If you are trying to start making money online, consider becoming a regular seller of digital items (info products) on ebay. There is no startup expense and there are millions of people looking to buy from ebay every day. That way you can find a way to generate valuable leads and get paid for it. After you get a customer, you can have them forwarded to a download page that is laced with links or banners for other items you are promoting or selling on your website. That's your classic back-end sale. Let me map this out:
1. Sell info products on ebay aimed towards a particular topic that you market on your website.
2. Set up ebay to forward buyers to an email capture page before they receive their item.
3. Set up your autoresponder to send them a link to their download page.
4. Have your download page promoting another product you are selling on your website.
5. You now have a lead who has purchased from you. Send out regular messages and promote your other items, affiliate products, and website.
6. Use the money you generate from ebay sales to advertise your website on a pay per click site (adwords) or anything else.
7. Use the money you generate from website sales to advertise other products in ezines based on the topic of your site.
After a while, the snowball will build more and more, and before you know it you've got a regular stream of income going straight to your account each day. And don't be afraid to think big. Find a way to sell 5-10 packages at $5-$10 each day on ebay to start, then move on to selling more and more. There are plenty of resellable ebooks and software for any topic online. I sell an ebook and software package like this on my website, internet-business-startup.com, using the same technique. This can be applied to most niches, as long as there is product to sell.