financial independence

Easy ways to make money online & I am not going to talk about blogging.
I have been trying to make money on line for about 4 years, quite unsuccessfully. Heres what I've learned, a few things I've found successful and a few things to avoid if you don't want to get scammed.
Affiliate Marketing
Has Affiliate marketing worked for me?
Well I have only had a very brief attempt at trying to make money online with affiliate program's and no it didn't work. I tried it with a betting site, a directory of free bets and bookmaker offers because of the sites nature I couldn't promote through adwords, I had to use another pay per click service.
Gambling keywords as you probably know are competitive I quickly went through £50 of clicks with zero conversions :( I know I had a few sign ups but didn't get any commission, the terms of the programs meant cows had to land on the moon before I got paid.
So what did I learn about affiliate marketing?
Choose your programs wisely - check the terms and go for programs that pay per lead.
Build a form so you can get peoples details - that way you'll be able to track your conversions, don't spam people.

eBay
I have had good success on eBay, the problem is finding products that you can buy competitively on a regular basis. Or better still somewhere you can get them for free.
Where to find products for eBay
1. eBay - look for under priced and badly described items ending a stupid times.
2. Charity Shops - Most of the charity shops I know have caught on to eBay sellers and many charities have their eBay accounts now. Look around the smaller ones you might get lucky.
3. Car boots sales - same as charity shops.
4. alibaba.com - A lot of scammers on here all ways get a phone number and contact details try to speak to the people first.
Last Christmas I was looking for some Xbox 360's and all of the advertisers selling or claiming to have them where dodgy, the phone numbers where wrong I did a few DNS Checks on domain names and they where all registered in Nigeria but there are a few on honest sellers research is the key to not getting ripped off.
Research is the most important part of not getting conned you also need to remember there's no such thing as Easy ways to make money.
I takes lots of trial and error, I know eventually I'll find the key and then I'll think why didn't I try this before this is an easy way to make money online:)