What are easiest, fastest, low risk ways to make $ online?

You're definitely asking a lot but the FASTEST way to make money involves an investment of hard cash. I do Pay-Per-Lead by building quick micro-sites and then sending PPC traffic to it. Makes a lot of money and I always achieve a 200% ROI, but you need to have a credit card for PPC.

Easy? Once you know how, yeah.
Fast? Definitely
Low Risk? Not really, but if you know what you are doing you can minimize the risk significantly.

Hope that helps,
Nick

"Easy" depends on the skills you already have. So does "fast". So does "low risk". It's difficult to target specific information when your audience ranges from those who already know the ins and outs of IM but can't make money to those who are just stumbling into it.

That said, my money's on offering a service or skill. Something you already know and can do yourself, so you don't have to pay to outsource it and you can do it quickly.

For me, that's writing. I know I have excellent writing skills, and I can write quickly if necessary, and there's no risk involved in offering a service when I'm not spending anything to do so.

For others, that might be graphic design, keyword research, blog commenting, forum posting, website hosting, or something completely different.

One note: not everyone will find writing to be an easy, fast, low-risk way to make money. Those with poor writing skills, particularly the ones who aren't aware of it, will struggle and find that they have to undercharge by normal rates to get work.

Article marketing for me. I also have had success with SEO pretty quickly.

Hey Nick,

At the risk of this being a dumb question, I've heard of mini-sites, but what are "micro-sites"?

Thanks,
Scott

Zabrina you make an excellent point, Nick touched on this too. If you have the skill / know how, it's easy. And this means that everything is easy or hard, depending on who you are.

What I'm really trying to get at is the top ten answers for the newbie who wants to learn how to make money online.

If they are tech oriented...then they should look at these blogs and these products.

If they are writers...then they should look at these blogs and these products.

If they are info product creators....then

If they are marketers...then

In a nutshell:

So if someone came to you with your skills...where would you direct them to do what you do? Or where would you direct them to figure out what they could do online to make a living?

Thanks so much,
Oliver

Those three things aren't likely to occur in that combination.

Easiest -- Probably going to mechanical turk and performing menial tasks for pennies all day.

Fastest -- PPC probably (without being "connected" and having guys promote for you) but, its neither easy nor low risk.

Low risk -- Well this depends on what type of risk you mean. Many would say that the free methods such as article writing are low risk -- I dont see that personally because if you write the articles yourself then you are risking a tremendous amount of time -- if you are paying to have them outsourced then you risk time and money. Also, there is a learning curve which adds more time to the equation. So I think you take on some type of risk with any method. But you also take risk by working for someone else all day.

The best advice I can give is get comfortable spending at least 4-5 hours a day working really HARD at this. Not just sitting around reading forums, but really studying and implementing. Try a lot. Fail a lot. THen one day you find it.

If you want money in the bank tomorrow, the easiest and lowest risk way is without a doubt, offering a service.

I know it aint exactly "passive income" but it can be very lucrative if done right.

Im doing just this and will do $10K this month.

It's interesting, I thought there would be a lot of suggestions directing me to specific products on Clickbank that show you how to make $xxxxx online.

What are your thoughts?

Register a local domain name like OrlandoFlorist.com (that's taken, but there are tens of thousands readily available).

It's easy to get a local domain like this at the top of Google quickly.

Once it's at the top of G, offer the domain to every florist in Orlando (or whatever domain keywords you chose) by email for $200 to $500.

Rinse and repeat. Typically sell one out of every 3 domains created in this way once you have momentum going.

See war room thread for more details on this system.

Very broad, diverse set of answers that could be given. I have not made money yet online. Yet. It's only a matter of time.

Here is the strategy I employ:
1. Find my target niche
2. Provide interesting, usable content
3. Manage visitor/client relations
3a. interaction
3b. eductation
4. Advertisement / sales

The sales part comes last because I want to gain trust of my viewers/clients; and the implementation is not in-your-face but rather a quite voluntary option.

There are times I come across websites with a scrollbar a mile long. Scroll, scroll, scroll. Testimonies, reviews, promises. Yea, we've all seen them. And they may be legit but I'm always thinking, "It's only a matter of time before this website tries to sell me something." Sure enough, there at the bottom is the PayPal button. That turns me away.

Also, I'd like to add that freebies are becoming more common. By giving your customers a taste of what you offer, they'll come back wanting more. This comes in the form of videos, how-to's, ebooks, premium articles.

You want your customers to ask for your product before you have the chance to offer it to them.

But then again, I've yet to make a penny. I'm still very new to this world and not yet firmly established. I just love to write and tell stories, not quite businessy. Hope it helps! Good luck!

Nice, risk-free opportunity is also dropshipping. With dropshipping physical products becomes somehow "digital" - you never touch the merchandise, you never need to pay for unsold stock.

Some of our partners are making very nice money on it.