You know the sort of thing, Someone promises you that they can help you make $100s in the next 24 hours. Yes, I know I ought not to believe in fairy tales. I have learned my lesson.

Well, I ran out of money. So I went on the internet and looked for everything I could get for free and that would earn me money. I came up with 4 options.

1. Affiliate Products.

Nearly everyone knows about Clickbank and PayDotCom, so I delved for others. There are lots of them and all you can do is trawl through them.

Pick the ones that suit you. Sell products that interest you. That interest will show through when you are promoting them to potential customers.

Beware. There are some really boring sites and some very strange things that some of them want you to promote.

2. Free Classifieds

Again you will find these by going through the search engines. Search under Free Ads too. these sites are very varied. A lot of them just cover one or two areas and others are worldwide. Some just specialise in certain products.

The idea is to find the right free classifieds for the item you want to advertise. This takes a bit of time and organisation. But once you have found which sites suit what you want to sell,I found it best to make a list of these sites, what you can advertise and for how long. This makes things easier when you find something new to promote. I found a lot of these sites have their own affiliate programs so you can also promote them.

3. Opt in Lists

Free ones of these are harder to find. Several sites offer free trials. You can take them up on these and if you like them after the trial you can pay to join. A couple of the sites I found I really liked. They give you free opt in lists when you join and you can become an affiliate. The more people you join up the more leads you get. Just make sure that they are all opt in leads. You do not want to be accused of spamming.

4. Jobs

There are hundreds of adverts for online work. A lot of them seemed to be scams so I steered clear of them. Just be careful.

One site I would like to recommend is Homeworking.co.uk. They do not provide work. They can give you advice give you advice about homeworking and tell you the pros and cons. And, no I am not an affiliate for this site. There are many jobs advertised for paid surveys online. A lot of these are not free. But you can earn a small regular income with the free ones. This is a good standby job while you are setting things up that will give you more money.

Just one warning. Do not pay for any of these jobs. There is no guarantee that they will give you work and you will probably loose your money. There is free work available.

So, you can start earning online for no outlay. You find some affiliate products to sell and find some people to sell them to. You do this through opt in lists and free classifieds. While you are waiting for the money to come in from these methods you can earn a steady income from online work.

I hope this has been of some interest to the beginners out there and maybe a few of you who have been working online for a long time.