You’re new to the Internet. You need to make money. You have been surfing, looking for a way to make some quick money. You’re getting a slew of offers in your email from people who’ll tell you it won’t cost you a thing to get in their business, and you can make more money than you’ve ever dreamed about having.
I’m here to tell you it’s all a bunch of hogwash. I’m not saying you can’t make money. I’m here to tell you that you can’t make money without spending lots of your own. If I have learned anything from experience I have the dubious honor of knowing whereof I speak.
A case in point. I thought I could make money on the internet selling ebooks. I like to read. Surely that must count for something. Wrong! What counted was the money to buy a website, buy a hosting package, buy lists, send out lots of emails, etc, etc, etc.
My problem was I didn’t have the money to do all those ‘necessary’ things. What did I do? I maxed out three credit cards, lost everything I thought I had been building “to get instantly rich’ and ended up in bankruptcy court.
Now I need to tell you what my experience was not. I had no undue influence. I received scads of emails, but it was my own fault I didn’t have sense enough to hit the delete key.
My experience did give me the privilege of telling you one major consideration. Don’t spend money you can’t afford to lose,
Now I do want to tell you one thing positive about the Internet. You’ll meet some very fine people, but be careful with your friendships. A lot of people are only after one
thing – that’s the almighty dollar and those kind don’t
care who they hurt on their way up the ladder of success.
Freda B. Douglas lives in a retirement village in Florida with her cat Jewely. She is an author whose weekly column has appeared in The Herald Advocate. If you’d like to get on her mailing list for her writing, email her at cxzfd@strato.net.
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Thanks for the advice, Freda. There's something in Proverbs about the foolishness of 'get rich quick' schemes that I like to remember whenever I'm tempted to buy a lotto ticket or employ some other strategy to instantly multiply my wealth.
