Having said all that let me assure you there are some easy tricks to make money on the internet. Each of these tricks will require that you know exactly what you are looking for and that you have some skills to pull them off. There are certain skills you need to make these tricks work for you.
Just recently Ebay changed its policy so you can no longer sell digital products via their service. This put a lot of people out of business overnight. Some top Ebay marketers used a great trick to keep using this service by offering their products as physical products in the form of cd's and dvd's. To save even more time with this trick you can use a product fulfillment service to take care of everything for you.
This is great now because the change they made means there is a lot less competition than there used to be, thus giving you a much higher conversion rate. Just add a shipping and handling fee to your auctions and your all set.
Moving on, here is a neat trick to make money on the internet through the clickbank marketplace. Find a product that is selling well, this is one with a high gravity. Go grab yourself a domain name that has the name of the product and review it and install a wordpress blog on that domain. Hire someone to write 10 articles for you and add them to your blog embedded with your affiliate links. This is common practice for affiliate marketing, but here is a neat trick. Re-write those articles at least 50% and then submit them to article directories, include a bio box which sends people back to your website. You will find you can make money very quickly this way.
One last trick to make money on the internet is to join a CPA (cost per acquisition) program. Go ahead and signup for one and create an ebook full of relevant information about the CPA offer you want to promote. Add your ebook to as many free ebook directories as you can find. Inside your ebook have a statement saying that the book can be distributed or sold by anyone. This will create a viral effect and your ebook will be floating around all over the internet bringing you CPA cash for years to come.