The Learning Curve for Making Money Online

[The Man DownUnder]

Gee, I've had some learning curves in my time, working out how to make money.

18 years ago I started teaching myself how to use a computer (An NEC PowerMate with a HUGE 20MB drive and I think it was 8mb of memory!) Five years ago, in an effort to keep more client money in my business, I bought my own DVCam camera to shoot the corporate videos I was producing and started to learn how to use that. A year later I installed my own editing software so I could edit some of those corporate videos for my clients. I’ve just delivered one DVD that's 90 minutes long and another that is 40 minutes long to one client and they're pretty happy so I guess the learning curve is paying off.

Now, three months ago to be precise, I took on Internet Marketing thinking, initially, it would be a breeze to earn money online. Well, 90 days later I beg forgiveness for the forests I have denuded by printing out so many reports from so many gurus out there on how to earn extra income on the web. What a learning curve this task is! Absolutely huge.

Great fun to learn so much new stuff but so easy to suffer information overload on money making opportunities. Interestingly, from a communications perspective I see a lot of mistakes even from the gurus (probably mainly from the gurus) which I plan to put into a special report. I don’t just mean speeling mistakes (like that one) and typos, of which there are a lot.

So, the Learning Curve continues. It's not so much steep as broad and deep.
Graham Kelly
The Man DownUnder

[TrafficProducer]

8mb of memory

WHOOO!!!

I sarted with a IK RAM, Sinclair ZX80, 4 K ROM, Tape back up and Television as a VDU.

The good old days :-)

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and typos,

I once was told the even a skilled Typist mick-up key presses, next key, nearby key...

Thiat is why we need vaildation to check in-puts.

I believe most programmers do not learn typing and may find it hard to use because of all the " ` ; ( & etc needed to program.

[Keimos]

Hello,
Graham Kelly
The Man DownUnder,

Welcome to the internet world.

when I started I think there were about 300,000 sites. Now there are probably 3,000,000,000 sites.

The Learning Curve for Making Money Online

It does not get easier, there are a lot of smart people out there.

Keimos

[AjiNIMC]

8mb of memory

I had 16 mb and I know how it ran (or may be walked).

What a learning curve this task is! Absolutely huge.

Yes, much to learn. I entered this field some 3 to 4 years back when I was doing my final year Masters at AIM (then National Insitute of Management, India) and had our team (we assumed it to be our first company, our free 0catch page, http://ajiissac.0catch.com/Idealog.html ), Idealog.

In last 3 years I think every single day I have learned something new and always had a huge list of articles for next day. Almost 16 hrs of work and study almost everyday of last 3 to 4 years. Amazing thing is that still I am learning and today read some 20 articles (in first half of the day). Certainly I have come a long way ( www.idealwebtools.com/blog/ might support my words) but certainly a long to way to go.

The most amazing factor about Internet is,
Low investment. Ideas sell over sites, spend every moment in learning and more important in observing. If you strike an idea, implement it and hope for a 1.5 billion takeover by Google one day :).

AjiNIMC

[khurramali]

What you need is a niche product or service that you can deliver to your clients online and earn money in the process.

[wwwizzard]

Hi Graham
I think you just identified your own niche:
after all that time studying the "gurus" and still not making a cent, you probably have enough stories for a website to debunk all the gurus' theories, and to warn other people not to waste their time with yet anoyther get rich quick scheme.
For example: does anybody else think a particular guru is actually a guru, or is this belief confined to the guru him/herself?
Is the guru making any money from his own theory or just from flogging it?
The internet is just like the real world I think: only with a brilliant idea and a lot of work you might get somewhere.
Too many people think they only have to spend $29.95 for some six emails and they will be buying a Porsche.
Do what you know and do it well!

Cheers

[TrafficProducer]

guru

I was a nerd but then became a guru. Joke :)

Yahoo Tech's thought themselves as Guru's until Google got hold of You-Tube.

The technology is soo big, HTML, XML, PHP, PERL, ASP SQL, etc... That I doubt if anyone knows it all. (Master of none)