On many webmaster and entrepreneur forums, people are often asking about million dollar ideas. Everyone is looking for that golden tip of money making, rocketing them into life-long wealth. Ofcourse, there are such ideas, like this one. But that particular idea is used every time the get-rich-quick-webmasters are getting together on a forum; needless to say, it won’t work for you! So what will?

Personally I am not a big believer in get-rich-quick schemes. There are many ways of making money on the web, but to make it to a million or more, usually requires very hard work and persistence on a level unknown to most humans and especially searchers for fast fortune.

Having said that, it is not impossible, but it shouldn’t be a goal per-se. Why do you want that million and why do you want it so fast? You want to spend your life on the beach or doing something worthwhile? Most people have jobs and just want to not hate it too much most of the time. And they expect to do it 40 years. So if you cannot become instantly rich, how about just having a job you love, allowing you to do what you want. That is a goal which can be met by being your own boss on the web.

Most of the ebooks about making money on the web actually work. Just as ‘making money playing blackjack’ pages actually do work. On average you will make money using those techniques. But the key is in being persistent and having patience; most things in life fail because people do them only half. They start out doing them well for a while and then quit them. Making them no money or, most of the time, a loss.

Ideas do not need to be original. You can make a good living by, for instance:

• flipping sites
• selling templates
• selling scripts
• owning a dating site
• owning a photo or video site
• owning a social networking site
• owning an arcade site
• owning a proxy site
• owning a free hosting site
• owning a hot-or-not site
• etc

Most of these sites can be complete trivial copies of existing, very big sites. For instance, when having flickr.com, why would you need another photo site? Still, there are many photo sites appearing and having success. Even the very small ones like picturepush.com make enough money to live on for one person.

Even if you are not technical and know not much about hosting, setting up servers, doing graphical design; this all really doesn’t matter. It is all about marketing and getting into the real spirit of selling your service to enough people on the internet. Some things that may surprise you:

• you do not need a good design
• you do not need brilliant programming
• you do not need an original idea or concept

You need none of the points above to make a few $1000 a month, sitting at home, behind your computer. And if you have a family, you can simply double or triple the effort for what you are doing with a few more sites and double or triple the money.

So what do you need to make a solid living while not going to any office or working for the boss his Ferrari: persistence and spirit. That is the only thing. Just work hard on the plans you start and stick with them for at least three years.

Becoming very rich with this strategy is probably not going to happen, but for 99,99% of the world population that is not going to happen anyway, so better just go for something less and maybe you’ll get there anyway.

The simple step plan for making money online:

1. get an account here
2. get a cheap hosting account here
3. pick a few sites you really want to get into from here
4. think up a few domains for the sites you are making and register them here
5. create the sites on your server (the yourownturnkeysite.com service shows you how to)
6. get into forums, blogs, etc to get a lot of visitors to your sites
7. persist at least for a few years in this

If you are good at marketing; there are many popular affiliate programs you can join, like this one and this one and this one. You can put these affiliate programs on the sites you created above. It is best to hide the real affiliate URL with a service like this(hideyouraffiliate.com), in order to mask it for your clients.

So, how do you make money on those sites:

• by selling a product or service (dating, books, ebooks, templates etc)
• by using Google Adsense or another advertising service
• by using the above affiliate programs

When you can at least make any of your sites popular enough to have a few thousands of daily visitors, you are making money. And getting those is no problem, as long as you persist in sticking with it and building on what you made.

If you do not feel up to the creating this kind of service yourself, please drop me a mail and I will help you creating anything you want for a small fee. This will save you from making an account on yourownturnkeysite.com and/or getting a hosting account.