There are a number of ways to make money on the internet, whether it’s selling e-Books, a membership site, a site that makes money from advertising, selling software tools, or selling your time and expertise as a consultant, developer, trainer, designer, or writer. 

The great thing about an internet business is that it is not necessary to have any physical product which requires shipping, storing or production.  We tend to deal in digital products, information products, software tools and so on.  We sell our writing, our knowledge, our research.  And a lot of internet marketers are just selling plain old rubbish – a bit like the stuff you get from those long TV commercials, stuff you never knew you needed, and that doesn’t work when you get it.

Those of us selling information products first research a market and choose a niche.  The niche might be about building birdhouses, parenting, housekeeping, or personal improvement.  Choosing a small niche with enough people searching for information about that topic, and providing them with the information they are looking for, is a great strategy for starting an internet business, as any of the gurus will tell you. 

One of the biggest niches is, of course “how to make money on the internet”.  It’s right up there with weight loss as one of the biggest and most competitive markets.  It’s also one of the sleaziest, dirtiest markets with the widest array of absolute rubbish and rip offs available for the gullible, desperate and naïve to choose from.

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