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Here are some pointers on how to make money online:

- One of the most popular 'home business' jobs is affiliate marketing. This is usually done through businesses which offer affiliate programmes that you can join up with. Most established companies have a bevy of recognisable brands to offer to affiliate marketers. Marketing other peoples' goods and earning a fee is the simplest way to get going.

- Making a site is relatively simple, that's only half the work involved. It's also important to drive traffic and learn how to market your site. The problem with working on the internet is that 99 percent of these money-making programs offered are a waste of time and (your) cash.

- Don't only click on every ad you see to find revenue resources; try to find networked groups of WAHMs (work-at-home moms) who have found success in earning cash on the internet or off and ask them for tips. They can give you some ideas about which programs are actually worth putting time and money in. Investigate message-boards and forums. Some forums allow users to post links in the body of a message. Be sure you read all the forum policies carefully prior to trying this, or you may be banned for spamming.

- The difficult part of associate marketing is sticking with the business until it starts to make a profit. You find advice spammed all over the Web, but how much of it can you believe in? Web scams exist in their thousands, each one designed to bait suckers with the promise of easy riches.

- Internet success is fairly easy; it just calls for a plan. Most webmasters just try anything and everything, haphazardly. You can contact a great variety of customers and communicate with anyone in the world, speedily. You can use your email opt-in list to send updates about your special offers, products and newsletters; whatever you think your consumers want.

- If you have a site set up, you need to design it. All your site needs to include is a review page about your products with client testimonials stating that each product works well and is worth buying into.

- Commit time to testing out different strategies in order to discover the ones that work best. Select a business type that you find agreeable and that you are passionate about. Then do some research. Set up your own blog or website. Build a mailing list. Replicated affiliate sites won't provide that for you. Start with what you know.

- The more surfers you attract the greater your ability to get more sales. Upload content-rich pages on each one of your sites and include keywords that will climb to the top of search-engine results and increase traffic volumes. Research in advance, don't just react to circumstances.

- Buy a domain name that's very similar to to the affiliate marketing product you're attempting to publicise. Don't, however, infringe on the copyright of a brand name. That may annoy the brand owner.

- When your business is up and running, if your product isn't getting sales, move on and try another. Do not hang about hoping that it'll sell; the odds are it won't.

- Internet marketing requires brand name exposure. Content on your site needs to be search engine optimised. Get your brand all over the Web in order to generate useful traffic. Targetted traffic is what you're aiming for; if you get a viral video on Youtube about hang-gliding, but you're selling finance, you won't make much cash off it.

I hope these few basic pointers will be of some use to you in your online marketing enterprise.About the Author:

J. O' Rahilly writes for affiliate internet marketing and secured loans UK web sites in London, UK.

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