I am always excited at all of the ways to make money online. If you keep it simple, you can surely find something that appeals to you.
Here are a few ideas to look in to.
1) Take paid surveys. Companies with pay you for your opinion. Cash create is an excellent example of this.
You can join them for free and start earn money taking surveys right away. They also have an excellent referral program that you can earn money referring people to this free site.
2) Affiliate Marketing, Get paid to get leads, make sales or even my click.
Some of the top affiliate programs you can earn with today include Amazon. ClickBank, Commission Junction, and Google AdSense.
You can join a 2-tier affiliate program and get paid to recruit affiliates and teach them how to sell products. You earn a lower commission rate than you do on your sales.
4) Data entry jobs. I recently bought a membership in Global Data Entry jobs and was blown away at all of the information they provide on earning doing data entry.
You can also make money typing working for yourself. Examples of this include blogging, article writing, posting in discussion forums, and making blog comments.
Become a virtual assistant and you can type for other Internet marketers all day long. They will be happy to pay you to return emails, type letters, do Internet marketing for them, and so on.
In reality if you keep it simple, you can make money starting today doing some of the things I listed above. This is not theory, but somewhat proven ways to make money that are not hard anyone can do with a little bit of effort.