Vicki Robin is the author of Your Money or Your Life, which provides the reader with a 9-step process for making a living (as opposed to making a “dying”), getting out of debt, and becoming financially independent.

With the New Year approaching, many of you are looking for ways to make some extra money. Whether or not you are employed at your “real job”, there are ways to make additional income, and entire web sites devoted to telling you how. Here are my top 5 money-making web site picks.