Thursday, June 11, 2009

My Online Money Making Secret

I've decided to reveal my online money making secret out of sheer frustration at seeing so many people fail to make money online. Are you ready for it? It's a combination of these 3 elements: Honesty, hard work and enjoying what you do. Yeah, I know, it sounds kinda boring and isn't really very "sexy", is it?

I have no cool sounding "system" like the "reverse funnel", "spiderweb", "arbitrage conspiracy", "GDI", "People Search" or any of the other multitude of affiliate schemes that are meant to sound impressive, but are really just full of hype and shattered dreams. All those scams are well thought out by the "guru" who invented each one to get others to pay their $67 (or whatever the cost) to make THEM money, irregardless of whether you make anything at all.

And don't say "but it's FREE to join!", so it won't cost me anything, because that's BS. There's ALWAYS a cost. It just may not be obvious at first, but money MUST be spent somewhere for money to be earned somewhere else. That's simple economics. Remember that.

Any program you join that is based on getting you to sign up others to earn anything is going to leave you disappointed. That's because people are poor, the economy is bad and no one can afford to invest in anything. That's why so many people join these so-called "free" programs, but then no one is buying into it, so you aren't making what the original guru claimed you should be making.

Sure, THEY are making money, but you aren't. The gurus get rich because they suckered you, and then you have to sucker others to earn anything in return. Think about it. I mean, REALLY think about it. If you are currently promoting any sort of affiliate scheme, how much have you made? Was it as much as you expected? Do you actually ENJOY promoting this to others? Seriously?

So, what is it that I do differently? Well, first, and most importantly, my income does not depend on trying to push some system onto others to get them to join in order for me to make money. Yes, I have joined MANY affiliate programs, but mostly to test their claims, and I'm never pushy about them. I'm honest about it and I present the facts, which are that 95% of them are crap and only a couple really work, and only then if you put some effort into it. That's the cold, hard truth.

Keep in mind that I work from home and this is what I do. I make my entire living at home, with no boss or daily grind. No traffic jams either! I do what I enjoy. I like to write and blog. I like playing video games, so I run an arcade network of sites. I love to watch movies, so I have movie and TV sites. I have a series of fun, entertainment sites including joke sites, funny videos and pictures, music, webmaster advice and more. This is what I enjoy doing and I make money from it.

I earn from this network of sites specifically by NOT being pushy, or desperate to make a sale of some crappy product that no one wants or can afford. Surfers play games on my sites or have fun interacting by submitting their own fun stuff and, if they click an ad, that's ok, but if they don't, then that's ok too. I also have CPA surveys on some of my sites. These are the fun entertainment type and, if a visitor wants to fill one out, great! If not, I'm ok with that too. NONE of those things costs my visitors anything!

The point here is that I have multiple streams of income and I don't depend on any one thing to pay my bills. They all combine to create a sustainable, living wage working from home. So many people fail online because most of them are just doing it wrong. Trying to promote some affiliate gateway page to some program that 1000's of others are also promoting and you don't even really like using yourself is NOT going to make you rich!!! It amazes me that 97% of newbie marketers miss that very basic logical reasoning.

If you are not making at LEAST an extra $100 per month with anything you try after 3-4 months, then it's time to drop that and move on to something else. Try something FUN, that you enjoy doing, and STOP wasting your valuable time trying to make some guru rich!!! I mean it!!

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