Some of the big online earners were asked, what was some of the things you did when you first started out online to produce a profit and what advice can you give to a newcomer to the business? Some of the answers we got went like this -

The very first online business I got into I was an affiliate and really advertised the hell out of it, the affiliate system I joined was Success University. Being an affiliate for those who don’t know is simply selling some big companies product. This is very good for someone now starting out because all you do is sell, you’re not involved in collecting payments, deliveries, stocking and all these business related stuff. I made awesome money with Success University. Secondly I started promoting Host4Profit which is a web hosting company and I made money month after month. I then concentrated on building a list. I have now created my own product and get affiliates to sell them for me.

Back in the day I started off designing websites. This provided a steady income but just a little not sufficient to support me full time, I then got into selling on eBay but still did not make enough to survive full time. I continued these two ventures and then became an affiliate at Get Response; this is a company that offers an auto responder service that pays a monthly commission for every sale that you make. I now make a nice monthly income with these 3 programs. I am now looking into bringing in another affiliate program called Empowerism.

My first go at internet marketing was a I started a web directory and made a few hundred dollars a month which I still do to this date, I then got into list building which proved to be a very wise decision, I have a very responsive list of about 30000 subscribers, this has given me the tools to be a very successful affiliate because I can sell products to these subscribers month after month after month. The affiliates that I am involved in are SFI, Leisure Audio Books and Traffic Swarm. For a newcomer I recommend joining an affiliate program with products that you like, then build a list and sell like crazy. It’s that simple.

I am by no means an Internet Guru but the first profit I made online was way back in the day of "prodigy" and "CompuServe". I opened a free hometown.aol hosting and wrote and sold resumes, I then discovered eBay and build websites and sold them. I made good money doing this I simply picked out what products were hot at that point in time, made a unique website for it and boom instant sale. I also sold hosting accounts at Host4Profits so when I sold a website most of the time I picked up a hosting sale as well. I continue to make a decent monthly income with this strategy.

Hope this information help you decide on your new online home business, if you would like more information on the above programs check out the attached link.