There are literally thousands of Newbies coming online every day trying to figure out how they can make money online without spending money. Many fail miserably simply because they follow the wrong advice.

The most newbies run straight to the nearest survey site. What they don’t realize is that the money to be made with survey sites are truly pathetic. You cannot live on the money you make from survey sites no matter what sales page you read anywhere. Don’t trust what those people are saying because your’s truly has tried it all.

There really is only ONE way to make money with no money and that is known as Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is the simple yet effective system where you promote other people’s products on the internet and in return you get a commission for every sale or action you refer to the owner’s website. Product owners are LOOKING for people like you to market their products and they are not afraid to pay you huge bucks.

It works like this. You sign up to an affiliate program for a certain product. It’s free so no worries there. Then you grab your custom tracking links provided for you and then you market the product along with your link.

Here are few ways in which you can market your affiliate link.

1. Use forums

You can sign up to forums within your niche. Go to your profile area and update your “signature”. Throw in your link along with a good call-to-action. Then go ahead and participate in the forum. Answer questions, ask questions, but never ever start a thread about your product. They will see it as marketing spam and throw you out.

2. Start a free blog

Starting a blog at Wordpress.com or Blogger.com is free and can be very profitable for you if you go about your blogging correctly. Sign up for a free blog and then write a blog post each and every day. Provide your blog readers with valuable content. Don’t bash them with your affiliate offers over and over. Add your affiliate ads (banner ads etc) inside your blog template. Just give your readers valuable content on a daily basis. Not only will your reader count increase, but your commissions will increase as well.

3. Submit Articles

Articles are my favorite way for making money with no money.

Go to a website like Squidoo.com and create yourself a free lens.

Provide people with great content on a certain subject and then add a module in the lens where you talk about the product. Make sure to put your affiliate link in the module’s content so that when they click you are credited with a commission if they buy on the other side. Now all you do is write about 10 articles a day around the topic of your product (for instance weight loss) and then submit them for free to all the article directories. Make sure to link to your Squidoo lens from the article resource box.

So there you go, in a nutshell you just received a proven way to make money online without spending anything.

Most newcomers fall into the trap of thinking they’ll grow rich without spending anything. I at least purchase my own domain name and hosting so that I have my own niche website. I always make more money this way.

Also most newbies don’t know how to successfully pre-sell people to their affiliate offers.

By: Ryan Matthews