Want to make money online? How can you make money online? There seems to be many ways and many products and services offered for anyone to make a great income online. But are all these moneymaking programs and services really setup to make money online?

To make money online you must have a list to advertise your product or service. This list can come from a well run campaign to offer anyone a free gift to signup for your program. Not everyone wants to give you their name and email address, but you need these to mail your next offer. Making money online suddenly does not seem to be so easy as first thought.

To make money online,no matter if it is a product or service, you need a website. You will use this website to advertise your product or service. You need to get traffic to go to this website and signup for your program.

You must have a free gift to give to anyone that goes to your website and leaves their name and email address for you. It must be something that they can use for their benefit, ebooks, articles, free software, anything to get them to come back to your website. Once you have their email , you can send them offers by using an autoresponder or email directly from your end.

To make money online you must get the confidence of your email people, let them know you are there to help them in reaching their goals. You are not there just to make money from them. You must brand yourself as a person who is honest and trustworthy and will help in every way. Believe me there are a lot of people out there just to get your money and then leave you stranded. They will make money, but will soon run out of suckers.

Being an affiliate for someone's product or service is one of the fastest and best ways to make money online. They will have most everything setup for you and all you have to do is drive traffic to the offer. Using safelists and traffic exchanges is one method of promoting that gets fast results, if the product or service is good. Creating a mailing list is time consuming and if you want to make money fast you need other methods of generating traffic. You can try buying referrals, but that is not a very good source of traffic. Too many bought referrals will not sign up for your program, they have been paid just to be a referral. You can drive traffic to an offer using free advertising , but not many people will even read the offer when clicking in a trafficexchange. You can mail offers to safelists, but again some will not read the mail, they only click on the credit link. So how do you get traffic to your offer to make money online?

Research the program you are going to be affiliated with. See how long the program has been online. Talk to someone who has the same program or service. Ask them if they have made money online with the product or service. See if the program is paying out as stated, some will pay in the beginning and then leave you empty.

DO NOT jump from one program to another in hopes of making a lot of money. You will only waste time and money when doing this, I know because that is what I did for a long while before finally listening to a sponsor in my program that I am now involved. I have made money and my list is growing and I have referrals that are making money online with a proven program. Yes you can make money online, but it does require work and you do have to spend some money, few things are free.