Making money online, fact or fiction?

There are a lot of people out there who have it hard coded in their brains that you have to get up at the crack of dawn, get ready for work, drive to work, actually try to do work in a busy place full of other people, noise, cell phones going off, and computer networks being brought down by the one idiot in the corner cubicle who thought he'd send that 10mb video attachment to all his co-workers..

I've been there, done that, and yes I got the T-shirt. If you can't tell by my tone I'm not a huge fan of this crap, personally I think people waste a massive amount of time each year commuting to and from work each day, and in most cases not being able to do anything productive in the process.

Well there is a better way, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and you can free yourself from this addiction to the office. Now I know what the non-believers are thinking right now, I can feel it, but there is an entire world full of web-based businesses just waiting to pay you for basically existing. Some of which include Affiliate Marketing, where you would for example write a small free blog like this one and sign up with Link Share or Click Bank and simply post one of their Ads on your blog for say ABC Sunglasses, and when one of your visitors happens to click on that link because they like what they see, you can either get a small amount of revenue per ad click, or a referral fee if that person actually buys something.

That's just one example of how you can make real money online, and it's a very tried, true, and tested method, there are people out there making good money with moderate traffic websites and blogs doing just that.

Another example would be Google's AdSense program, in my opinion Google really went the extra mile on this one, they have their own Affiliate type system in place for advertising, I'm sure you've seen all the links all over other websites including this one "Ads by Google" well each time someone clicks on an Ad you get a percentage of whatever Advertiser is paying for that Ad, which can range from pennies to dollars, it's a completely free program available to just about anyone with a computer, why are you not taking advantage of this free program? If I were you I know I would be.

I found a wealth of information on a fellow Blogger site Financing Strategies which has all sorts of useful information relating to making money online, and how you can manage that money and tips on improving credit, things like that. Check out these posts specifically Optimizing Google AdSense and the Big Secret to Making Money Online which outlines what to do, and what not to do when making money online.

I invite you to Google things like Online Revenue, and Making Money Online, and Affiliate Marketing, go poke around and see what you can find, there's tons of stuff out there. Hopefully you can carve your own little niche in the web, and make a little money in the process.

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~Matt