But making money online is a process that you need to understand, and carefully go through each step. There are no short cuts in this process neither there are any software, systems or programs that can make you money without going through this process. Anyone who claims that his product will make you money without you need to do anything is a scam.

Here is the step by step process of making money online:

1. First of all you need to choose a subject that you are interested in and can spend some time reading or writing about. You may already spending some time online on some forums or chat rooms discussing a topic that interest you, this topic will be the niche of your money making process. Loving this topic will make your work easy and joyful, and will make you love going through the money making process.

2. Content, you will need some information about your topic; you can have the content from articles, forum pots or from your own knowledge and experience. This content need to be unique and helpful, so people will be interested in reading your content and get help out of your information.

3. Online space; we need to be able to publish our content on the internet so we needs a web page. The best way is to have your own website online so you can have full control on your page and content. Also having your own webpage will give you credibility and people will easily trust you and consider you as an expert on this topic.

4. Finding related product to sell, with your content you can present a product that support your content and could be a good solution to some of your audience problems. You can find an affiliate product that you recommend within your content and earn a commission whenever anyone clicks through and buy this product.

5. Last but most important is the marketing. After having your own page published online with your own content and product offers, you need to bring people to this page to read it, and click on your offers.

Marketing the basic job you need to do, all the first 4 elements could take you about 2 hours to complete, and after that you must focus all your energy to marketing this page. Also here the importance of having your own website with your own domain name will appear. Marketing your own website will be much easier and bring better results from promoting some free web space.

Some newbie's join affiliate program and jump directly to marketing when they promote their affiliate links directly. They will end up fast quitting, because it does not work. They could change the affiliate product and start all over again promoting the new affiliate link. And this is a huge mistake.

When you promote your own page with your own content, any promotion you do will give results, and when you change the affiliate product you will not lose any past promotion you did.

The promotion need to be effective and give you great results, especially if this marketing can help you with the search engine marketing.

The most effective online marketing strategy is article marketing and press release, where you can reach interested audience and build popularity to your page.