This post is made in a hope that my business ventures can benefit you. Well, as of this post I finally got a comma in my post count. This seems like a good enough point to show what progress I have made and share what experiences I have had with the Digital Point Community. I hope that my mistakes and successes aid everyone else in the future. When I first tried to make money online, it was a pretty big failure. I ran around doing the useless schemes of 'get rich fast!' all over the internet. From surveys, to Hypes, to Randomizers, etc. All of which obviously not a good way of getting money. It was in this trial period that I realized that if I was going to make money on the internet, I had to work for it. Making money online is hard. Well, sort of. Making LARGE amounts of money online is hard. In my survey days I certainly did make money, but nothing to show an hourly wage larger than $0.10. I could not stand for that, so I decided to explore around for ways to make money from making a website. At this point in my online career, I found Digital Point. I found out about PPC Advertising, and how to implement it onto websites. So I took a bold move, and tried to make something I knew would be popular: Porn. I made a free blog on blogspot, and loaded it with tons of porn I found all over the internet. This was pretty much 100% copyright infringement, even though I did try and leave sources. In two months I made $20, not bad considering i used all free methods of advertising.. However I felt so bad about the whole deal I decided to shut down the blog, and find a less scary way to make money. Ironically, this is when I started to look through black hat. However, this was not for the faint of heart. I quickly passed on it. So I decided to invest in something I had a natural talent and skill with: Writing. I opened my first online business and offered forum posting. This worked well for awhile, however it lasted only briefly. I just could not make any sum of money from it. After awhile, I found that I could write articles for about $0.01/word and make a decent amount of money. So I did, I made a few hundred dollars this way. However something kept bothering me: If they are paying me to write these articles, how are they profiting from the content? So all of this experience to lead to the point of an obvious fact: I have to think big. There is no way to make a large sum of the money if you are the one doing the little work. You need to manage the people doing the little work. This is what I am working on now: Trying to find a unique idea to use with buying custom articles. I'm tinkering in a few areas right now. I now have enough money to actually invest in doing this, so I hope I strike success. I have come and gone from Digital Point on many occasions, but I always get the same welcome every time. You guys have given me so much, and I can only hope that I can give back more to the community in the future. I get the feeling I will be very soon. Thank you everyone, I hope my business adventures benefit your decisions.
Congratulations on your 1000th post, this nice article and your income. Good luck in the future. My spidey sense tells me you're gonna make it big.
congratulations for the 1k. that was a honest confession we all learn with our experience. the difference is how fast.
It took me a few years, but I am accomplishing other things outside of the internet. Thank you all for the kind words.
This gives us all a little bit of hope. You are right it takes hard work to make the break through but you have proven never give up and you will be rewarded.