Easy simple way two: Be the Owner, not the worker

If you don’t know by know, you should. If your always working for someone else, you will never truly be reaping the rewards of your labor.

You can be a success at what ever you do. You can be a great Doctor, Lawyer, business man, even a super affiliate and make lots of money. But to those who own the business, or the product - the risk takers - to them go all the rewards.

What I am trying to say is - start your own business and create your own niche, product, or service.

You can be a great affiliate and can make a lot of money. But as long as you work for the boss, even with all the freedom you have as an affiliate - your still subject to the bosses whim. To give you a perfect example: I was a few months into the affiliate game and was doing pretty good with a program I had gotten very familiar with. The more success I had, the more I familiarized myself with their service and the more I relied on them. Soon many of my efforts were geared towards their services. Then one day out of the blue - I received and email from the affiliate program director that they were shutting down the affiliate program. They had decided to take a different direction and needed to shut down for a couple of months and would not restart until the beginning of next year.

Well that devastated me. I have devoted a lot of my efforts to them, to promoting this service and now it was gone.

My point is, even though it was a good service and I was making money - I had no control or say so. In the end, they could do what ever they wanted because in reality, they were the boss [ in control ].

The second best way to make money online with no extra cost to you is by creating your own niche, product or service. You can create a website about your hobby, or give free advice. You can place Adsense or Revenue Pilot ads or any other means of advertisement where you can earn money from those who want to promote their products on your site.

The foundation of this principal is, take a risk, be creative and control your own destiny.

A perfect example: I had a good friend who passed away who came up with an ingénues plan. He wanted to help his local church raise funds for their youth group. So he asked the church’s women’s group if they could give him all of their left over, left to be forgotten cook books that they had made from a previous years fundraiser. When they gave it to him, free and to do with as he pleased - he started selling them on eBay. Then he took the recipes and started selling individual recipes online. Then he created a website where people from the church and all around the world could visit the site and get a recipe for free and even post their own recipes to share with others.

Before you knew it two years had passed and he helped the church raise more funds than was needed. of course it didn’t hurt that he was making money as well. Simply because he was in control. He could experiment, rearrange, and take risk with his product with out someone else telling him - “no, you can’t do that”.

It doesn’t have to be the next great thing. But it has to be yours - copyright, owned - yours.

Also, you don’t have to be fancy. Take a good hard look. What are your hobbies, activities, expertise ? What could you create, produce, or write about. Maybe you can create a website about how to make “paper dolls” it doesn’t matter. I am sure there is something you can do. Maybe your spouse, son, or daughter has a great idea they would let you run with?

Second- owning your own product or service opens the door for you to have other people working for you.

If you create a product - say “ a book on how to make paper dolls“. You can have others sell your book for you. You can get a niece to put a banner promoting your book on her myspace page. You could use eBay, or other sources to sell your book [ cafepress.com has such a service for free ] You can get friends, family, and others to promote your book. The more people show it, the more see it, the more potential buyers. And yes, it’s a risk, but greater the risk - greater the reward.

*** when I say risk - I mean calculated risk, not reckless risk.