January 21, 2009

The magic Filter

Filed under: General — Alan @ 9:09 pm

Hi, this post won’t be about giving some specific tip on making money, but I felt I needed to repeat some ideas to help you make it.

When I wanted to make money, thanks to the internet, I was chasing the one great idea. There were so many stories about people who got a great idea and became rich. Think of the One million dollars page, with this student selling blocks of pixels where people could put a link to their website. He managed to earn 1 million in a couple of months… Great! Why we didn’t think of that?

The problem is that we hear all those wonderful stories every day, and we live in this world where we’re led to believe that there is a magic filter.

A filter that separates the average persons from the successful ones.

It seems that we just need to find that great thing, that one gateway to become rich/famous/powerful etc.

But that’s a big lie, there’s no such magic filter. There are some good ideas, but they’re negligible in numbers, compared to the normal way to become successful.
It’s like bands, they all believe that they just need to get signed by a record company, and with this contract, they will move from unknown artists to superstars.

It doesn’t work like that, look at the majority of billionaires… They’re old. Why? Because they spent time and effort before they became successful.

There’s always this equation I believe is accurate:

Consider money, effort and time.
You can choose two of the three you need to spend if you want to achieve something. Only two. Take your pick.

I could spend 6 months of holidays, visiting Australia and caressing kangaroos, going to France and drinking wine, etc.
But that’s not because I had found one magical solution, it’s because I had slowly spent time and effort to create money-making sources.

You want to make more money, you want more freedom, even with the current crisis, that’s definitely achievable. Hell, I didn’t notice more than a 10% drop in my revenue even if we’re meant to be in trouble. And that’s more likely because I wasn’t touching a thing on my websites.

So yeah, that’s a path, to be able to make money, and the hardest is that you’ve got to stick with it, it’s not always fun, like your everyday job, you’ll have to do many boring tasks.
But if you keep it up and work steady you’ll be able to be more successful at the end of this year than today.

In a few days I’ll post the details of a little project I am currently doing and that illustrates my point.

And even better, it makes me a bit of easy money. So there’s no way you couldn’t make something out of it.

See you quickly!

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Comment by Derrin
2009-01-22 11:09:31

Solid post, man. Looking forward to the next one.

 
Comment by modeals
2009-02-04 05:22:27

great post man. i sent you a email at your email addy. i look forward to your little project you are talking about and i will definitely put it to use.

 
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