When I started my online ventures a few months ago, I was so excited about MLM’s and afilliate marketing. I thought that I was going to be able to quit my day job in no time. Boy, was I wrong. Although it is true that you can make a living (and even a killing) off afilliate marketing, it is a much more tedious process than just setting up a website and placing other peoples codes on it.

It’s all about traffic and quality content. You can’t have one without the other. You cannot be succesful without both. It’s as simple as that. Take my online store Sanzmart.com - I set this store up in June 2007 (I paid for the setup) and after a couple of months I had to put up some Google Adsense just to break even with my hosting costs.

My other store is an afilliate marketing website: ShopNow.ws - This one makes me more money than my own store Sanzmart! But even then, I just couldn’t break even without having to resort to Google Adsense.

Google has been so generous that I decided to set up Adsense on all my websites and blogs. Google Adsense has been the easiest way to make money online for me. I just hope other people learn from my mistakes and monetize their sites with Adsense before they lose too much money.