The fact is, this business model has no competition in the ways it can deliver income for work put in. You can start for a couple hundred dollars and, with time and dedication you can build yourself an automated income website that will send you money for a long time. Then build another.

Internet marketing (direct sales by means of the internet) only need three things to come together...

1. A promotion of a service or product that a lot of people want or need.

2. A place to display the promotion. This ranges from a webpage,to a blog to a Hubpage to a Squidoo lens. You could even do it with just a domain name that redirected to an offers landing page.

3. A method of generating traffic. (visitors, people, folks, customers, prospects, etc.) But not just any old type of traffic, you want the kind of traffic that is in the market to buy what you are selling. This is the great thing about Internet Marketing, the capability of sorting traffic into probable buyers versus tire kickers.

It's pretty simple to understand. If you have a good offer, and you have it nicely displayed, and the traffic that is coming to the offer is actually interested in what's for sale, it's a winner. Change any one of those things and you may not have a winner at all. So combine all three to "make money online" a certain result.

So, how do you find a good offer?

Go to Clickbank, for starters, and make a list of the top three products in the ten categories and you'll have a great list of thirty to choose from!

So, how do you get a place to display your offer?

I recommend a Wordpress blog used as a website. They are easy to use and Google likes to send traffic to them. You can put anything on a Wordpress blog simply by copying and pasting, plus affiliate links are a piece of cake.

And, how do you get the "right traffic" to that offer?

There are many solutions for generating traffic and the best one for you will be the one you are the best at. They all work. The degree to which they work is often directly related to how well you execute on the method.

For example, if you want to generate traffic by writing articles, the better you get at it, the better your traffic results will be. Same goes for other methods.

One way to generate the right traffic for good sales is to put the certain keywords on your sales page that your targeted traffic is highly likely to type into Google when searching for certain products. This is referred to as Search Engine Marketing and it is sort of the holy grail of traffic generation because it combines targeted traffic generation with the fact that it's free.

If you are just getting into the idea of making money online you would be well served to ignore the sales pages that claim you can be rich overnight by purchasing a $47 ebook. Internet Marketing is sales and commerce and it requires a certain level of professionalism.

That said, it is good to remember that Internet Marketing really can be done from home and that it really can be automated. That, along with the potential for real income, are just some of the benefits of online sales and marketing.