If wishes were fishes beggars would eat. It is not as simple to earn money online as it may appear, or as some companies make it out. As with any undertaking it will require hard work, determination and drive. If you are willing to put forth that required effort though, the internet will provide you with a multitude of opportunities to earn money online.

If you want to earn money on the internet simply by reading advertisements, sign up with a "Paid to Click" service. These sites showcase advertisements from businesses that pay the site whenever a user clicks on their ad. In turn, the site pays you to read the advertisements -- or at least to sit in front of your computer while the ad is visible. Most ads take less than a minute to load and read, and you then collect your share of the revenue.

If you're willing to spend time at the computer, an online data entry job could be just for you. These jobs can provide a steady stream of income and involve processing data from one form or standard to another. Some of the easier types of jobs may simply be typing information. A more complex job may involve actual data analysis or retrieving data from documents. The best paying jobs are typically the most difficult in scope.

An excellent source of revenue on the internet is writing articles for websites that will pay for the number of people who read such articles. Residual income can continue many years after your article is written and posted- provided that the content of your article remains interesting to others. Therefore, you owe it to yourself to write articles well, with content that will stand the test of time.

The Internet offers a plethora of new opportunities to start an online business. This business could be nearly anything, such as selling clothes in extra, extra large sizes from your own website or hosting a social networking site for avid skydivers. The options are only as limited as your imagination. You could, for example, design your own t-shirts or sell web hosting, where you do the selling and the server administrator does the rest of the work.

Selling your odds and ends online is a great source of income. Check what you don't want and then post it on some auction sites. Some of them even provide free listing. Otherwise, you could buy items wholesale and auction them piecemeal. I once bought a hundred processor fans for a dollar each and then managed to sell each one for five over a one month period.