If you’ve found this blog, congratulations! You are probably one of the very few. Read on for why.
This blog is not about selling stuff to you. Or getting your email address for email marketing. Or for selling affiliate marketing products. Or for using Adsense or Chitika. You won’t see any sales pitch to buy my get rich quick scheme. But in some ways, it is about all of this.
Can an average person make money online? There are hundreds of way this could possibly be done. And thousands of people are generating some type of income or profit from the Web everyday. But can you do it? If you’re willing to work eight hours a day diligently, just as you would (or should) if you are working as an employee at a regular job, can you make a modest weekly income? Even an extremely modest amount?
It hasn’t been long since I started looking into this. It actually started 40 days ago. Since then it seems like the biblical 40 days and 40 nights in the desert except that this desert is called the Internet.
Google ‘make money online’ and then sit back and hope that your computer doesn’t overheat. There are more people out there trying to sell you the latest and greatest get rich quick scheme than there are sands of grain in that proverbial desert I’ve been walking through. If there are so many get rich quick secrets available for sale, why doesn’t the guy who’s trying to sell it to you just use it himself and save us all a lot of bother? Well, you know why. There are no secrets. At least none that are for sale.
If you had a secret so good that you could show someone else how to get rich from it, why sell it? Do it yourself. If it’s too much work to do it yourself it isn’t much of a secret is it? After you’ve got enough piled up, maybe tell your best friend or your kids or your bartender and let them also become rich. What a great way to make friends. Why would you take such a great secret and try to sell it to me for $47 or $97? If your wonderful secret didn’t make you enough the first time you did it, wouldn’t you rather do it again, just one more time for yourself, and make another million or two? So if you are one of the great group of Internet Marketers selling get rich quick schemes, here’s my tip for you: Do it yourself, then go buy an island in the Bahamas and give the rest of us a break.
If you are like me, and you are thinking about looking into the possibility of actually trying to make online income, you’ve probably been through at lot of this. I didn’t spend a lot, less than $500, on some of the different ‘programs’ and ‘path to riches’ EBooks and other stuff available to newbies. That was my admission price. I think that hundreds of people pay this price when they first have the idea that they’ll try to make money online. If you believe what you read in the forums some have paid many times that amount and are still looking for their first dollar of income from the Internet.
Was any of the money I spent worth it? I’ll have to admit that there was one affiliate marketing (if you don’t know what that means then you haven’t been down this road, have you?) thing I bought that I do feel was very much worth the price I paid. Truthfully, if it turns out that what the guy was saying is actually true, I don’t know how I’d value it. It’s definitely worth a whole lot more than the $29 I paid. And I’m not even going to use his program. But it was the only thing I saw where I felt the seller was actually telling the truth. I’ve thought about this a lot, and I think it’s because he (the seller of the product) is also somewhat new to Internet Marketing. Maybe his sales method will change in the future when he finds out that hype sells better than truth (doesn’t it?).
I consider that $29 well spent. And after (let me calculate this out) probably nearly a thousand hours of research, surfing, buying stuff online, buying a few books at the bookstore (thinking that the truth might be there) and doing everything I could think of to come up with a method to try I can only say I found out more about what might work through free sources than by paying for them.
What is your time worth? You’ve got to decide that. Because my initial conclusion is that you can use any one of the many methods available to make some, or maybe a lot, of money online. I’m not shooting for a lot. But to even make a little it takes a lot of time. At least at first. Do the same research I did. Read everything you can find on the Web. But I think you’ll find that it just takes time because things don’t happen overnight.
So that leaves lots of stuff to talk about over the next 90 days.
I guess I didn’t tell you about that, did I? I’m going to try a simple experiment. I’m going to take everything that I think I learned in the past 40 days, and use it to see if I can build up a $25 per day ($750 per month) recurring income over the next 90 days. That doesn’t sound like much, does it?
It isn’t much, but it is huge if you think about it this way. If this can be done, legally, properly, with no crazy marketing stuff it really is more than pocket change. And if it’s done with the idea that you can build on it and increase it again in the following 90 days it may take a little time, but it’s better than being a greeter at a discount store. (My apologies if that happens to be your job and you love it to death.)
So we’ll see. Updates to follow. I’m going now to set up my first website.
(Oh, and I forgot to tell you: The official start date in my mind for this experiment is 9/1. Today is 8/30. So I’m starting two days ahead of time. Some people need a head start. So as you see in the title this is Day -1. Day 1 won’t be for two more days yet. I love logical stuff, don’t you?)