Are you looking for some great residual income ideas?  Ideas that will put a bit of extra money in your pocket without either a huge outlay or giving up your day job.  Here are my top three residual income ideas.

First up is  Google Adsense. It is possible to make some extra money from the Google Adsense program, some people make lots of extra money.  The idea is that Google will place contextually relevant on your site which will result in you getting paid every time somebody clicks one of the ads. The great thing is that nobody needs to actually buy anything, they just need to click through to the advertiser.  For their part, the advertisers pay Google to run their ads and everybody is happy.  Googles robots will crawl your site to determine what it is about and the keywords used and in that way it delivers adverts which are contextually relevant to the page. You have to apply to Google.com/ads to be able to run adsense ads.  You can also setup a free website at Blogger.Com.  With the right traffic and some good content you can make money from adsense 

Another great residual income idea is affiliate marketing.  You can act as an affiliate for many different products and services.  As an affiliate you are  paid a commission for a sale of somebody else’s product.  Unlike adsense somebody actually has to buy something but pick the right affiliate program and the commissions can be high.  Many people act as affiliates for amazon and ebay and receive commisions for sales of physical products.  EBooks are also very popular in earning affiliatecommisions as the commissions are high – often 50% to 75%.  The best place to go is Clickbank for a whole range of downloadable products to promote.

A follow on from affiliate marketing is optin list building.  The basis of this residual income idea is to build a list of people who you can email offers, ideas and recommendations.  There are people who make a full time income from their list of subscribers and there are specialist tools called autoresponders through which you can setup and manage the whole process.  The other advantage  of using an autoresponder is that the process requires your subscribers to double optin (once by filling in a form and twice by clicking a confirmation link sent via email) which will prevent any accusations of SPAM.

There you have it – three great residual income ideas which could just put a bit of extra money in your pocket

There are many many ways to make money online. A lot of people will start with the online survey route, or look at data entry or making money on eBay. However, one of the most effective and straightforward ways of making money online is through affiliate marketing and you too can quickly and easily setup an affiliate marketing business to run part or full time.

So what is affiliate marketing?

In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is an arrangement between an online merchant and an affiliate (which is you) whereby the affiliate earns a commision for generating sales, leads or even just clicks from the merchants website. This is a very grand way of saying if somebody buys from you get a cut

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Ebay is by far the most popular and largest online auction site on the web and continues to grow daily with millions of buyers and sellers from all over the world doing business. Some of them buy and sell on eBay as a hobby to earn extra cash, while others make a business out of it. If you’re seeking a way to earn money from the comfort and privacy of your own home, why not give selling on Ebay a try? Here are some tips to help you get started.
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If you are looking for specific legitimate actual work at home employment then beware – the Internet was, is, and always will be filled with scammers waiting to take advantage of people seeking to work from home. Scams such as home product assembly and envelope stuffing exist to prey on the hopes and dreams of potential home workers. There are legitimate work at home job opportunities out there, however, and one of them is document coding.
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Have you ever considered whether you have the skills to become a virtual assistant?
A virtual assistant is a person who takes on part of the workload of a business or businesses, whilst staying in their own home or home office. Virtual assistants handle incoming phone calls and answers emails, as well as perform data entry and a myriad of other accounting, administrative and related business assignments. This allows the business owner the time to concentrate on the more critical aspects of running their business.  It’s a bit like a secretary, PA or assistant in a real office, but  performed virtually!
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