Free Ways to EARN an INCOME ONLINE

The first way you can add an additional income stream is to sell the stuff you already have but no longer want or need.

eBay - Here, sell anything from art, books, electronics and collectibles to apparel, music, or even real estate. A great place to sell and find great deals. An account is fast, free and easy to setup and there are dozens of tips and tutorials for how to increase your sales and become successful.

Half - An affiliate of eBay, this site is actually a little better because it allows you to list your items until they sell, and they don't charge you a fee, unlike eBay. They even make the buyer reimburse you for the price of shipping. However, half.com is limited to only music, games, game systems, movies and books.

Etsy - This a great place to sell crafty products that you create. If you love to make quilts, jewelry, apparel, etc. this is a wonderful outlet and exposure tool if you're seeking to create a following of a unique and crafty creation you produce.

Probably, at least in my experience, the least lucrative opportunity to make money online. Mainly because you have no control over when you'll get your next survey, how much you will be paid for it, or if you will even qualify to take the whole thing. But they usually are legit sites and here are two I've used over the years.

Globaltestmarket - This is the one I've made the most with - usually around $100 a year. It's not much, but enough to go out and see a movie with my girlfriend a few times. The good thing about the surveys with this site is that even if you don't qualify to take them you still get paid.

Inboxdollars - With this program there are many ways to earn money. You can read emails, answer surveys, fill out trial offers, and even play games to win cash. Again though, not very lucrative. I would only recommend this site to teenagers who had no other source of income - then, after a year, they could cash out and have enough to purchase their own domain name.

Creative, but don't have the capital to open your own physical business and cover overhead? Just let one of these sites handle all the complicated stuff while you just focus on what you love - your ideas and designs.

Spreadshirt - Create your own shop with custom apparel and accessories on high quality products. You have the freedom to customize the look and feel of your storefront and control the amount you receive on the commission of each sale.

Cafepress - Probably the most well-known place online to host your own online shop for free. Not only can you put your designs on apparel, but you can also sell your own custom music, books, and more. The only reason I have them second is because I wasn't impressed with the brands, styles and limited colors of the products you could customize.

A few years ago I thought blogging was just a passing phase in web culture. They had given the opportunity of making a blog to everyone, even those who were who were computer illiterate. This opened the door to all those who were completely uncreative and had no design skills whatsoever. I was afraid that most of the web might end up looking like many people's Myspace pages - flashy colors, backgrounds that moved, and random loud music playing in the background that you couldn't find where to shut off. But, even though this became partly true, there emerged a lot of great blogs out there, many of which were hosted on free sites like the ones below.

Blogger - Purchased by Google, Blogger offers a simple and flexible solution that makes it easy to translate your thoughts or whatever you want to share with the world into a successful and valuable source of content.

Squidoo - If you just want to share a few of your own polished articles or share something every day, Squidoo is a fun, simple site that makes adding content easy. You get to pick a name for each page or lens you create, for example: http://www.squidoo.com/whatever, and also have a variety of ways to go about making money with your post once it's created.

* Now, for those of you completely NOT web savvy, you won't make money by JUST having a blog. You use your blog as a tool to advertise and promote other products - that's how the money is made. Below are a list of programs and sites that you can use to do just that.

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