Actually making money online is anything but easy. There is a TON of competition online for consumers’ money, information, opinions, loyalty and clicks. How you decide to separate yourself from the sheeples is up to you. I have found my online success is in direct proportion to how hard I am willing to work. Making money online can be simple but never think that it is going to be easy. Some like to thrive on the hype of the next new system and how everybody involved is going to make money. Well there are only so many people that will get involved and then they system starts to crumble.

Guess who benefits from you following the program? The program owner! That is their online claim to fame and their source of revenue and the more people following the program the more money they make. What happens when they have rounded up all the “sheeples” (there’s that word again). Programs require new blood continually, to be successful. There are just so many people that ill “plug into the system”. Those that do may achieve success. How do most systems define success? You make more than you are spending and how much traffic you are sending to their program, for them to get the most benefit.

How do you generate true residual income? You put it in the bank where it is insured and draws interest. That is the only true residual income that I know of. It may not even out pace inflation but no one can take that away from you. That is the only true residual income. See the residual income generated through MLM and other types of programs can be taken away at the drop of a hat. Why do you think the heavy hitters are always recruiting new people? Because they know that their income is predicate on how many people they have in their down line or organization, because there is huge attrition in these types of programs. It a numbers game they say. That is right you are just a number with their friendship level being in direct proportion to the amount of income you make them. They need more “sheeples” and they know that. They know that they can never truly walk away or the income will dry up without the new blood.

A big list can be a huge asset in marketing online, but most people starting out don’t have a list and those that have been around for awhile don’t really have their own list. They have the list that they built for the program owner. It just never fails to amaze me why people really think they have done a great job because they have built a few hundred people in a down line builder type program and that they will soon be on easy street. List building is over rated in the online marketing niche. A good example was the LinkCrews launch. The traffic exchange and program owners had first shot at promoting it and they used their list that you built for them to promote a new traffic exchange. If you were not around for that launch feel free to contact me via the messenger services that will be listed at the end of the report and I can explain it better for you. Needless to say it was a smart marketing program for the traffic exchange owners but really just made LinkCrews a flash in the pan after their big launch. Now they don’t even rate in the top 10 traffic exchanges.

Lets see, you want to make money online and you are going to do that how? Drive traffic to an affiliate URL? What happens when that product falls out of favor or they close shop? What are you left with?

A bunch of hard work that you recieved least amount of benefit from and a bunch of dead links spread all over the internet. What good is that?

If you spend the same amount of time and hard work driving traffic to your own online property then you have to potential to promote any product or program you wish. You are in control not a program owner. That is why I don't promote member programs to any great degree. I rather promote a product or service that I can change on the fly and let my efforts directly reward me.