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So, what’s the easiest way to make money online?

Unfortunately the answer is, It depends. I’ve had a lot of people ask me, Can I make money online? and they seem to think it should be easy. Well, it is and it isn’t. But I’m repeating myself.

Put it this way, is it easy for Apple to sell iPods? Well, it is now. Now that they’ve marketed and branded them so successfully. But at first it was a hard slog. Mp3 technology was fairly primitive when the first iPods hit the stores and although they were revolutionary and appealed to a tech-savvy market immediately, their general appeal took some time to sink in.

See, it’s never easy to start a new business and it’s no different on the internet. In particular if you want to make money online you’ll probably encounter a steep learning curve in the beginning and wrestle with optimization and fierce competition. The good news is there are several well worn paths to success that you can follow and should you be diligent enough you’ve a good chance of success – given time.

Any one of the following could potentially be the easiest way to make money online if you put enough into it:

1. Affiliate marketing – selling other people’s products and being paid a commissions

2. Adsense income generation – placing text ads on your website and being paid everytime someone clicks on it

3. CPA (Cost per action) – being paid for leads and sales you generate

4. Selling stuff on eBay – a great money spinner for a lot of people

5. Completing surveys – although often difficult to make much from there are ways and means to make this lucrative

If you want to make money online you have to start somewhere and I highly recommend you create a free blog at Blogger.com or WordPress.com and then get in the habbit of posting to it every day. This will help you get familiar with the internet, with corresponding with people online, researching and writing unique content and experimenting with monetization. Just don’t do it for the money for at least 6 months. That way you won’t face so much frustration up front and won’t be tempted to quit when the money doesn’t come (and it wont).

Also, get involved in some online forums, read free newsletters and ebooks and blogs like this one regularly. You’ll be amazed at what kind of information you’ll be able to find for free.

The easiest way to make money online is to give yourself an easy target to meet in the beginning and grow it from there.