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Are You In It Only For The Money?
Going after a venture just for the promise of big bucks can be a mistake. If you are going into a business for the wrong reasons, it can cost you a lot more than you think. Sure, the temptation of easy money while you are at home in your bathrobe is hard to resist, but if this is only a pipe dream and the reality of the nature of this work is something you cannot do, then success with it will always allude you. Many people are always in search of finding right opportunities that will work out for them and are lead in the direction of what promises the most money. What you should do is figure out what YOU do best and work that angle to your best advantage. You should also consider the advice in the article Why On Earth Do YOU Want To Have A Web Site?.
I've been in this game long enough to see people rise and fall trying to make their millions online. Their heads are constantly turned this way and that way by the cons trying to tell them their plan is guaranteed to make them rich. Yet, in practice it turns out to be an utter failure to those who can barely afford the price of the con artists.
The failure is a result of expecting too much from a medium they treat with too much of a laid-back approach. To do business online is not a hobby, but a business just like any other bricks and mortar business offline. If you want to be successful online, you need to invest time, money and effort. The more you apply, the more success you will have.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone who really wants to do this kind of work, but asking before you do to take a reasonable approach to it. Investigate what you need to do to succeed and follow through with advice, training, and any help you can get. Don't be afraid to hear the harsh words and don't allow good meaning people to gently tell you things you want to hear to spare your feelings. It can be very competitive if you want to be really successful. Mediocrity is everywhere and those sites are failures.
Flirting with one opportunity after another in chasing of the money is only going to get the one offering it rich. You cannot go into any business half-hearted and expect huge overnight riches. It just will not happen. If this is you, stop throwing away your money until you know exactly what you want to do to earn your money. [Of course, if you just want to throw away your money on promises that won't come true, give it to me. I would be glad to take it.]
You can only earn money online by offering something people want to pay for such as goods, service or information. It can be done by offering your products for sale on your web site, in auctions, or through affiliate or other marketing schemes. You need to have a plan to direct the appropriate audience to what you are offering and then give them a way to complete a transaction that will benefit both the surfer and yourself.
You can also make money online by trading stocks, doing research for pay, designing sites for others, negotiating between two parties.... the ways are limitless, BUT you need to offer something of value and have a plan to carry it out. What are YOUR talents and how can YOU find YOUR angle to make a living online? If everyone did the same thing to make the money promised by the ones selling the plan, the only one getting rich is the one selling it.
If you hop from one idea to another in hopes that one will stick, you are not likely to find what is right for you. Chasing the promise of money is not what will make you rich. It is doing something for the money which will make you rich. Just pick something you really like to do, develop a plan, and work your butt off in doing it until it succeeds. It might be in doing web sites, or it might be something you thought of on your own that no one else is doing and everyone needs.
Look at YouTube, MySpace, or Amazon.com. They didn't just put up a site and slap a few banners up and hope for the best. They thought of a unique service and/or goods the public wanted and approached it in a way to cater to their needs. They did it better than anyone else could do it at the time and for their extra work in thinking outside the box, they made their success stories. No one sold them a plan, they thought of it on their own. This is the kind of approach you should take if you really are looking for creating a successful web site.