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  While it's possible to earn money online, not everyone is successful at it. However, if you can pull off earning enough cash on the Internet to pay your bills, you may never have to go to a job again. Instead of a bank account, you'll need a PayPal account to collect your money.
  
  

Assess Your Skills

• One of the quickest ways to earn money online is to offer a service to someone. For instance, webmasters spend their days building and working on websites for law farms, real estate agents or any company with a website to promote business. There are many things to do for the site such as writing site content, building incoming links and graphic design.
  
  Find out if you have writing, link-building or graphic design skills. Any skills you don't have, learn either by trial and error, online classes or web tutorials.
  
  

Market Your Skills

• Build a website advertising your skills. Detail how your services can help a business grow. Put a picture of yourself on the site and testimonials from people who have tried your service. Submit your website to search engines to draw in a steady flow of traffic.
  
  Also market your skills by going into forums. Many marketers in Digital Point Forums or Warrior Forums need people to write content and do link-building for them.
  
  You can also go to forums specific to an industry you are interested in targeting. For instance if you'd like to work for lawyers' websites, go to lawyer forums and write about your services.
  
  You can also consider answering and posting ads on classified sites.
  
  

Motivate Yourself

• It may be challenging to make money on the Internet if you've never done it before. Motivate yourself by making a few cents per click at pay-per-click websites. Sites like Treasure Trooper and Deal Barbie Pays will pay you for clicking on ads and taking small surveys. The pay is pretty low, but just seeing the money in your PayPal account will remind you it is possible to earn money online and encourage you to seek higher-paying ventures.
  
  

Maintain Discipline

• Working online is not the same as working a traditional job. If you work online, the only supervisor you have is yourself. You'll be tempted to go outside during the workday or get up and do little things around the house.
  
  However, it is essential for you to buckle down and work just like you work at a regular job. Without that kind of discipline, you'll waste time and you may not make the money you need to pay the bills. Set online timers to help you stay on task.