I Made $100,000 Online!
Maybe I am stretching the numbers a bit, but the point is valid. As a person with less than one year experience with building websites and monetizing them, I believe that I have made just about every mistake that one can make at this point. If there is something that you could possibly screw up while trying to become an online gazillionaire, I would bet the bank that I’ve been there and done that. Looking back at it all, I honestly can’t tell you why I kept going. Any sane person (ie. not your average webmaster) would have quit and moved on to delivering pizzas or something long, long ago.
It took me a long time to finally figure out part of the online success formula, and I spent way too much time and effort in getting here, but I do believe that I have finally passed the hurdle. I’m making more money than I am spending these days, so you won’t be hearing a lot of complaining from me. But I do wish that someone would have set me down long ago and told me how dumb I was. I wish someone would have said, “Glenn, you’re a freaking idiot! Here you are trying to make nice websites that people will visit, and all you’re making is crap that your daddy would disown you over!” I wish things would have went that way, but they didn’t. That’s life though, isn’t it?
The point of this little post/ article/ thread/ whatever you want to call it is that there are more ways to screw up online than there are ways to do things right. The people that are breaking the online bank are the people that have gotten things down to a pretty simple formula. They are the webmasters and online marketers that have figured out that there is a formula for success, and that you don’t have to work nearly as hard as you just need to work smart. In so many areas of life, less is more. In the “make a living online” world, that little saying has never been any truer.
I finally decided to sit down and write out a list of all of the mistakes that I have made along the way. Most of them are a bit embarrassing to me now, but I think it was a process I needed to go through to get to where I’m at. I am going to tell you what I did wrong, and how I fixed it. I’m not saying that this is the only/ right way to do things for everyone, but it was right for me. Maybe a few of you that feel like online losers (join the club! lol) will pick up a few pointers here. Maybe a few of you Adsense millionaires will get a few chuckles out of it. Whatever the case may be, this is how I made $100,000 by spending $200,000 online: