TommyCarey
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When you get into online marketing, you're usually enticed by the main keyword "making money online" just like most of us. The main downside of this is that a lot of us think it's going to be extremely easy to do. We think this because all of the ads, methods, systems and guru's preach that they are making money hand over fist online, and we can do it too! In reality, they say these things because they want you to sign up for their classes, software, systems, methods, etc. so THEY can make more money. They're running a business which gets you to believe that if you pay them, you will become more wealthy in a short amount of time because you now have access to something in which millions of others do not.
The sad reality is that we get tricked into buying these things, and then we get discouraged when they don't work. I myself got pulled in by an ad that said I could make $250 a day by just posting ads. I read through everything with youthful ambition and applied everything they said to, which cost me close to $1,000 to get started. I didn't know what was going on because I knew that you had to spend money to make money, so I just saw this as an initial investment for my future profits.
After I found a few big online marketing forums, I quickly realized that I wasted close to $1,000 on an online course that taught you how to place adsense on your website and it never covered how to actually get traffic to the site to get clicks. We all know that if you're making $250+ a day with adsense, you're the top 1% of marketers doing so lol.
Fast forward roughly 15 years and we are in present times. I'm full of knowledge and I can look back on my newbie marketer days and laugh because now I know that I wasted all that money on something I could have learned for free through a forum lol 
I know that you're eager to make money, but I need to you know that you MUST be patient. You cannot rush things when it comes to online marketing, web design, sales generation, content generation, etc. You'll actually create more work for you in the end if you do rush things because code will break, your SEO campaign will be flawed, your content will be stuffed with keywords, etc. So one of the biggest pieces of advice I can give you is to simply take your time as well as don't fall for the tricky sales copy that will get your hopes up so you open up your wallet and make a sale.
If you're going into online marketing and think "I just made $50, I'm going to put in my 2 weeks notice at work!" you should probably wait a bit longer before you make any irrational decisions. I've seen plenty of people talk about quitting their jobs after making a few bucks online, then they actually do quit, and then their sales disappear and now they don't have any income streams. I would suggest to work at your day job until your online revenue is making almost twice what you do at work. There's no guarantee that you will keep your income going online, but if you have a decent amount of profit coming in, you can branch out and start up new revenue streams in different niches.
These are just a few words of advice from a veteran marketer who has made plenty of mistakes in the past, but also had some amazing achievements Don't make dumb mistakes which could kill your motivation, if you do, just keep your head up and keep chugging along until you start to be successful. Do you think that I profit everyday? NOPE! I lose money all the time from testing, low sales, algorithm changes, etc. but I have multiple revenue streams set up now that I can fall back on in case something does go wrong. Usually when something goes wrong it's because I'm trying to break into a new niche and it's taking much more time and investment than expected, so I cut my losses lol.
In Conclusion:
You need to figure out what to do when it comes to making money online and stay away from all the "guru" courses. Those guys and girls only make money when you sign up for their system. If you don't pay them to learn how to place adsense on your website, they don't gain any power lol. Think before you act and you will be happier later on down the road. If you do fail, learn from it instead of letting it crush your dreams.
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Razzy
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Yep, for me investing my own money into some course or other people's websites is out of the question as well. It is just too risky and most often it doesn't deliver the promised.
I have also ran into a site that said will pay for articles but they never did. They sadly scammed people then turned off the whole website. You always have to be careful :D
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