More people than ever are looking for a way to make money online. From people getting laid off to hours cut more people are looking to alternative ways to supplement or surpass their income. Not only can working online help save you from financial ruin, it saves time and money with no more commute, tax benefits and the added bonus of having more time freedom. It is easy more than ever to start a business.

Here are the top 6 online businesses for 2009:

1. Choose a niche. Choose something you enjoy doing that you are also good at and is a profitable area. You will have to do some keyword research to really know for sure. Once you pick your niche you can then look for products and services that your target audience will want and need. Once you master this one niche you can start adding sub-niches to your portfolio or completely new ones.

2. Become an affiliate. Affiliate marketing can be a part of a niche business or a separate endeavor. This is one of the easiest ways to get started as you can get started with no out of pocket cost marketing other peoples’ products. Choose products in demand with a great conversion rate and that pay out well.

3. Join a network marketing company. When looking for a company, choose one that has a great comp plan, good policies and procedures, good reputation and products that people would want without a compensation plan attached. What’s great with network marketing businesses is you get residual income. If you enjoy working with a team of people this may be a great option for you.

4. Sell PLR products. Private Label Rights products are another way to make money online without much expense. The hard part (product creation) is done just like affiliate products, however with PLR you can customize the product and resell it as yours. Not to mention you also get to keep all of the profits unless you decide to have an affiliate sales force.

5. Utilize email marketing. You can email other people’s list and you can build your own list of targeted people to market to. You can also jumpstart your efforts quickly with co-registration leads.

6. Start a blog. Blogging is a great choice whether you enjoy writing or not. If you do not or do not have the time, then outsource your writing. Creating a niche specific blog with lots of great relevant content will help you to get traffic and monetize on your blog, with advertisements, affiliate promotions and even build your list to email market to. You can even start blogging for free through blogger.com or do a self-hosted blog with Wordpress for the cost of hosting which is not only affordable but the best option for most.

There are many great ways to start making money online in 2009. You can choose 1 or all of the methods given as they all can easily be combined together for a massive plan of action. With blogging you can easily mix it with affiliate marketing and email marketing right away. Email marketing and list building should be combined with any method you choose for optimal results. Whatever you choose get started right away so you can stop participating in the recession.

Forest Marie is a dynamic Internet Marketer, a Wealth Masters Master Consultant and a top income earner in CarbonCopyPRO. To join Forest’s team, visit CarbonCopyPRO and submit an application.

Originally published: Online Businesses for 2009

There must be many people around you who speak about affiliate marketing, and all the wealth that goes with it. No wonder you might be looking at jumping into affiliate marketing bus too. There is no doubt whatsoever that there is plenty of money to be made online.

If you want to succeed in affiliate marketing industry, you should avoid making certain mistakes others are making every time they join this industry.

The following are some of the terrible mistakes committed by affiliate marketing newbies.

First mistake
Join an affiliate program, create an affiliate link sothat customers will click on your affiliate link and buy.

Second mistake
You choose any product to sell, the product you choose have a high commission payout eg $50 per sale.

Third mistake
You buy a software to promote the product online. You create a campaign and wait for results.

Fourth mistake
You check your affiliate account for any commission deposited. Unfortunately your affiliate account continuously shows $0.00

Fifth mistake
You buy another software to promote your products,again your affiliate account shows $0.00.

If you have made such mistakes in your affiliate marketing efforts, I suggest you need help and support. The tools that you use to promote you products are letting you down.

Others are lured into the internet marketing business because of certain ebooks which promises millions. So they end up losing time, money, and energy.

Making money online is something thousands of people aspire to do. But the vast majority of them fail to make more than a few dollars, and then they give up in frustration.

If you are aiming for greater revenue in affiliate marketing, then you must know the secret behind Affiliate marketing business and avoid making mistakes. Every affiliate marketer dreams to be successful,unfortunately though, not everyone succeeds.

Some of us fail at Internet marketing and some of us do not. What really separates those that fail from those that succeed online? You may be surprised. It is not from technical ability, web development skills, or past history in internet marketing.

I just want to make it clear, the tools and ebooks you use do not have any problem. Do not quote me wrong, they were developed to help you make money online. Others are using them to make profit every day.

These products or softwares are helpful and they teach you how to make money online. The problem with them is that they donot provide you step by step instructions of how to succeed in affiliate marketing business. Some of the stuff you purchased are not for newbies, some of the information requires you to further download certain products.Others require one on one support which is very rare to find online.

The only reason they let you down, is that you do not know how to use them or you have not been trained to use them at all. You are like someone who takes photos with a camera without training. Your photos will look bad, you will not even show them to your friends. You will decide to take your camera back to the camera shop and demand a refund.

Affiliate marketing is one of the best and easiest way of earning residual income online. Because affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, some of them are even free to join.

However, like all other online or offline businesses, one must get everything right to succeed. Making some of the most common affiliate mistakes will cost you great profits that you should be making everyday. That is why it is better for you to get someone to help you all the way.

If you want learn how to build a house, you donot simply buy builders tools, but you go to a building school to learn, the school will teach how to build a house and provide you with builders kit.

The newcomers need to ask themselves the following questions.Are you doing this internet marketing business because it will produce tons of money or are you in this business because you like doing it?

If you want to be successful in this field, you first have to learn and be educated. That is the first step. Its the same for all businesses including affiliate marketing. However, it is not as hard as you think, if you know where and what kind of learning resources to look for.

Lastly I need to warn you to be careful of scams, who will promise you that they can help you to avoid the mistakes I mentioned in this article.Before you allow anyone to help you, determine whether he or she will genuinely assist you. Conduct your own reaserch in forums,blogs or other resource sites.

The Wealthy Affiliate Universityis an internet marketing school. Wealthy affiliate will not make you rich, because it is not SCAM. Wealthy Affiliate is a membership site loaded with internet marketers who have one goal … to make money online. It has tutorials and resources, support channels to make you succeed.

Find out more at http://www.wealthyaffiliatecampus.com.

The key to building excellent revenue generating affiliate businesses is to build your downline. While you can earn money through your efforts solely, you can earn more via a team approach. A well-trained downline team can build your income even as you pursue other endeavors. Therefore, it’s in your best interests to go wide and deep to find these affiliate-marketing associates.

Consider how distribution of your article writing through article marketing builds your affiliate sales. With your articles, you engage in article submission activities because you want to build links to your website. The more articles you send out the greater likelihood of finding interested readers within your niche.

You also need these articles to reach as many publishers within your niche as is possible. It’s important to choose an article distribution service that deals with thousands of publishers. A good service will not limit themselves to a relatively few general interest publishers. They will seek out, and get your articles out to, those specialty publishers your articles require. When they do, the process of gaining targeted traffic to your website is in full swing.

You want this targeted traffic because they have a natural affinity to your affiliate products. They took the time to access and read your article on a niche publisher’s site. They were already looking for what you prepared for them. You can see why they will tend to link back to you from your author’s resource box. You’re speaking their language through your informative articles. You have connected with them and they will seek you out to learn more about you.

Now, let’s take this a step further. If you can build your affiliate sales through article marketing, why not your downline as well. If continuous and never ending distribution that goes wide and deep garners sales, why not use it to garner a downline.

Within that niche who reads your articles will be individuals who have an interest in moneymaking activities. They may have a desire to work from home in their own business. The affiliate business opportunity that your program offers may be what they’re looking for.

You can write some articles that deal with affiliate marketing in general. Through wide and deep distribution, these articles can reach a significant audience. These can all be potential downline members. Your article can point out the benefits of affiliate marketing. You can also do articles that objectively compare different affiliate programs. You can include yours in these information packed articles. Of course, you will not engage in blatant self-promotion.

What happens next can be very fruitful for your business. Through your articles, you will provide your links to where you can explain more about the affiliate opportunity. That target audience of yours can visit you with two objectives in mind now.

One is to check out your affiliate products and services. The other is to check out the affiliate business opportunity itself. This is the power of article marketing through an article distribution service that provides continuous and never-ending distribution that goes wide and deep.

Marketing your affiliate opportunity through an article promotion campaign can help you keep potential members in your pipeline. Let’s face it; affiliate attrition is a business reality. For whatever reasons, downline members come and go. It’s essential to your success as an affiliate marketer to have new downline members always coming aboard.

With unceasing distribution from a premier article marketing enterprise, you have your business on a solid foundation. You ensure that your audience will see your articles continually across a broad spectrum of publishers. Your articles will work for you even while you’re not working. They will bring in those individuals who may find your business opportunity suits them. These individuals can begin to work for you.

That can take some of the time pressure off you that you may feel as an affiliate marketer. It’s true that all work and no play make Jack and Jill dull boys and girls. Therefore, let the broad reach of a good distribution service make your affiliate marketing efforts more efficient. Then you will have the time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts, those leisure activities important to you.

You owe it to yourself to take the time to choose the proper article distribution service. After all, you are expending serious time and effort in article writing as part of your article promotion campaigns. With all your hard work, you don’t want a service that doesn’t deliver results. Continuous and never-ending distribution, which goes wide and deep will help secure the downline members you need.

(Carol Palmatier is Vice President of Marketing for Article Marketer and a “Word of Mouth” marketing expert. Read the Press Release about Article Marketer’s 200 millionth article distributed.)