Unlike first two alternatives I mentioned before, in Affiliate Marketing, you don't have to worry about shipping products, you don't have to take credit card orders from your web site and you don't have to deal with customers' complaints. Still, you can NOT keep most of profit!

Many marketers earn full-time income through Affiliate Marketing only. Some experienced others create their own products, keep most of profits and promote back-end products as Affiliates.

If you are a beginner with a small amount of money, Affiliate Marketing is a good place to start with. This way you could reduce risk of losing big bucks and get a good grip on Internet Marketing first. While running those Affiliate programs, you could jot down some ideas along way to then create your own products that WILL sell!

Another way to make money online is through Network Marketing. In this type of marketing, you must build your downlines to increase your income. Building includes training, mentoring and motivating. Some people prefer Affiliate Marketing to Network Marketing and some others are just opposite. Any kind you choose, just make sure you pick only solid businesses...

So, here's a recap of how you can make a full-time income online:

o Find unique products and get rights to sell them

o Create your own product and spread it over internet

o Join solid Affiliate programs

o Join a solid Network Marketing company

Happy hunting...!

Copyright 2005 Farid Aziz.

As these programs continue to proliferate, individual webmaster needs to exercise a little restraint and avoid temptation to go overboard by plastering these ads all over your website and thereby diluting your own primary message/proposition and confusing your hard earned visitor. When properly used, these ads are just ancillary or complementary content that you are providing to enhance information and opportunities that you are providing to your visitor...if something happens to strike a responsive chord with your visitor, you might make a little pay per click money.

If properly used, these propagation programs can result in classical "win-win" situation. However, if you over do it, this can quickly turn into a loss for you (the individual webmaster) and a win for your pay per click partners that are distributing ads. As in many things, moderation is important.

The dynamic search engine marketing industry continues to evolve as users began to take advantage of steady stream of new features, tools and innovations provided by ever increasing number of search engines offering quality search results (it's not all about Google anymore). The evolutionary time line for Internet marketing continues to run at warp speed.

An example of previous evolutionary periods (which by now may almost seem prehistoric) would be emergence of pay-per-click advertising and cooresponding rise of search-marketing firms specializing in AdWords and Overture. As long as there are methods for finding and retrieving information in digital databases by using keywords or similar attributes, there will be a search-marketing industry. How that industry operates in future depends on how search engines operate and how consumer tendencies evolve.

It's a constant sea of change, but good things just keep on getting better! Stay alert, and light on your feet, and opportunities will just keep on coming your way.

The above are just some observations from "the peanut gallery", but I don't think I'm far off mark about where things are heading. With that, I'm off soapbox and wishing you success in whatever you do online!