Fortunately it is possible to make money on the Internet, and it is also possible to get rich; you just need to realize it will take a long time to happen and it will take a lot of effort to get it there. In order to start down a path towards financial freedom, start looking for systems that make you money without you having to put further effort into them (beyond effort of their first creation). Royalties are a good example of this. A writer pens a novel, sells it to a publisher, then continues to receive royalties from sales of the work for as long as the work is available. The novel requires no more effort from the writer beyond the effort to make it, but becomes a valuable source of income thereafter.

A job on the other hand requires constant effort. As soon as you make your weekly pay, you have to go back and do it all over again to make next week's pay. Your job will always require your attention. Any kind of paid work suffers from the same problem.

The goal is simple, to free yourself from the work>money cycle. The methods of achieving this are many and varied, and depend largely on what you're good at and passionate about. For example, photographers can sell their photographs on stock photography websites. Musicians can sell their compositions on stock music websites. Those who are good with computers can create a vast array of content for the multimedia thirsty 21^st century. Programmers can create games or programs. The product doesn't matter, so long as you own the rights to it. The idea is simple, if you own content you can license that content to third parties who will sell it on your behalf (for this purpose digital content is favourable to physical products since an unlimited number of copies can be sold).

The next step is to set up a system that takes care of sales automatically, so that you never need attend to it. You might have to do this yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. Fortunately in a lot of cases, there are third parties who sell what you're offering, and are always on the look out for contributors. Such companies will take care of the website, advertising, administration, and paying you, leaving you to worry only about supplying them content and spending (or saving) your royalties.

Such websites include dreamstime.com and istockphoto.com for photography; revostock.com for stock movies and music; constant-content.com and triond.com for writers (not to mention the endless possibilities open to fiction writers). 3d02.com and 3dexport.com are where the tech savvy can sell 3D digital objects. For those who yearn for a serious challenge garagegames.com is worth checking out with a platform allowing amateurs to create their own computer games (and casual games are very popular these days).

So to put it simply, you're looking to switch from being an employee to a content owner. Of course, none of this will help you get rich overnight. Getting a loan and starting a business would surely be faster, but that I'm afraid is outside the scope of this article.

Be prepared to make very little. If the kind of residual income mentioned in this article was easy to come by, then lets face it, no one would be working. A simplified rule is; the more content you have, then the more income you can get out of it all. Through dedication and hard work having content will pay off in the long term, but first aim for realistic targets.

1. Your first target is to make two dollars per day. “Two dollars per day!!” you surely exclaim. Yes – don't give up your day job quite yet – but aim for that. Once you reach it consider yourself fortunate because half the world's population – 3 billion people – live on less than two dollars per day. If you're making that from residual income then you're doing well. If you're able to set up a system that makes two dollars a day then there's no reason why you can't reach ten dollars a day, or twenty dollars a day (and so on). Now you can see where this is going...
2. Second target: pick a bill (rent, electricity, phone) and aim to get your residual income to the stage where it covers your bill. Once that's covered, move onto the next bill. Repeat until all your bills are covered.
3. Third target: savings. Start saving some of your residual income, so that interest can add value to it. The savings will also play an important role later in smoothing out the ups and downs of the residual income.
4. Fourth target: diversify. Once you have a residual income, the last stage is to diversify. Only by having a number of separate sources do you ensure against disaster. Any one source of income could dry up at any time. Diversification is key. Once you reach this stage, then you should also have plenty spare money to reinvest back into making more money.

By working through this list, someday you'll likely find that you have the financial freedom to pursue your own projects and your own agenda. By freeing yourself of the work>money cycle you are leaving yourself open to a vast array of possibilities that would otherwise have passed you by (because you were busy making someone else rich). It's not a get rich quick scheme, but it has its merits. Not all of us are in the right place at the right time, to spot a niche, to invent a winning product, or invest in the next hot stock... but we can all invest time to create content, in whatever shape or form it takes, and subsequently enjoy the benefits that residual income brings.

Your profile is completely customizable with html, anyway you want. Your MySpace layout will work seamlessly with your Yuwie page, since it’s just html. You can invite all of your friends from MySpace to use Yuwie and create your massive network of friends while they get paid for their content as well.

Along with the ability to use Yuwie as your own blogging website, it also offers a place for you to upload your pictures, your videos, and even a place for you to create your own layouts and have the publicized. In addition your profile, you can join and create clubs which are dedicated to many different walks of life, including entertainment, celebrities, gaming, tv, music… just about anything you can think of, from any other spectrum. The clubs are completely manageable, allowing you to upload a club logo, club news, allowing users to post new topics for the club. It's like a mini forum inside the website.

The control panel you use to customize all of this is easy to manage as well. Instead of being bulky and cluttered like other control panels, it presents all of your data in an easy to access manner, which all of your pages, clubs, friends, blogs, being no more than a single mouse click away.

If you find someone is annoying you on Yuwie, you have the ability to block them from contacting you in any way, shape, or form, which includes reading your profile, commenting on your profile, or even viewing any of your pictures of videos.

All in all Yuwie is a great social networking alternative for those who are sick of MySpace and Facebook, yet want to have a platform to express themselves on.

After I found ChaCha , the first site that paid me to do what I was doing all the time anyway (searching the internet), I began a quest to find every site I could that was for real, was proven to actually pay, and was worth my time to use it. Below is a list of sites that are working for me, categorized between those that require little to no skills and those that require at least some basic grammar and writing skills.

Get Paid to Read, Click, and Fill Out Forms

Cash Crate

There are a ton of sites that pay you to complete free offers online, but from my experience nothing beats Cash Crate. I made almost thirty dollars the first night I tried it and got a check in the mail the following month. It's possible to make a lot more than that if you're very comfortable giving out your personal information. I recommend getting a separate email address for these offers, since the junk mail they accumulate is overwhelming. Also, although there are a lot of free offer sites and many of them are good, I haven't personally found much point in fully participating in more than one. They all have the same offers, and I'd rather get one big check than several small ones. If you're still interested in trying several, two of the better ones are Treasure Trooper and Swat Cash.

Zotspot

If you're like most of us, you search the Internet daily, usually several times a day. Of the sites that pay you to use their search engine, Zotspot is the most straightforward and has the most potential for earnings. You won't amass a fortune doing this, but you won't lose much time to it either. This site, like many of the “get paid to” sites, also has a referral program where you can exponentially increase your earnings by inviting others to join, which makes the pennies add up more quickly. One important note: Don't be concerned when your account shows 0 for a long period of time. There is a delay of about two months between when you do the searches and when your account is credited, just like a pay lag. But once you get that first credit, you can cash out monthly for as long as you continue searching. For those of you who want to try some of the other legitimate paid search engines, check out Slash My Search and Agloco

Clix Sense

Clix Sense is just one of several sites that will pay you to look at ads. On Clix Sense, you get a penny or two per ad, which you need to leave open in your browser window for at least thirty seconds. I've found Clix Sense to be rather painless, since I can do it while I'm online doing other things, but this is not a big money earner for me. I'd say I'm making about ten cents a day. By using several of these sites and taking advantage of the referral programs, it's possible to make more. If you want to check out some other reputable sites, try Adbux and WordLinx. There is also Myster-e-mail for those who'd like to get paid to read email, and Cash Fiesta for those who want to get paid to surf.

Get Paid to Write and Help Others

Daytipper

Daytipper is a site that pays $3.00 each for brief descriptions of useful tips. If you know a way to get wine out of carpet or to sleep when you've got insomnia, write up a blurb on it and send it in. The site accepts and publishes about 1/3 of its submissions, so you'll want to take the time to write well and clearly. Still, even with care to grammar, structure, and spelling, it doesn't take long to write a tip. The downside of this site is that it can take months to get the payment from them, but the upside is that they do actually send it.

Review Stream

Review Stream pays as much as $1.50 each for reviews of just about anything. Review books, movies, medicines, your favorite restaurant, the mp3 player you got for Christmas, whatever you like. These reviews need not be long; they just need to include your personal opinion of the item in a way that is useful to others. It's fun and easy and they come through with the payments. Review Stream requires full rights to your reviews, meaning you can never publish or post them elsewhere.

Epinions

Epinions is another site that pays writers for reviews. However, instead of a single upfront payment, Epinions pays you a penny or two each time someone reads your review page. Like Helium, Epinions has a system in place to ensure that the best reviews are more likely to be read, so it's essential in making money on this site to write clear, useful reviews. It's also to your benefit to review items that people search on frequently.

Review Party

Review Party is one more site where users can make money for writing reviews. In this case, your payments come solely through advertising on your page, which you take some responsibility for procuring by signing up for Google Adsense and the Amazon Associate program. The key to this site is to write reviews that will generate enough readers that some of them will click on your ads. Review Party does not require exclusive rights to your reviews, so it might be worthwhile to publish them here as well as elsewhere and see if they generate any income.

Associated Content

If you're looking to make some extra cash writing articles for web pages, there are several sites that will pay for your efforts. The best of these is Associated Content. Unlike many "get paid to write" sites, they frequently pay a lump sum upon publishing the article, as well as a bonus for the number of page views the article generates. Also, unlike many other sites, it is your choice whether or not to give them exclusive rights to your work. You may choose to accept a smaller initial payment in order to keep the option of publishing the article again in the future. Payment for articles is generally under $20.00, but if you can quickly write clear, engaging articles, you can make some decent income here.

Helium

On Helium it pays to be a good writer who can create informative or entertaining articles on popular topics. This is a site that pays you based solely on clicks to your articles, so if you're not drawing readers, you're not getting paid. There is a voting system in place to further assure that the best articles get the most attention, a useful feature that helps keep poorly written articles from annoying readers. This is necessary because any article written on an existing Helium topic is immediately published to the site. If you're a serious writer, money can be made on Helium, but it may take a considerable amount of work and tweaking to find what will bring in the money. If you like to write and you like the challenge of improving your writing to meet the demands of readers, this site is worth a try.

Triond

Triond is quite similar to Helium, in that you are paid for visitors to your article pages rather than given an upfront payment. There is voting at this site, but it is not as central to readership as it is at Helium. Triond appears to weed out poorly written articles by declining to put them on their websites in the first place. Another major difference between the two is that, unlike Helium, Triond requires that all articles submitted to them be previously unpublished, either in print or on the web. You are free thereafter to republish your work as often as you like.

Looking For Clues

This site is similar to Associated Content. It pays upfront for well-written articles on a variety of subjects that are then available on the site and accessible from search engines. The major difference is that Looking For Clues is specifically seeking articles that are more insightful or entertaining than the usual fare. It's harder to get published on Looking For Clues, but when your articles are accepted, you are paid a higher rate for them, usually between $10 and $30. Looking For Clues requires the full rights to your articles, but the higher payment makes this worthwhile for many writers.

My Lot

I mention this briefly only for people who sincerely enjoy posting in forums and would spend their time doing it anyway. My Lot will pay you a penny or two for each post, which means that if you post fifty to a hundred times, you can make a dollar. They have a referral program that gives you a percentage of your friends' posts as well, but even then it's not really possible to make a significant amount of money on this site without spending all your waking hours at your keyboard.

ChaCha

The ChaCha search engine pays guides to assist users in finding information on the Internet. ChaCha is a real work at home opportunity that can bring in a significant amount of money depending on the time and work a person is willing to dedicate to it. ChaCha pays guides $5.00 an hour, but this amount is often less for new guides who rarely get a steady stream of searches.

Another limitation is that searches are only paid for the first six minutes, so those that run over cut into the hourly rate. There is a significant amount of unpaid training involved to get to the higher levels where more and better searches come in, and because ChaCha guides are rated by users, it's necessary to deliver consistently excellent customer service to maintain those levels. ChaCha guides are independent contractors, meaning they have to pay self-employment tax (in addition to regular income tax) on their earnings, another factor that lowers the $5.00 hourly rate. There are also a number of rules and regulations ChaCha guides are expected to follow that can sometimes feel restrictive.

Despite all this, ChaCha has something going for it that makes it a serious contender as an at-home income generator: it's addictive. Guiding searches is challenging, fun, and although sometimes infuriating, it is never boring. ChaCha is not currently taking on new guides as of June 2007, but it's certain they will do so again in the future. You can become a guide by finding another guide to invite you or by applying through the “become a guide” link at the bottom of the ChaCha home page.

WAHM

For those of you looking for more serious work at home opportunities, something more like a real job, the WAHM (Work At Home Moms) forums are the best place to start. They list legitimate companies that hire telecommuters and at- home workers with a variety of different skills. I got my first at-home transcriptionist job through WAHM, for which I will always enthusiastically recommend their site.

To conclude, by making use of a multitude of these sites, it's possible to bring in a significant amount of money each month. Since many of them also have paid referral programs, you can increase your income by inviting other users to join. As with most pursuits, you'll get out of these sites what you put into them. A little extra work in the beginning can pay off handsomely in the end. Have fun trying them out!

This was the main purpose of myLot to begin with. Since myLot pays more for the discussions that get more responses and attention, it is important to keep your discussions as high-quality as you can on topics that people are more likely to respond to. Don't post long and elaborate discussions if you don't have to. People are less likely to read something much longer than a couple of paragraphs, and you don't earn as much unless you have people respond to it, so make your discussions short and to the point. A paragraph or two is enough.

MyLot doesn't want polls on if people like chocolate or not or what color the sky is, nor do they want “Yes” or “No” responses. They want to see substance. The poor discussions will not earn very much, if they don't get deleted first, plus the discussions that are not of high quality are essentially stealing potential money from you, which moves us to the next idea.

Report Discussions

You don't want to report every discussion that isn't your own, that will probably just get you banned from using the site, but if you see a discussion that is breaking one of the guidelines, then you should report it right away. If the myLot staff don't see the post in time, the person that posted it made money off of it, money that probably should have gone to you, so reporting inappropriate discussions not only helps you with your earnings, but it will also help the entire myLot community.

Rate Discussions

The Discussion Rating System, DRS, is what determines what content is useful and what is not, and it has a direct impact on the earnings of the discussion. It is not based on a single user's rating, but on the rating of the community in general. This can also help you increase your star rating, which shows how favorable you are among the rest of the members of the site.

Tag Discussions

You should also make sure to tag discussions, especially your own, so that other people can find them. Starting discussions from your interests categories and tagging them will get more publicity and responses than if you started a discussion without a category with no tags in hopes of people finding it. Chances are, they won't.

Search Before you Post

There is nothing more annoying than someone copying someone else's discussion, whether intentionally or not, and have their discussion get more attention than the original poster. No one likes it when their discussions are stolen, so you shouldn't steal them. It's that simple. Also make sure you read all, or at least most, of the responses to a discussion before you, yourself, respond. It is pointless to say something that someone else has already said, and it may be considered as spam by myLot staff.

Get Referrals

This is probably the biggest earner in the whole myLot system. For each member you refer to the site, you get a bonus equal to 25% of their earnings. There are some members on myLot that earn a lot of money without even touching the site because they have been so active in getting referrals. Some members have over 1000 people that are earning them money! It's a great way to get a passive income. You can promote your special referral link on your blogs, websites, in emails you send to people, just no spamming allowed.

Once your referrals sign up, request to be their friend and get updates on new discussions they have posted. The reason for this is that you will not only earn from their discussion, but you will earn from your response, and you will probably attract other responses, thus upping the value of the discussion and earning you even more.

Now, Go Forth

There are many ways of earning on myLot, you just have to keep working at it. Follow these guidelines, and follow their guidelines, and you should see your earnings start to increase. You might even become one of the elite myLot posters!

Don't have a myLot account? Get one.

This articles discusses different types of payment methods the sites employ to pay the affiliates. It also discusses the different types of paying sites, and how they pay. This article enables readers to be able to identify scams, and to steer clear of them. It includes some advice and tips that a person new to money making on internet should get in order to be able to identify different sites.

Making money on internet is not impossible, but like any other job, it takes time. The time is an investment that you make, to understand different ways, and to explore them, do your research, and then decide which ones work for you. It can be at times tedious, disappointing, and exhausting. But when you finally earn money through internet, its also exhilarating. There will be times when you would want to bang your head against the wall, especially when you reach payout, and don't get payment. You will feel cheated. And sometimes you will feel that you wasted time in exploring something not worth your while. But it will all be worth it in the end.

I started this venture sometime ago. I was free, and had internet to myself, and all the time in the world. So I tried to make money online. I was new, and didn't know much about scams. All the search engines showed data entry and survey sites that promised to pay 100$ a day. There were so many of them. All of them shared one thing: a starting fee. There was a long list of testimonials and how people have gotten mega rich using their site.

Many disappointments and wasted hours later, I finally earned money from internet. Imagine my surprise and glee. So well, I decided to put down all that I've learn about making money online, for all the people out there who are trying to earn money through internet.

• Get a pay pal, or e-gold account or money bookers. Most companies pay through paypal, or e-gold
• Get a new email address. As I will explain later, nothing in this life is free. When you sign up for free offers, you will get lots of spam mails. So if you have an email address for this purpose only, it will not hurt your personal email.
• Become a member of forums that holds discussions on money making websites, and rates them. This is also a great way to build your down line.
• Be suspicious of any site that asks you for money. Make sure you don't pay any site before thoroughly researching them. And even if you decide to pay them, make sure its a small amount. Chances are, if a site asks you for money, its a scam.
• Don't expect to earn a lot the first month. It will take time for you to explore the sites, and decide the ones that you trust.
• Familiarize yourself with the internet money making jargon. Some of them are explained here.
• There are many different types of sites that pay you to perform some action. Cash back sites pay you to shop through them, or sign up through them, reward sites are the same.
• PTRs: Paid to read mails sites. They pay you to read mails and click on the links. There are some really good ones, and some scams. The problem lies in identifying the ones that actually pay and the scams. Usually, you can easily identify the scams, because they either pay a lot per mail (which is not possible) and the sites with bigger payouts, take forever.
• HYIP means high yield investment programs. They require investments. Again look before you leap
• Referrals mean people who sign up through you. Down line means people you have referred. Down line has levels. You refer people, and they refer more people, this is how down line is created.
• There are sites that pay you to write. If you enjoy writing, you can try some of those as well.
• There are also freelancing sites where people post their projects, and writers/programmers bid for the projects. The bidder is then selected by the person who posted the project and is paid by him.
• Once you've been paid by a site, or once you've decided which ones you want to work with, you can start promoting your referral links, so that you build your downline. Most sites promise a percentage of your referral's earnings, so your earning escalate as your downline builds.
• Blog means web log. There are many free blogging sites, that allow you to create your log. This log can be about anything of interest to you or you can list all the sites that paid you, and also show payment proof. You can sign up for Google adsense, and allow them to show ads on your blog. Promote your blog as much as you can, you will build downline, as well, plus if people click on google ads, you will make money.

For example at My Lot, you can write about a moviegoer's favorite treat (popcorn? candy?) or you can ask if 21 is too young to get married, a note on stereotyping people, or making money online. Or even "my cats just ate my dinner!" Almost any subject. You can initiate the posts and/or just reply to them.

These "get paid to post" websites are revenue sharing websites that earn you money whenever you post, and/or whenever people reply to your posts and/or whenever people click on your post. Some of them also have pay per click advertisers that also earn you a percentage in revenue.

These are very similar to get paid to write websites except you don't have to write full-length articles and you can just post almost any type of information, thoughts, and/or comments. You can ask questions.

Review the types of posts at My Lot, and if interested join. You can join My Lot at the following link

Another "get paid to post" website is Dormcheck.com

For other "get paid to post" websites, put "get paid to post" in your search engine. There are also "get paid to post" forums, such as GPT Forum, Get Paid Forum and Pay Per Post.