10 Ways for You to Make Money Online

4) Start an affiliate marketing site

Affiliate marketing is essentially becoming an partner of another business and selling that product on your site.  This site uses affiliate marketing (along with other methods) as a form of monetization.  You promote a product on your site and then you earn money every time someone buys the product from your site.  As an affiliate marketer, you can promote anything imaginable, such as online courses, e-books, hosting packages, identity protection services, and the list goes on.

Affiliate marketing has taken on a bad name because of less-than-honest marketers.  But it doesn’t have to be that way.  Plenty of honest people do very well in affiliate marketing without having to resort to sleazy methods.

Ideal for: Affiliate marketing is ideal for people who do not mind tracking numbers (such as conversion rate) or those who have a knack for copywriting.