To be honest, to make money online, you have to start a email list. You do that by setting up a squeeze page, and getting a autoresponder. When you try to sell something directly to people, there's a slim chance that the person is not going to purchase on the first visit. However if you get a customer on your email list, you can always go back and market to them. The Money Is In the List Guys. You heard it a million times. You also have to know how to drive traffic to your website. You can do that by video marketing, writing articles and submitting them to directories, paid advertising such as ppc, ppv.