Five things to do to earn money on the Internet

By Recep Oflas
Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Internet is growing very fast. As a result, there is more Internet users, more potential online customers and more opportunities to earn money on the Internet. But most of the people who try to earn money on the Internet are unable to use the benefits of this fast growing Internet world.

I can hear you say that “What are the mistakes they make?" or “What can be done to use this benefits of the Internet?".

In this article, you'll learn what to do to use the benefits of the fast growing Internet. You'll learn five things to do to earn money on the Internet:

1. What you expect?

First of all, you need to know what you expect from the Internet. Are you looking to earn money to pay your credit card bills, to pay for your children's education, to pay for a new car, to pay for a new house... or whatever else.

If you know what is your expectetion, it'll be easier to start an online business

2. Choose the right online business

If you have your own product and you want to sell it on the Internet, you can establish your own online business. But you can say that “I don't have products to sell".

If you don't have your own products, join an affiliate program. There are so many companies who will pay you for selling their products. As I said, there are so many affiliate programs. So, which one is the best?

Some affiliate programs not only pay for your sales, but also pay for your affiliates sales. I mean, when an affiliate that you referred to this program makes a sale, you'll earn commissions from this sale. You don't even need to make sales with these affiliate programs. Only refer new affiliates to this programs and earn when they sell something. You can find some of these kind of affiliate programs at my websites that you'll find at the end of this article.

3. Learn how to get visitors to your website

When you joined an affiliate program they give you some websites or web pages that include your referral link to sell their products. Most of the affiliate programs do that. You can use this websites or you can make your own website.

Whichever you choose, you need to get visitors to your website to sell something. To get visitors to your website, I recommend you to read everything you find on the Internet. Read articles, join successful home business entrepreneur's newsletters, even if you can afford, buy some books about online marketing or getting visitors to your website. They'll really help you to succeed in your online business.

4. Get visitors to your website

This step will be very easy if you don't ignore the third step. Everything that you read about online business will improve your experience. And the experience is the most important thing to get visitors to your website.

For example, you'll find lots of articles about search engines. When you read them and use the knowledge that you get by reading these articles in your website, it won't take a long time to get tons of traffic to your website.

When you have learned enough from articles, write your own article and submit it to websites that include articles in it. They don't refuse to add your article to their website because they need more good content in their websites. And these articles bring new visitors to your website for FREE!

5. Be patient

The last and the most important thing that you need to do is to be patient. Maybe your online business won't be a overnight success. Don't worry. There are some people who didn't earn even a single penny for years but now earn tens of thousands of $ with their online businesses. They didn't earn money for a few years but they worked hard to improve their business and at least they got their reward as a great online income.

You can do the same. Maybe you don't wait for years to be successful. Maybe it'll be in a few months. It's up to you. If you work hard and don't miss opportunities to improve your online business it can even be in a few weeks.

To your success...

Recep Oflas (http://www.geocities.com/freehomebusinessopportunity)

About the Author
Recep Oflas is the webmaster of (http://www.geocities.com/freehomebusinessopportunity). You can find best home business opportunities and best resources to improve your online business or to get more visitors to your website in his website.