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Technology’s ever-pervading permeation into every last fiber and morsel of society has caused a dramatic upheaval in the way we live, work and entertain ourselves. Thanks to the disruptive nature of the internet, the rate of change has only increased exponentially in recent years. It’s not easy making money online today. With so much competition and so many people and headlines vying for our attention, sifting through and finding reputable sources to generate any respectable amount of income through the web has become an ever-increasing challenge.
People have been falling for networking marketing, pyramid schemes, and affiliate marketing scams since before the start of the net. So, where are we supposed to turn to make money the legitimate way online? It’s not easy by any means. Anyone that tells you otherwise isn’t being transparent with you. It takes an enormous amount of effort and authority-building before you can really start getting rich through your online income-producing activities. However, there are some basic methods for making a respectable amount of cash in the short term. Before I talk about some of the methods for making money online, I wanted to address the role of pain versus pleasure.
Every decision that we make in life is weighed on a pain-versus-pleasure scale. We will always do more to avoid pain than we will to gain pleasure, plain and simple. However, this is also what holds us back from succeeding in any endeavor. Now, making money online should seem like a pleasurable activity. Why wouldn’t we do just about anything to see things through, since it would be a major source of pleasure, right? In the beginning, like anything else, we might get really excited about it.
We might also set our hopes very high. But that all comes crashing down when we begin to fail. In order to make serious amounts of money online, you need to the most amount of work for the least initial return, not the least amount of work for the greatest return. That’s also the problem with how affiliate marketers, network marketers, and IMs attempt to sell you the “dream,” so to speak. When people buy into the hype, they set their expectations extremely high.
All they need to do is send a few emails out, and voila, instant millions overnight. Well, clearly it doesn’t quite work like that. The issue at heart is that we will always do more to avoid pain than to gain pleasure in the short term, not in the long term. That’s why it’s so hard to quit bad habits or do anything else that requires any semblance of struggle.