Please, I Want To Make Money On The Internet

I am currently running a website about home based businesses that was started a few years ago. It is a simple guide to home based businesses. It is basically an informational site and the main revenue is from ads and not from product sales.

Occasionally, I will get an email that will read something like this:

“Sir, teach me how to make money.”

For the first year or so, I painstakingly crafted a few paragraphs as my reply, essentially repeating what I said on my website. I would also ask about the background of the sender, so that I may be in a position to better understand what he wants and what he can do.

I can’t remember ever getting a second email. The sender was probably looking for a simple turnkey solution and I didn’t offer him one.

Come to think of it, somebody did email me and told me he liked my site very much. And that he would very much like to join my site. It took me a moment before I realized that he was thinking that my site was some sort of business opportunity that he could join and make money.

I spent 3 years at a local college studying to be an electronics engineer. I spent a further 10 years working in the electronics field as a design engineer. It is only after this period of time that I am considered good enough to be worth a few thousand dollars a month.

Many business opportunities are marketed with claims that a few hundred to a few thousand is attainable in the first month. And the potential income claimed will skyrocket after that. And they will claim that any Tom, Dick and Harry can do it, with no experience and an hour or two a day.

All I can say is, “Use your common sense.”

If you were approached on the street and offered $100 to deliver a parcel to a nearby address, what would you do?

You will run away like you were planning to break a few Olympic records right?

Unless you are Miss Universe, he is just not going to offer you $100 to do something so simple. You know that something is not quite right. Besides, why can’t he do it himself? But don’t ask him that ’cause he is going to have an excellent excuse.

The Internet has been called the great equalizer, or the most revolutionary development in the history of human communication, or the information superhighway. Whichever superlatives you use, the same rules regarding money still apply to the Internet. Money still has to be earned and competition for it is extremely keen. So, the sooner you get off “the roads are paved with gold” mentality, the sooner you will start putting in the time and work needed for a successful home business.