Earning money online with NOTHING is hard. Don't you agree?
By TenzhoLee
@TenzhoLee (193)
Malaysia
July 30, 2011 11:29am CST
Do you earn online without investment? Share your story on how hard or how easy is it.
Why I think this is hard because you
-Don't have information about anything, that means you can't write anything about any niche. How are you going to write a blog when you don't know anything, are you saying you are going to copy paste someone's blog?
-Don't have a domain. It cost $10 for a domain name and $5 for hosting. I would never buy things from a free website.
-Don't have a verified Paypal account. You can't buy internet services even if you manage to get few bucks in your Paypal account.
-Can't buy and resell online (ebay)
-can't buy and sell domain
-can't create an info-product for sale
-can't do Facebook advertising marketing
-can't do PPC
I only manage to earn $15 for 8 months TRYING to earn money online. Do you agree or disagree it is hard? Please Share your thoughts.
P/s : My first post on myLot
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12 responses
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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30 Jul 11
Welcome to the madhouse. 
It's certainly a bit harder to earn without investing but it's entirely possible. It's just like getting a normal job. I absolutely refuse to pay for anything, since all the info is available for free somewhere, and have managed to build a reasonable income from writing/editing. The big difference is that it takes time to get the foundations in place without any investment. Once they're there, anything's possible!
Verifying a Paypal account just lets you extract the money and, to be honest, I don't consider the 50p it costs an investment. You can still earn and keep the money in PP, then use it for online shopping and stuff, though.
It's certainly a bit harder to earn without investing but it's entirely possible. It's just like getting a normal job. I absolutely refuse to pay for anything, since all the info is available for free somewhere, and have managed to build a reasonable income from writing/editing. The big difference is that it takes time to get the foundations in place without any investment. Once they're there, anything's possible!
Verifying a Paypal account just lets you extract the money and, to be honest, I don't consider the 50p it costs an investment. You can still earn and keep the money in PP, then use it for online shopping and stuff, though.@TenzhoLee (193)
• Malaysia
30 Jul 11
Hi spikeTheLobster,
Yes, I agree that all that info are out there free somewhere, It is just that paid info are well organize and bundled nicely.
and what does 50p means?
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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30 Jul 11
Paid info is often horribly written and badly-presented these days: I've seen some books (self-)published on Amazon that wouldn't even make it through a basic edit.
50p is £0.50 - fifty pence in pounds Sterling. 
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
30 Jul 11
Well, it depends. If you don't want or can't invest anything, you will need to work much harder to get started. I would take all kinds of writing gigs in the beginning, to make small amounts of cash (for hosting etc.) to get started, so I managed to do it without investing a cent. (I just don't believe in paying to make money)
But then you need to be willing to work hard in the beginning.
As for content, stealing content is never a good idea! You can learn to write, it just takes time. And you can even post here on MyLot to get those 15 dollars you need for hosting.
Why you wouldn't get your Paypal account verified I didn't really get. What is the problem with that?
@TenzhoLee (193)
• Malaysia
31 Jul 11
Thanks for the tip puccagirl,
Where to you submit your content articles to? Triond, associate content or others?
I haven't got my paypal verified is because I haven't got a visa card. I will get it by the end of this year.
@strawberrychocodahi (4818)
• Philippines
30 Jul 11
You don't need to invest money on Mylot and you don't invest money once you join any writing article sites that pays but when you don't have any PP account ,what is the use of getting online? You should still need to be verified in order to get your payments. You should have your own PP account by now, why don't you apply for one? you are not under age aren't you?
@TenzhoLee (193)
• Malaysia
30 Jul 11
I will be getting a visa card by the end of this year. Guess what? My English is so bad that Associate Content and Ezinearticle rejected all of my articles. Haha.
@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
30 Jul 11
Yes, it is hard to make money online with nothing. The hardship is the cost of that "nothing". If you don't want it hard, then substitute "nothing" with "something".
@TenzhoLee (193)
• Malaysia
30 Jul 11
Hi magtibaygom,
thank you for your respond! Yes it is kinda hard because my currency(MYR) here is very small comparing to the (USD). 1 USD = 3 MYR .
I am also happy that my currency is small, as I earn 15$ with 0$ with 8 months, that means I earn 45$ for my country's currency!
I will be getting a Visa card by the end of this year! Cant wait for that day!
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
4 Aug 11
I am always busy working to make extra money online and it does pay off eventually, but it takes a lot of time and effort to make good money online and it doesn't just magically happen. Even though you start off with nothing, being persistent and keeping at it will eventually earn you money online.
@JosephP (1116)
• Jamaica
8 Sep 11
Well they say you have to have money to make money. Sadly there is some truth to this statement. You always have to have something to give in order to get something. That is just how the world works. You may give a service, money, goods etc. You just need to find out what you are able to give.
@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
1 Aug 11
I agree it is hard, but not impossible. But it seems harder for you because of not having a verified Paypal account.
I have a few accounts that I use that did not require me to invest any money and After four years I am really enjoying the benefits. Put they do all pay me through Paypal. So without that I would not be too happy- I could still get a check through one site if I had to, but Then I would have to wait to get minimum $25 for cash out -which I do get most months.. but I like being able to request via Paypal on those months I earn a little less. (They will pay via Paypal every month if you request no matter what your earnings.)
Is there No way you can get your paypal account verified? that would make life easier for you.
@rambabu12 (85)
• India
2 Aug 11
earning on internet is very easy if you know the ways to get money like article writing online tution for maths english and science and easy way is email marketing so think in what way you are perfect and try you get good income of $400 to 500 easily.
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@iamsummer (192)
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31 Jul 11
i agree to you.I like to work online,it is more flexible compared with work in the company.however until now i have not found a efficient method to make $100 per month.
@bbr633 (14)
• United States
30 Jul 11
Well, making money online with surveys, writing articles, and (I guess) blogging or web-hosting is anything but easy. I first thought of the idea of making money online with paypal when I saw this youtube video about this survey site that gives you money. Of course, being the naive teenager, I quickly signed up with not a care in the world. After a couple of hours on the site, I quickly became frustrated. I only had made 9 cents. So, trying to make some major cash on the Internet... it's pretty difficult. It takes determination to even make a single dollar on any website. So yeah, it's pretty hard.
