The newer generation of Internet marketers has brought to the Internet new blood and new ways to make money.
New marketers represent are always welcome.
Besides something to sell, there is only one thing the new Internet marketer needs to start earning cash.
You need a website to which to direct your web visitors and customers.
The good news is there are many types of free websites available.
These websites are simple to start and easy to maintain.
Do you have your website? Here are the five basic ways to make a living online.
1) You can sell products on auction sites.
These items are purchased at wholesale prices or are produced by your company.
The good news is that eBay gives you your own online "store" page.
eBay is overrun with professional merchants who sell huge lots at a small profit on each item.
Smaller eBayers will find it difficult to compete on price alone.
Some smaller eBayers have carved out their own niche, but that niche-carving requires a great deal of market study and careful examination of eBay sales trends.
2) You can sell manufactured or created products through a Yahoo or similar storefront.
This is your option if you want to sell a product you know.
If you want to make money with the least amount of wear-and-tear on your brain, then this is probably not for you.
This option is more about the product you sell and less about wealth-building.
3) You can sell e-books or other digital products.
You can write these yourself or resell products created by others.
You should subscribe to newsletters and talk to marketers.
You should find out what's good and what sells.
You can sell e-books through Amazon, through your own website and through affiliate marketers.
Affiliate marketing is another strong option we will save for the fifth basic way.
4) You can sell your website traffic to AdSense or similar programs.
Building content websites is a popular method of gaining traffic.
Quality content and information will get you bookmarkers.
Once you implement a strong SEO strategy for your website, search engines will find your site.
Search engine traffic is highly productive.
Productive traffic clicks links.
You may also gain traffic to your website through social networks like Twitter.
A link directory is another source.
Any of your website visitors who click on an AdSense link, will earn you a few cents for that click.
5) You can sell someone else's stuff.
Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and simplest ways to make substantial income online.
You are still selling your traffic, but you are selling it for a specific dollar amount per sale or sign-up instead of a few cents per click.
All you do is worry about building traffic to your sales pages in the ways described above.
The sales material is given to you.
They sell the product.
They ship the product to your customer and send you cash.