The attraction for making money online is pretty obvious: go to work in your pajamas, no boss, unlimited income from home, choose your own hours and it must be easy!
The reality is slightly different as most people who try it find out. There are 3 major obstacles for most people as I see it:
1. They are too lazy to work hard enough and long enough to get results or they give up too easily.
2. They get duff advice from marketing scammers who only want their money.
3. Some people are just too dumb to build a business online.
I am sorry if this causes some annoyance to you, but it may well save you alot of time and money chasing something that you may never find. As someone who has made a very nice amount of regular income from the web and has been reasearching and doing all kinds of online marketing for years, I feel qualified to tell you what works and what doesn’t for most people. I say most people because some people can sell sand in the Sahara or sell ice to Eskimos, these are the people starting MLM companies and HYIPs.
For the average person to make money online, you need to learn the basics about how websites work with hosting, domain names and HTML. Then you need to understand the basics of how search engines rank sites. You need to know how to get your own site built and hosted. Then you need to build a topical website with your own content that gets traffic from the search engines.
To convert your traffic to money, you need to understand online marketing and which programs are best to be associated with or how to sell your own product online. See there is alot to learn, set up and get working. It all takes weeks/months before the money starts rolling in.
People with no patience fall prey to scammers who seem to offer them quick easy money for little work.
For example in MLM or Network Marketing, most people will spend too much time and money on marketing. They are encouraged to plough back their earnings into their business buying leads. But they are ploughing back their money into the network marketing company and building the huge downlines of the leaders. The way to make money in Network Marketing is to minimise your expenses by avoiding marketing materials and paid trainings. Use the web to recruit with your own original website and online ads i.e. not the replicated website that you get from your MLM company. This does the final closing of the sale.
High Yield Investment Programs are scams where people give money to strangers, gambling that a pyramid system of boosting their initial investment will give them a big return. Obviously these are high risk and illegal in many countries.
Selling on eBay is fine, it’s a legitimate way to reach 1000’s of targeted customers online. You find products that are cheaper than people pay for them on eBay and carve out your Niche.
For the webmaster, the primary goal is to develop a website with lots of visitor traffic, that’s the hard part. The easy part is monetizing that site to make money.
