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>>> Making Money on the Internet
    by Garth Catterall-Heart

Many people are interested in learning how they can make money
on the Internet. Some of the more popular ways include: selling
items on eBay or other auction sites, joining Multi-Level
Marketing (MLM) programs and selling those products, selling
other people's products through affiliate programs, and
marketing your own product(s) on your own web site. 

> Internet Auctions
Selling items on auction sites is pretty straight forward. You
find, buy or already have things to sell, that other people want
to purchase. It's a good idea to do some research into the
marketability of the product, by searching for similar items,
and seeing how many of them sold, and for what price. 

Many people are making hundreds and even thousands of dollars a
week using auctions. One of the advantages of selling things
this way, is that very little promotion or advertising is
required. The hardest part, is finding things to buy (or create)
at a price that is lower than what other people are willing to
pay for them.

> Multi-Level Marketing 
MLM Programs abound on the Internet. It used to be that you had
to do a lot of personal calling, both on the phone and face to
face, to generate interest in your program. In this new
electronic age, you contact most people via email or through a
web site, and very little personal contact is required. Of
course, the more personal contacting you decide to do, the
better your chances of success. 
 
> Affiliations
Affiliate programs seem to be everywhere on the Internet too.
Everybody wants to sign you up to sell their product. Many will
even give you a "free web site" to sell their product from. For
more information go to: http://www.associateprograms.com/

> Your Own Product
Coming up with your own product(s) to sell on the web is a much
more complicated endeavor. You need to buy or create one or more
products, create a web site, set up an order taking system,
collect people's money and ship product. 

The most important factor for success in any of these methods,
is in advertising and promoting your product, offer or program.
You will need to do this every day in some form or another. For
this reason, you need to focus on a small number of programs.
Expect that your income will build slowly over time. I have yet
to find any real "get rich quick" programs.

For me, creating and promoting my own products, About-the-web.com
and SpiritWorks Software Development, have provided me with 
more joy and success than all the other methods combined. 
Whatever you decide to do, remember to have fun with it!

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