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From my experience these are the top three ways to make money with your computer from home;

1. Niche Websites

Find a niche and build a website based around the interests of that niche and you can enjoy long term income and success online. Examples of a good niche would be Golf, Horseriding, Cooking, Painting, Dog Training, Health and Fitness or indeed any other area of interest that attracts a group of people who are enthusiastic and willing to spend within that niche on information or real world products that will either increase their knowledge, improve their life or take them one step closer to fulfilling their dreams. A word of warning though; a lot of people make the mistake of going for a small niche and there is a lot of advice out there on finding an untapped niche and tapping into it to make money. This is a mistake in my opinion for a couple of reason;

• First, because an untapped niche is untapped for a reason - at least these days it is. It may not have been five or ten years ago but today, if it hasn't been touched by the top internet marketers, it hasn't been touched for good reason; there is no money in it!

• Second, if you want to build an ongoing income, you need to find a niche big enough to sustain an ongoing conversation over time. Your intention should be to build a list of subscribers to whom you will be able to market to and sell products to while maintaining and improving your relationship with them. The reason you need a big niche to do this is simply down to numbers and percentages; the bigger your list of subscribers the more likely you are to hit your income targets when promoting products or services to your subscriber list. It is generally accepted that each subscriber is worth around $1 per month to you as a webmaster and this is in terms of income generated mainly from sales made by email as a recommendation from a trusted source (You). If the market or niche is too small, the potential to grow your subscriber list is also limited.
  
• THINK BIG and you will succeed!

2. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great way to start out making money online. Put simply, affiliate marketing is selling products on behalf of someone else. These can be information products or real world, tangible products and the maker or owner of the product will pay you a commission for every sale made by you.

• It's free to sign up as an affiliate and there are literally products and services to sell to every sector in the market from health to sustainable energy; whatever your interest there are products to sell as an affiliate.

• To make real money from other people's products though you either want to sell high priced items for which you will receive a large commission or recurring income affiliate products (this means you sell a product or service which has an ongoing payment plan or monthly membership and you then receive ongoing payments back in return. There are numerous sites that offer you the opportunity to sign up as an affiliate and start making money.

The best known site is;

• ClickBank (www.clickbank.com)

This is the number one affiliate marketers resource. To select recurring payment products using your selected keywords run an "advanced search" and CB will return a selection of results for you to work through. Below is a list of 5 additional affiliate marketing sites to provide you with more information and resources on affiliate marketing.

1. PayDotCom (www.paydotcom.com)

Not quite as powerful as Clickbank in terms of finding recurring income products to market as an affiliate but still very useful and highly regarded by affiliates out there.

2. Lifetime Commissions (www.lifetimecommissions.com)

This is a great "one stop shop" where you can find recurring income affiliate offers to promote. There are also some strict guidelines in terms of what can and cannot be promoted, so no gambling or porn for example (Hey, my father would have been proud of these guys! ;-))

3. AffiliateSeeking.com (www.affiliateseeking.com)

Affiliate Seeking is not a payment provider, as are Clickbank and PaydotCom, but offers a simple and easy to use directory to research affiliate offers in multiple niches and areas of interest. They also have an area for recurring income affiliate opportunities.

4. ResidualIncomeFinder (www.residualincomefinder.com)

This directory is dedicated to residual income products that relate to your niche. This is all these guys offer so if long term regular income online is what you want from your affiliate empire this is a good place to start.

5. JVNotifyPro.com (www.jvnotifypro.com)

This site will allow you to be kept in the know when new product launches are about to arrive, which lets you offer your list of subscribers the next best thing when it arrives or to establish your online marketing plan based around the products keywords ahead of the competition should you decide to sign up as an affiliate.


Affiliate marketing is a great way to make extra money from home and with little to no risk but remember, like all good things, success comes with a price so expect to invest time and energy into learning how to market other peoples products and take what you learn and apply it consistently over time to increase sales and generate the income you want.