I have run a website about online home based business for (the past|a couple of years. It is an informational site which I try keep as hype free as possible. On the site, I try to give the surfer an insight into home based businesses. I go into a little detail about why many people fail, about how to start such a business, and what will be needed to make such a business a success.
Occasionally, I will get an email from someone that wants to know how to make money on the web. Normally, it will have only a single sentence that will go something like this:
“Please, I want to make money on the Internet.”
In the beginning, I would send him a proper reply. I would tell him that making money on the web is not something that you can do on a whim, and that hard work and skills are needed. I would enquire about his background and skill sets.
Most of the time, the sender did not bother to reply. In fact, I don’t think I can remember a time in which I did get a reply. Obviously the sender was looking for a simple answer, and I didn’t provide that.
I did remember getting an email from somebody who said he liked my site very much. He said that he liked it so much that he wanted to join my site. I told him that my site only provides and that I do not promote any business opportunities that he could register in.
I had to spend 3 years in college studying electronics engineering before I can 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 head.”
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 have never run before right?
You know that he is not going to practically give you $100 and that there is definitely a catch involved. He is probably hoping that you will stick around to find out and he will convince you into doing it.
The Internet may be cyberspace but things are no different there. Stop looking for a quick kill, put your nose to the grindstone, do your homework and sometime soon, you will be the proud owner of a successful home based business.
