There are tons of ways to make money online from the internet, in fact you can find a myriad of courses and books that profess to show you how to make auto-pilot passive profits. The truth is a little more complex than plug-in, collect and sip pina colada on easy street.

However, I am going to share with you a few simple strategies for creating passive profits that you can get going quickly and easily. Now you can be greedy and use all three, but my advice is to use one master it and then move on to the next.

As with every business venture research is key, you have to put in some ground work first to make sure you are on to a winner from the off. First research a hungry market where people are desperate for solutions to problems they have. Then find relevant keywords you know they will use in order to find those solutions.

Once you’ve done this you will be ready for the first passive profits technique.

1. Set up a Squidoo Lens. Squidoo is a blog website that Google absolutely loves and any new pages on the website get indexed almost immediately. Its free to join so all you need do is go there register and build your page.

Now if you’ve done your research properly you should already know what topic your site is going to be about, let’s say you’ve chosen knitting you then right some interesting articles about knitting post to the blog and you’re nearly ready to go right? Wrong, you first need to monetize the site this is how you can earn the passive profits.

You can then set up Amazon ads and other related affiliate products related to your theme of knitting and be paid a commission for anything that is purchased through your site. Of course you will need to do a little promoting of your page but essentially that’s it.

2. Cafe Press. Cafe Press is basically a CPA network where you can tap into all sorts of affiliate products. As a matter of fact you can also access Cafe Press from Squidoo and put offers on your lens. However, what most people don’t realise is, you can start your own product range in Cafe Press free of charge. And they will split any profits you make from sales with you.

Here’s how it works, you design a logo upload it to Cafe Press and then they will present you with a range of products from T-shirts and baseball caps to coffee mugs that will display your logo. You can then choose the price you wish to sell at and Cafe Press will do the rest. Every time you make a sale they will handle the orders deal with shipping, you never have to lift a finger all you have to do is watch the profits roll in passively over time.

3. The Next passive income idea involves Amazon P.O.D (Print On Demand) system. This is basically how you can become a published author without all the usual fuss of securing a publishing deal. Oh and don’t be too concerned about whether you’re a superstar novelist. You can still make passive profits, even though the only time you write is to sign your own name.

What you need to do to secure passive profits using Amazon’s POD is firstly get hold of some private label material it can be in the form of articles, ebooks, CD’s even it doesn’t really matter which format the most important thing is you must have a licence to use the material.

Now we get to the really cool part once you have your content for your book you then need to format it as a proper book with a preference page, copyright notice, content page/chapter page, index page etc. There are website’s online that can do this for you, once you have the book formed go to Amazon to sign up as a publisher you will have to pay a fee for inserting your book once signed up Amazon will provide you with templates to design the cover of your book you can add your name and mug shot if you like too!

Then as with Cafe Press earlier Amazon will host your book on their servers free of charge for life you never have to think about shipping the book or customer complaints all you do is count the passive profits whenever someone buys your book. It works like this the book is never in print until a purchase is made then Amazon simply print off your copy and send to the customer you are never involved.

So there you have three powerful ways you can start to earn passive profits today I told you how to set up a Squidoo Lens, How to use Cafe Press’s product range, and how to get onboard with Amazon POD program to start an instant set and forget passive profits strategy.