Everybody speaks about huge profits overnight. This can happen especially in the case of marketers with long experience, huge lists of prospects and which are recognized in the market as reliable content providers.

If you are new, there are some ways on how to ge started and you will have to choose one of the models which suits you better:

1. Affiliate marketing - promote other people's products; open an account with Clickbank or other company which connects vendors and affiliates and start promoting the products you will find there. You can promote them in social networking, through publishing articles, comments on blogs and other features.

2. Create your own products - based on your personal and professional capabilities, choose a niche and start to develop your own products which can be e-books, courses, videos and audios; I recommend first to study similar successful products and to learn valuable information from their content and promo tools used.
If you start by selling other people's products you will learn also how to promote your own when you will be ready to create one.

3. Start building a list of prospects for the topics of interest to you using e-mail platforms; You can do this by setting up a basic information website about a topic of interest containing an opt-in form for people to leave their name and e-mail address and driving traffic to it from forums, article directories and other sources. By having a list of prospects interested in a market niche you will be able to offer them products of your own or affiliate products compatible with your niche.

There are a lot of sources of information in the internet about how you can start an online business and develop any of those 3 models. Choose the one you will find the most appropriate.