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The Internet is the perfect place to make money for so many reasons - you can be anywhere in the world and run your business, you don’t have to have a product to sell, you market is the online world - over 1 billion people, you start-up costs are low and your opportunities are many. The obvious question though is how…how do you make money on the Internet?

Below is a list of the 5 most popular ways you can get started today:

1) Create your own information product - This usually involves writing an eBook for a target or niche market. You don’t need to be a writer; there are many every day people making good money on the Internet out there who aren’t writers either. Find a saleable and active market, leverage your experience, expertise, passions or hobbies and find a subject for which there is an active demand for information and sell to them.

2) Network Marketing - Network marketing is where you become a distributor for a business and you get rewarded for selling their products and for introducing new distributors. It is also called multi-level marketing as you can also get paid on the sales of your team, a few levels down. Look here for an example and our top recommendation - your own website with 5 streams of income.

3) Affiliate programs - This is the easiest and most popular way to start to earn money online. You need a website, which attracts traffic and you advertise the affiliate link which, if they click on and if they buy, you get paid a commission. The great thing is you don’t need a product of your own, you can use somebody else’s. It is the same as referring people to a product you recommend and you get a referral fee.

4) Create a Newsletter – You can create a newsletter which you distribute weekly or monthly for a subscription fee – of course you would have to provide some good information to attract a high number of subscribers to make it worthwhile. That said your costs are very low; all you need is a simple website and email. You could also mix it up with one of the other options above i.e. advertise affiliate programs you think your subscribers may be interested in and create another income stream.

5) Sell Products via Ebay - Whether part time or fulltime, you can make money on the Internet by selling goods on Ebay. Once again you don’t need a website, you don’t need traffic, people come of their own accord looking for products (which you can get from third parties) and you can pretty much automate the business – there are thousands of people running their own stores from home, you could as well.