Is it to late to get start making money online?

I guess my biggest questions are can you actually make money online these days? I work in sales now, life insurance and for a motorcycle dealership. I have been reading obsessively every day for 3 - 4 hours a day on making money online for about a year. I am quite capable with a computer, I worked for a webhosting company for 5 years prior to working in sales. The biggest hurdle I find now, is there is little evidence of online financial success without a substantial investment. I have so many ideas but I feel without investing a substantial amount it wouldn't be worth it. So i guess my question would be. Apart from teaching others how to make money online, is it still plausible to make a living through either niche/affiliate/dropeshipping or online services, on a modest budjet.

Some of my idea.
After searching flippa to purchase an already profitable website to get started, I noticed that the most succesful sellers were simply refurbishing the same sites, purchasing catchy domains and resselling them. One seller sold the same T-shirt website 5 times and his net was over 50 K this year. I'm quite proficient with a computer, photoshop, design, I was considering building websites, but picking from my list of 500 original ideas, and selling them on flippa, putting genuine original content combined with unique twists on current popular flippa websites.

My next idea
A websites selling clickbate journalism sites. From my understanding the only real money in these news sites is using paid traffic and trying to make sure the paid traffic clicks = more then the cost of the traffic. but people seem to be crazy about getting into these websites now. So I thought about creating a business portal basically offering a package to set people up with wordpress news blogs with all original content written by me. and give some lessons on how to market them etc.





Authority niche sites.

I believe that google is ranking authority niche sites much better these days. I know there's money in micro niche sites if you are really good at it, but it really seems google is switching to a platform that really supports real new original content and lots of it. I considered making 5 websites, writing 1 - 3 articles a day per each, consistantly for 6 months, and using google adsense and seo to rank and turn these eventually into authority sites. However there are so many horror stories about google adsense people with 1000's of views and clicks making pennies. And I struggle to find a single topic that I can write about that I feel will be of interest to people.



I also have a book that I have been writing that I was thinking about shopping up into multiple books 30 pages long and selling them as an ebook series, but it seems that ebooks are becoming less and less profitable.



It's truely overwhelming looking at getting into internet marketing, I really just want somewhere to start that I can really dedicate myself to fully and make an attempt at, my fear is that I start in market that has zero ability to monatize. I want to know if there's a chance these days without buying traffic and having a huge budget.



Also what do you think of those dropship eccomerce stores that simply sell aliexpress items, i see them poping up all the time so I often wonder, but at the same time, everyone knows about aliexpress now so why wouldn't they just shop direct?



I have tried some ventures in the last year, I tried multiple teespring campaigns, one of them I broke even, I used targeted facebook ads, but after about 6 attempts, I realized this simply was costing me to much, I didn't have the nack for it. I created a poker website, where I would have private freeroles through pokerstars, and I would put up 5 - 10 dollars 3 times a week and on the facebook page and poker chat encourage people to go to my website to get the password, I did ok with adsense and a couple affiliate products for the first few months but then google cut me off and pokerstars didn't like that I was making money off them so they started blocking my account. It just seems as though there are millions of people trying that are so much more qualified and experienced, without a big cash flow it's hard to imagine coming up with any kind of successful online business now days. Would love for some guidence