Just over 2 years ago I left a well paid job and shortly afterwards due to circumstances had to find a new income quickly. I began to try to make an income online, through sheer luck I soon managed to make enough money each month to cover all my bills. Before I started I knew absolutely nothing about marketing of any kind let alone online marketing. I hadn't even heard of AdSense until the day before i built my first site!

Being quite desperate for money when I first started I found I was quite focused on creating an income. I quickly managed to build up my income to the stage where I could start to relax and focus on creating a long term income. Don't get me wrong it wasn't easy. There were plenty of long nights and mistakes along the way. One of the results of this was I wanted to share my knowledge and help people who may be in the same situation. To do this I set up The Income Academy. The aim is to provide an ultra cheap way to show people how to make money online.

I mentioned at the start of this article that there were several ways to earn money online so let's have a look at them. Unfortunately it's not a simple as creating a website and sitting back to let the money flow in you will need to work at it.

Creating a service is a good way of generating an income, if you can write articles for people. If you have good design skills create a website graphics and page templates. Once you have regular customers you will have a steady income stream.

Affiliate marketing in it's most basic form can be quite profitable. Find a product that will be an impulse buy and create a series of articles about it. Add you affiliate link to the resource box. You can find suitable products on clickbank.

Make websites that are informative and place adverts on them. AdSense is the most popular type of advert. You will then need to spend time promoting the site.

Write an e-book and add it to clickbank. You can promote it yourself and after a few sales you will probably find affiliates will start to promote it for you.

Buy established blogs and join a pay per post service and sell text link adverts.

The methods above are just some of the methods our members are using to make money online. The Income Academy strives to give you all the information that you need to start to make yourself an income online. Many Internet marketers will constantly try to sell you the next must have product. You don't need them! You can make an online income with a few spare dollars and a desire to learn.