You want to know the truth? Yes, you can earn cash online. Despite the scams you may have already tried or programs that didn't work, there are ways to "automate" your earnings as they say, and some have already been pretty successful doing so. If you're skeptical about their earnings, I tell you the most convincing screenshot of a person's "massive earnings" that you've seen is probably true and is possible.

Here are some online cash generating ways and some of my thoughts on them. Remember, these are just some income streams that are worth looking into:

1) Online business -- the model which is known in the 'real' world as a brick and mortar business (ex: a store selling goods) is known in the net as the click and mortar model. You have a product and you sell it. Examples of which are Amazon.com. Before they used to sell just books, but now they have expanded into a lot of other things. If you have a hobby for instance in the arts and crafts and would like to make your product available online then an online business website maybe for you. As for the transactions, Paypal makes it easy for you to receive money online, if you're customers pay credit card or if they also have paypal accounts.

I recommend that you use Paypal for your online business. It's a real secure and painless way to receive cash or to send cash.

2) Affiliate Programs
If you don't have a product, but would like to sell one, then you may join what we call affiliate programs. Now what are affiliate programs exactly. Affiliate programs allow you to sell a proprietor's products for a commission. For example, if i have an e-book and an affiliate program to go with it. You can join my affiliate program and sell my e-book on your website. Now whenever you sell my product, you get a cut from it let's say 50%.

There are a lot of affiliate programs and products that you can sell for commission. For me one of the best sites to look at is Clickbank.

3)Adwords brokering

One of the easiest in my opinion to make some money online is through Google's Adwords. Now, let me just warn you...do not jump into this unless you are completely sure of what you're doing. What basically happens is this:

1) You create an ad
2) people click on your ad especially if it is well placed in Google searches
3) people, after clicking the link, are led to a sign-up sheet of some sort or a page where they can purchase the product you advertised. Usually you are an affiliate of these sites and you get a commission when you get those people who click your ad to sign up for the site you linked to or buy the product you advertised.

I suggest not jumping onto this for the mean time. This WILL cost you a lot of money if you do not know how to control your expenses or if you compete for highly competitive keywords on which big time companies advertise.

The e-book Googlecash is a good start in adwords brokering. The author is very knowledgeable about the topic and shows an impressive resume through screenshots how he brokered some sign-ups for ebay and sold beyblades (before they were a hit, during, and after) through Adwords. I myself was really impressed with this guy. I am currently trying it myself but haven't had much time to really focus on it. In a week's time I was able to recover my investment in the e-book...around $100...not as much as the others' earnings but with limited time spent on the program...i was able to recover my purchasing expenses. It is highly likely that you can do better than me

If you want to know more about Googlecash visit my blog for the review or if you want to purchase the product itself then visit the same site , head on to pending products, and click the google cash icon or the purchase icon. There's a special discount for people who purchase through the site.

4) Blogging -- using adsense to generate revenue

I'm sure by now you've seen a lot of blogs and blogs that have those 'Ads by google' texts scattered around the page. Now suppose you have a blog, and a million people visit your blog per month. Again for the purposes of simple discussion 1% of your visitors click your Adsense ads. You earn revenue from that. Every person that clicks into your adsense ads generates money for you.

Now head on to Problogger.net and check out his tips and tricks. This guy makes a lot of money through adsense ads from several of his blogs and he's helping a lot of people make money too! They also offer classes but at a very steep price, but i'm sure it's worth it as a lot of people have been helped by this program (in fact, myextrastash.com was so impressed by this problogger that it is considering adding their program to the site's programs at a special discount!) ...please do comment if you're interested.

So there you go, these are just some of the ways by which you can earn money online. Notice that I didn't go through Paid surveys. If you ask me, it's the easiest thing to do but it's also the least exciting. Even though you get paid 10 bucks for answering a survey, you still earn less because you don't ALWAYS get surveys to answer.

If you're interested in #s 1 and 2, then the Rich Jerk's program will be of good use to you both experts and newbies.