Let it face it : if you are an affiliate promoting affiliate
programs and you do not belong to the couple of thousand
`gurus, heavy hitters or super affiliates or you are not
promoting a number one affiliate program or you are not
selling the best reseller programs your chances with your
endeavour to make a living online are very slim.
And this is a fact.

So you want to make money on the internet. Millions
worldwide are trying to do so. The first hurdle they have
to master is to filter all possible opportunities to find out
that more than 80% of them are a hoax programs
that appear to take your money and after 3-4 months they
just disappear. The same could happen with short living
products. They are in for the moment and out-fashioned
very quickly. Be cautious to select the right program.

After having checked a hundred business opportunities offering
products and services you will be faced with terms like MLM,
promotion, recruiting, downline and matrix. Well, in order to
make money with these programs you have to be active and sell
them by using promotional tools. You will find out the advantages
and disadvantages of downlines and matrices. Downlines can
make you money, but downlines can also disappear when your
upline and downline stop making sales or just give up.
Your hard work to get people under you promoting the product
ends up with a loss. The same can happen with your matrix : if
members can not fill a matrix, there would not be an income.

Be aware of business opportunities that requires you to buy a
product on a monthly base or to pay a monthly membership fee
or you are faced with costs without any return. In that case you
are loaded with the above as well as the additional costs of
selling your product. Expenses include costs of advertising,
pay-per-click, autoresponders, phone calls and it can really
add up.

With all that said to be successful on the internet you have to
find a targetable market that wants a product, and then just
give it to them. When picking a subject you are passionate
about you make sure the market is there. Research the sites
on that topic that generates income through affiliate programs
and find a stand-alone product to promote with great
conversion rate, paying high commissions, offering real time
statistics and acceptable payment schedules.

After a couple of months of successfully promoting your
products you know you will have to put your activities on
a higher level. To get more sales you will create your own
website, start your own newsletter, get links, do more
advertising, get top placements on search engines and
use more pay-per-click search engines.
With all that you are on your way to become a super affiliate.
But before it gets to that stage most marketers already quit.
No wonder 98% involved in MLM, downlines and matrices
have never recouped their original investment in starting
their business.

So what is the Alternative ?

When promoting a business opportunity you have to apply
all that said details in order to build your opt-in list and to
create massive targeted traffic to your site. If you dont do
it, your business is doomed to fail.
As you can read in any marketing e-book: The money is
in the list! No list, no money!

Rapidly, your question might arise: is there also an
alternative, a chance to make money without promoting
a product or service on the internet?
Yes, there is and there is an increasing demand for business
opportunities offering chances to make money without any
activities, real passive-income solutions.
There is a bunch of different categories popping up, be it
free money programs which will pay you a commission for
a bit of effort on your part.
Reading emails, surfing the net and filling out survey forms
are such programs. Other categories include money
doublers, cyclers, gambling sites, hyips, forex, investment
funds, just to name a few. They all have in common that
you are not forced to promote with all its cost. You make
money without having a list or targeted traffic. In addition
most passive-income opportunities offer their affiliate program
as well, which can be used to make some additional income.

It is said that there is a much bigger chance to lose your
money with passive-income opportunities, because there
is risk involved when promised offers are not fulfilled and
/or business plans are based on unrealistic assumptions.
There are many dishonest programs around that make
false or dishonest claims. You might lose your one-time
payment, but you did not have all the cost of promoting
and time lost trying to make money. There is no selling
and recruiting and no fear of failure.

Your benefits of generating a passive income can be great.
Make a strong initial effort by choosing the right programs
to get your income started, then create an unlimited
amount of income you are only limited by your
imagination. Your passive income is not dependent on a
regular work and you are able to give yourself a pay raise
whenever you want by creating multiple income streams.

The best way to make money on the internet is to develop
your own program and look for affiliates which are doing
all the promotion work like mentioned in the upper part
of this article.

So what to do?

If you feel good in communicating and acting like a
salesman your choice to promote affiliate programs is
positive and there is a chance that you will join and belong
to the small percentage of people earning money on the
internet. On the other hand, if you do not like all the
necessary activities to make money then a passive-income
program is the right thing for you. Do a proper search of
programs and if you find the right one you might end up
as a big winner.