So whilst these passive programs are building you residual income you need your main affiliate or network marketing program which you will concentrate on promoting and which will give you a an immediate source of income. Now I actually own and run my own program at http://www.earnmoneyhere.com but I am also an affiliate of RecipeSwap (http://www.recipe-swap.com/members/rgawith/) which I think is a goof stable and fun program to promote and make a good second income. However, it does not matter what your main affiliate or MLM program is so long as you concentrate on promoting it and building your affiliate team or downline.

Then as with any business you need to ensure you have right tools and resources for job. If you worked in an office, you require office equipment, if you have a shop you need display racks etc.. working online is no different...you need right tools and resources. I use Isoregister ( http://www.isoregister.com/9810354341/rgawith ) as it gives me all tools I need in one place such as autoresponders, ebooks, articles, advertising etc etc...but so long as you have a good resource suite you are all set to market online and start building your portfolio.

But remember number one rule, is all online opportunities incur a certain amount of risk, but you can minimise your losses and maximise your profits by spreading risk sensibly across a number of stable and profitable online ventures.

The other great thing they have is M-Orders that is a downloadable application that will help you handle you after sales service. The basic version of Mal’s is free to use, but if you want to link up to a payment gateway and take credit cards you’ll need to pay a small monthly fee.

Promoting site was much easier than I thought it would be. First I set up some Google Adwords that would appear when people entered keywords relating to products I am selling. So far this has cost me just over £30.

Then I invested £60 with Overture on their Sitematch program. Sitematch seems to be very effective. Within days I had a good listing for keywords in my website on most of top search engines. These included: MSN, AOL, ASK, Yahoo and Excite.

So where has profit come from? In first week I had 60 visitors on site mostly from Google Adwords. During this time I made 3 sales adding up to a total of nearly £200. Because I’ve kept cost of website so low any profit can go a long way when reinvested in website. For instance just profit from sales in first week are enough to pay cost of shopping cart and payment gateway services for a whole year!

So if you yearn to start your own online business, but aren’t sure you have funds to start, don’t despair it can be done. Do your research and look around for reliable low-cost ways to develop you web business. So once sales do start coming in you’ll have more money available to reinvest and grow business faster.