Ha! Don't we all? Well, fortunately for the people who are looking for legitimate ways to make money online the ways are infinite. Whether you want to sell a product, perform a service or create something. Almost anything you do online can be monetized.

1) Create an info product. One of the more common ways to make money online is to make an information product. The great thing about this is, the market is always there for almost anything you can think of. Another great thing about creating an information product is that it's easy, particularly if you have intimate knowledge of a subject or process. Information products are also easy to expand upon, to spin off, to create parallel products, to obtain other marketers as affiliates and a plethora of other positives.

2) Sell advertising. This is another common way to make money online. More often than not, this can be done completely without any startup costs and it can be done very simply. Just start a blog on one of the free blogging sites available and start posting. Of course, as with other ways to make money online you will have to do some promotion to get the traffic to your blog or site flowing but there are many people who do this very thing to generate an online income.

3) Sell other people's products. In other words, affiliate marketing. This is a common and effective way to make money online. If it wasn't effective and if people weren't generating income in this manner, then nobody would be doing it. In fact, almost everybody who starts making money online does so as an affiliate in some way. You can get started as simply as setting up a free blog, making some posts, including your affiliate link in those posts and promoting.

4) Provide a service. Another of the more common ways to make money online is doing work for other people that they don't want to do. Can you write? Decent with graphics? Have intimate knowledge of how search engines work? Are you a programmer? Are you extremely versed on any one subject and can provide consulting services? Almost anything that can be done offline, some form of it can be done online as well and if you add that to the endless services needed online then this becomes a very powerful income generator.

Those are just four small ways to make money online, heck, even those four ways can be broken down into more ways to generate an income. With just these four, you could also combine them and twist them into other multiple streams of income. So as you can see in these small paragraphs, the ways to make money online are all around.