Make Money Online – there are so many websites all over the internet promising wealth nearly without any work or effort.

What’s behind, how do you make money on the internet? Is it possible to earn a passive income?

By now my answer to all of those questions is: yes. I want to show how it is working, how I do earn money and document my projects for you, so you can get as much as possible out of my mistakes and my successes.

Is it really possible to earn money online?

I was researching the web in May 2011 when I stumbled upon a German website with a very interesting post. It was a summary of English speaking blogs publishing their income generated by those blog. Some of them made up to five figures income. Not too bad.

I was astonished. This was a real income. I started my research on internet marketing, making money online in general. Obvious there were many reliable sources of information but also many dubious offers. Online income seems to be associated with doing nothing and earning a lot. But it is not that easy, that’s for sure. If that was true wouldn’t we all be rich by now?

Earning money online myself now I have to say: yes it is possible. But you must know that there is work to be done and you need to invest an amount of time.

I took as much of my free-time as possible over the last couple of months to research internet marketing. I read many websites and blogs, browsed through forum, bought some eBooks and attended online seminars.

Usually there is a no question asked money back guaranty for 30 or 60 days after online payments. As I was able to return bad product I was only paying for stuff worth the money.

I had never problems returning a product to the marketer – I must admit that I expected something else regarding these guaranties. But my experience tells me that most of the people (all for me, but you never know) are serious – nice surprise.

I want to mention that the information you learn on eBooks or courses can also be found legally on the web for free in many cases. But they may scattered to the four winds – being anywhere on the web. You can save much of your valuable time with information product and the information is in most cases well sorted and packed.

Why Make Money Online Designing Your Home Based Business

Luckily I created my job for myself eleven years ago, straight after school and military duty, together with a good friend of mine, so I am able to work in my own company 9to5 with 10 amiable colleagues.

As I made a business out of my hobby, I was looking around for something new to do in my spare time outside my 9to5. The topic of internet marketing fascinated me. Maybe all the gurus with their blank and shiny marketing assisted. So I tried it out and really had fun designing websites, doing marketing and creating content.

You do not have to be on a special place to do internet marketing nor are you bound to any specific deadlines. That’s why creating your home bases business is ideal to earn an extra side income in addition to your 40 hour work week.

I made my first experience to earn money online in the year 2003, when we bought a running website. It was a paid home page, where users are paid to watch and visit links. At the beginning the revenue of this site was good. But after a short period of time the earnings decreased and the project started to become unprofitable.

We sold that website within a year. On this time we had no experience and not enough time to manage such a huge project. Our Mistake was to focus on the money. That was the worst we could do. We did not care enough about the people using our service, just wanted to earn some money. That is definitely not the way to go for an internet project. Lesson learned.

Get Rich Quick – How to Earn Your First Million Tonight!

Ok – just kidding. Nobody will be a millionaire over night without work. Any internet business involves hard work and cannot be built without personal commitment. I am sure it is possible to earn a decent amount of money with a single product launch – but these are not made on a single day. There is all the work to be done to create the product and afterwards you have to push the marketing.

On extrasideincome.com I will show you how you can earn money online, staying at your 9to5. I do not promise that everything works to same for you as it did for me. Your success will be caused by your personal efforts and engagement. Earning money on the web is scalable. There are methods which are capable to earn you a passive income. But at the beginner there is always work to be done.

Please feel free to leave a comment with questions or suggestions. Love or hate, any comment are appreciated. So I wish you all the best for the year 2012.

Oh – one last thing: you may (ok, you did of course) have noticed that English is not my native language. So please feel free to point to anything where I messed things up. Thank You.

Today I want to share my goals for 2012 with you. I know I did not publish my initial post yet, where I introduce this project but I wanted to go live with my goals within the first week of the new year.
I want to achieve the following goals by the end of the year 2012

100 Webpages

I will share details how I will (try to) make money on the internet later. In a nutshell it is a mixture of content and marketing websites.

Break even

I do not want to pay for this experiment for the rest of my life so I aim to break even within this year.

Flip Website

I did not target selling or buying domains yet but I am interested in this and want to learn more about within this year to approve if I am able to make any money out of it.

Google Adwords Qualified

To learn more about Google and out of private interests i want to get Google Adwords Qualified which includes passing the exam by the end of the year.

Visit one live Event

I want to take the possibility to attend on at least one live event to meet people doing similar businesses. I did not pick an Event yet – maybe you got any recommendations for European Events? Please leave a comment below.

DMOZ Entry

Until now it never worked out. So i want one of my projects listed at DMOZ by the end of the year.

Start a Podcast

I will be launching a podcast this year. I did not choose the project I am going for, but that something for second half of the year.

Finish IBM

I am Member of the Internet Business Mastery Academy and want to finish and implement all Modules on at least one site by the end of the year. I will talk more about that later.

Join a Virtual Mastermind

I want to share thought and business ideas with other like minded people through a virtual mastermind group. We are about to start one in January, so hopefully this goals will be the first to achieve.

Join a Local Mastermind

I am looking for a local mastermind meetup related to business, internet marketing, seo, affiliate marketing. I will start one if I cannot find anything in my area. Already looked up meetup.com but it seems this one is better for the US or English speaking meetings.
So if you live in northern Germany, willing to participate in a local mastermind meetings than leave a comment or contact me via email. Thanks for that.

Whats Up Next?

You will get to know what this site is all about and I am up to publish my first income report for the last months.

That’s it – my first and also the next step for extrasideincome.com. I am thinking of releasing this site for 7 month now so it’s now time to take action.

Today it is not all about the content or style of this page. It is about taking action, moving on to the next step – to start something new. Don’t you know that queasy feeling if you are up to take a new challenge? Most people do not shoulder to overcome the obstacles on their way. They are confronted with something new, unknown, and maybe a little bit scary – and desist from their dream or whatever. They then seek for new answers, more knowledge more of everything to get started… later.

And, of course, what you do has to be perfect. It’s all about these bright shiny objects, isn’t it? You can work hours, days, weeks, months or maybe years to tweak things up, even with small details. So did I. On 31th of July 2011 I wrote my first article for extrasideincome.com. And guess what, that’s all.

So, message received. It’s not about reaching your goal in one giant step. You and extrasideincome.com will need many steps to go where you are headed to.

I am starting today with this tiny message. I will publish, even there is nothing around ready to go. I did not pick a logo yet, nor a color set, did not install a proper theme yet, nor installed any plugins, did not set up a newsletter service, Facebook site, YouTube Channel nor Twitter Account and did not start my Podcast or even got an Google+ Account. That was much – these open issues appear a little overwhelming if stacked together. Seems like a giant endless big step.

Also the slogan: make money designing your home based business tonight – just a construct of researched keywords regarding this topic – not perfect that’s true. But I am able to think the next few weeks on that one. But nothing is protected from changing, so let’s get started with this one.