Almost all of the marketers out there today are telling you to find a niche, like gardening or back pain or something like one of these. They say that there are too many people right now selling advice on making money but when you really sit down and think about it what are people looking for when they get on the net? They are looking for a way that they can make additional income or to replace their current income completely. This is the largest niche.

If you don't have a product of your own and you don't know anybody who has a product then the easiest thing you can do is join a sight like Clickbank and start looking for products. If you want to see how many others are selling the same product then do a search on overture for the title of the product you are thinking about promoting.

If you don't have a site of your own and you need someplace to sell your affiliate products then think about using an online auction site like Ebay. As your percentage of auctions sold goes up this is telling you that your copywriting has greatly improved. Besides Ebay you can also sell on amazon and Yahoo,

If you need a web site you may get one with your ISP. I know that mine does this as well as some of the bigger ones otherwise Google will give you a free site. These free sites have web page builders for you to create a site with and some of them will allow you to create a great looking Blog using a product like Wordpress.

Most of these internet marketers out there will let you believe that you must create your own ebook or report. Do not let this give you butterflies in your stomach. You can just create a new posting to your blog which allows people to subscribe via RSS. This is the only publishing you may need to do when you are first getting into making money online.

Stay away from the so called replicate site's that you get from some of these business opportunites. If 1,000's of people all have this same site with only their personal contact information that is different then these sites will fall into the bottomless pit of duplicate content. Get a basic hosting account set up and then use Fantastico to install a great looking site for you.

If you want a site that shows up high in the search engines and gets a lot of traffic then the two easiest methods are by writing articles and by launching a pay per click campaign on a popular search engine like that of Google. When writing articles you need to submit them to these article directories that appear all over the Web. Article writing is the best way to get one way links linking back to your site.

There are so many niches that are inside the niche of how to make money online. You could choose the smaller niche of affiliate marketing, email marketing, copywriting, web design, blogging, web video, web audio, and the list goes on. Even these smaller niches like that of blogging is going to do better for you than the niche of making birdhouses.