Comments on: 9 Unsexy Truths about Making Money Online

By: Shauna@BreathingProsperity

Shauna@BreathingProsperity — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:12:36 +0000

Oh, thank God! You’ve provided me with the explanation I’ve been attempting to give my significant other about what’s really involved in working (and playing) online…the learning curves, the trial and error, and the reasons it’s just not the same for everyone – it’s utterly different, for each person, each niche, each blog, each website, etc..

Appreciate your honesty, Darren, and hopefully it will help encourage some people to keep going, and others to quit by realizing they are not willing to do what it takes – hey, if that’s the truth best to face it! :)

I wish you continued outrageous success with ocassional sexy moments,

Shauna

By: jackson rodgers

jackson rodgers — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:35:42 +0000

Making money blogging is a lot of work but it should be a lot of work. Anyways, I would rather make money blogging than by working 9-5 but am not ready to quit my day job just yet.

By: Soledad Goodrow

Soledad Goodrow — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:11:56 +0000

Regardless if it’s political or religious views, race, size, or orientation- everyone deserves to be and become who they are. Let’s not make anyone feel bad they’re something else.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:25:55 +0000

Great post. We all need a bit of a reality check sometimes. And carpal tunnel is not very sexy.

By: thelamest(dot)com

thelamest(dot)com — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:26:54 +0000

I would say this was a great read if it wasn’t so deflating :(

I hope I have a different idea of what other people consider an online success.

For me I want to earn a bit more money then I currently do in my day job, meaning I can work full time on my own projects.

I’ll happy if blogging gives me even a glimmer of a chance of becoming a super rich web rock star and in the meantime do enough for me to provide for my young family etc.

I know it’ll take hard work which I’m willing to put in but I don’t see myself leaving my day job anytime soon.

By: mk akan

mk akan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:04:17 +0000

these are all true..unfortunately marketers don’t always say this when they are peddling their products…many are caught in the riptides of lies and are suckered into buying products because it seems to be so easy …making money offline or online takes work..but you will have more leverage online ..but it is not that sexy…

By: Streaming TV Shows

Streaming TV Shows — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:28:49 +0000

I laughed a lot on that picture :)))

Good luck :)

By: Spyros

Spyros — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:20:40 +0000

I don’t think that there is much to add here. This is pretty concrete already. I would go for the “hell lot of work” element. This is severely important and can help a person reach success.

By: Bobby Casey

Bobby Casey — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:24:03 +0000

Great article. Most people seem to think it is easy money, but fail to understand that online or off, it requires a lot of hard work.

By: Net Success

Net Success — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:33:16 +0000

I just agree that it takes a long time to build up momentum and over a year to see profitable gains. Once you have that momentum thought it becomes more of a habit and is hard to quit and you seem to just keep going. Blogging is my life!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:18:04 +0000

I’ve read every blog I thought I could read to learn and get a leg up when I launched mine. While the reading was great and I think gave me a good base to start at. However, I’ve learned that there is nothing like getting in and learning the ropes.

By: Jeff Sararas

Jeff Sararas — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:53:23 +0000

@Arsene – Great point, and isn’t funny how so many of us in the ‘social web’ are lone wolves!

@Mario – I agree in the sense that you have to get your needs met, but sometimes ‘going for it’, Ie quitting the job, is what makes *room* for creativity to breathe and grow. I absolutely had to quit my day job in order to take the internet business seriously..

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:30:54 +0000

I want to add this advice even though it seems to be the opposite what many guru:

First make sure you get a day job if you haven’t one already!

Reasons:
Worrying about your income and struggling making ends meet will destroy the strongest weapon you might have for your on-line adventure: your creativity.

A day job forces you to use your valuable time better when you are on-line. No unnecessary stumbling etc.

By: Arsene Hodali

Arsene Hodali — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:28:25 +0000

Great post!

I’m especially glad you talked about “how much work it is” and “how lonely it is”. These two things combined surely suck. But it’s a long road that few can handle.

I think it was Hugh MacLeod who said (in one fo his drawings):

“You’re either the social sheep, or the lonely wolf.”

By: road2technology

road2technology — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:18:27 +0000

Time is the most important factor. It takes ages to write quality post and publish it. Its hard to get PR in the beginning. The only thing bloggers can do is keep posting and keep waiting

By: Gis Center

Gis Center — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:07:04 +0000

These are great contents. Surely you can use some or all of them whether you are new to blogging or not.

Keep it coming man. Problogger has become a guide book for me as I build my own platform.

By: farouk

farouk — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:02:51 +0000

this post is so amazing to be true
every word is perfectly right and i strongly agree with everything you said!!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:31:59 +0000

Spot on. I wrote my very first blog post on this topic:

http://blog.clientbag.com/2010/05/04/dont-be-naive/

|t’s nothing special, but I had to start somewhere :)

By: Sachin

Sachin — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:26:06 +0000

I agree with all these…these are really scary but true …thanks for exposing these in this post…

By: M. LaNard Payne

M. LaNard Payne — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:44:29 +0000

I like to think that I put out quality content so the actual writing and editing take the longest for me…. I don’t focus on over posting (spamming) for SEO purposes… I know in the long run if you have a valuable product then it will sell itself..

Getting Rich Slowly,

LaNard
http://www.EverydayUplift.com