Finding legitimate ways to make money online may sometimes seem impossible. At the very least, it is a difficult thing to do. There are thousands of people out in cyberspace trying to get rich quick. Some of these people go from website to website buying and trying every new gimmick they can find. Others start the websites selling the gimmicks to the people trusting enough to pay $200.00-$300.00 for the “secrets” to making it big.
There are some honest websites out there that aren’t looking to take your money and really do have a program that will allow you to make money from home. There are even a few that do not require you to invest anything but your time and really can end with you receiving a paycheck.
Most of us have heard about eBay and craigslist. Both of these sites offer legitimate ways to make money online. These sites are there for people to buy and sell goods. These goods can range from books to clothes and from toys to cars. eBay charges a listing fee but craigslist is free.
If you have an attic full of stuff you no longer want or live next door to an outlet mall, these are both good ways to earn some extra cash. But what about people who don’t want to sell their things or spend a large portion of their time bargain shopping? There is another site that I just recently heard of. It is called ClickBank.
With ClickBank, you don’t need a stockpile of your possessions to sell, and you don’t need to go out to find things to sell. ClickBank is what is known as a digital media retailer. They work with publishers to sell digital media such as eBooks and software. Then they find affiliates (people like you and me) to market these products on their websites. ClickBank has been around since the late 90s and are well known in the digital media industry, so they are a company you can trust.
Becoming a ClickBank affiliate is actually a simple and free process. Yes, I did say free! They don’t need to charge people to work with them because they get paid by the publisher to list their product and the publisher pays the commissions earned by the affiliates. So once you register with ClickBank to become an affiliate, you then browse their marketplace to see which publications you feel you want to market. Next, you simply add a hoplink from your site (which is marketing the publication) to ClickBank (which is holding the publication). So from that point on, whenever a customer uses the hoplink from your site to ClickBank, you receive the commission for the sale. Pretty simple, right?
Now you are probably thinking “o.k. the commissions must be next to nothing.” In some cases that may be true but more often than not the commissions are quite nice. Commissions can be as little as 25¢ or as much as $100.00 and the nice thing is that you can choose only to market items that offer the highest commissions.
In the ClickBank Marketplace sale price, commission percentage, number of sales and other vital information is right at your fingertips. This allows you to make educated choices on what product you feel could net you the greatest returns.
So now you know there really are legitimate ways to make money online. Some require you to sell your things. Some require you to find things to sell. Others give you the products and all you need to do is market them to reap your rewards.
