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!

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, well desperation is the mother of action. I took action and started to generate an online income. Within months I had enough money coming in that I could relax a bit and focus on a long term strategy. It wasn't easy to get to that stage and it took a lot of hard work. As a result I was determined to share some of the knowledge I gained through making mistakes and perseverance. I created The Income Academy to create an ultra cheap way to share my knowledge with people who wanted to learn how to make an online income.

As I said earlier in this article there are many ways to earn an income online. below I have listed 5 . The thing you need to remember is that it's not just as simple as making a website then waiting for your money to flood in.

Performing a service for people will always be one of the best ways to create an online income. People like to outsource repetitive or difficult tasks. If you have graphic abilities you could create websites templates. If you can write you could write articles like this one. If you do a good job you'll soon have regular customers.

Simple Affiliate Marketing. Find a product you like on Clickbank and review it create several articles and post them to website directories.

Create informative websites and add advertising such as AdSense to them.

Producing your own products then adding them to clickbank can be a good way of earning a steady income.

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

The above methods are just some of the methods that our members use to earn an income. At the Income Academy we provide you with as much help as you require and many of the tools. Despite what the Gurus will have you believe you don't need every tool and guide that is released in fact it is possible to start to make a good income without spending more than a few dollars.