay by selling physical items-Old books and cds, | | | | recommend it, as it's basically free money once you |
| and unwanted clothing can be a surprisingly good seller. | | | | go through the 5 minute set up process. Visit for |
| Just your old household stuff will be fine to start with. | | | | instructions on how to sign up for an Adsense account. |
| Don't expect to make a mint, because you won't, you'll | | | | You will need a website or blog in order to be |
| probably make very little, but think of this as the training | | | | accepted into the scheme. |
| slopes to starting your own internet business- this is an | | | | 4-Google Adwords-I know that many search engines |
| IDEAL way to get the hang of the eBay system and | | | | now offer a similar service, but my favourite is always |
| to get used to being in business over the net. Keep | | | | Adwords. You know when you perform a search on |
| notes if you have to, but try and be aware and learn | | | | Google and you get the "Sponsored Results" on the |
| as much as you can as you go-this is very good | | | | right hand side? Well those are peoples' Adwords ads. |
| practice for getting into the habit of being professional | | | | The way it works, you set up advertisements for |
| with customers at all times etc. Once you feel like you | | | | certain things with Google and then choose certain |
| are managing this side of things well, and you feel that | | | | keywords for which you would like the ad to be |
| you know the process well enough, it's time to move | | | | shown. For example with your diet website you might |
| on to information products. | | | | set the ad to be displayed every time someone |
| This is where you can make a lot of money in | | | | searched for "the Atkins diet" and then have the ad |
| relatively easy fashion. To begin with, you need to | | | | link to a relevant page on your site. It's a little more |
| obtain or create a product-it could be a guide on doing | | | | complicated than my simplified description, as there is |
| hair for weddings, or a report on how to keep your | | | | bidding involved for each keyword and other factors, |
| garden weed free through the winter. Aim for a | | | | but that's the basic premise. Now, how do we make |
| minimum of around 30 pages so people don't feel | | | | money out of that? Easy. We use the Adwords ads |
| ripped off. It's much easier than you think to write 30 | | | | to link to people's products that we are affiliated to. I |
| pages or so about a subject which you know well, but | | | | find that the informational products sold through |
| if you do not think you can create it yourself, why not | | | | Clickbank are very good for this. |
| use freelance writers to complete the job? There are | | | | I think this is because their home pages are geared |
| thousands of places to hire a freelance writer online, | | | | very highly toward converting the sales there and then, |
| and I bet it is cheaper than you think. Check out to see. | | | | which is a good thing for us. Now for a quick example |
| Once you have the product, the rest is plain sailing. | | | | of how we can make money from this: I'm sure there |
| Information products are not sold like other items, | | | | is someone through Clickbank selling some kind of diet |
| because unlike physical items they can be delivered | | | | product. With our previous diet ad, instead of linking to |
| digitally. This is the magic word. Once you have a | | | | our own website, we could link to the sales page for |
| product that you can sell, everything else is basically | | | | the Clickbank diet product-if the page converts them |
| profit, as you can supply it in the form of a PDF | | | | to a sale, we will get a percentage of that sale paid by |
| document via an email attachment. No postage, no | | | | Clickbank in the form of fortnightly commission |
| manufacturing costs, just pure profit (After the eBay | | | | cheques! Some items at Clickbank will offer 50% or |
| fees of course!). You want to aim at Buy It Now | | | | even 75% commission, so it's easy to see how |
| listings with multiple amounts, then you can ensure you | | | | profitable it can be. You could easily net $1000 a |
| get a fair price for each item. This is a GREAT way | | | | month with only 1 sale a day. One downside to |
| to earn. You will be surprised at the size of the market | | | | Adwords campaigns is that there is a lot of |
| for informational products on eBay, and if you put the | | | | competition in the Adwords game these days, so it is |
| effort in you can be rewarded with a very high | | | | tougher to make regular money, but if you research |
| number of sales. My record is 73 sales of one ebook | | | | your keywords properly and using some of the free |
| in one week-I was charging £14.99 each, so you | | | | tools on the internet is my favourite) you can still make |
| do the math. Not a bad income for sending a few | | | | a hell of a lot of money with this. For some more in |
| emails! | | | | depth tips on this form of making money, including how |
| 2-Affiliate Links- It still surprises me that the vast | | | | to get Google to give you FREE credit so you can |
| majority of people in the world have no idea this kind | | | | begin making money without any cost, check out my |
| of thing exists-I'll explain it as I go just to make sure | | | | site. |
| that you understand what I mean. On the internet, | | | | 5-Find a "niche," and create a site or product that |
| there are thousands upon thousands of companies | | | | caters to it. By niche I mean something online that |
| that will give you a commission on items bought on | | | | hasn't been done to death, and that there isn't a million |
| their site-if you provide the customers. Think of it as a | | | | sites catering to already. For example, a bad idea for a |
| finder's fee. This is affiliate marketing. There are a | | | | niche would be making money online, as there is over |
| million ways to profit from this, but the most simple is | | | | a hundred million websites for that already. A better |
| just linking to an affiliated product which matches the | | | | idea, and one that is often given for a good example |
| area of your website (or blog-if you don't have a site | | | | of an online niche may be fly fishing. It's a good idea to |
| you can set up a blog to use for the same purpose in | | | | stick to your own areas of expertise or things you are |
| about 1 minute flat if you visit blogger.com). | | | | passionate about when looking for a niche, as your |
| For example, if you own a website (or blog) about | | | | own specialist knowledge may be what gives you the |
| diets and you get a decent amount of traffic to it, you | | | | edge over the next person. For example you may be |
| could include a link to another site selling diet pills or | | | | an avid online gamer, and be an expert on maxing out |
| plans-the link would be an affiliate link with your own id | | | | your stats for World of Warcraft. |
| embedded in it, so that when the customers click | | | | There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of avid |
| through and make a purchase, you get a commission | | | | WoW players in the world-You could put your |
| on the sale. Easy money? It can be, very easy! Two | | | | expertise down on paper and sell it as a guide called |
| sites I would recommend visiting are and They are | | | | "Level 60 in 28 Days Or Your Money Back" or |
| two of the biggest affiliate managers, and they | | | | something like that. You could sell it for say |
| operate the affiliate schemes for lots of organisations. | | | | $29.95-Who wouldn't pay that much to get to Level 60 |
| This means that they will supply you with the affiliate | | | | in 30 days? Imagine if you could sell it to just 1% of all |
| links to use, and they will also track your stats and | | | | WoW users at $29.95? That's a serious income. |
| commissions and arrange the payments for you. | | | | Creating the product is only the start though. It's when |
| Payments are typically monthly or fortnightly, both if | | | | start considering places to sell it that things get |
| you play your cards right! If you put the time into | | | | exciting-the sky is the limit! Again you could sell it |
| affiliate marketing, it can change your whole concept | | | | through eBay, you could start your own site to sell it |
| of "working" for a living. I know it did for me! | | | | from, you could even setup up some people as YOUR |
| 3-Google Adsense- This is not something I make a | | | | affiliates through Clickbank so they sell it for you and |
| huge amount of cash from myself, but I know of | | | | you just have to spend all the money they make you! |
| people that make their entire fortunes from it. This is | | | | I hope you find these ideas useful-they are all things I |
| how it works- You know how on some websites you | | | | have made money from, but each one is something I |
| get those little tiny advertisements, with "Ads by | | | | had to "stumble" across or work out for myself. |
| Goooooogle" underneath them? Well those are | | | | Hopefully I have taken the guesswork out for you and |
| Adsense ads. When people click on those ads, Google | | | | you can take massive action now! |
| pay money to the website owner. The person doesn't | | | | |