No matter what you may have heard in the past or lead to believe, making money on the internet, it is not rocket science or some great mystical secret. It is easy when you know how, but it does require some effort on your part.

1) What should I offer, I sell it?

Decide on a niche. It always helps if the niche is something you love or are passionate about, or at least knowledge of it. So you can offer real value to your customers and your enthusiasm will show through your bid and your new online business. You do not want to meet the sales people pushing the product, but an advisory body or on a particular topic. Offer advice and guidance on the subject or attempt to sell the product. Remember people like to buy but hate being sold! This is how we are all by nature, a minute think that you are trying to sell me something, I'm out of here!

For me, my passion is health and fitness niche (as you can see from most of my articles). I love to talk about health and fitness, I do live, and to learn, and can talk about it all day alone, so for me to offer health related products and discuss them in a convincing manner is easy and comes naturally. I can write an article about health in three minutes, but ask me to write on the stock and it will take me days. point I make is that if you love something you will love writing and taking on, and you'll come across as sincere, and not as a "sales person" Yuk!

2) How will what I offer to make me money?

Making money online is fun once you have a niche in mind then you can look around online as to how much interest in your niche ( primary market research ), it can be done simply by going to Google and type of primary search terms into a search engine that relate to your topic of interest.

This will give you an idea of ​​how much competition you will have. Just taking a look at how ads are listed on the site for the search term (paid listings on the right side) for your topic, as well as listings page or pages of organic results were returned for a search word or phrase. If you see a lot of pages and ads you know that people spend money and are currently making money in this niche. Do not be afraid of competition, they can be your "friend", you'll see why later. Copy and save some of your competitor's site, both the organic listings and paid listings, as it will do a little "spying" to see what they're doing, and the keywords they use to drive traffic to their sites.

Go to Google Keyword Tool and type in some of your URL in the competition for the search URL for the keyword option. This will give you the main and most profitable key words that relate to your niche and what your competitors are using on the search pages. This free tool will give you an idea as to how many people are looking for what you offer and the strength of your competition.

3) Get profitable products to promote.

If you're just starting out may not have your own product, so it is necessary to promote someone else's product until you have your own product. It is easy as there are many affiliate networks you can join for free and sell your products and earn up to 75% commission on all sales made ​​to the product.

One of the biggest, easiest and fastest is the ClickBank affiliate network to join. Sign up for a free account and look for a product within your niche May want to promote. You'll get an affiliate link to track back all the recommendations you make to the product for you, and you will get credit for every sale you send to the merchant's website. This is great because you will never have to deal with customer support, or stock any products yourself, it's all taken care of by traders. products on Clickbank are all electronic downloads informative nonetheless.

I would recommend that the collection of product that you want to promote first, however, make sure that the product that will offer its recommendations on a great value for money. We also build your reputation in your niche, so you just want to offer superior products.

4) to promote your product or affiliate link and start earning money!

So how to get traffic to your product or affiliate link? Well one way is to set up a free account with Squidoo, and write a review of your affiliate product. Squidoo is a free online web 2.0 blogging / social networking sites lenses that can be set up for free. All that is in place and it is very easy. No HTML or coding is required, and even a complete newbie can someone set up in minutes.

Once you set up your Squidoo lens as they are called, you can write a review of the product that you want to promote and place your affiliate link URL to the review page. Once someone clicks on your affiliate link URL will take them to the merchant's website and one person buys a product, you earn money.

Driving traffic to your Squidoo lens will be the easiest part. All you need to do is sign up for EzineArticle account and / or other article marketing account, write an article like this on your niche and post with a link to your Squidoo lens and watch the sales come flooding in!