Why you will never make easy money on the Internet
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized
There’s actually a huge market based around making money quickly on the Internet. It’s quite ironic that that some of the people who make decent money on the net, are the ones which sell information how to make quick money, which sometimes even turns out to be exactly what they’re doing as they sell that information to people.
There are other ways but usually, 90% of the most common methods consist of the same thing.
Now I’ll put it in simple terms. There are only four ways of making decent amounts of quick money on the internet:
1). Gambling.
2). Someone giving you money for nothing.
3). Stealing it.
4). Coming up with an incredibly unique, amazing idea which would probably take a few months of development regardless.
Every other system, concept or E-book story about how to make quick and easy money really just does not work.
Believe me you can make money from these methods (the potential is millions), but any decent amount of money will not be quick and will take time.
Lets take the usual system of making quick money on the net, and one I see a lot of interest in on certain forums (the kind where there’s a bunch of threads congratulating people on making their first $2). It’s the concept of creating a high traffic website, then putting in advertisements from a service like Adsense - so people click the ads and you make a few pennies or pounds per click (this is basically what many money making E-books out there will tell you to do).
Now in theory, this system does work and has worked. Over the last many years a lot of people have started up huge websites with thousands or millions of visitors, and have thus made many thousands of pounds from advertisements. It still happens today.
Anyone who has any realistic expectations of making money using this method may eventually achieve it. However you decide to make money from it, building up a high traffic website is the same as any other website or business out there. You need to write lots of quality content (or provide something else of large value) and build up a lot of visitors who keep coming back. This is this ideal goal for many Webmasters - but whichever way you look at it, you need to put in a lot of effort and time to do this. Sometimes months, usually years.
Unfortunately these quick-money E-books (written by the guys who have achieved such success) are marketed in a way to tell you that it’s an easy way to make money on the internet. That’s the target for many people. When the Internet came out there was a huge hype about making an income from it. The opportunity to work from home, using the Internet to generate cash. If the people who write the E-books told you that it would take a lot of smarts, work and effort - how many do you think they would sell then?
I was on a business forum I use and many months ago I saw a thread from someone which went something like this:
“Can you all tell me what are the best ways of making money on internet.“
Everyone gave replies which makes a lot of sense. Telling the guy that it isn’t as simple as that, it requires work, effort etc.
Then about six months later, someone posted in this guys thread, who rather coincidentally had the same IP (thus the same person), saying the following:
“Hi,
I am in online business for a couple of years. At this time online business is the easiest means of earning money. At present I am using a system called EP****L.com . This system is good and without any doubt it will provide you with extremely high profits. I am earning more than $3000 to $5000 a week. It also gives me a Full-up training program. Surely you will make bucks by using this system.“
Did he take any notice of us? Course he didn’t. He ignored the concept of actually having to do work for it and instead probably bought a ‘how to make money the easy way’ E-book and decided to start-up his own money making scheme. I’ve just checked that website since about a month after he posted and now the domain no longer works. Shock horror…
Unfortunately this happens to hundreds, or perhaps thousands of people everyday. There is one vital point they all seem to miss. For the people who actually made decent money from these methods, they probably spent the same, if not a longer amount of time than they would setting up a legitimate online shop or business.
I talk to people now in various communities who have actually made good money from such methods as starting up websites and using advertisements. Unless they’re trying to sell you something, they all say the same thing; it took them at least 1-2+ years of development, experimentation and experience in their website to build it up to the level it’s at today.
Yet most people I come across who are in it for this way to make money, they want the quick method. They set up a simple page website, add in a few articles then get bored and quit.
These methods do work, and are very effective for many websites and businesses online. But they take months and years of work and effort.
I’ll leave you with this. If the quick-easy methods of making money online are so easy and amazing, then why aren’t they doing it themselves instead of writing an E-book telling you how to do it?
I’ll tell you why actually. Because they make more money by writing E-books telling everyone else how to do it.
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April 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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April 7th, 2008 at 5:44 am
I agree with you for the most part although when I first got started with internet marketing I actually did get really lucky in making some “easy money” … I was making as much as $7000/month within just a couple of months of starting out with very little effort. All I did was link from AdWords direct to a company’s website using their brand name as the keywords… BUT… they outlawed this a few months later
and that income stream quickly dried up. So… yes in general I don’t think “easy money” really happens but there are stories like the one I just told… I think they are less frequent these days though. Programs are pretty smart about the brand name bidding these days.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
There are easy ways to make money on the internet - however in order to be able to do that you first need a good understanding of websites and probably a healthy chunk of startup cash. Google adsense arbitrage for example was/is a good way to make money if a) you know what you’re doing b) you know what you’re doing
There are also people making good money from affiliate sales that really haven’t had to try too hard. Of course there’s the losers too and these are generally the ones who go around telling you which piece of software or affiliate they are currently running… this is normally a desperate lie !!
James.
MYBF.co.uk
April 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Absolutely agree! Setting up a business online requires a specific set of skills. If you want to be successful you have to be smart and learn quickly - certainly not by reading “how to get rich quickly” books.
Tina
babysbest.co.uk
April 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Nice post, though there are people who make quick money online with less effort, but majority have to sacrifice time,effort and even money to really make it.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Well written article.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Very good post there. There are alot of people out there selling ebooks that claim to make a grand a week by doing a few hours of work. Some of my friends have believed this and bought the ’system’ and found it to bw the same stuff they were already doing! So there was no secret, only the same affiliate work or scheme re-written a different way.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Excellent post, I’m one of these “new” guys, I have yet to buy an e-book like the ones you mentioned because common sense usually prevails before I make a purchase. I very much agree with your post. I think the funniest book I’ve seen so far was actually an in-print book called “the affiliate handbook” or something and it has a big sticker on it saying “How I made $XXX,XXX on the internet,” then I look at the price tag, they want $60 for the thing…I think I know how you made $xxx,xxx on the internet.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:18 am
The only way to make easy money online is if you were born with a natural Marketing mind and designed a great concept thinking of ways to help other people.
But since 99% of people are only thinking about themselves and see the internet as an easy life they choose the path of least resistance.
But making money easyily online can only be accomplished when you have other people in mind and ways to help them until then it will take allot of failure to figure that out.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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January 23rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
whenever someone visits that site, the registered owner makes money, it’s called traffic. For every person that visits these sites and every sale that these sites make, the owner is paid a commission. Which pretty much sums up what this Jeff Paul program is
January 27th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Another man complained that it wasn’t as much about the money, but the promise that he didn’t need to have any internet experience to be successful. I couldn’t find one satisfied buyer. There are many websites which solely in dedicated to Jeff Paul as a scam artist.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:23 am
According to the Better Business Bureau, Jeff Paul Systems has earned an unsatisfactory record based on more than a half dozen categories. Because all their recent correspondence with the company came back marked “Return to Sender”, they are now referring cases to the Attorney General Consumer Protection Division.
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