There is no such thing as EASY money... why does everyone keep on going on about it?

Yes and no. I worked full time and started doing some part time work online, brokering, fiverr stuff, etc. It was only harder money cause I had to work full time but in truth once I found and caught my swing it is easy money for the most part. I work like 15 hours a week and make all the money I need to live off of.
You just got to find what works for you.

I honestly don't believe anyone who says they are making easy money, and it's kind of because of the whole concept of an overnight success and what it means to be that or achieve that. A lot of people are making a lot of money but let's be real for a second, the vast majority of people have no idea what easy money looks like or what it takes to make it.

There are plenty of people who aren't making very many hours and basically have a great lifestyle business that lets them do whatever they want and still make money. It can't be that easy though, considering that 99% of people never achieve it and end up working for somebody else instead of living their dream lifestyle from money that they made for themselves and continue to make.

Starting out is never easy and you have to do so many things that have never been done before in order to be successful and actually break ground and start generating a lot of income and being successful. Even things that are theoretically easy are actually really hard to accomplish. The truth is that once you put the time in and actually become an expert in your field and you can add tremendous value to your own business very easily because you totally understand the systems you've put in place, it's now much easier for you to make money where it would be so hard for someone else.

When I started as a Freelancer, I found it very difficult to get decent paying work, and I couldn't get enough contracts per month to sustain a reasonable lifestyle so I gave up. Now, I get more than enough to do just fine for myself. The market hasn't changed but I've developed the skills that I need and making money is a lot easier.

If you sustain the effort, not only is your business going to grow but you're actually going to grow with it, improve at your role and what you do and where you add value and you're going to feel like it's much easier than before to get great results.

There are a small group of people who happened to be in the right place in the right time - with the right business idea and the right group of people to mentor/guide him in the early stage with a huge dash of luck. They are probably less than 1% of millions of other who try their hand at success.

Most people try to point to this relatively small group of people as a source of reason and inspiration or validity why they will be successful. But the reality is much more difficult than that. You need all the right ingredients to fall in place with almost perfect harmony to be successful (in this case being successful meaning making good money).

No amount of crazy insane hard work and long hours will make you any more likely to be successful - you will need the luck factor too.

But it helps to try to hard and try often - you might eventually get lucky if you try often enough.

Hard and easy are relative words.

I'd like to say making it is always hard work but I have been on this planet long enough to see some people make good money that they just lucked into (dad got them the job, right place right time, willing to lie or compromise to the top).

You CAN work smart and make success easier. I don't agree it takes years. Smart will cut time and work.

I'm convinced that the title of this thread is the pure truth. But, while people have made EASY money on the internet, somewhere they are hiding out with their "top secret" method.

Everybody keeps talking about it because it's a lie being sold as a truth based off of "proof". If a really successful internet marketer or marketers were to actually show what they did on a day-to-day basis, that would definitely show that the "copy and paste" or "click 2 buttons and make 10k!" products are actually selling lies.

What the prey don't know is that the marketer was probably building that list for like 5-10 years and then crafted a great promo email to a huge launch. What "copy and paste" method did he use? The promo email (that is, if he didn't craft the email). What two buttons did he click? "Send" and the "x" in the tab. (lol)

I'm just saying... EASY money seems like a myth to me IMO unless I've been using really bad methods.

Well, one thing that I'm doing now is relatively "easy" than the other things that I'm also doing (keyword: relatively) ...

>> BUT ...

It doesn't guarantee any profit and doesn't come without any risk ...

>> It has something to do with buying bitcoins and a semi-automated way of disposing it and compounding my investment to earn up to 20% mark-up per month on top of my investment, which I've been doing for the past few months, but to which I also found out (the hard way) that I can't at one fell swoop invest a huge sum of money in this, because otherwise, I would've invested a significant part of all my dispensible money in this ...

BUT ...

>> I spent (and lost) a considerable amount of time and money to test a lot of bitcoin sources and bitcoin selling / trading / exchange platforms to find what I'm using now and to hone my tactics and strategies ...

Then again, this involves a lot of relevant risk management experience ...

>> So, for this to be "easy" for others as it's relatively "easy" for me - We need to have the exact same fiscal and non-fiscal resources to do the exact same things at exactly the same time from exactly the same place ...

Otherwise, as I say - One guy's stupid simple is another's ridiculously impossible ...

Easy is a good sales pitch, but you'll have to put in some work to make money online. Everything worth it takes effort.

I think you need to research a bit. Learn to think outside the box a bit. Even take these WSOs and get some of the grains of truth out of each one. Then find something that works for you. Take your talent and turn it into a business. I did work hard to be lazy.

The more efforts you apply, the sweeter rewords will be.

"Easy Money" is a simple brand that is easy to be sold to common people by most internet marketers. But to make that "Easy Money" product itself is not easy.

i agreed there no free lunch in this world. the beginning is always the hardest.

"Simple" ways to make Money is quite different than "Easy" ways to make Money

- Robert Andrew

I strongly agree with you. There's no easy way to earn money. They suck liters of your blood first before giving you salary.
I personally think that it depends on luck; people who have influential backgrounds are usually the one at high posts or the CEO of some business empire. There is no easy way for less-influential to make it out easily to the rich world.
Only 2% of people are those who go from none to all, others just struggle all their lives. To me there is no secret ingredient to easy money; you've to work hard to earn it.
Also i think that it is usually the lack of direction and guidance which enlighten the right track to us. And i also agree with someone's words here about 'right time and right place', everyone's not lucky enough to find it.
I've started writing content on freelancer but it is quite hard than it seems. All these freelancers who have their videos uploaded to become a successful freelancer in months is just crap! I know it takes time to become a successful person in every field but those who say that "dad's money" doesn't matter, my friend it does! Because if there is any other way then do tell me too.
Many people kill their dreams because they earn less and have more necessities. It's no bed of roses.

Making money online is not impossible but it is also not easy. We need to invest time and money to learn and when we have sufficient knowledge, everything becomes easier

I think SOME people when they just start out have unrealistic expectations of what to expect.

Another thought is that I find this (making money online) much easier than having a job, having to wake up at a certain time, having 2 weeks vacation, etc...

Sure there is. I've been doing what I do for so long... and at such a high level... that I can pretty much do it in my sleep. It is extremely easy for me.

That doesn't mean it will be easy for you but I know a whole bunch of people in my profession just like me. The key is being willing to work through the times where it's difficult to get to the point where it's easy.


Ever heard of residual income? Whether I work this week/month/year or not my income will be approximately the same as it has been for the past many years.

easy money is like fresh air in Beijing China.

You can get it, but you need to climb to the top Lingshan Mountain for it.

once you have your system in place.. a constant flow of useful content being posted on your site, an email funnel that delivers high quality content, a squeeze page that draws in leads, high qulaity traffic and a sales page that converts..

then you can make,dare i say it, " easy money.."

-Ike Paz

PS as you can imagine, creating such a system requires work and testing

Making $$$ is not an overnight process, it requires a lot of planning, execution, and consistency. I've been running my own web development company for over 5 years now, and I'm constantly testing new marketing channels, and improving my processes so I can grow my revenue yearly.

Depends on:

Your mindset first and second how much value you provide to the marketplace.

The starting shortstop for the Chicago Cubs can easily hit a baseball 400 feet, he's in his early 20's. So if he was showing you an instructional video, it could be headlined:

"Learn how to easily crush a baseball 400 ft!"

It took decades for him to evolve his craft.

Same thing when it comes to earning a living online (Which I have done for over 5 years now)... in the beginning I worked my ass off. 80-90-100 hours week in and week out.

I learned with trial by fire.

Nothing ever came easy. It was earned. The thing is...today I could show you a way to easily land a client by this time next week (it's easy for me) or get up a new product in a niche market and easily drive sales on the first day (because it's easy for me)...

I couldn't say or do these things until I put in the work.

One last thing, try to limit the "gurus are claiming there are easy ways to make money, screw them!" talk...that only harms your mindset.

You are part of the situation if you keep buying peddled crap after more peddled crap and then blaming anyone else but yourself for lack success. (this is a generic state OP, just saying "you" in general, not necessarily YOU!)

No one ever complained about the guys selling shovels to gold diggers.

It's simple really . . . dubious marketers have learned that "easy money" is almost a universal dream and that uninformed buyers will throw caution to the wind and lay down endless amounts of cash to experience that dream for themselves.

What perpetuates the dream even though hoards of buyers are taken advantage of time after time? It's the buyers of the easy money products that continue to make this false hope profitable for these marketers. If no one gave them the time of day, online scammers would soon be out of business. But people continue to buy from them and keep on hoping for a miracle.

Steve

Yes, it's easy.

1. Find out what problems/needs people have. It's just as easy by collecting the complains from people around you.
2. Solve those problems/needs.
3. Collect the money. The more people you help, the more you make.

That's all.

Im actually building my information products in marketing around this concept, that its about learning the business and learning how to make money not reading a 30 page guide and becoming a millionaire.

Heres my take on it, there is easy money and hard money, but over time the easy money gets less and less available because it gets saturated.

Heres an example - In 2010 was when I first started IM, I made 40$ in a few days off the content locker ripped CD download method, which is already more than I made this go around with CPA since October 2016.

The next month I made 4k in a few days off a viral CPALead facebook scam I found on blackhatworld, literally copy pasted although I had HTML / CSS / PHP experience so that did give me an advantage. I also continued to make around 20k over a couple years from spam methods, which isn't alot of money but it was usually 50-100$ a day when I was working.

On the flip side I never progressed past these shady spam methods, and actually built a real business which would have taken more work.

I quit in 2013 when my methods dried up and I had to go to rehab anyways lol.

Flip to 2016 I restarted in September but I started with writing an e-book about my story in addiction and then decided to get back into IM.

I have made more money selling e-books on amazon and my website than I did with CPA spam and short term traffic methods. I think there is some easy money out there but it seems like you need a good twist or traffic method to make more than 10-20 a day.

On the flip side if you take time to learn the craft and produce real content, which is what I focus on now.

So to some this up, there will always be easy money out there, but it seems to require getting lucky and hitting a big method or social campaign, and its hard to quantify that sort of thing. You could surf forums for months and not have a good earning method.

On the flip side there are proven ways to make money long term, but alot of them take work. I knew how to build websites before i even started IM and it still takes me a lot of time to build a good site. But if you are willing to put the work in and spend your time on the right projects and not time wasters you are guaranteed to eventually succeed.

'Easy Money' is just a marketing tactic.

The human mind is programmed in a certain way and if you put out an ad that implies really hard work, long term plan ETC, most people get turned off.

People want 'instant' gratification (even if they know it's too good to be true).

Simple is a much better word but in BOTH words (simple and easy) are overused in this industry.

And that doesn't give you any clue whatsoever about human nature? As long as there are people there are ALWAYS going to be large contingent who want something for nothing.

If you don't believe that you need only look at the staggering numbers of lottery ticket players.

By that same token, there are ALWAYS going to be a contingent that see the oppourtunity to profit from the sloth of others so the "EASY button" will not be going anywhere anytime soon.

What annoys me more than anything else, is I succumb to buying some scheme or plan and no sooner have I paid up and I'm getting emails and OTO's from all and sundry.
Upsell, cross sell, Hi friend emails from the Rich Jerk or his brother.
Not always the guy who I though I was buying from.

I've made money on fiverr, but it was not that easy. However, it's easier to charge more now but fiverr take 25% and even charge you for withdrawing your money!
They are the guys making easy money. 😯
Making money online, work from home is a dream to pursue but it's fickle.

At the moment, I'm picking up the phone and selling contracts for a small business in a niche market.
It's hard but it's building slowly and hopefully I'll build a residual income worth the effort.

The good news? Well for me at least, I'm doing what I do from my sailing boat in the Caribbean. So I don't expect a vast amount of sympathy. 😐.

if you stepped the easy way to make money, make sure you will have 80% of your time wasted watching video about people made bucks after the long way, and you will keep suffering suffering.

There's been two times when I've made a decent amount of easy money. A lucky PPC campaign that took no more than 1 hour to set up and made thousands for around a year completely hands off, and buying quite a few bitcoins while they were still cheap only taking me an hour again to verify who I was with a broker, and again making thousands in paper gains.

Yes you are wrong. I don't know what Tsnyder does, but I do know what I do is easy to learn and can earn you a lot of money without the blood sweat and tears...
Why should they?

What's in it for them?

$7 for a WSO?

What we have here is more a thinking problem. You tell me why should I, or anyone else, help you make "easy money"...

Who do people "keep going on about it" - I assume you mean selling it?

Simple - because there always will be enough people who are stupid and naive enough to buy it, and psychology works.

There are actually ways to earn money from the bling that fails the majority... I've written about them here

It's the same as saying why so many people play the lottery, when there's only a 0.00000000000001% chance you will win the jackpot?

The answer? It's easy.

People want it easy, they want to lay in bed all day, while the money rolls in or buy a piece of paper with some numbers on it, then expect to win millions from it.

Or buy an IM product that promises it's all they'll ever need and hope for the best.

What most people don't tell you is that they had to work a lot of hours over the course of time with many failures along the way before they built something up to a point where the money becomes easy.

Either that or they got lucky.

Here's an "easy" way to make a million dollars in 6 months with no capital, business or inventory:


Another: Approach local restaurants and find out
1. When is their quiet day(s)
2. What customers do they cater for.
Then ask if you can provide customers on their quiet day(s), will they pay you 20%, 25%, 30% of the bill every time those customers come back on those quiet days?
If they say no, then move on.
If they say yes, and in my experience maybe half will say yes,then work with the owner to put together a special offer, free desert, special fixed price for three courses, Free TV with every meal , whatever package deal your imagination can come up with. You can also test out variations.
Then send a letter to clubs, and organisations that meet regularly and make the offer "meet here and get this special offer only on these days".
I'm not sure what the PC name for old people's homes is, but old people's homes sometimes take the residents out on a regular basis. Resident owned apartments often meet quarterly. Social clubs of various sorts, Hobby clubs meet monthly. Again, just use your imagination...

How hard is either of those two examples...?

Let me use an analogy here: making money online is a lot like an airplane taking off and flying.

First, you need the plane (business idea). But not just any plane. You need one that is air worthy and that can actually fly (tested business idea).

You'll need some fuel (capital, savings, long hours of work).

If you are smart, you'll use a ground crew (investors, mentors, coaches, etc.).

You'll need a flight plan (business goals, plans, etc.).

A usable runway would be nice (a place to launch or run your business).

Having a qualified pilot also helps (knowledge and experience in your business model and/or market).

If you have all of the above, then you'll need one more piece - one that most people, in my experience, either aren't ready for, or just don't want to face. You'll need to be aware of the resistance necessary to get the plane aloft.

As the plane starts to roll down the runway, the air resistance increases steadily. This is like the resistance we all face when launching a business. Whether it comes from our own doubts, lack of adequate capital, lack of support from those around us, or where ever, it is still there, and we have to deal with it if we are going to get anywhere.

But, here's the good part: if you have all of the above pieces in place, and if you can stick with it through all of the resistance (internal and external), you have a great chance of getting your business "off the ground.

Just remember, like in flying, the greatest resistance happens just before take-off.

So, "easy money" with an instant business? Maybe. But I wouldn't want to fly in it for any length of time.

Scott

Good post generating some decent responses, hard work and getting to the top are all dependent on your own circumstances. Your idea of hard work and 'the top' are almost certainly different from that of the next person.

I do agree that there are a lot of systems and gurus out there that can be very misleading and a lot of these should be avoided at all costs.

But if you can do something that you love doing for X amount of hours/pay a week then you will actually never have to 'work' another day in your life.

I agree, there is no such thing as easy money, but there are some things you can do to make it as easy as it can get...

if you have a sizable and responsive niche targeted email list

then you have push button easy money making abilities...

THIS IS UNDENIABLE


however,, getting that list is another story..

-Ike Paz

well my first $1 online was hard, took like 2 years.

But my next $50k was easier. I never had and easy day online. It takes hard work, list building building connections on fb, and giving value.

If you do that, you can do well, but I aint never heard a millionaire say its easy. You did not see the years of heartache and tears it took for them to get there.

The thing is that many people are actually ready to work - but being ready to spend 8 hours per day into a business doesn't mean you will become successful. Many people are still in an employee mindset: "show me what to do and I will dedicate 8 hours per day to become rich with it someday". The main criteria is creativity and a strategy behind it - no pure execution. Anyone can execute.

Of course there's easy money.

A couple months ago, while walking around town I happened to find a $20 bill just lying on the ground. I bent over, picked it up and 10 seconds later I was $20 richer. If you do the math, you'll see that I made $7,200 an hour for those 10 seconds. Based on a 40-hour work week that would translate to $288,000 per week. Not bad, right?

So don't tell me there's no easy money. During those ten seconds, I took MASSIVE ACTION (by bending over) and I CRUSHED IT (by grabbing the $20)! Now I'm ready to release my new WSO called "The $300,000 Week Formula: How to Bend Over, Pick Up Money and Put It in Your Wallet". I'm sure it'll be a big seller!

P.S. If I can bend over and pick up a $20 bill, ANYONE can do it!

As they say ' choose a job you love,and you will never have to work a day in your life'. The question is that how much you're willing to exhaust yourself to squeeze money out of your startup? If you have a passion and love for what you're doing you won't care about the money because it's a by-product of your hard work. If you're a freelancer, you don't start hitting home runs right after signing up on the site. It requires perseverance and a lot of grunt work to earn that reputation in the community so that people end up trusting you with high paying projects. MONEY one way or another always grinds your bones before it become yours. It only becomes easy if you love what you're doing.Period.

The concept of easy money is the lack of work, or sweat equity needed to actually produce an income. Coming from a Blue Collar home, I work 12 to 14 hour days some days, wake up at 5, go to bed at midnight and do it all again. I'm doing 35K this month currently (any clients I get will make that number bigger) and I've left my house for work related things twice.

I went and played WOW with friends and did three business call while we raided the mines. I caught a movie with my mother, then immediately called two people while we walked across the street to the restaurant, and I talked with them for 20 minutes combined and got two more clients.

Now, I've done tons of work, made videos, edited pages, wrote copy, and talked with lots of people about their business and my service. I created tons of information. Worked with two coaches and a mastermind and studied 3 programs that I bought last month.

My father on his best month of work 10 to 11 hour days of manual labor, with heavy machines, coming home sweated through his clothes, was about 6K. He just made all the piping that runs about everything in the world, and there were only two people in the factory that he worked that could do his job.

No I don't consider what I do easy money. I bring a ton of value to businesses, help them grow, and they make far more than what they pay me. But I get to do it from anywhere that there's wifi. My fiancee wanted to go and hang out in a hotel at a Casino cause our apartment was feeling boring to her, so we went and I booked 2 clients through phone calls. I generated 22 leads for a real estate office. I generated a 6K sale for a elder service company. I made 3,200 dollars more a month while we were there (she spent that money and not on gambling, we're the proud owners of a new massage chair... but that's another story).

My life is incredibly easier than it was for my dad and the money I make comes to me easier and with less hassle. I work with who I want to work with (and that wasn't always the case, I put up with some shit my first month so I could pay my bills). But, now, it's like, oh, no we don't match at all, sorry to take up your time, not worth the hassle.