Firstly let me say right now that it is possible to make money on the internet with or without a website.
Making money without a website! There are a few different methods that can be used to make money without necessarily having your own website.
1. One of the ways that you can make money without having your own website is to use affiliate marketing. When you join an affiliate program the company will provide a sales page with your affiliate link on it and you can use this to advertise their product. Every time somebody clicks on this page with your affiliate link attached and purchases the product you will get paid a commission.
Or instead of using the company's sales page you could make a splash page that they sign up on and it will then take them to the sales page. You will need an autoresponder to do this. You can build up a list of subscribers when people sign up with their email address and name to your autoresponder and over time you will be able to sell them products again and again.
The important point to remember if using an autoresponder in order to build a list is that you need to build a relationship with these people. It is only once they get to know and trust you that your chances of selling products to them will increase. It is important to be able to give those people who subscribe to your list something that is of value to them. This could be in the form of advice or a product such as an eBook that can be useful to them.
Making money on the internet with a website!
2. First off let me say that having a website is a great way to run an internet based business.
If you want control over your own internet based business, than having a website is a good way to go. You can pre-sell products to your visitors by creating review pages and promote those with any of the affiliate programs you offer before you pass them through to the affiliate sales page. You can also sell your own products from your website.
In fact by having a website you can promote everything you wish to from one place. Another great method to use is blogging. If you enjoy blogging, you can monetize your blog and earn an excellent income from the internet, just post regularly and as you become known your visitors and your sales will improve.
In the end it is all a question of how you wish to run your internet based business and what goals you have set for yourself. Either way you can make money on the internet, so it comes down to what you feel comfortable doing.