Making Money Online

For everyone in a job they don't like, a boss they hate or just people unhappy about their life this sounds like a way out. The object of this article is not to deliver some sure-fire way of making millions, a quick route to fast cars and luxury hotels - sorry. I simply want to perhaps bring some reality and perspective into the Google search term "making money online".

First of all I don't want to bring peoples expectations down too much - the internet does indeed bring the potential to bring everything from a small side income to a millionaires lifestyle. But it is important to focus on reality on the internet - posting a few receipts and a picture of a sports car doesn't mean anything.

The Internet is a huge global marketplace - as in the normal marketplace there are winners and alas many losers. I can't guarantee you becoming a winner but I sure can shorten the odds on becoming a loser.

Let me pose a make money online scenario to you.........

You hate your job, you work long hours and your wife complains you don't bring in enough money. You're desperate to make more money and give your family extra - as we all do. You turn to the Internet and start researching various ideas - most are losers but you persist and eventually you find a gold mine - some combination of techniques, products or promotional method that makes huge amounts of profit.

That's great - congratulations - believe me it is possible - I have discovered a few myself. Your first worry (or at least mine was) - hope this lasts and nobody else figures it out !! You expand your method, set up variations - extract as much money as possible. It's called finders advantage and is a common concept expounded in everything from economics to evolution in some form.

But.......let me ask you honestly at what point would you publish your findings on the Internet? When would you start selling it on the internet - and what price would you sell it at?

Hopefully you'll come to the same conclusion as I do - you wouldn't. The only point I would sell this information is in one of the following two scenarios,

1) It didn't work anymore for some reason.

2) The method was such common knowledge that it was all over the internet anyway.

Basically if you had a guaranteed method to make loads of money would you sell it to someone else for $9.95 or $399.95? Yes I would but only when it didn't work anymore.

This is the reality believe me - the internet just like any other market is governed by simple rules of economics and the marketplace. Innovation and first movers are rewarded but otherwise you have to face competition - then you have to be bigger, badder or more efficient that your competitors to make a profit in the worlds most competitive market the internet.

My message in case I didn't get it across - buying get rich quick schemes will only get one person rich and it certainly isn't the buyer. They'll try everything to sell you rubbish from reverse psychology to the blatant insults - it's all a marketing ploy and you are the victim not the beneficiary!

Look for these few words in anything advertising get rich schemes - usually in a testimonial - "I was skeptical at first" - a sure fire sign of a rip-off.

Good luck online.

Joe Simpson

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