Freddy spends a significant amount of time on the Internet these days. You see, Freddy is trying to take advantage of the various money making opportunities out there on the Internet. There are a lot of companies and sites that will promise you large amounts of money fairly quickly. Just do a google search for "make money online" and see what ads come up. There are ads promising you $300 a day, $3000 a week, $300 just for "Clicking your mouse" (whatever that means), and most of them claim to be "easy" or "idiot proof". In fact, Freddy has recently been seeing a junk email in his spam folder with the subject heading, "Dumb and Poor? We can help." Freddy wonders what kind of idiot would actually open that email... probably someone who is dumb and poor, he guesses. Too bad they'll probably stay that way.
Yes, if you're looking to make money online, there is a lot of junk out there. No, really, a lot, a whole bunch, like one out of every 10,000 "opportunities" is genuine. Freddy is serious, here. The Internet is not a place where you can get rich quick, unless you like gambling, because following up on most of these "incredible money making opportunities" is, more or less, like pulling the lever on a slot machine. And while occasionally someone hits the jackpot, most of the time, people walk away from those machines taking a loss.
A few weeks ago, Freddy found an article that claimed to have the "secret to success online!" It was from a legitimate source, so Freddy went ahead and read it. Do you know what the secret was? Don't give up! Work hard and don't give up! Probably not the type of "secret" that most people who are looking for online success hope to learn. Freddy thinks that when most people see the word, "secret" they are expecting an insider tip on how to make loads of money quickly. They most be disappointed to see that they might have to work. Well, hard work and never giving up is a strategy that Freddy has been aware of since he was wee, so this wasn't necessarily a secret to him either.
Freddy has been working hard and not giving up at online success for, what, nearly three years now. The progress is slow, but the progress is there and Freddy has gone from making $0 a month, to sometimes as much as $150 a month online. (and nearly all of this income comes from sites that are free for anyone to set up) It's not paying the rent, but it's $150 Freddy didn't have before. And if Freddy keeps working hard and never giving up, maybe someday it will pay the rent.
So, although Freddy started this blog with the hopes of selling more t-shirts, he is going to take a short break from that and share with any readers, who happen to stumble upon this page with Freddy's insights on getting started making money online.
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