I see many people here that work 10+ hours a day on their websites only to make maybe about $1/day. And when they complain others say wait, seo is a waiting game. My question is building websites may be fun and could have profit but is all this hassle worth it? I want to hear from people here on dp that have been through many months or years of very little money online to now making a decent or very well living online. Maybe even ones that had to get a little office and hire other people to run the website?
It depends, people earn from so many other options as well besides websites ad publishing. the more versatile you are with your skills , the more you get chances to earn increases. like me i earn good enough money from my "Article writing jobs, designs and illustrations, Logos, web developing, link building services and so on...makes me more than $3000 a month easily. and running my websites for just a bit extra cash.
People don't spend 10 hours a day making a website for very long. Once the site is up and you've began getting some traffic, one hour a day does the job.
If you wanna do it for money... forget it. If you love what you are doing... then go for it - money will follow. No point doing something that you don't enjoy.
Ah ok, i quit my day job and opened a New Media Company. Installed myself in a small office and started developing webdesign + Marketing for local costumers. Joined DP after a while and start 1 website into a hot niche. 2 Years later i get my best income from the site and 60-75% of profit from the company. I spend more time with family, i travel and surf wherever i want. I'm not rich, far from it, but i have a decent life. Still, i work 10-14 hours per day (when i work). This is a must, since my competitors are very active.
For me making website=blogging is one of my favorite pastime I don't see this as a earning $$ but merely to fill up my free time
in the long run it can be worth it but i guess its all about time and effort and a little bit of luck
There are people that work 10 hours per week and make thousands a month, and then there's those that work 10 hours a day and make a dollar a day. So work smart, not hard.
I think there is a balance in all of this. If you are working hard to develop a site that you will be selling for over 100,000k then you'll reap later on. If you have no plan to make money from your site and you work on it 10 hours a day, then you may be wasting your time.