What are honest internet income streams? - To us an honest income stream is one that allows you to earn without having to sell a product that people don't really need and doesn’t rely on triggering an emotional response to hyped up advertising. All the hype and fluff out there isn’t always a flat out lie; (although a lot of times it is) but most of it is, at the very least, “embellished.” Like most network marketers we use to spend a lot of our time and advertising dollars on convincing leads that what we were selling was something they needed. One day a close friend said; “don’t you feel guilty taking people’s money by lying to them?” We hadn't ever quite looked at it as lying. But she was right. We figured that if we spent money on things that didn’t really work as promised, it was OK to expect the same of others. We no longer do that. It really isn't honest.

This all seems complicated. Will I really make money? At first glance it may seem complicated but as you go along you will gain a much better understanding of how the internet works. You will also come to see how the other companies that we've decided are the most honest to work with on the web today want you to make money, not just spend money. How much or how little you earn is up to you. is here to make it easier than ever to get to the level of earnings you desire. You can be a part of the team and get loads of help with every aspect of what it takes to earn extra income or actually make a living. In all reality, making money on the internet is not nearly as complicated as starting a new "brick and mortar" business. We know.

Is MLM the same as a pyramid scheme? Not even. A pyramid scheme is a method of paying members in a group by constantly recruiting new members and using their fees to pay the older members. This doesn't involve selling an actual product. Some MLM companies walk a fine line between what is legal and honest and what's not by selling a useless product that none of the members really use. It is these types of companies that have given the term multi-level marketing a bad name in the last 20 or so years. The internet is changing everything most people thought they new about business plans very rapidly. We like the term network marketing better anyway.

Why is this website free? We don't want nor do we need you to pay us directly. More than one team member has suggested that we make this a paid membership website. No way. To keep it all honest we don't feel anyone should pay anything to find out if they like something or have the aptitude for it. We want to help you learn how to earn in your own way that you find fun. As you join the programs here and build your teams we will all make money by showing you and your team how and helping you to make money.

I'm not quite sure what to do first. Catch one of us in the chat room here and someone will point you in the right direction depending on what your goals are.

There's a lot going on here, I need an overview or a quick rundown of the basics. As a basic outline you can look at the following as the fundamentals of making a living from the internet:

• Basic Web Skills - registering domains and how to build a web page/site and host it. (This is ten times easier now than it was just four or five years ago!)
• Market Research - For pretty much all of the income streams on this website this is already 90% done for you.
• Product Creation - You don’t have to actually create one yourself. As you can see from this website affiliate opportunities abound.
• List Building - We choose to skip this for the most part but may change our minds one day. Or we may not.
• Copy Writing - There are right ways and wrong ways, but as long as you learn the basics you will be way ahead of a large percentage of the “dreamers.”
• Traffic Generation - There must be a thousand different ways to get traffic to your site but the general approaches are SEO, PPC ads (text and banner), Blogs, Social Media, Press Releases, Writing Articles, Link Exchanges and Forum Signatures, Free Classifieds and Traffic Exchanges.

Will you really help me? Absolutely. And so will every other team member here. We all work together to help each other achieve success. This is the most fun part of all of this for many of us. Well maybe besides making money...

Affiliate - A person who promotes a product or service for a commission.

Back End - Once you’ve committed to pay for a product, another page comes up asking you to buy something else. Don’t be fooled. Most of the time the back end offer will be available for purchase down the road anyway. This tactic works well because the lead has already opened their wallet or purse.

Banner - A graphic advertisement. Some of the most common being (measured in pixels) 468x60 (full banner), 234x60 (half banner), 728x90 (leaderboard), 120x600 (skyscraper), 160x600 (wide skyscraper), 125x125 (square button), 300x250 (medium rectangle).

Campaign - A particular advertising approach for a particular product. We use every type of advertising out there on an ongoing basis. These include text ad campaigns, banner ad campaigns, Google AdWords campaigns, email campaigns, article campaigns, traffic exchange campaigns and even offline campaigns including placing ads in the classifieds section of local newspapers.

Click Through Rate (CTR) - The amount of clicks on an ad (text link or banner ad) as compared to its number of views (known as impressions.)

Conversion Rate - The percentage of visitors to your website or sales page that actually buy.

Copy - The actual text of a website or advertisement. Professional copy writers make big bucks as they know how to write copy that produces sales.

Downline - The people who are below you in an MLM opportunity.

Forced Matrix - An MLM concept in which the membership is "forced" into downlines using different algorithms. This is the most honest type of matrix.

Front End - The product or service offered that got the lead to click on the ad.

HTML - Hyper-Text Markup Language. The most common and oldest form of computer code used for making the internet work.

IM - Internet Marketer.

Impressions - Refers to views of a web page or advertisement.

JV - Joint Venture. The gurus are famous for these. They trade lists and offer each other’s products and services to their leads.

Lead - A term used for prospective buyers.

Lead Capture Page - Similar to a splash page, but requires your email address to get to the offer or sales page. Hint: approximately 75% of the time you can type anything into the fields of a lead capture page and still get to the sales page.

Link Cloaker - A service used to change and track your affiliate links.

List - Usually refers to an email list of prospective buyers.

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) - Refers to a business plan that relies on the members to promote a product or service and pays each member a share of earnings from members below them (levels). This concept has exploded on the internet in recent years.

OTO - One Time Offer. This is a method that the “pros” use because it works. You have probably seen this. A lot of websites offer something for free and when you get past the sign up page you come to the OTO page. This may be an upgrade from a free membership or and entirely different product. Don’t feel compelled to take the OTO. If you were after something because it was free, get it for free. In our experience about 50% of the time you will be offered the deal again anyway.

PPC - Pay Per Click. Advertising based on the advertiser bidding on clicks on their ad. Google AdWords is the best example of this.

Referral - Someone who has joined an opportunity below you and is now in your downline.

Replicated Website - A page that comes with an affiliate opportunity that uses your referral link. Best to build a splash page for your opportunity or product especially when promoting on traffic exchanges.

Sales Page - Usually a very long web page that includes video, testimonials and professionally written copy to compel a person to buy.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization. Constructing your website in such a manner as to make your pages appear high on web searches for relative content.

Spam - Usually refers to uninvited emails. Can also mean using non-confoming tactics to generate leads or traffic to a web page.

Splash Page - A short and concise web page that compels a person to click through to your actual product or opportunity website.

Squeeze Page - See Lead Capture Page above.

Traffic - In internet parlance, the amount of visitors one receives to their web pages.