Back in the day where I used to buy a lot of ebooks, I would be disappointed when a $97 ebook contained just 20 pages. Making each page worth $5? The problem is that it probably could have been condensed into a couple of paragraphs.

And when the books were good, they usually offered a “trick” of some sort, usually a loophole that Google, Squidoo, YouTube had left open.

Depending on when you bought the ebook and how fast you took action, your mileage on being able to generate earnings from the technique would range from a week to a few months.

And that is for the good ebooks. The bad ones would just suck, and some newly-published ones would cover techniques that had died the previous year.

Buying this stuff left a bad taste in my mouth, so I quit (more…)

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Who else wants an Internet empire?
It’s easy to look at any established online personality or company and make one of the following assumptions (or maybe both, depending on the day):

1. It all appeared in a day and was largely due to luck, so this online stuff has many similarities to gambling and hitting a jackpot.
2. It took nearly forever to come together, probably required a lot of people working on it and a lot of capital. Either or both resources that you don’t have.

The truth is probably somewhere in between. It will take some luck, but more focused effort to bring all these pieces together.

A rookie mistake when trying to build a business empire might be asking “How do I make $x per month?”

This implies that you can (more…)

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