Want To Earn Money Online? Seriously...give up!

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I have been through them all... PTC, PTS, Affiliate, forex, selling things on e-bay, adsense...you name it... experience is a cruel teacher...but you learn... First PTC: you get paid to click on advertisements. get referrals earn more money. oh c'mon...seriously? if you earn 1 cent per ad you view, and the minimum payout is even $1, you need to view like 100 ads before reaching payout. That is just the Best Case Scenario. Many PTCs pay you much less. even going up to $0.0001 per ad view with a minimum payout of $5 which means you have to sit through 50000 ads. I mean what the he11? Don't get me wrong. If you are happy with rotting in your seat watching ads the whole day and getting $1-$5 every month for your effort...well...hoorah for you. Just not my cup of tea. Paid to take Surveys (PTS): Those living in the US, maybe you have some success with this. For the rest of the world, apparently, our opinions do not matter as much. Ask anyone who has tried signing up and they will share their experiences of how many times they see this popping up: "Sorry, this offer is not available in your area". Sure you read claims on people's blogs or forums as to how other people had made money with PTS but seriously, you gotta wonder, are they just doing this to promote their own affiliate link or do they really mean what they say? Affiliate marketing: I am not saying you can't make money with this. you can! and lots of it too! All you have to do is sign up for clickbank or any such sites. Select a product. Write an article that is filled with key words so it is SEO friendly so you get ranked high on Google's search list so that people will see you and click on you and then if they decide they want to buy, then you will get the commission. Those of you who have done this or are doing it will realise the catch in this. It is extremely difficult to get high rankings in Google or any other search engine for that matter. Plus, one article or review is never enough. you need to write like tons of them before you get noticed. Adsense (or anything like it like Bidvertiser etc): Forget it! Again the traffic component comes into the equation. More people come to ur blog, higher chances they click on ur links and you get paid. In order to be at the top of search engines, you need to be constantly updating your posts or you will not get as much exposure. Seriously, how many people can visit your blog in a year? And how often do you actually have the time to freshen up your blog? Furthermore Adsense have this irritating habit of telling you that you will not get your earnings because of this or that. Selling things on eBay: Unless you live in a garage with tons of things to sell, forget this idea. Sure, you can make 100s of dollars but face reality! after some time you are going to run out of things to sell. And then what? rob your neighbour? Of course there are people who have contacts to direct suppliers, buy in quantity and sell things on ebay. kudos to them. but what if no one wants to buy them? or you incur a loss? how many people do you know who are actually having a monthly income from doing so? Forex: I have a confession to make. I have been addicted to Forex for 3 years. Yes...I was profitable. Then I realised a huge fallacy in this business and stopped before my profits were eaten up. 1) No system/strategy you use will consistently make you money in all markets. Traders start having this "it has been workin so long so it must be good" mindset. Until of course, the market changes pattern (from trending to sideways), and their system (and their money) goes to he11. 2)Then there is this other psychological bluff that plagues all forex traders. "dont give up. others have done it. you can too. lets tweak this system a lil here a lil there. keep losses small and profits big." This is what really happens over and over again. some keep winning $5 everyday for a year just to have 1 losing trade eat up $10000. Others keep losing 2% of their account 50 times just to win 2% for the next 50 times. where does this leave em? back to that old place called "Square One"! dont even get me started on newbies and traders with a gambler's mentality. HErez the bottom line folks! Only 2 people make money in forex. The big dogs (Banks/insiders) and the Forex brokers. people like you and me only get to ride their tails. and of course platforms hunting down stops etc does not help much either.Why do you think you see so many forex ads these days? Don't get me wrong. You Can make money online. You can write stuff on places like mylot/helium/reviewstream etc. You can sell stuff on ebay. you can sell affiliate products. You can get paid to click on adverts till you rot in your chair. But get this. No. you will not get rich overnight. No. it will not e easy. you need to put in a lot of effort and time. many of us have something called a "life" which we would rather spend our time on. As for me, I participate in mylot because I Like it. I write reviews on reviewstream and get paid $2.50 per review but more importantly because I Like it. I invest in Unit Trusts because I Like it. I park half my monthly salary in my portfolio which returns me 10% per annum. In other words, without compounding, I double my savings every 10 years but I do compound so I will have more plus, I dont have to monitor the market all the time. Just once a year adjust my portfolio. Every month half my salary is automatically distributed to my portfolio. Unit trusts is my only money maker, my retirement fund, my nest egg. Everything else is a hobby because I (you guessed it) Like doing them. Of course I can make more with affiliate products with a lil more effort but with my unit trusts in place, I am not interested in spending the time doing that cos I dont enjoy helping other people sell their things (and working like a dog in the process). Bottom line is...you CAN make money online. I make $60 per year (not including my unit trusts) for my hobby. Change your mindset. If this is what you like to do...do it! the little you make is just a bonus. Stop looking for the holy grail that will make you a millionaire in 5 years via PTC, affiliate marketing etc cos there isn't one. I am being realistic. Even if my realistic views and expectations seem pessimistic to you...just remember, the optimist invented the aeroplane, the pessimist invented the parachute... dont say nobody warned you.