If you plan on writing about a subject and make money from advertisements, here is some advice. Do not write about how to make money online. Here is why 1. Everyone is doing it and they all offer the same information. 2. Your visitors will be tech savy and they will no about affiliate links and they will avoid them 3. All other ads are about teaching how to make money (if you use pay per click) and all the websites are the same. 4. A true home business takes time and effort to set up. If people know the reality of setting up a home business they would rather stick with their job then try doing this. 5. Home business websites have received bad press. Almost all are scams. Hence some payment gateways such as 2checkout do not even let you sell ebooks about making money online using their system. 6. People come online for entertainment. They don't want to learn how to set up a home business. Very few do. And those few are also just looking for a get quick scheme.
Your thesis is incorrect and here's why on a point by point basis: 1. How to make money (ANYWHERE) has been a solid earner for many for decades and decades. 2. You're assuming that everyone is "tech savvy," which isn't the case. Also you're assuming that everyone is using affiliate links rather than direct advertisements or redirects their their own domains. 3. So, by your thinking here, you shouldn't do anything that anyone else is doing. Therefore, don't sell music, start an auction house, promote AdSense and so forth. 4. I'm not even sure what you're talking about here. You seem to be mixing up good information on how to make money, or more money, with some fly-by-night product. 5. Microsoft has received bad press. Apple has received bad press. McDonalds has received bad press. The list goes on for eternity. So? Again, you're basing limited thinking to a broad sector. 6. Wrong on so many counts. I'll just tell you one. Each day millions of people come online to get information and tips about investing in stocks, bonds, futures, options and so forth. And why are you speaking for everyone that's online? How do you know what my grandma comes online for or my aunt or my friend? Don't use illogical identifiers like "everyone" when there's no factual proof to back up such a statement.
By the way if you think I am wrong go do a search for the most popular searches and you will find that most people search for information on celebrities <-- Entertainment! Ofcourse anyone who has learnt anything about home business is tech savy. What is wrong with that statement. Even the non tech can distinguish between an affiliate link and otherwise You SHOULDN't be doing something ALOT of other people are doing. It is known as MARKET SATURATION! If you are not sure what I am talking about why are you posting replies?!
Look at what you are saying. 1. EVERYONE who knows anything about HOME BUSINESS is tech savvy. What? Where did you get this idea from? So, if someone runs a small direct mail (that would be postal mail) business, they are tech savvy? If someone runs a home business selling homemade soap, they are ALL tech savvy? Come on. I'd invite you to spend a few minutes with your own words. You're misinterpreting data and speaking in absolutes. Here's what you said: And finally: Read the post again. It was a POINT BY POINT rebuttal. That statement was about your poorly written and thought out point #4, not the whole post. This isn't rocket science.
And by the way, I wasn't attacking you. I happen to have a lot of knowledge and experience in this area, so I was simply trying to guide you. Honestly, your words are of someone that has been screwed by some crappy "make millions in five minutes" business opportunity. Yes, those people are scammers. But, there's a lot out there. Don't let one segment of a population skew your entire view.
Marketjunction, while demolishing every one of your other points, did not tackle number 4, I will do so: Do you honestly believe that everybody in the world would rather work a 9-5 office job than take on a challenge by starting a home business? Without these entrepreneurs, there would be NO companies. NOBODY would have started up any company and the world economy would collapse. There are many, many people in this world who would do the work required to set up a home business. Just because certain people don't have this determination and skill doesn't mean nobody does. Without these entrepreneurs there would be no such thing as a market.
Do you people seriously believe that being an entrepreneur is easier than being a worker??? Excuse me, but you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Setting up a home business where you are the boss entails that you have knowledge of a lot more fields as opposed to one when you work for a company? Can you deny this? And the more knowledge you need the work you need to put in to get that knowledge and then practically pull it off. The purpose of my post was to say that you SHOULD NOT start a website which teaches other people how to set up a home business. Why because you will have a larger audience if you started a website about Jokes( <-- ENTERTAINMENT). You would have a larger audience if you started your own social networking website. You would have a larger audience if started a website about teens, health, or any subject which relates to lives. Have you ever tried persuading someone to try their own home business? They laugh at you. Or they say they are content with their job. Now tell them about a website which provides entertainment and they will quickly ask you for the URL. Why? Because most think that starting a home business is a fable unless you have the capital which most people do not. And since home business websites have used readers to make money and taught them little, people avoid these websites for this reason as well. Considering all this I have advised people not to start a website which teaches others how to start a home business but to start a website about a subject which is entertaining.
I can't believe you have the audacity to claim we don't understand what you're saying when you completely miss our points, which are the complete opposite of what you accuse us of believing.
Seeing as how your sig is an 'how to make money online' site I'll just assume this is all a joke and leave it at that.