by MJ Miller

Created on: December 04, 2006   Last Updated: April 05, 2009

More and more people nowadays are turning to the internet to supplement their income or even try and make it a full time income. The fact is, you can make money online and a lot of people are doing it. Few people however, make a full time income or get rich, despite what you will see on countless websites that promise riches for doing next to nothing. Your online income will be in direct proportion to the time and effort you devote to it. The internet being what it is, you can make anywhere from a few extra bucks a month for doing very little, to thousands per month from devoting full time effort creating multiple income streams.

So let's take a look at some of the more common methods people are using to achieve a level of success online. We'll start with some of the easiest and free methods and progress to some of the more comprehensive methods that will take more time and effort.

GTP or Get Paid To

These include paid email and paid surveys. They have been around a long time and most people looking for an online income will give them a try. You can make a few dollars per month with minimal time and effort and you won't have to invest a penny to participate, only your time.

Paid email programs, once you sign up, will send you emails containing links to websites that their advertisers have paid them to send out the ads for. The paid email program then pays you a small amount (usually a penny or less) to click on the ad and visit the website. You can see that you would have to join several programs and click a lot of links to make very much with this method.

Paid surveys, once you join the program, pay you to fill out surveys on their site about various subjects. You can make more than the paid email programs but again, you are not going to get rich. It will also take more of your time than the email programs. Realistically, you can make several hundred dollars per year taking surveys.

Affiliate Programs

There are so many affiliate programs out their and so many claims at how much money you can make with them, I will give you one piece of advice that I have found to be absolutely true in every case, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Beware of the programs that promise riches for simply joining their program. A large number of them charge a fee to join and that's a clue that they make most of their money from the membership fee than actually selling a valid product or service.

The only program I recommend, especially for people new to affiliate marketing

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