Money for Nothing Online - True or False

That's the promise that EVERYBODY is selling in the make money online niche isn't it? (Notice that it isn't called the EARN money online niche?)  You can make money in your sleep you will live a life of leisure sitting on some private island sipping drinks in the afternoon. You'll summon the help to bring you your laptop, check your earnings and see that for this afternoons leisure you've made a nice $3758 you lucky devil.

Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you don't get money for nothing. Even adsense. Yes, even adsense. What? You say the ad tells you that you can make thousands a month just "posting links on google". Bull! Now, I'll admit it beats digging ditches, but earning money online is something that takes a lot of hard work. No, not the lift that bag, tote that pail kind of work, but still long hours and thought.

Yes you can make a bit of money clicking ads and taking surveys. It's not long term sustainable though. Really, adsense comes the closest to the money for nothing idea but it's far from NOTHING that it takes to get good adsense earnings. First off, you have to write some actual content for your sites so that you'll have something to post ads on. Okay, some people outsource that and that's fine, but you still have to research and figure out what kinds of things are going to drive traffic to your site and figure out how to get those targeted people to your site so they can see your content and click your ads. Frankly, I don't care as much that they see the content, it's just important that the search engines see the content so they can figure out which targeted people to send to me. You act essentially as a middleman bringing together sellers (ad buyers) and buyers (search visitors). You make both parties happy and anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars in the process. The key is scaling it up.

So many people flit from one model of making money online to another like a fly with ADD. They keep looking for THE plan to make money online easy (not the way to earn money online.) They are looking for THE latest greatest secret. That's why there are so many people shoveling out the MMO products, because I would guess 75% of the crowd shops from one idea to the next. Do THEY make money online? Probably not, they're too busy buying (and occasionally reading) what the MMO salespeople are giving them. For the most part they're looking for a way to have lightning strike without doing any work.

What they need to be doing is learn ONE way to make money online (instead of 20), study the ins and outs of that method from start to finish, apply it, learn from their mistakes, refine it and succeed (even if it's on a small scale.) Why? SCALE. Online it's possible to scale most anything up. If you can make a $10 profit a month you can make a $10,000 profit a month, it's just a matter of scaling up your prospects.

No this doesn't necessarily mean making your one site bigger, nor does it mean making 100s of sites (necessarily), but it can. You have to figure out HOW to scale what you do. Figure out what works best for you and keep doing it over and over and over. Learn from the mistakes, regroup and motivate yourself to keep pushing ahead.

Do you know why we have electric lights today? Because Thomas Edison took the idea of the light and worked for hours and days and weeks trying to find a material that would work better. After dozens and dozens of tests he knew lot's of materials that wouldn't work for a light filament and KEPT GOING.

Take a look at your money making plans. Figure out what is required to see if they will work or not, implement them, fulfill the requirements listed, see if you've made money, plan your revisions to the idea or scale it depending on the outcome. It's that simple. So, if you're plan is to make money with advertising supported sites: What do I need to make this work... I see that keywords x, y and z get a total of 1000 search views a day and are low competition so.... I need to get my site to the top for those three phrases to see if this will make money. Build, test, put it on the top search page and see what happens. Then either try again with another site or move on to a different approach.

Probably the most important thing though is to KEEP moving with your plans. Don't stagnate. Develop a good routine and work your routine until you can evaluate whether or not it's going to work. If it works, but has a small return that's fine, look for ways to scale it. But most importantly, keep working at it.