ALT-1 Online Options for Making Money from Home
To make money online you need to sell something. It can be a product or a service. People make money on the internet doing things for people like building websites or writing articles. You can sell anything from your own products to products of other people. You will find it easier to get started and to stick with it if you sell stuff you have an interest in or are an expert for.
I am asked all of the time what is the easiest way to make money online. What I have found to be the easiest way to make money is to get your own website and become an affiliate for other people's stuff. This is called affiliate marketing and you can get paid for the click, paid for a lead, or paid to sell a product. These are called pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale.
Google Adsense is the easiest way to make money as an affiliate. Starting your own blog with them is the quickest way to to get set up as their affiliate. You can do that at Blogger.com.
None of this matters unless you actually have the skills to get traffic to your website. This takes some time and the sooner you learn how to do this the quicker you will start making money. You can spend some time in any internet marketing forum and read how people are making money online. Just do a Google search for "internet marketing forums."
These are the 3 main things you need to make money online in my opinion.
1. Your own website or blog2. Your own mailing list3. Traffic to your website and mailing list
It does not get much simpler than this.
Getting traffic can be done for almost zero cost. For this I have found article marketing and forum marketing to be 2 easy ways anyone can do with a little bit of work.
I guess that is what stops most people from making money online. Work. What you lack in money to build your own online business you will have to make up in time. Invest as much of both as you can and you will make money faster.
To sum this article up I want to say that building your own quality website is a long term investment in your future. Buidling a mailing list gives you people to sell your products to for years and years to come. Learning how to get traffic will help you make money on your website and with your mailing list.
