One blog that particularly comes to mind is Vic’s internet marketing blog at Blogger Unleashed. Vic would post almost everyday with a great tip about how to make money online and truly cared that people make it. One day Vic didn’t post and someone got pissed about it. Come on people, he was giving you his secrets for free and you were getting pissed about him not posting. This truly hurt him which is why he took his teachings to a private forum at The Affiliate Academy. Unfortunately, I had to move on from his private forum, but I really did learn a lot from him and I really do appreciate it. The story I just told is just the tip of the iceberg, the whole situation really stressed Vic out and eventually made him very sick.

If you can’t tell by now what I’m getting at then I’ll just spell it out for you. The main reason that a lot of the good info about how to make money online is charged for is the people giving out the information are not appreciated when they give out their secrets for free. The other main reason is to weed out the people that are just looking for a free ride or think that they are can just put a website up and bing they are rich. If you are willing to pay $29 for an ebook or $39 per month for a membership site, then you must be somewhat serious about starting an online business.

It saddens me to say that charging for information does not weed out all of those that are looking for a free ride to working at home; these are the people that will shell out their money and two days after finishing the book or reading through a membership forum they are yelling scam because they don’t have $5,000 in their bank account yet. If you are one of these people that thinks this way, please just keep working your 9-5 job everyday and don’t even try to get your online business started.

While it is true that a lot of the information about how to make money online is available on blogs and websites for free, it will take you a lot of time to gather all of this information together and then make any sense of it to put it to good use. So if you truly believe that a membership or ebook will help you, then by all means spend the money on it, but I beg you to put the information to good use to make sure you are not throwing your money out the window.

This is just a little rant that I’ve been meaning to write about for a really long time now.

Originally posted 2009-09-20 18:42:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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I’m going to be honest with you, you’re not going to like my answer because I do not have a specific answer for you. All in all, the answer is that you need to decide for yourself depending on what your situation is.

If you are just starting out, whether you have money or not, you should start with learning the ropes on free sites like Squidoo, Hubpages and Blogger. This will allow you to learn about HTML, how keywords work, CSS, and other things that go into building a web property. You will also be able to get over the hump of getting started in web publishing.

If you decide you like publishing online and have a little bit of money to spare, I would start building your own web properties as soon as possible. These properties will allow you to build passive income, you’ll have assets you can sell in the future if you need to, and you will not be held hostage by new rules that the free sites impose.

If you do not have a lot of money to spare, then keep building your free sites until you build up enough money to by a domain and some hosting. Learn as much about keywords and writing as you can for free; stay off of as many mailing lists as you can so you are not tempted to spend money you don’t have. If I want to take advantage of freebies, I’ll sign up for the list, get what I can from them, and then unsubscribe.

I guess the answer to my question really is, “It depends.” Just always remember, that in affiliate marketing there are 100′s of ways to skin a cat and make money online. Don’t get frustrated and just keep publishing and pushing forward.

Feel free to post any questions in the comments.

Until later,

Originally posted 2010-07-18 07:57:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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