Is time spent worth the effort
63Is the time worth the effort?
In order to build a successful online income there is considerable effort involved. How do your justify the time when nothing much seems to be happening?
The answer to that question will help many people stop program hopping and knuckle down and actually treat their online marketing activities like the business it can be. Looking at online marketing with the right attitude, will set you apart from the crowd. So far apart, you no doubt will rise towards the top of what ever it is you market.
Building your online engine, as I call it, takes time and effort. Developing a Contact Base, learning how to Build Your
Own Web Pages, learning how to get the most out of Traffic Exchanges, Auto-Responders, Safe Lists, Banner Exchanges, where you can place Advertisements that get read, working Forums, Optimizing your website and Submitting to Search Engines plus what ever other online activities you can put your time into!
No wonder it takes time! Look at all the activities you MUST engage yourself in to become a success, and you must do it in a systematic and committed way!
So is the time worth the effort?
YES YES YES!
Done properly and with a steady effort, your online business will grow. The more time you spend building your engine, the bigger the ship you will find you are Captain of, and thus the more money you will be paid. Avoid spending the time to build your engine and guess what - you will have nothing more than a raft and a small paddle going no where.... and earning no money!
Lets suppose you work a full year and now you are earning a whopping $100 bucks residual income a month! If you look at that as an insignificant amount and consider the hours it took to get there and you will be tempted to give up... But wait - $100 bucks "residual" income a month is now coming into your account every month.
Think about it this way - How much money invested at 10% return does it take to earn $100 bucks a month or $1200 bucks a year? The answer is $12,000 dollars. Your online business is now worth,to YOU, the same as if you worked overtime at your job, then with your overtime hours you were able to save $12,000 bucks.
How many hours would you have to work overtime at your J.O.B. (or a JOB if you are retired) to earn an extra $12,000, "After tax dollars," to save?
That is the only way to make sense out the time spent building your engine.
Your Online activities can develop into a residual income that could allow you to retire from your J.O.B. earning more than you are (or were) paid for making someone else's business profittable with a J.O.B. Look at your tiny income with open eyes. Your tiny income is like interest earned on cash invested.... thus it is worth a whole lot more than you most likely think.
So find a product or service that appeals to your character and lay a game oplan to make it pay you , and see your income as what it is..... it is the interest earned on the value of your online business.
Build a HUGE engine by taking the time to DO the things laid out in the paragraph highlighted in RED above. Do that for a period of 3 years. Building your engine larger and larger, while fine tuning every aspect of your activities and then tell me how you are doing!
YOU Make it Happen - no-one else will!
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Neil, your hub made me chuckle. I've been having a conversation with myself for a while which goes something like, *OK, you just spent 40 hours mired in learning how to make a blog work, and you haven't even published it yet. Heck, you haven't even written content. What, are you crazy???*
So, reading your analogy of the ship vs. the raft, and how to look at the passive or residual income as earnings on *overtime* after-tax dollars makes a lot of sense to me. I'm headed for the ocean voyage, not the paddle down the creek.
Thanks for sharing this smart way of looking at why I'm beating myself up for what looks, now, like little to no return. It will pay off!
PS: Maybe highlight that paragraph in red you mentioned? :)
Well, I'm up to $0.15 a day and I have no clue what I'm doing. Perhaps as I figure out what that stuff you talked about up there is (hopefully slowly and one at a time so I have to process it, being a bit dim in such things) my engine will grow.
Glassvisage, Sally Trove and Shadesbreath - I thank you all for taking time to drop in and read PLUS comment. Much appreciated.
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Neil
I guess that's what I went through the past 4 years or so, in search what online can really give. PTC, PTR and PTPs was where I started from. It was from one of the paid-to-post forums where I really learned a lot on what to do online. Writing and publishing my thoughts and ideas is one of my passions that I find worth my while now online.
Your article here would be a good read for newbies online. Cheers!
rbnstr8 - great comments - thanks














glassvisage says:
17 months ago
I think many would agree that making money online takes lots of time. Building up my hubs here has taken quite a while, but it's been worth it so far and I'm happy with what I've gotten!