Maybe you have creditors, maybe you need extra money or maybe you just want to replace your current job.  This may sound a bit scary but with the right training and effort the internet would be the best place to make all that happen.  Starting a brick and mortar business will always require a lot of capitol.  The nice thing about an internet business is it can be started for almost no money at all.  You may have some small expenses like training, hosting, autoresponder, domain names and so forth.  All in all this is a very small fraction of say a $500 000 frachise fee.

When you are ready to start working online and dont have products of your own you would literally be able to find thousands of products online.  Most of them can be found through an affiliate program.  Through an affiliate program you sell someone elses product and earn a commission from it.  If you can think of it there is probably some sort of affiliate program for anything you want to sell.  When you do decide what affiliate program to get involved with you will find that they take care of all the shipping, handling and dealing with customers.  All you need to do is work on sending traffic to your website.

Sometimes when you join an affilaite program they will give you a generic website to send traffic to.  That is all fine and dandy but in reality you should still have your website as a place to promote your products.  The big thing is search engines dont work real well with affiliate websites.  Because of this you wont get the site any where high in any rankings.  Please understand to make money online you do want to get listed in the search engines.  This alone will be one of your biggest sources of traffic.

Some people really like link exchanges when it comes to building traffic.  What a link exchange does is takes your link and puts it on a site while you will be putting a link on your site.  Many people will exchange hundreds and hundreds of links.  Im not a big fan of link exchanges and mostly because the links arent usually relevant to your website.  Like I dont want house cleaning links on my fishing website for example.  If you are promoting an affiliate website a link exchange isnt an option because you cant edit an affiliate website.

The internet was invented for a place to go and find information.  So in saying that to make things work for you in the traffic area you will need to provide a lot of good information to keep people interested.  The best way to do this is by providing free articles on our website and at article directories.

Asd long as you offer good and relevant information to the people that are coming to your website, they will keep coming back for more.  By the way you should know that search engines love content and websites that are always updating their content.

Once you bite the bullit and get the training you need so you can put together a website and so forth you can work on the search engine stuff and go from there.  If you put in the time and effort to learn you will earn money.  Of course to get started it may be slow but as long as you keep plugging away all will fall into place.

Affiliate marketing is in my opinion not a stepping stone but a great way to make a lot of good money on the internet.

Please dont fall into the trap of calling yourself a guru.  That may have been okay a few years ago but these days many people are seeing gurus in the same light as a scam artist.  It seems all they are interested in doing is selling you the next greatest thing whether it works or not.  They just want to drain your bank accounts and thats all there is too it.

I dont care what anyone tells you.  The internet is still the place to be with millions of new users on a daily basis.  Oh sure some of the rules may have changed but the internet is still a very big untapped world.  If you are willing to work and willing to learn you really can change your life for the better.