In order to make money with Ning, you will to need to create your own social network over there first, it is completely free to create a network in Ning. Then invite your friends and followers from facebook and twitter to join in your network; and when you get around 1000 members in there, it is time for you to switch to the paid service, because you are only allow to place your own ads there with the paid version of Ning. After you have paid for the fees, you can start to insert ads into yours network and start making money with it, you can also insert a link to your online store and make more money whenever your members buy a product from your online store. It is free to insert a link to your external online store but it is not free to use your own ads there :Icky: