Is my determination to earn online and get more time for myself realistic?

Philippines
December 14, 2011 11:07am CST
I started researching and I am learning how some people earn online. My goal was to get a work from home job and I learned that the job is actually learning how to sell. This are the same things that the book on financial education tells me. That if you want to become a business person, you got to learn how to sell. However, the more I spend time online, the lesser time I get because it seems that maintaining a blog or writing articles is a full-time job as well. Hard work and patience is required. I don't think I'll be able to meet my goal soon. The good thing about it is that I see more my family but you need discipline when you work on your own. What I think I would not be able to achieve soon is financial independence. Regular work still pays more. So I guess all those ads on earning from home are just promises. What do you think? What's your opinion on it?
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8 responses
• United States
14 Dec 11
It has taken me almost three years to figure out how to make money online. I do a lot of freelance writing and I also teach english as a second language via skype. And I pick up a few other little things here and there too! It's hard work, but can be done. I cannot sell, I am not good at that so I have to stick to writing! lol!
• United States
15 Dec 11
I have a free version of Skype too. I am teaching through an online teaching school called cyenglish. But you have to set certain class times and stick to it. I am able to space mine out so that I can take care of my son in between lessons and see to him if he needs something even during lessons if I need to.
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
I checked the website of cyenglish to see if they still have openings for teachers. However, there's no vacancies posted on it. I tried other job boards instead and saw opportunities for English online teaching. I'll try applying for it and may get luck securing a place. Thanks again for the tips.
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Maybe I can do that too. Do you subscribed with skype? I only have a free version. Do I need to pay if I am to teach English on line? Where can I find teaching job just like yours? Sorry for the many questions. I just really need some means of work that would not tie me with the regular work hours. Thanks and have a nice day!
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@arcideaco (1257)
• Singapore
14 Dec 11
Take it slowly, there will be time that you will be like me, having thousands of articles. Gradually, I am now able to write a long article in less than 10 minutes. I read stuffs, I remember them and articulate them together with my personal perspective and opinions into articles. Usually never exceed 15 minutes per articles. Just search for my user name, you will find the articles and blog posts written by me almost everywhere. The income has been increasing gradually as well as the number of articles increased. But there is a new to re-visit them by back linking them with new articles. It is one of the techniques that keep the earnings going. Cheers.
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Wow! It is nice to know that there are really successful people earning online. I tried to search for your username and found your posted articles in Bukisa. Those are good. Like you, I am becoming quick in writing articles. But what I am not familiar with is the back linking strategy. I'll read some of your articles and find out how it works. Thanks for the sharing. Have a great day!!!
@arcideaco (1257)
• Singapore
15 Dec 11
Thanks for the kind reply. You can also search for my articles under other publishing sites. I remember there is one article that I had shared my secret in traffic generation. The title is something like how I get 10,000 traffic with just 20 articles or something. Cheers and all the best.
• United States
14 Dec 11
I am trying to make my online earnings as realistic as possible as well. I really do need the money right now, but I know that I can only work and do so much.
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Currently, I am just earning around $50 dollars a month. I am not full time online. I hope to increase it when I finish my contract in my current job. I hope you'll be able to discover as well how others was able to earn here. Continue following the discussion and you may be able to get some good points.
@wongchoiyee (7413)
• Malaysia
15 Dec 11
I think it all do with luck also. If you are lucky you will have many people to view your site. Some are done with hardwork as well like the promoting skills. Other than that I think some also empty promises that what you said. Be confident and try out your luck, friend!
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Thanks wongchoiyee. There are some SEO offers to increase visitation on sites. But it is quite expensive. Might as well try learning how to increase site visitation. Thanks again for the wish of luck.
@br3ndy (468)
• Indonesia
15 Dec 11
Yeah i kinda agree with you. Earning online especially for newbie will taking lots of out time everydays almost like a real life jobs. It also need us to be active everydays if you want to earn faster. So i should say that we can only earning online slowly if we don't have much time.
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
Hi br3ndy. Yeah, usually that is the problem. We do this on the side since we have our full time jobs to keep. But if we really focus, we may find how others made it. Have a great day!!!
@wulania (1524)
• Indonesia
15 Dec 11
earning online is something intereting for me. i am so excited to do online jobs. daily i do some medium jobs i make about 30-4o dollars monhtly. but we mus know so many fraud and scam sites. be so many sites or forums which give infomrtaiona about scam and legitimate sites. i am building my web and i hope next year i make more than 100 dollars monthly
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
Hi wulania. Good luck to your website. Make sure you always update your posts to increase visits on your website. Have a nice day!!!
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
14 Dec 11
This is what I think. I am not the one to ask. Seriously I’ve seen some very good discussion on this occupation. It is really great here in mylot for this kind of thing. I suggest you do a little search, one word topics perhaps, you might just hit the one that does something good for you. There seems to be a lot to learn about online earnings and there are people who contribute to mylot who are successful doing online things at home as well. They are an excellent resource and left some information in many past discussions. I too am perplexed by the internet and my feelings are sometimes rather negative. The challenge is knowing what we want. I am afraid many marketing and writing jobs are not for me, so finding the right niche is never easy. However having said this I think there must be things to find now and into the future for I’ve read for example people have even found such money making positions as voice actors. Imagine recording lines on your computer to make money? There must be many things we have not thought of yet? I do like mylot and having great discussions.
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Hi Bluedoll. Actually, I am exactly doing that. I have been searching the internet and I even bought a program that teaches how to do it. I posted this question in Mylot to get actual experiences from successful people and somehow, this is part of my research. I have been getting good responses here and I'm glad that many are benefiting from this discussion. I too love discussions here and I get good advises from forum posters. Like you, they are more than willing to reply or comment because we get to earn a little from what we love doing. Have a nice day and thanks for participating.
@Shavkat (137236)
• Philippines
19 Nov 12
There are so many reasons why people need to have determination. They are determined to do such actions to prove something in their lives. It could be personal intentions towards other people.