Making money online can be a convenient way to earn a second income from home or if you want, you can choose to make a full time living from the internet. This not only frees up your time but saves fuel and other expenses associated with commuting to work and all the other expenses employment brings with it. Working from home, you can offset expenses against your house since you will be using your house as an office. There are many advantages associated with a business online and one of the best is that you have total flexibility of time. You can work when you want and how you want.

Making a business online requires learning a few simple steps and procedures. Like anything else you need to have some training in order to learn a new skill. Internet marketing or making money from an online business is no different. An online business may take some time before you start to see results but there are ways of simply earning a living from your computer such as writing articles for a fee, for example. This is not the same as having your own online business, as such, and you are simply an employee working for a wage. You get paid for each article you write and when you stop writing, your pay check stops too. Using the affiliate model as an online business is slightly different. You write articles too but those articles are linked to affiliate products and they continue to bring in customers to your affiliate products for years to come.

It may take some time before you have a steady stream of traffic using this model and you do not get paid until you sell the products. The upside though is that after a while you have set up an automated income stream and once you stop working it continues to sell your products. Simply selling your time online does not have this benefit and although you might earn a ‘wage’, once you stop so does your paycheck. With the affiliate model your previous work continues working for you bringing in sales.

Of course you can do both and split your time between writing articles for money or doing surveys and building your own affiliate income at the same time. Depending how you go about it, it can take some time before you see the profits coming in. With the affiliate model though, your time is effectively multiplied since you can make multiple earnings from the same articles and links whereas with paid for articles and surveys you are simply paid for the work you have done and someone else will ‘own’ that article from then on.