There are different ways to make money online such as affiliate sales, Adsense, membership sites, mini sites that promote a product (your own or an affiliate product), store sites, and so on. What’s the best way to make money online?

You need your own e-mail list. It’s much easier to sell to someone who you have a relationship with and who trusts you.

Is this your first time on this site? If so, are you going to buy anything I promote here? Probably not. You don’t know me.

But if you knew me, and had trust in what I say, you would probably purchase something that I highly recommended.

That’s one of the reasons to have your own e-mail list. People sign up, they receive your newsletter every week, and over time they feel like they know you. When you recommend something, whether it’s your own product or an affiliate product, they trust you and will be more likely to buy it than if a stranger told them about it.

The way to build that trust is to give them lots of free information. Be generous. Tell them about great Web sites (I learned of one this week, Willow.com. You can find out what your home is valued at and what your neighbors’ homes are worth)

I’m probably a lot like you. I’m trying to make a living by working at home.

If you are just starting out, you have probably found that the Internet is full of great-sounding products. My recommendation to you is take it slow. Focus on one thing and don’t spend any money on any product that is outside of that focus.

Learn how to put up a Web site or blog, start putting content onto that site. Build it up with lots of great information. Sign up with Aweber and put up an opt-in box where people can subscribe to your newsletter.

Offer them something for subscribing. Make the offer so good that they will be glad to give you their e-mail address, their street address, and their phone number. Why all this information? Because the Internet might not always be available.

If the Internet crashes (and there are countries trying to do this), then you will still have the street address and phone numbers of the people on your list. You can continue to communicate with them offline, and continue to market to them.

If you have no idea how to set up a blog, how to research a niche, publish to it, and monetize it, check out Authority Site Center. I belong to them and it’s where I got 90% of my training.

If you want a cost-effective way to learn everything about e-mail marketing, how to get subscribers, how to market to them, and how to build a relationship, then check out Mark Hendrick’s complete tutorial that he is still selling for less than $50. Don’t put it off, though. The price is going to go up soon. Check it out here: List Building Home Study Course

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If you have a blog you probably want to be able to put Adsense ads on it. AdSense Deluxe is a free Wordpress plugin that you put into your Plugins folder (using your FTP program), activate, and then set up to put ads on your site.

Here’s a video by Jack Humphrey of Authority Site Center (where I’ve been a member since winter 2005). He clearly explains where to get the plugin and how to set it up. You can download a free 64-page report at this link: Authority Site Center

You can download AdSense Deluxe+ here: AdSense Deluxe

I found it at WP-Plugins.net where there are many great wp plugins (and maybe a few bad) available for free. Check them out.

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