I'm an internet marketer myself (well, full time uni student and part time internet marketer) so hopefully I can shed some light on the subject.

First of all, there are quite a few ways to make a decent income online. The people on ACA were using adsense (as someone already mentioned). Yes, some people are making 6-7 figure sums from adsense. But the harsh reality is, adsense is quite hard to make a decent income from. To make anything worth while, you have to know how to dominate the search engines with your websites in order to gain the organic traffic. This requires a deep understanding of SEO (Search engine optimisation). Even with huge amounts of traffic, you will probably only make miniscule amounts.

To put it into perspective, if you have 100 visitors to your website with a rule of thumb CTR of 1%, you are likely to make around 1-10cents. Some clicks are higher, but it all depends on your niche and how much the advertisers are willing to pay in that niche.

The best method (in my opinion) is affiliate marketing. I discovered affiliate marketing last February and I'm kicking myself I didn't find it earlier! Anyway after a couple of months of research, I knew this was where it was at. I actually joined a subscription website (virtually an affiliate marketing college!) aswell (its about $40/month) which is when the lightbulb switched on for me. It all came together, and with a little help from the experienced members I was on my way  Still a member there today!

Theres a couple of ways to to affiliate marketing:

1. The free method – Mainly involves writing articles and creating free websites/landing pages to sell products. Need to know a bit of SEO for this method though.

2. The paid method – Using PPC (pay-per-click) such as Google Adwords to drive traffic to your website where you want to sell products to your customers. However if you don't know what you're doing in this arena, it's a fast way to drain your wallet!

I started off with article marketing (as most newbies do). I think I wrote 10 or 12 articles within a couple of weeks and made a couple of thousand dollars which was great! I used this cash to dabble in PPC. I lost $200 to start with because I was a bit lost haha. But, I did more research and got the experts to help me out. A month later, I started a new campaign on google adwords. I will never forget the next day when I woke up and checked my account. First, I checked to see how much I spent on ads…$22.00. Then I checked my affiliate account to see how many sales….5 sales for almost $300! Now that's what I call a decent ROI!

Long story short, I quit my part time job within a month to free up some more time. 3 months later I remember telling my economics lecturer how much I was making….he told me that it was more than what he was making! haha!

Okay, I will stop babbling now. I don't want to sound too cocky (err…too late for that I guess). Anyway, the moral of the story is, there's plenty of opportunity to make a living on the internet. It all comes down to your skills/preferences and your willingness to work at it.

Hope that helps!

Brett