Honestly, the real money is in the trading of financial instruments: forex, commodities, stocks and bonds. That's where we want to be. However, such things are either:
- low risk, but low return, or
- reasonable return, but significant risk as well.
The low risk strategies require very large amounts of money before overhead is negligible (mid 7, if not 8 figures). The reasonable return strategies probably require 7 figures to comfortably generate 6 figure income. With a bit of luck we can bootstrap from low 6 figures, so that'll be our initial goal: $200k net.
Initial "making money online" research immediately turns up the following:
- be paid to click (PTC), be paid to read (PTR) email,
- surveys and mystery shopping,
- be paid to write articles for content aggregators,
- paid per click (PPC) advertising,
- affiliate marketing,
- ebay and amazon selling,
and several, at best, quasilegal and/or morally questionable options. I'll only explore ethical business options here and, happily, there seems to be no need to look beyond those options.
Being paid $0.003 per click probably isn't intersting to you, but each and every one of these options is generating money for someone, so we'll give each its due in upcoming posts.
