Mary had a wonderful job at a prestigious office downtown, and has been on maternity leave. Her leave is almost over, but she really doesn't want to leave Baby Grace. If only she could generate the same size of paycheck from home...

Cara is a college freshman and really needs to pay part of her tuition. She did really well in typing class last year, and is acing the IT class this year as well, but she knows she will have trouble getting a high paying job as a 19 year old that she could work around her busy class schedule.

If you've been trying to make money on the internet for more than a few weeks, you've no doubt researched or tried a number of methods and schemes to make it happen. Each one claims that they have secrets no-one else on the internet has discovered, and if you join their program or buy their e-book, you will have the one single key to making millions online.

One of the big decisions in internet marketing is also one of most obvious. What product to market or what company to join?

Perhaps you are thinking about buying into a "data entry" system. This would be a great decision, especially if you are just starting out, as they will walk you through the entire process, and give you a valuable database of things to market and where to market them, but you will still have to make the final choice yourself.

Starting a business on the internet is definitely exciting. Email after email are flooding your inbox with promises of a dream house on a golf course, and most of your time spent with a laptop at a quiet cove on your favorite coastline. The figures they quote to you are so big they border on indecent. $10,000 a month in 90 days, they say. Your mind fills with images of long numbers in your bank book, high rise apartments with your name on them, the car of your dreams, and your children graduating from the most prestigious schools.

One of the great things about press releases is that they get your URL's all over the search engines IMMEDIATELY. Yes, Immediately. No waiting 3-6 weeks. Your releases could get indexed within 24 hours.

Top 10 search engine listings are very common.

Submit your releases Thursdays and Fridays, so they are released on Saturdays and Sundays in the media.

Use the below strategies to actually MAKE money every time you generate a lead for your business.

When the lead is free, then it's all profit!

Here is my top 4 ways to generate free or nearly free targeted traffic to my capture pages.

Press Releases:

Press Releases are where newscasters go to find something to report.

If you have been involved in internet marketing for any amount of time, you have most likely heard the term E-zine Advertising.

This is definitely one of the top ways to get traffic to your capture page.

An e-zine ad is simply an advertisement sent out to someone else's email newsletter.

Publishers sell various types of E-zine ad spots.

So, what does love have to do with making over $500K online?

A lot actually. Take for instance, David's story: The year was 2000 and he was dead broke, two thousand miles from his girlfriend and didn't have a clue how to make money online...

So, how did David go from broke and clueless to earning half a million dollars in just two years? One word.

Who is our target market? Most people marketing "make money" products are going after the wrong crowd.

Do we market to "opportunity seekers"? Absolutely not!

This is so critical to understand right now. Opportunity seekers are people who have filled out a generic "make money from home" or "work at home" ad.

These people most likely have never owned a home business in the past and certainly do not know the specifics of our industry.

If your anything like I was, you are probably blaming yourself for the lack of results in your business. It's time to find out who is REALLY to blame.

Unfortunately the people we are supposed to trust the most are the same people that are giving us stone age information on how to effectively market our businesses.

All of the top home business programs today are teaching their marketers to go out and promote the company replicated website or direct affiliate link.

Forums are concentrated communities of highly targeted prospects that are all interested in the same things.

Why are they a great place to market your home business?

1. Forums are HIGHLY targeted.
2. You can learn great new tips and tricks on any particular topic.
3. Your links remain over time and increase in number with every one of your posts.