text: whats the best way to make money online without spam?   the web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. you hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on web. while there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the web.  for me, advertising is the best way to make money online because you do not carry any inventory or be hassled with delivery and fulfillment unlike when you're selling through your own ecommerce store or ebay.  but here are the main business models you can adopt:  1. sell products on the web - big boys like amazon or lillian vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like bigkidsvideo.com or candle4less.com all sell products on the web.   you can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as yahoo stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like ebay  2. information delivery. others such as about.com or powerhomebiz.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:  a. advertising - whether by joining banner ad networks such as tribal fusion, burstmedia or fastclick and display the banners on their site; or through contextual advertising such as google adsense or intellxt  banner ad networks: burst media http://www.burstmedia.com fastclick (valueclick). http://www.fastclick.com advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com tribal fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com   contextual advertising networks: google adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/...  yahoo! publishing network (currently in beta and available to us publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/  intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm  quigo adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm industrybrains http://www.industrybrains.com  commission junction evolution http://www.cj.com/solutions/optimized_ad...  b. affiliate programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined).  commission junction http://www.cj.com clickbank http://www.clickbank.com linkshare http://www.linkshare.com    c. paid online content. hoovers.com or webmasterworld.com supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information  d. content licensing and syndication. some publishers such as the associated press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere  3. through income opportunities on the web such as paid surveys - they typically won't earn you much, but can give you a few cash  pinecone research http://www.pineconeresearch.com greenfield online http://www.greenfieldonline.com  harris poll online http://www.harrispollonline.com   buzzback http://www.buzzback.com   surveysite http://www.surveysite.com  surveysavvy http://www.surveysavvy.com survey spot http://www.surveyspot.com/ http://www.internetpaidsurveys.com/  you may want to read the following books:   121 internet businesses you can start from home   the best internet businesses you can start  how to earn money on the web http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol122/earn.htm earning money from surveys http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol121/onlinesurvey.htm