How can you make money online, doing what you love? First you need to find something, an interest or a hobby, that you love to do. Perhaps it is something you do better than anyone else, and your an expert at it. Successful entrepreneurs online have taken their hobbies or interests and created products around it.

For example, I have always been interested in the workings of the mind and visualizations, so naturally, I became a hypnotist. I have researched hypnosis, studied marketing, developed hypnosis products that I knew people needed or wanted, and launched a website (HypnoticSubliminals.com) with all my products on it.

However all my products have not launched, and will not until around Jan. or 2009. Although, with my study of online marketing, I have been able to make 6 sales in the first month of my website launch.

This goes back to YOU. Perhaps you are really good at sports. You could create a product designed to help motivate people to be better at sports, help them focus on the desired end result, give them exercise programs, or write an eBook related to sports enhancement. In fact, feel free to combine all of those in one item to make a very profitable product!

The best thing you can do is figure what you are good at. If you can't think of anything, find something that interests you and spend about two months reading and reading about that interest. Study, study, study! This is the best thing you could do for yourself, and will work off in the long run.

You should also research, in that time period, on internet marketing and targeting. This is also a good thing to do, so you can better target your products to your potential customers.

Let's do some numbers. Say you sold that sports product I was talking about earlier. If you combined all of those suggestions (and perhaps come up with more ideas on your own!), you could easily sell that for $87-$97. If you just sold 10 of those products, you will have made an extra $870-$970, not bad, especially if you continually sell 10 products a month. This requires good marketing on your part.

So if you sold 10 products a month, for one year at $87, you would make an extra $10,440 a year. This also, is not bad.

Another idea is you can become an affiliate with certain companies. A good website to look into is Marketing For Business Affiliates (MarketingForBusinessAffiliates.com). Affiliate programs are probably the best thing out there to help you make an extra income, although you will need to study affiliate marketing to have better success (affiliate marketing: http://www.MarketingForBusinessAffilates.com).

Good luck on your journey, and start making that money you deserve, by helping others in the process!