I realize this post is over 4 years old, but I just came across it.
It's a great post, but I have trouble reading big blocks of text. So, I copied & pasted it to Notepad and added some spacing.
That made it much easier to read!

I didn't do anything but add spacing, but some of you may find it helpful :)

Sharon
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A question I get posed to me all the time is goes a little something like this... "Hey Kyle, I want to know how long it is going to take me to earn money online here. What do you think?"

My answer is always the same, but a little bit different depending on how the question is asked, but one thing remains a constant. YOU are in charge of your success. Not me. Not your neighbour.

Second, you have everything you need here at WA to create success. It requires you to build a website, which is your foundation for success...this is the foundation of your house that you can build as big as you want. If you want the nice granite countertops in your kitchen, that will come later. But before you can build that kitchen, you need that foundation.

This is where your website and your niche come into play. And it takes different amounts of time and effort to get this in place.

Me personally, I worked my rear off for the first two months with ZERO financial success, but I had a ton of other success which was just as important to me. A had a website, I had content and I had the beginnings of a business. This is exciting stuff.

One thing I learned early on is that if you focus just on money in life and in business, you will never have any of it or you will have to sell your soul to earn it. If you focus on "building" something great and something of substance, the money follows.

This does not mean spending a week working on something and hoping that it will someone miraculously turn into a money tree. That is not how business works and that should not be your expectation.

By my 6 months I had pretty much a full time income online. What had happened is my hard work from my first months work started paying dividends.

That is how business works. What you do NOW, pays dividends LATER and sometimes forever. I have campaigns that I created over the years that I created once, took me a week, but paid me $$$ for years. My focus was not immediate money, the focus was creating something that was great, that was helpful for the people that touched it, and that was of tangible substance.

So...you want to know how long it takes to earn money online? This is up to YOU and whether or not it EVER happens is up to you. One thing I can assure you of is that everything you need is here at Wealthy Affiliate, the only missing piece of the puzzle is you, your time, your dedication and your persistence.

What made me understand how WA works was when I went to the sign up page for WA, like a newbie. In being treated like a newbie I was given to understand the utterly vast potential of WA. For that experience I am very grateful. I am a premium member who has not made a single sale in all the years I have been with WA. I thought it was like some other websites--full of empty promises.

Thank you for an honest answer Kyle. A good foundation is certainly important for building a successful business. I am willing to do the heavy lifting in the beginning to secure my future. So far, I am with Wealthy Affiliate for five months and the training is superb.

All the best
Maxine

Kyle, please answer my request ASAP, this is very important to me. This is not a good time for me to get into a job like this, this heart surgery is very serious and sending the money back to me is just as serious, so please Kyle, please take care of this for me!!!!!

Hi kyle, I'm sorry to tell you that I'm not happy with WA because you promised that if the members asked a single question any time he will get answered immediately and also you promised that premium membership will let you get anything free.
I have been sending messages in private and public for couple of days No answers and I tried every thing I have to pay Example; jaaxy and another I have gone through the training how to build traffic and there is advise to move my website to Rubex.com first I didn't find the feature (move) I found it down but giving me option to move to WA and I Found it not free I paid charge of one year renewal again and No use please if you got my third message for the same topic please let me know what is the idea. ....

Ahh the best question ever.

Money isn't everything it's what you do with it that counts!

I am excited and dedicated into achieving my goals it may take 3 moths to 6 months maybe even a year i know i can do this..

Hi, My name is Andi and I have been here at Wealthy Affiliate four months now.

I absolutely LOVE being here and have five websites up and running.

It keeps me busy full time yet I am at home with my children and we still do all the things we love to do like playing in the paddling pool, having BBQ's, going to the park and generally having lot's of fun.

I can put down and pick up exactly when it suits me and that is the beauty of how to earn money at home. It suits my needs perfectly and is the type of online business that I have been looking for in the longest time.

So, I am really still only building my foundations at the moment. but learning how to do that, gives you a massive sense of achievement.

Good Luck.

Andi.

Hi.am new here..have just registered but I need to know how do I log in when I need to do the tasks..and after the 10 tasks what will be next..thank you

Great write up. Essentially, you must get to the point where everyone else quits. That's when you'll start making some money.

The key , in my opinion, is that on-line marketing it's a wonderful tool to reach millions of people, so my main goal is to help people. As Zig Ziglar said once"help people get what they want and you will get everything you want" It's a win win situation, a true sharing experience.
I am learning so much that already i am a winner, i am helping myself, growing with my site and my ideas are expanding towards creating ways to help people. Money will come when i am ready to have them.

Do you have to pay all the payments every month , or was that a one time fee

So true Kyle. You can only build your house on solid ground and not shaky sand. LOL

is it possible for a person to make money by a week or a day

Thanks for this frank post Kyle. This really makes me feel better :)

well put-i like this!

Wow, Kyle! I have been part of WA for a day now and what strikes me in every article/video is that you, guys are honest about stuff and that you are NOT PROMISING piles of gold to people in two weeks/months (like some other programs do!). You are HONEST! You are helping people to find the way to success and you have build great foundation for that with WA program! I feel that I always have you standing just behind me and you are always ready to help if I have a question/doubt or similar. Fantastic community and great energy here at WA!!! THANKS a bunch!

Wonderful ! I agree persistent efforts does works !

Awesome! I feel great about all my hard work and even though my little airplane still says 300 more to go I feel as confident and exited as I did on my first day or work. :)

Thanks for putting together this awesome community of knowledge and support Kyle.

ten thumbs up. #agreed

I can't tell you how far this type of honesty will take someone :) I personally completely agree with Kyle on this one(all of the above) an this is exactly what I'm after. I want to learn an build something strong, witch is Knowledge first, foundation for something amazing second, an if I can succeed at this....like Kyle said,.."the money WILL follow in good an due time".

Anyone here looking for overnight success, you may as well stop looking here an go find another website that will only lead you to an empty pocket. This site was designed to be an online CLASSROOM, or collage course to building a LIFE for your self with an online business. Rome was NOT built in a day, Nor has any other business.
Happy website building everyone, an remember, success comes to those who never give up on themselves an the dreams in their hearts. :)

You are right, Kyle. This is not what most of us want to hear. But honesty is the best policy and I appreciate your "tell it like it is" style. It is refreshing. Thank you. :) I probably speak for most of us here by saying...."the sooner...the better". *smile*

So True Kyle, you should not be working for a pay check, you should work for profit.
Today to many people want instant gratification all the time. Building a business is like farming, you plant a seed or many, in spring and you water and care for them trough summer and you reap the rewards in Autum. Running your own business is not having a job. You need to be prepaired to take respocibility for what ever you do and accept the outcome. If you don't like the outcome, change what you are doing. So if you not making any money, review what you have done, ask questions, make changes, focus on money making activities everyday. Get people to sign up.

VERY inspiring.. I will definitely keep this in mind next time I feel exhausted and try to give up!

My first business did not make money for six years! When I left my job, the owner of that company gave me only one piece of advice. That advice: Don't give up too soon!

I have never forgotten that lesson.It's a good thing I paid attention because after six years of struggle, we made a couple of million. Of course, we also spent a couple of million, but had a great time doing it.

Good points Kyle, thanks.

So true Kyle. In my full time office job I started out earning only my hourly rate. I worked hard to build my clientele. Within 6 months I was earning an incentive and I continued to grow. After one full year I had doubled my earnings and I continued to work hard and before I knew it I had quadrupled what I was earning when I started. I wasn't just concerned about the money. I wanted to grow but not lose the level of excellence that I worked very hard to maintain. That was my first priority...giving my clients the excellent care that they had grown accustomed to. I need to add...I started that job with absolutely no previous experience and absolutely no knowledge in that field. I knew I could do it and even though I worked long hard hours (and so many times I just wanted to throw in the towel) I never gave up.. I got to a place where I did not need to work all those hours to keep my earnings at a constant level and still maintain the quality that my clients had grown accustomed to. As I read through the training here I really wondered if I could do this. I stopped wondering and went ahead and joined as a premium member. I know that with hard work, determination and commitment, I will wake this work.

Very true. You're focus should be on the business, your value to the customer.

True, but some niches are easier to make profitable than others. I was overly ambitious and a bit naive at first. Took on too big a bite, so I ended up spinning my wheels with affiliate sales. I needed a staff to do all I wanted to do. It felt very frustrating and I almost gave up, but I look at it this way, I learned from my mistakes. So now I know better, have changed my business model, and am reaping the rewards. Still I put in huge work. You ultimately recoup in the end. Thank you for all the encouragement and continuous help.

Thanks for the post, Kyle. All this "mind set stuff" is so important. I've been hunting for money for too long, not achieving anything. And still I occasionally find myself thinking of money first.

I try to remind myself, that this is not the way I interact with people face to face. The internet is such a great tool to connect with people, but at the same time it's anonymity makes it sometimes hard for me to feel the connection the same way I feel it face to face to someone.

Thanks for reminding us!

Inspiring post, keep that in mind, txs Kyle

Thanks for this inspiring post. Grounding stuff but inspirational

inspiring, thanks kyle

Is it ok to focus on the the traffic. Ill take traffic over cash so i can get comments and advice to improve my site. i know ill get better with each build and its a process like life

Thank you for this post Kyle. I think it is important to not focus on the money. If you do the work and focus on giving readers what they are looking for, the money will follow down the road.

Brilliant answer Kyle!

I think this is my URL is http://ilovegaming.siterubix.com or if not this is my web site name. I do not believe I added anything as I was waiting to get some cash in to complete my add-on's. I also haven't really been in much since Wednesday, as my Grandmother is down and my internet is really data capped. Also had got to a place of feeling lost and didn't ask for help. Wrong move to begin with as you said if I am or any of us are having problems just ask for help.

help yesterday I tried to open my website from my phone and now I am my computer and it only coming up with a blank screen. Help what have I done wrong or what has happened?