When I started this website I knew very little about websites and how they make money. A lot of time has passed since then.
The great things about trying to make money online is that you have a powerful taskmaster. Strict, never generous, nothing for free, fair, unyielding and does not give favors. The taskmaster is the Internet itself. The Internet does not care if you win or lose. It has no emotions. If you do things right you are rewarded, if you do them wrong you fail – no ifs, ands, or buts.
It is not easy to make money online with a website – you need to fight for every dime. The Internet is a market place just like any other in the real world. If you want to be a success you will need to be persistent, creative, informed, and willing to accept failure.
This taskmaster forces you to constantly learn and try new things otherwise you fail. Everyday you see that you have made no money, you see that no new visitors are coming to your site. You can be stubborn and not learn anything new but the only result will be failure. The Internet does not care how hard you try, or how many hours you put in, or how much money you spent. Either you fail, learn, and try something different; or you simply fail.
No overnight success. No magic formula. No three easy steps to thousands of dollars a month. The Internet is not a magical fantasy place where money is easy. The Internet is full of people competing against you. Every webmaster is fighting for the limited amount of Internet users who can only visit so many websites a day. Everybody is fighting for those visitors, everybody want them to visit their website.
The Internet is no different than the old fashioned market square. Pretty displays and vendors shouting and sticking wares in your face fighting for your attention. This is exactly what having a website is like. You are one in a million trying to sell something to the shoppers and passersby’s. You make a pretty website and then try to get people’s attention.
If you were the only one with a website then making money online with a website would be easy, unfortunately you are not the only one. You must compete against people with the same intentions as you.
