When you try to make money online, in whatever niche you choose, it will never be easy. Learning about marketing your product is hard enough, as are all aspects of SEO and all others ways you may think will work to push the niche you want to earn some cash from.

Most people end up being scammed at one point or another. You cannot avoid the scammers on the net . You want to make money and they want to make a fast buck out of your need to do just that. Even the cynics can be fooled some times in their haste to succeed and if you are a true ‘newbie’ to making money online, you may as well declare yourself the prey in the online fox hunt, because if you don’t see yourself that way, there are plenty of others who will.

So what on earth do you do if you want to earn money this way? Or worse, how do you manage if you need to make a living on the net, because there is no other opportunity available to you?

You trust no one.

And That Includes You, because there will be times when deep down you know the decision you are about to make is probably wrong; when you know that spending xxx amount of dollars is not the sensible thing to do at this point, but there is a little voice inside you saying “go for it now!”

But how do you actually start up your business if you trust no one? How on earth do you deal with all the conflicting advice offered, not only by the ‘make money online gurus’ and their followers, but by their opposition?

How do you sift the wheat from the chaffe if you trust no one?

You study and you check and double, triple, quadruple check everything out

You read recommendations with an open mind:

Even if someone who everybody trusts is telling you that buying something to help your online business plans is a good deal, ask yourself, “what is he or she getting out of this?” This is not to say don’t sign up for anything being promoted by someone you have grown to trust over time just because they are making money out of it, but always ask to see examples of how the ‘good deal’ works for them and check it out on other sites too.

Confusion making money online You could well find conflicting (even confusing) information, but at least you will have more than one person giving you this.

Yes, collecting all the different information about a product offered to ‘help you make a living on the net’ will be confusing. You will want to tear your hair out many a time with all the mass of contradictions. But no one (at least no one sensible) ever said it would be easy to make money online. Live with it.

Then, when you think you have made your decision and the ‘good deal’ in question looks fine, ask yourself one more thing:

Can I actually afford this right now or are there ways I could still make money by doing without it?

And stick with what your rational mind is telling you.

I know that many entrepreneurs take risks and make a great deal of money from this, but most of them lose money too. But they are not so likely to give you examples of that.

Do not spend any money to make money online until you have earned enough cash to spend it. And then, when you have those spare dollars or euros, by all means go for it.

Because by that time, hopefully, you will have learned enough to know about some of the risks.

So how can you ever earn that necessary cash to expand if you trust no one, and everywhere you look there may be people hoping to take advantage of your interest in making a living online?

You build blogs on free hosts and (when they have ‘matured’ a little) you monetise them with Adsense . You make sites on Squidoo and Hub pages and anywhere else you can find which either lets you advertise or place a link to somewhere that does. You make articles but submit them by hand to Go Articles and Ezines .

Once you have a blog or two running, you could sign up for Amazon and (if you are lucky) eBay and then set up blogs specifically for their products. You don’t need to invest in niche site building tools until you have the money to do so. Building sites by hand is harder, I know, but this is all about not spending your bucks until you have made money online.

You could also sign up as an affiliate at Commission Junction, Click Bank and other affiliate sites and host ads and make posts for some of the products offered there. Yes, you will read about the pros and cons of places like this, but you are not investing yet, just promoting, so there’s no harm done in checking out their performance on a blog or two. Just don’t give these your whole time.

If you want to target ‘adult’ you could go over to Thumblogger and use their vast range of free tools and sponsor help (note: don’t use Adsense with adult - you’ll lose your account and don’t put adult on blogger - you will lose your blog). If you do want to do this, you can always check out my blog about working online as an adult webmaster and check out my newbie posts in the left sidebar. Just don’t click on the Hostgator link in the side bar. This is about you making money, not spending it.

And if you work at it and keep focused on what you are doing, you will make money online. It will not be easy. In fact at times it will be damned hard, and you cannot expect miracles overnight, but you won’t have spent a bean until you are good and ready to do so.

And when you do start to make a living and you do have enough spare cash to invest in expanding your online business, remember this:

You will never know all the scams out there. As I type this post there are probably hundreds of guys busy planning their next traps for the unwary right now.

So above all, if you really want to make money on the net and however successful you are in your adventures as an entrepreneur, please keep a suspicious mind.

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