The truth about money making opportunities online Let's cut through all the nonsense and the scams |
| Tired of site after website of splash pages that you find yourself on after entering your email for some "FREE Information!". Have you clicked on that make money online page, only to be swindled out of some more of your hard earned money? If it makes you feel any better, I have been there, and so have thousands of other people. Those sites you visited and, perhaps bought something or clicked on an ad or two, they all have something in common. They have learned how to make money online. While it is great and I guess it's capitalism at its best, it is also exploiting peoples most basic desires. Like it or not we live in an age of credit and debt. Average people like us are always searching for ways to get ahead. Are there people making money online for real? Yes, absolutely. Are they getting rich? The vast majority, no. But for a lot of people it is very feasible to supplement their incomes. What we will explore here are the legitimate ways to make real money online and some of the scams and less than forthright offers. First lets look at some of the real ways to make a profit on a website. This isn't limited to websites. It can be done with email as well, but not spam. Affiliate Marketing - These are companies that pair together retailers and affiliates. The way it works is Affiliate Marketing is a revenue sharing process between a website owner and an online retailer. The website owner will place ads in the form of links, banner and text on the website to either directly sell the merchant's products or to send the customers to the merchant's website. In general the compensation will be some percent of sale. There are three ways to earn money through affiliate marketing: Pay per Click Pay per Sale Pay per lead More on the next page @copyright 2008 |