| My dream was to be able to work at home and | | | | 1. You can type them yourself in any word |
| commute less and I knew the internet was the | | | | processor or right online. |
| key for me to do that. So I set out to find a | | | | 2. You can hire someone else to create them for |
| way to make money online with my computer. | | | | you very reasonably. |
| It turns out there are lots of ways to make | | | | 3. You can talk in to a headset and have some |
| money online but not all of them will work for | | | | speech to text software do the typing for you. |
| someone who does not want to spend a lot of | | | | Once the articles are created you submit them to |
| money and does not have a lot of specialized | | | | a variety of online article directories. From there |
| skills. | | | | you can promote the articles with any social |
| For instance, you could build a website around a | | | | bookmarking service you might use to direct |
| popular health topic, hobby or travel. You could | | | | friends, acquaintances or the searching public to |
| spend many months and many thousands of | | | | find your articles. |
| dollars getting good content and graphics, then | | | | The key with article marketing is learning some |
| promote your site with Web 2.0 social networking | | | | basic research on how to know if a particular |
| and expensive pay per click advertising. | | | | product or service is profitable to promote. That |
| And your site could still flop. | | | | information is taught very clearly in many article |
| That is just one example. Some people make a | | | | marketing training programs. |
| lot of money on eBay, but with recent changes in | | | | What I really like about this way to make money |
| the market and eBay's policies and pricing, eBay is | | | | online is that the work you do today will be out |
| not what it used to be. | | | | on the internet forever, and a sale that puts a |
| So my favorite way to make money online is a | | | | commission in your pocket can keep happening as |
| very simple process that does not cost any | | | | long as that article is out there. |
| money (other than maybe for an easy to use | | | | This is referred to as residual income. When you |
| video training package) and it takes no special | | | | have enough articles out there, preferably |
| skills other than being able to type. And you can | | | | promoting different products and services, you |
| leverage it out down the road to make a very | | | | can actually generate a consistent, sustainable, |
| substantial full time income working online. | | | | online income. |
| What I am talking about is article marketing. | | | | The income you make online is usually a direct |
| Article marketing is a simple yet very effective | | | | result of how much effort you put in. Put in a little |
| way of driving internet traffic to a sales page, | | | | effort and make some extra money. As the |
| whether yours or someone else's and picking up a | | | | money grows and you increase the effort you |
| commission when they buy. | | | | put toward it, you can get to where you can |
| You have several choices in creating the articles: | | | | make a full time living working online from home. |