The truth about earning online

What's the reality of making real money from internet?How and when they (the experts)will tell you the truth?

The reality is this: while many people are building profitable businesses by leveraging their content, hardly anyone is profiting directly from the content itself. To me, that’s a real shame. More importantly than that, though:

"Traditional online business models force a conflict of interest: they must accommodate advertisers and spin-off product offers whilst attracting visitors who care about neither."

If you don’t think that building a business around your output instead of with it is odd, stop and think for a second. If you go to Apple’s site today, they’ll sell you a Mac. If you visit John Varvatos, they’ll sell you a suit. If you go to Hotel Chocolat, they’ll sell you their fancy choccies. Then visit The Guardian, who’ll happily give you all their output for free and then try to flog you a solar powered torch.!!!!

When it gets really silly

Weirder still are the sites that try to flog you a metaproduct from the top shelf of the Irony Store: Brian Clark sells a course about selling courses; Alexis Dawes sells an eb**k about how to sell eb**ks;

Yaro Starak makes money online by selling access to a site that teaches you how to make money online building a access site.

Pay to a memberships site to learn build a membership site.............XD

Who else?Darren Rowse earn money online by selling blogging tips on how to build a better blog in 31 days from his blog;(not how to sell better from blog in 31 days).

Image by ThaRainbowRaider. via Flickr

It’s pretty harmless to poke fun at these things, but — in truth — leveraging your content to draw an income through other products and services is probably the best option available to anyone hoping to build an online business right now, which is why we’re all trying it. If only there was another way…

The truth about earning a living online

Ref: Nick Cernis via putthingsoff.com