Second Income? Of course I’m bitter it didn’t work out.
You know what really annoys me? Those cheezy websites that offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Supposedly you can do this in your spare time at home. You will earn fantastic sums of money if only you would just buy their automated system and follow their instructions. It’s really simple just plug and play their system and you will be on the road to riches.
What makes me even madder is the images these so called second income ‘Gurus’ use on their websites. Images of bundles of cash, fast cars and beaches make me want to vomit. How naïve do these ‘Gurus’ think we are? Do they think that those pictures and some slick sales letter will dupe us into buying their automated system?
There’s one born every day.
You can probably guess by my tone that I have been seduced by these websites more than once. I’ll admit the reason those cheezy websites annoy me so much is because I was foolish enough to part with my money in the past. It embarrasses me now when I think about it but I have spent a lot of money pursuing these so called ‘Internet businesses’. What sickens me even more is that I’m sure these internet businesses did make a lot of money…for the person selling them!
If you’re in debt then spending your money on business concepts that do not work or depend on unsustainable methods can knock the wind out of you. The last thing you need is to incur more debt in the pursuit of opportunities that simply don’t exist.
The question I should have asked was ‘If the system was so good then why were they selling it and creating potential competitors instead of just keeping all the money for themselves?’
Learn from experience.
To truly learn it is said that we need to experience things first hand and make mistakes. You don’t learn how to drive or swim by reading a book about it. You get stuck in and start making mistakes – the more the better. This is how we learn.
The same can be said for generating a second income.
I have to admit that I am far from an expert but I am willing to learn. Up to this point I have spent a lot of money learning about what does not work. Often I have wondered if the problem lies more with me and not these so called ‘automated cash machines’. I don’t think so. I could be wrong but in the past I have invested a lot of time, money and energy into these business ventures with very little to show for them.
Could I be getting it wrong every time?
Maybe but I would like to further explore the idea that a sustainable second income can be generated online. Is it really possible to take advantage of all the internet has to offer in terms of leverage and access to a 24 hour a day market?
Over the next articles posts I am going to research and write about online business opportunities to see if it can be done.
I’m toying with the idea of subscribing to one of the more respectable internet business opportunities and really making a go of it to see if it can be done and if it is possible to generate a reasonable second income.
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