Who couldn't use a little extra income to help them get through the month? If you could make money online with a few hours of work it could really boost your budget and help offset the rising costs of gas and food and the ever present mortgage payments.

There are many ways to make money online but I'd like to just focus on three of them right now.

1.Blogging: While blogs are not a new phenomenon, it is quite new that people are starting to use them to make money online. You get a chance to share your opinion or your expertise in the topic of your choice and make money. How does this work? The easiest way is to sign up with the Google AdSense program. They will give you a piece of HTML code that you can insert into your blog (hire a tech guy to help you with this if you don't think you can handle the installation process). That code will display ads on your blog that directly relate to what you are blogging about. This means your visitors are getting targeted ads which means they will click on them more. The more they click on those ads, the more money you'll make.

2.Create Your Own Information Product: You'd be amazed at how information that have and think is useless, is actually really valuable to thousands of people online. Maybe you have a home remedy for acne. Maybe your mother has the meanest brownie recipe any one's ever seen. All of these pieces of information can be constructed into an ebook. Once your ebook is written and ready be sure to upload it to Clickbank so affiliates will promote it for you!

3.Retail-E-Commerce: Many people are making great livings online selling wholesale products for retail prices on sites like eBay. The trick here will be to find a legitimate supplier whose prices are low enough for you to turn a profit.

The other trick to making e-commerce work is to make sure you're in the right market. You need to make sure you're in a market that has enough buyers to support the kind of income you want to create with you online business. Just because you are interested in a highly specialized niche topic, doesn't mean anyone else is. That's why you need to check out who are already ebay's best sellers and consider tapping into those markets which are already proven to be profitable.