I am a student of the Holy Bible. I love it and it is my favorite book. I am sure that I have a lot of people who feel the same way about it as I do.

Among the many wonderful scriptures in it, there is one that can be used to refer to business. I am sure that there are many more, but there is a scripture that says "In all labor there is profit" Proverbs 14:23

How can I apply this to an online business? Well, the answer is easy. Every business requires some type of work. That even applies to companies that do business online.

If you work hard at it, there will be a profit of some kind. The hardest part of running a business of any kind, whether it be online or in the real world, is to stick with it, even when you do not see anything happening with it as far as profit.

If you stick with it, you will eventually succeed.

Most people who do go in to their own business online do so by becoming affiliates. An affiliate in case you do not know, is a person who sells or promotes the items of another and when there is a sale made because of it, the affiliate receives a payment of some kind as thank you from the company that the affiliate sold for.

The first thing you want to do is to get a domain name and then a website or webpage depending on how you would like to refer to it as and then get a hosting account to host your webpage.

There are many many different affiliate programs you can join to sell for online. Some of the most popular sites include Amazon, ClickBank, Clicksure to name a few.

Each program has its own rules that you must abide by. Make sure that you read the rules carefully and agree to them because to disobey the rules could have the company cut you off from being an affiliate for them.

The first thing you need to do after you have chose which company to join is to go through the list of items that they offer and decide which items you will promote.

Make sure you know what it is you are selling before you promote it. That way if anyone asks you about your product you will know the answer to it.

You can sell items like information that children may be interested in such as magic tricks or perhaps something that a person who likes computers such as keeping the computer running like new. There are a lot of items you can choose to sell.

Selling is another word for promote and in a sense, an affiliate is really a salesperson but they are self-employed. You can advertise your product on bumper stickers, pass out flyers, place ads on classifieds.

Whatever you do do not spam. Advertising is not spam but if you send out emails to people who did not request your ad it is spam.