If you are new to the whole internet business it can be really confusing, there are so many different routes you can take to building a successful business online. Here’s a brief list of ways to make money on the internet, at this stage it is just a list but it is my intention to cover all of these topics in detail as this new site develops. For now I hope it helps to bring the whole internet business thing into focus for you.

Ways to build a profitable business on the internet.

1. Create your own digital product/info product:
  • E-book
  • Downloadable Audio Course
  • Online Video Course
  • Paid Membership Site
  • Software
2. Become an affiliate marketer (sell other peoples products on commission)
  • Finding products to sell is easy
  • There are many affiliate directories such as Clickbank, Pay dot com,
    Commission Junction, and many others.
  • There are many training courses on how to make money as an affiliate – be careful though, although some are really worth the money, others are completely useless.
  • The information you need is often available freely if you know where to look.
  • Start by reading the information provided free in the Clickbank help centre, it basically tells you everything you know to get started.
3. Build a niche site
  • Decide on a niche that you feel comfortable with
  • You don’t have to be an expert, but it helps if you know something about your subject
  • Do some research to make sure there are actually people spending money in your niche, otherwise you could spend a lot of time building a website for not much return.
  • Monetize your site with advertising and affiliate products
  • Make sure you set up an opt-in box to capture the emails of people who visit your site, offer them a free report or video. You can then build a list of loyal subscribers.
4. Sell Physical Products
  • Build an e-commerce site in a profitable niche
  • You can sell physical products as an affiliate
  • Or you can sell your own products direct from the manufacturer without having to do all the shipping and handling yourself – this is called drop shipping.
5. Sell a service online
  • Some services are well suited to delivery over the internet and when you tap into a global market you will never be short of work.
  • The following stand out as ideal services to sell online:-
  • Graphic/Web Design – So many people on the internet simply don’t have the time or the ability to do their own design work, and although there are a lot of people offer their design services online, demand still outstrips supply, particularly of quality, fairly priced services.
  • Writing – is an absolutely essential skill if you are going to be building niche sites, creating info products, ebooks, free reports, articles and so on. It is quite time consuming and many marketers would rather had this part of their business over to someone who know what they are doing. If you are a writer you can make a good income online.
  • Marketing – providing internet marketing services to offline local business, they normally already have their own website but aren’t getting any traffic, when you know what to do it is easy to get a number one ranking in google for these local businesses and they will pay you well for it.
  • Training – Training is hot right now, if you know how to do something, anything that other people want to know, you can create an online training course and build a very successful business around this.The internet has now developed to the level where you can create and deliver professional quality multimedia training courses and deliver them online for a very low cost to yourself, which allows you to offer your customers great value.
  • Coaching – similar to training, coaching can easily be delivered over the internet, you can create some kind of membership site and offer information and individual email coaching.
Check out the Online Marketing Methods post for quick info on how to market all of these different kinds of internet businesses.