While people are surfing the net, they might come across some websites that make big promises on how to make money and they believe that because the sales pitch they just read says they need to unload lots of money and reinvent the wheel to generate lots ofprofits, they give it a shot and end up losing tons of money in the process and never wanting to try to make moneyhave a business on the internet ever again. It is a terrible problem that we see every day.

The truth is that it does not have to be this way. Making money on the web is not a secret, but if you have no idea how to do it, let me suggest three tips that will be invaluable to you and give you the ability to start generating profits online very quickly and very easily. Ready? Let's go...

Research and find out what shoppers want! No, I'm serious. Determine what it is that people need. How? There are several ways. You could go to amazon.You can go over to shopping.yahoo.com and see what is on their hot sellers list for any category. Go over to eBay and determine what the hot items are on The Pulse. Go to eBay and see what the top items are on The Pulse. Last you could go to any of your favorite shopping sites and see what is on special or what their bestsellers are and you will get an idea of what people want to buy.

You could also go to Clickbank and find several thousands of digital products that people are selling online that should give you a ton of ideas for what people are buying. Tip, at Clickbank, the higher the "gravity" the more popular the product.

Tip #2 ? Now a lot of internet marketers would tell you to find distributors so you can source physical products that people are looking for online. While that is a good idea and I myself started out that way for my first internet marketing business, I'm going to show you something so much easier that even you can put into place today. Rather than contacting distributors and actually selling products to people it is so simple to just recommend other marketers products and bring in a commission off of the product that you suggest. I have seen commissions ranging from 4% to 75% that the seller will pay you just forgiving a recommendation for his or her product.

Let me tell you what is great about this marketing method is that you do not have to deal with the headaches of shipping and handling, replying to emails, bothering with returns or any of the common headaches that come with selling your own product.

I suggest starting off recommending one or two products on your blog. This is important because it will make it easier for you to find out everything you can about the product to recommend. In all actuality you do not even need to have your own website or blog to use this money making technique; you can piggyback off of other websites and still make really good money and have a great time all along. Once you have found 1 or two products that you would like to recommend you want to be sure that the seller has what is called an affiliate program or partner program. These are very common terms that simply mean that the owner of the website has a system in place that will pay you commissions when you refer a sale.

Believe it or not these business owners are actually very eager to give a percentage to anyone who is willing to recommend their products. There are affiliate programs for just about any type of product you can think of. The best part is that it is pretty easy and fun. Wait, there is one part that is even better; anyone can start an online business like this for under $5.

The more you start doing this, the better you will get and online marketing will become clearer. So why don't you let the aura of secrecy fade away into cash in your pocket!