You may have been searching for info on how to make money online and thinking "where on earth do I start" or "who can I trust?". Well it's true that the whole internet is awash with money making ideas and opportunities - but there are a few things that you should consider before separating the wheat from the chaff.

Firstly most of us in the internet marketing business want to work from home and therefore an obvious starting point is finding a way to make money online that you can definitely do from your own home. This may seem obvious and I certainly don't mean to patronize, but if you wanted to sell large volumes of items on eBay for example, you may need considerable storage space and maybe an area set aside in your home for packaging your products before posting them.

So perhaps it makes sense to make money working online selling something that does not involve holding stock? There are many options here. You can find many, many "drop ship" companies who will happily deal with the stock for you and send it out (even with your own labels on it) in exchange for a small percentage. Just type "drop shippers" or "drop ship companies" or similar into a search engine and see what comes up! You can easily make a very profitable online income from this method - and can sell countless different items on eBay or other online auction sites this way.

Then there is the information product way of doing things. For me this is the easiest and most preferable. It is almost a uniquely online way of making money. You just visit a site like Clickbank and join as an affiliate. This enables you to sell any of the 10,000 or more digital products they offer. You would usually make 50% or more on each sale and can market the products using your own website, using pay per click adverts (like Google's Adwords system) or perhaps by e mail campaigns.

Clickbank takes care of all the ordering and product delivery for you, and they send you your commission check twice each month. The only thing you need to concentrate on is promoting your chosen products. Make sure you carefully watch your advertising costs and ensure you are making a profit! It is no use making $500 in commissions and spending $550 in advertising!

However I have found there are other cheaper (and some free!) ways of targeting your potential buyers and one especially good method is the Profit Brat way of making money online. It involves spreading your advertising almost "virally" across the internet - entirely free.

I hope you pursue your online ambitions and become an internet entrepreneur. It truly is the business of the future - NOW!

Gaz Hutchinson Internet Marketer

For a review of The Profit Brat Online Money Program visit: http://www.realmoneysite.com

Other Useful Sites:

Google Adwords http://www.adwords.google.com

Clickbank http://clickbank.com