A simple guide for newbies and those who couldn't care less about domains and HTML.

Every single day new people are logging on to the Net for the first time, and many of them are looking for ways to earn extra money. The problem is that most of these people don't have a clue about HTML, domains, web hosting and building websites.

The purpose of this guide is to show that you can make extra money without a web site. Even if you have been around for a while, I'm sure you will learn something.

The easiest way to earn extra money without your own website is to promote affiliate programs. When you work as an affiliate, you are selling other people's products, and receive commissions for every sale you make.

All you have to do is referring people to the product you are selling, and let the system do the rest.

There are several advantages of being an affiliate. Some of them are listed below:

You don't need to have your own product
Payments are handled by a merchant
No shipping of products
No customer support
No need to build a website
I recommend that you start promoting products found at ClickBank (CB). An account with CB is free, and there are over 10,000 digital products in the CB Marketplace to choose from. They send you checks twice a month, and everything else is taken care off.

The biggest challenge when doing business online is to get traffic to your page or affiliate links. No visitors = No sales!

If you like to write, you should write some articles. Articles can be submitted to Article Directories, and this technique is proven to get many visitors to your website. Check out a free resource called The Bum Marketing Method to learn more about the power of articles.

Here is a little known secret if you hate writing articles. Submit your ad to UsFreeAds, and it will show up in Google in as little as 2-3 days! Google has been using UsFreeAds as a resource for a couple of years know.

The above resources are free, but you have to invest some of your time. If you want to get visitors right away, trying PPC can be an option.

PPC means Pay-Per-Click, and this is exactly what you do. When someone clicks on your ad, you pay the cost of the click. A click on one of your keywords can cost everything between 10 cents and up to several dollars.

When dealing with PPC you have to be very careful, or you will get broke before you know it! Especially Google AdWords, where you pay more per click than in other PPC-engines. The competition is much tougher too.

Try some of the smaller PPC-engines like SearchFeed, GoClick and FindWhat, until you get a hold of it. There are also some great resources where you can learn the basics of PPC, like Perry Marshall's "The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords".

When your promotions are up and running, you should login to your CB account every day. Click on the "Reporting" tab. Here you can see what products you have sold and you can also see the name and email-address of your customers.

The next step is important! You must send an email to your customers as soon as possible and offer them your help. Give them a bonus if you have one. If you can offer them a report or an email-course they will probably sign up through your autoresponder.

If you do this, you are establishing a relationship to your customer. It will be a lot easier for you to sell products to an existing customer than it is to find new ones.

It can be done.

Good luck!