There was a time when I was house hunting and realized that as a self-employed business owner that one source of income was not going to get me where I wanted. I needed to make more than the average bear because my yearly salary showed a small taxable income after all the business deductions. Of course I could take another job in the traditional sense but then I would have very little free time. Thus trying to get extra money to attain freedom is shot right from the beginning.

So how do you make money while not always having to work to sustain that income? You work on the Internet and have your extra source of income come from online. Is it a get rich fast system? NO. What the Internet does offer is continuing income from work that has been done once. This is a very big secret to success in many fields. Do work once and have the effort pay you for years.

I know many people doubt the validity of working online to make extra money but this is because they do not approach it as a job. Just as in real life, short cuts and a lack of effort will never pay you back with financial rewards. The trick is to keep rolling the snowball until momentum makes it roll itself. Internet income is all about critical mass.

Just as with anything that is advertised in this world, there are some things that do work and then there is the other 99% that is Internet crap and hype. Ive been through most but not all of what is offered out there. What works now for increasing your income through the Internet? Adsense, Click Bank and Commission Junction.

I have tested program after program only to be disappointed and robbed of my money. I have been at this for about 3 years straight now and using what I have that works for about 1 year. I am still learning but can tell you with confidence that Adsense, Click Bank and Commission Junction have been the most rewarding ways for me to increase my income. The most forgiving factors about these online income sources is that while you are getting your empire up and running they do not cost you a thing. So you never lose out.

Once Adsense, Click Bank and Commission Junction are running and you have them tweaked out from experimenting, then they can boost your income by a couple of thousand a month. Granted I am relatively new at this, but at least I am confident in saying that these Internet income sources work for me.

I think the biggest thing about Internet income or at least the best idea to think on for making money is leverage. There are millions of people out there. If you can figure out how to invest .50 in order to make a dollar. All you have to do is figure out how to do that automatically, and then do it as much as you can.

Making Internet money with the google adsense program for me has been my mainstay. I simply write about topics I like and then put the google adesense ads on there and they run silently in the background making me money day and night. Some pages make more money than others, but finding what makes the most money and then writing about something that doesnt interest me sounds like a mild form of torture. I write about whatever life experience I am learning about at the time. Right now its making extra money on the Internet.

I learned about clickbank through wanting to write and ebook myself. By finding out how to sell my own ebook online to make extra money, I learned I could sell other peoples ebooks that I liked and trusted to make money for the both of us. Whenever I by a product that I like or has helped me make some money online, then I will sell that product in good conscience myself. Everybody wins.

Commission Junction is still a bit of a rouge for me. I have made some money on the Internet but just cant get it to perform at its full potential. This is probably because I am a content writer and not a sales copy person. Just when I think I got it nailed, it turns out to be a fluke. I know the money is there waiting to be picked but havent quite found the optimum way to make money online with them yet. One thing I can tell you is that you cant just put an affiliate link up and hope for the best. There has to be some real work in the background. Mostly in the form or gaining a high traffic flow through content and then shuttling that traffic to the pre-sell page.

These are the basic concept of making extra money online. Give them all a try, but focus on one.

Copyright 2006 Raymond Burton