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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I've read a few essays from these entrepreneurs and what they all do to make their money is A) sell books and articles about how to make money and B) have umpteen websites, newsletters and blogs with ads. They get paid for clicks on those ads.
My itty bitty site has Google's Adsense and I've amassed a whopping $42.22 since February. They don't send a check til you hit $100. In averaging $8 a month, I figure to make something I could at least pay a few bills with, I'd have to have about 50 sites and to be able to actually live off something like that, maybe 300. Of course, the more traffic, the more clicks so if my site was actually being seen, I wouldn't need to build 49 more. And regardless of what these people are saying about no work, big checks, they are maintaining sites and blogs to generate income.
Ain't nothing free....
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I remember being very young and my father would watch 60 Minutes like some religious event every Sunday night. One night Mike Wallace was doing a segment on mail order scams. Of the two examples I recall he covered was a guy who placed an ad in the back of magazines claiming for $5 he'd send you a copper engraved image of Abe Lincoln. Which he did, he sent you a penny. Another guy claimed in a ad he'd show you how to have you mail box receive cash nearly everyday. All you had to do was send him $15 and he'd send you details on how to make this happen. Once he got your cash he sent you a small instruction sheet where he suggested you take out an ad and ask people to send you $15, for that $15 you then send them the instructions he just sent you.
If I remember right neither of these guys were busted, they didn't make any claims they didn't deliver on.