So what is key to earning a steady monthly income online?

1. You must have multiple streams of income.

You've heard that old adage " don't put all your eggs into one basket " The same holds true when you are running an online business. To insure a steady flow of income each month it is extremely important to have multiple streams of income.

2. What are multiple streams of income?

Good question. Basically it is when you have income coming in from more than one source at a time.

Imagine having 3 jobs with 3 paychecks. If this were case you would have multiple streams of income. Lucky for you this is not type of income streams I am referring to. I just wanted to give you basic idea. Now in an online business it is much easier to achieve multiple streams of income and it doesn't require that you hold down more than one job. I bet your relieved to hear that!

3. How do you get multiple streams of income?

I know what you may be thinking "it's hard enough to keep one income coming in how am I going to manage to get multiple streams coming in at same time?" I'm glad you asked. It's really not as complicated as it may sound.

As a matter of fact if you have your own business website you may already be earning multiple streams of income.

If you sell a product or a specific group of products and you also sell advertising on your site then you are earning an income from two different sources. Are you earning commissions from an affiliate or partner program? That is another stream of income. If you are generating profits from backend sales add that to your stream.

So as you can see it's really not that difficult to earn multiple streams of income.

By Stephen Bucaro

Copyright law goes back to founding fathers who, in order "to promote progress of science and useful arts" in Article I, Section 8 of Constitution, secured for authors, artists and inventors exclusive right to their work for 28 years. In 1909, Copyright Act allowed that after 28 years, protection could be renewed for another 28 years. In 1978, law was revised to provide protection until 50 years after creater's death. The 1978 law also extended previous unexpired copyrights for another 47 years.

To put it in simple terms, anything created before 1923 is now in public domain. Anything created between 1924 and 1963 is in public domain unless copyright was renewed. Most of time these copyrights were not renewed because either owners weren't making any money off work, or they just forgot deadline.

Have you noticed a lot of TV commercials using rock music written in early 60's. Why be creative when you can steal somebody elses work who didn't renew copyright?

Another question - can we profit from material in public domain? Yes, but you may need to be a little creative to do so. And guess what? Once you modify something in public domain, you automatically have a copyright on modified version - until 50 years after your death! Unless you're a corporation, then it's 100 years!

And some of that public domain material is high quality - from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

Add to this fact that you can use anything created by Federal Government or its employees in course of their duties. You paid for it with your taxes. This gives you access to millions of great photographs, including those taken by NASA.