Best ways to make money online with ease

one. Become an eBay trader

Considering how plenty of hours they put in to surfing the world wide web each week it makes sense to spend at least a quantity of that time productively. Therefore, they asked various online gurus to give us their top tips on the way it can be used to help generate a full or part-time income.

The Godfather site of the e commerce world has been going since 1995 and boasts over a million users across the globe. It can be used to buy and sell virtually anything and from a business point of view your "shop" can be viewed 24-hours-a-day.

The key to success is focusing on positive products, according to Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation. "Don't try and sell everything  be as niche as feasible," he says. "The businesses that I am seeing perform best at the moment are those that have a very clear product that they market to a well-defined audience."

Stepping on from eBay trading is manufacturing the goods that you sell. This can include anything and everything from model cars and plates to jewelry and clothing. Services such as generate.net enable you to set up and run your own online shop.

two. Sell goods you have made online

Lesley-Anne Pace set up The Cotton Bee (thecottonbee.co.uk) after being given her aunt's 40-year-old sewing machine after her daughter, Phoebe, was born in November 2009. He used it to make a patchwork play mat and has not stopped sewing since!

"I generate handmade patchwork quilts and sell a choice of fabrics," he says. "I am currently developing a range of hand-embroidered items which I am looking forward to offering in the next couple of months."

The 39-year-old, from Gateshead, likes the fact he can run the world wide website around her life and studies, although admits it can be hard keeping organised. "I have an artistic character and am basically distracted with new projects," he says. "My advice is to make use of social media to promote and connect to potential customers as it is free!"

three. Start up a weblog

Journalist Susie Boniface is a prime example. Under the alias Fleet Street Fox (fleetstreetfox.com) he wrote an opinionated weblog as a way to move from being a national newspaper reporter to columnist  and it resulted in a book deal with The Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox being published earlier this year.

There's a staggering number of blogs around the globe but setting up and building a loyal readership cannot only provide a source of income but a feasible springboard to full and part-time work opportunities.

"I don't make very much money out of my weblog but for me it is a shop window," he says. "I get asked to write about things that my followers have seen me speaking about on the weblog or to appear on tv shows."

The 36-year-old says the keys to her success were having a memorable nickname, keeping on the pulse by tweeting in the work of popular shows such as Britain's Got Talent, and falling back on established tabloid newspaper techniques to get readers. "I stuck to very simple colours black, white and red  and a simple serif font," he says. "I also made positive there was plenty of spacing and regular use of photographs and links to substantiate the points I was making."