There are endless opportunities to make money online for beginners. But, are those opportunities legitimate, or are they just going to leave you frustrated with your hands up in the air?

Yes, there are thousands of opportunities to make money online, but if you are a beginner, you can become overwhelmed.

And, if you are not careful, you will be left with a lighter wallet and no better off than when you started looking for a legitimate opportunity.

Without any prior experience in internet marketing, you can easily become confused as to which opportunity will give you the best chance of succeeding.

Be very careful of any offer that boasts immediate results.

You have no experience...you have no skills...but you do want to make money online.

And this is where you can get into trouble.

All of those offers that mention making money with the click of a mouse or just a couple of hours of work a week are very tempting.

But do you really think that you will ever be able to get any kind of result if you have no experience?

But wait. Those offers state that you do not need any experience at all to make the kind of money they indicate will be made.

Really?

You would not walk into an operating room and perform heart surgery if you had no experience at all, would you?

Of course not. And the same holds true for internet marketing and making money online.

You need a solid education in order to start making money online.

An education that can take you from the first step to making your first sale online, and then taking your skills to the next level until you have the opportunity to make a full-time income working from home.

Only when you have the knowledge and the skill-set to make money online will you be able to possibly quit your job and pursue online marketing full-time.

Chasing after one shiny object after another is no way to learn how to make money online for beginners, or for anyone for that matter.

Those shiny objects will just leave you confused, frustrated, and even jaded.

There are legitimate training courses out there, but you need to search for them.

But when you find one of them, you will know it. There will be no hyped up sales pitch...no snap-shots of huge paychecks...and no guarantee of instant gratification.

In order to make money, no matter what it is you do, you need to work for it.

Just remember that the next time you come across one of those guaranteed job killers that boast overnight success.

An education is the only way to learn how to make money online.