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.

The thing about creating an online income is that there is much more to it than just creating a website and sitting back. Do that and you be lucky to make a few dollars. Lets have a look at some of the methods you could use to create your first income stream.

Creating a service is a good way of generating an income, if you can write articles for people. If you have good design skills create a website graphics and page templates. Once you have regular customers you will have a steady income stream.

Try some basic affiliate marketing. Find suitable products on sites like clickbank then create articles with your affiliate link in the resource box and distribute them.

Making and promoting websites that contains informative content and AdSense ads can be a quick way to good way to make an income. But It takes much more work than any of the so called guru's will tell you.

Write an e-book and add it to clickbank. You can promote it yourself and after a few sales you will probably find affiliates will start to promote it for you.

Develop a blog until it has good PageRank and traffic, then sell text link ads or join a pay per post service and get paid to make posts to your own blog.

The methods above are just some of the methods our members are using to make money online. The Income Academy strives to give you all the information that you need to start to make yourself an income online. Many Internet marketers will constantly try to sell you the next must have product. You don't need them! You can make an online income with a few spare dollars and a desire to learn.