Being compleatly New

It is absolutely impossible to give you any direction that will make any
sense to you because there are almost infinite number of ways to make
money online.

What do you want to do?

Sell affiliate products?
Sell your own products?
Freelance?
Create a membership site?
Telecommute?
GPT?
CPA?

What kind of money do you have for promotion if you want to sell stuff?

If not and you want to freelance, what skills do you have?

If you want to work an online job (they do exist) what skills do you have
for that?

Ultimately, what's going to happen is people are going to start tossing
out suggestions in this thread (most likely encompassing the things I've
mentioned above as well as other things) with a few step by steps to
follow that are going to leave you more confused than when you
started.

Why?

Because you need a business plan.

You need to sit down and decide what it is you want to do.

Above I gave some general possibilities (not suggestions) because I can't
make suggestions without knowing more about your financial situation
and what kind of knowledge you have to start with.

For example, somebody might suggest affiliate marketing using PPC. But
if you're flat broke that's not an option.

Conversely, if somebody suggests article marketing and you can't write
your way out of a paper bag, you are going to end up frustrated and
discouraged.

Now do you understand why, in all good conscience, I can't make any
recommendations?

If you can swing it, get yourself a proven mentor and have him or her
work on a business plan for you based on your skills and financial
situation.

Otherwise, you are most likely going to end up wasting a lot of time
because of no real direction.

Take this advice for what it's worth to you.

This is good advice billiebjosey, and I agree 100%. With internet marketing it can be hard to sit down and focus on just one thing in particular with some many different options to choose from. Stick with one thing and build it up, put all your effort into it this one thing and eventually you will be rewarded.

I think Steven hit the nail on the head. You gotta know what direction you want to go in before taking your first steps. Otherwise, you're gonna find yourself spinning your wheels.

You said you though about promoting a Clickbank product in a niche you really know something about. YES! That's a better start than I had. I was all over the place, spent a lot of money I really didn't have, and it took me a long time to get a grasp on what I wanted to do.

After trying about everything under the sun, you wanna know what I ended up succeeding with the most? Doing like you're saying. Promoting a clickbank product (and a good physical product) that I know quite a bit about, felt comfortable promoting, and stuck it out.

Now just decide how you're going to market the product. I recommend trying one technique at a time and finding your sweet spot that you feel like you really got a handle on things and can whip out GOOD content quickly. Fail fast to find what works. For me... I find that I get nervous & uncomfortable writing too much, but really enjoy video. So a lot of my marketing is through video, and only within the last year or so did I really start adding more methods.

Figure out your direction/niche, decide on your marketing method, find a mentor or program to lead you along, and then leave this forum and stick it out until you feel you have a handle on things and are seeing results.

Come back to the forum and ask for help only when you're truly stuck. This kind of hands-on, in-the-trenches kind of work seems to produce results. Also, with all the info floating around... it's REAL easy to fall into $hiny object syndrome if you're not careful.

Ed Dale has a good free course over at Challenge.co Covers the basics and a lot of the whys.

Pat Flynn at smartpassiveincome.com is also a great blog to read.

I just started the Marketing part of the Internet this year after years of building the backend systems.