A quick review of the different types of income you can make is in order.  Linear income is what most people earn.  Do you have a job?  You are most likely either paid by the hour, by the project, or on salary.  All those are forms of linear income.  You are paid for work you yourself do.  If you stop doing the work, the income source dries up.  Because the income source depends entirely on the work you do, it is always going to be limited by how many hours are in the day and how much energy you have.  

Residual income is income that is not dependent on you doing the work to get done.  It is income that flows to you once you have done the work to set up that source of income.  It could be an investment that pays a regular dividend or it could be a business you own and have turned over operations to a trusted team.  In the case of Internet marketing, it could be a stellar pay per click and article marketing campaign that takes all the traffic to a landing page, captures email addresses and directs them to click on the product you are selling.  This system operates day and night whether you are paying attention to it or not.

Clearly, we all hope to earn residual, rather than linear income.  The downside is that initially, there is more risk involved in getting that residual income flowing.  That risk is the eventuality that a pay per click campaign completely flops, that the articles you write don't reach the right people.  In other words, that you put in lots of work and maybe even some money and the venture fails.  The big advantage to linear income, the reason so many settle for it during their entire lives, is that it involves little risk.  When you get hired for a job with a company, you can reasonably expect that as long as you do the work you were hired to do, you will get paid.  When you sign a contract to perform a project for a client, you can reasonably expect that as long as you complete the project, you will get paid.  Whether the project accomplishes all the client hopes for is not your problem.

Although ultimately less rewarding than residual income, linear income does have its place.  When you're investing in a new business, you still need a steady source of income to pay the bills and keep you going while you're building your business.  If you have a job and you're just getting your feet wet with Internet marketing, you're probably going to keep your job for a while.  If you don't have a job and you're here because you're hoping your Internet marketing efforts will pay the bills really soon, it will help to know that there are a few ways available on the Internet to make some linear income.

Starting Out with Some Linear Internet Income

There are opportunities to make some linear income on the Internet that can get you started.  Although I certainly don't know all of them, the opportunities I'm aware of are low paying.  The big money on the Internet comes with a lot of risk, and as many WA members will tell you, you can also lose a lot of money in the attempt.  If you use the resources listed here, you can reasonably expect to make on average about a dollar a day on each site.  Some sites are better than others and I welcome your feedback based on your own experiences.

A dollar a day is not very much.  However, consider what a dollar a day can get you in Internet marketing.  One dollar a day can fund twenty clicks a day on a well targeted low competition keyword pay per click campaign.  One dollar a day can fund your subscription to whatever email autoresponder program you are using.  Three dollars a day can fund your monthly WA membership fee.

The income may not be much, but it's linear income, that is, income that's dependent on actions you take.  You don't need to sell anything and you don't need to recruit anyone into the same program.

The first place I would look for some linear Internet income is WA Jobs.  If you have any specialized skill related to Internet marketing such as website design, article writing, keyword research, etc., chances are there's a job for you on WA Jobs.  You have to bid on and get accepted to do the project, but once you do, the income will probably be more substantial than what you can earn on some of these other websites.  You can also try sites such as Elance where you can bid on work.

Here are a few sites where you get paid for actions you take.  These sites are all free, though some may have an upgrade option.  I will continue to add to the list as sites come to my attention:

PeopleString:  A social networking site that pays you for Google searches, playing games, shopping and other types of activities you probably already do on Facebook.  PeopleString in and of itself carries its own residual income potential and an Internet marketer named Jay Kanic has developed an entire free system on how to make the most of PeopleString.  The first few steps do a great job of explaining how you can make linear income using PeopleString. Once you know how it works, it takes very little time and it's rather fun to complete paid actions on PeopleString.

SendEarnings:  This is a site that will pay you to do various things such as read emails, complete offers, complete tasks and shop through the site.  I don't use this as much as PeopleString, but it seems you can reasonably make one to two dollars a day here.

RewardingWays:  This is a similar site to SendEarnings.  You can get paid to complete offers, surveys, etc.

With advertising getting more and more competitive, sites like these are popping up all over the place.  A few searches will probably turn up more, and if you find a good one, please feel free to add it to this list.

Once you have joined several of these sites, set goals for how much you want to earn on each site and plan out what you need to do on each one to accomplish your goals.  You want to take the various actions as quickly as possible so that you can devote the rest of your time to the really lucrative (but higher risk) opportunities.

Each of the sites has its own payment procedures.  Many of them use either Paypal or AlertPay, so you will want to set up an account with both services so you can get paid.

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