Not strategies or techniques, but business models in a more general sense. To give you an idea:

1. Affiliate type website.
2. Content website with Adsense.
3. Affiliate type + Adsense.
4. Your own product - membership site.
5. Your own product - ebook.
6. JV deals.
7. Your own product - software.
8. Directory type site.
9. Online newsletter.
10. Promote affiliate products using AdWords.
Bonus. Sell on Ebay + your own site.

The VERY top way is to create your OWN business and market it well. Find out what YOU are GOOD at, see if there is a niche, and start your business in that niche. Run it like a professional business with profit/loss evaluation, business plan, goals, etc. You can make a lot of money doing this, but most people won't take the time and effort to make it happen. Question is: Will you be the one to do it?

Each of the ways of making money online outlined requires resources: time, money and knowledge to build it to a successful business. As all the ways listed are a already saturated by competitors either foreign or local.

Quote from: Christian Okoye on 2013-05-28 15:47
Each of the ways of making money online outlined requires resources: time, money and knowledge to build it to a successful business. As all the ways listed are a already saturated by competitors either foreign or local.

Anything you choose to do in life requires time, money, and knowledge to build into success. Even a job needs 'time' to have gone through school, 'money' to pay for school/college fees, and eventually the 'knowledge' to actually execute the work.

There is hardly ever such a thing as 'saturation' when someone has a good business idea responding creatively to a real societal need. Saturation happens when people try and answer the same need in the same way. Keep your eyes on needs and you will never run out of paying business ideas.

Looking at the niche keywords as outlined by the Topic starter:

Quote1. Affiliate type website.
2. Content website with Adsense.
3. Affiliate type + Adsense.
4. Your own product - membership site.
5. Your own product - ebook.
6. JV deals.
7. Your own product - software.
8. Directory type site.
9. Online newsletter.
10. Promote affiliate products using AdWords.
Bonus. Sell on Ebay + your own site.

All these business are saturated, just type any of the businesses in the search engines you will see hundred of thousands of webmasters serving each of the niche around the world. Is it what you should advise new webmasters to target? That is what I meant that the niches outlined are saturated. The solution or way out here is for new webmasters to narrow down sub niches to discover low competitive niches to target, which the topic starter didn't point out here.

Quote from: Christian Okoye on 2013-05-29 12:47
Looking at the niche keywords as outlined by the Topic starter:

Quote1. Affiliate type website.
2. Content website with Adsense.
3. Affiliate type + Adsense.
4. Your own product - membership site.
5. Your own product - ebook.
6. JV deals.
7. Your own product - software.
8. Directory type site.
9. Online newsletter.
10. Promote affiliate products using AdWords.
Bonus. Sell on Ebay + your own site.

All these business are saturated... The solution ...is for new webmasters to narrow down sub niches to discover low competitive niches to target, which the topic starter didn't point out here.

And if the person reading this list cannot see that the money is in the 'sub niche' or 'long tail keyword' as they are more often called, then they are a niche themselves. They seriously need a course in 'making money online'. Thanks Christian. 

Unless you're referring to already established webmasters, how would new comer in online business know? when there is no where in the article the OP mention about sub niche rather he mentioned: "business models in a more general sense."
Yes I agree with you "They seriously need a course in 'making money online'"
But personally rather than call it "Making money online" (as I pointed out is thread here http://cokoye.com/internet-marketing-discussions/make-money-online-does-it-realy-help-or-is-it-a-bag-of-tricks/) I call it rendering service online instead, as money comes as a result of service being rendered online.

Quote from: Christian Okoye on 2013-07-17 16:16
Yes I agree with you "They seriously need a course in 'making money online'"
But personally rather than call it "Making money online" (as I pointed out is thread here http://cokoye.com/internet-marketing-discussions/make-money-online-does-it-realy-help-or-is-it-a-bag-of-tricks/) I call it rendering service online instead, as money comes as a result of service being rendered online.

That is tremendously helpful Christian. It in fact removes the fallacy newbies come with online that all the work is set up the website and the money happens automatically. This clarifies that there is a service (and/or a product) that they will have to offer to make the money. I really like that. 

As far as greedy rules the world people will still be falling victim of fraudsters, online business is safe heaven for scammers as people most times don't see who they're dealing with and don't have to as this is how internet business works.

It would be better if people took the internet for what it is, a source of information. If people did more reading, there would be less fraud. As it is, the desire for quick money fixes gets so many into funny money making schemes.