Can I Really Make Money Online and Other Doubts.
Published on June 28, 2018
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
I Am Raging Mad
Aren't you tired yet of hearing people spouting baseless doubts on the probability of making money online and other online financial possibilities? I know that I am. Why express these negative feelings to others who have dedicated themselves to using the online world to generate the income they want and desire for themselves and families? I am aware that these offenders are usually unintentional, so I will attempt to clarify the issue of making money online, once and for all.
Two Environments For Making Money
Most of us have been raised with the concept of making money by working for somebody in the traditional "job market". Let's face it, we went to school to learn how to obtain and keep a "job" by making money from someone else, not for ourselves. The concept of having a "boss" is our "normal" and "practical" reality. We have been taught to deal in trade by physical methods involving our physical presence and exchanging physical products.
Then there is the online, non-physical environment of the internet. Many of us relate to the internet as an alien world populated by technocrats and specialists in unintelligible languages and machinery. Online trade and its related products and services are "supposed" to be made available to us by anonymous entities within this invisible environment.
We have no tangible basis for understanding or judging life in this environment. When it comes to engagement with the online world, it is like eating soup with a fork. What these " unusual" people supposedly do is so extraordinary that they deserve incomes unattainable to us "ordinary" folk in the "natural" world.
Making Money Offline Vs Making Money Online
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In the physical environment, we earn money by the day, fortnight or month, internet people earn money by the second. Physical world, money is earned by physical tasks continuously performed, on the internet, there are residual income methods to earn money from work performed only once in life.
In the physical environment, engaging in business involves a huge cash outlay in property and products, licensing and other requirements, even before acquiring one's employees and their provisions. Anyone can start a thriving online business with a mere website and less than $20. They don't need employees unless they so choose.
Colliding Worlds
This is where both worlds collide. An online business is similar to a physical business because it IS a business, with the usual responsibilities of a business to its customers. Customers expect that you can and will provide the products you advertise and for which you are paid. They expect and require responsive communication with you. The only difference is that they contact you remotely.
Can you make money in a physical business? Definitely! So can you with an online business once you realize that it is a business, not a hobby, and treat it like you would treat your physical business.
As to setting financial goals with online businesses, would you set a realistic goal of $100 in your physical business? You'd rather get a job than consider that realistic. How long should you take to establish your physical business? You would persevere as long as needed without fear before throwing in the towel.
Give Yourself a Fighting Chance
So, online, give yourself the same fighting chances that you would in the offline world. Don't start an online business full of doubts and fears. You wouldn't do that in the physical world, so why would you do that here? You would set uplifting expectations for yourself, so why wouldn't you do that here?
If you are one of these individuals who give sound to your fears and doubts, I sincerely hope that you will understand what I have been saying to you. Here at WA there are hundreds of people willing to help you build a successful online business, just by asking . We will happily give you All the answers you need to overcome every challenge you meet. You only have to apply them yourself.
Peace, Out!
But we can't help you to sabotage yourself. As in the physical world, you have to learn whatever you attempt to do. Here, though, we'll both tell you and show you what you need to do to get from stage to stage. You won't become successful if you won't allow us to help you and by holding on to the old limitations that you bring with you from the physical realm. Those don't work here. Peace, out!
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