For over 1 year we have heard the endless news about the terrible shape of the economy. We have heard about companies downsizing, foreclosures and unemployment are rising even higher. Many people are now looking for ways to being in some extra income and many of those have turned to the internet.

While there are many ways to make money on the internet, here are six ways to make some money online, along the challenges of each, and my recommendation. You will want to combine some of these strategies and most this is very easy to do.

Many times as someone who markets online, we forget the world around us. We get so busy at being online, making capture pages, connecting with others online, but we do not do anything offline. This can be a huge mistake.

We often hear the words offline marketing, and we get the idea of going to the mall talking to any stranger within 3 feet of us (sometimes called the 3-foot rule), chasing our family and friends, and passing out flyers in stores. Basically trying to drag anyone we can into our business. Some people can make this work. However, it is very hard to duplicate.

In network marketing the failure rate is very high; there are a number of reasons for this. However, you want to look at those who are succeeding and figure out how are they able to succeed. When you study and analyze those who are succeeding in marketing find there are 5 elements that are a must if you are going to have a successful network marketing business on the internet.

The very first thing is you must have is a web page and capture pages (sometimes called squeeze page) that promotes you and not your company. This website needs to have YOUR story, picture, videos, it must be about you. This allows those who are visiting your site to start building a relationship with you.

You sit down to write a promotion for your business. You must know what to write and how to write it. In marketing, you must be able to write copy. This is a critical skill that you must learn. If you do not learn this skill, you will have mediocre results at best.

Many courses on copy are several thousands of dollars. It is not possible to cover every aspect of writing copy in a short article. My goal with this article is to give you some ideas of how to immediately improve your copy, and give you a way to continue to grow and improve your copy.

You have your website, but you want to get more traffic. So you search the internet and come across something called traffic exchanges, there is a million of them on the internet. The next question you may have, is traffic exchanges worth the time? If so, which one should you use?

If you are not sure what a traffic exchange is, this is a website where you build credits by looking at other users’ website. You in turn, can use the credits that you build up to advertise your website. Some have unique twists to them, but this is essentially what they do.