A Friendly and a very Honest Advice. This will make you think if you never thought of it before!

There is no perfect answer Jack.

Anyone who teaches in the MMO market does so for all sorts of reasons. While there are business-in-box type of offers out there and there are some that do work, I personally am not a big fan of them. Why? Because very seldom do they TEACH you the skill sets you need to learn to become a success on your own.

You're also making the logical fallacy that just because the ebooks you purchased didn't pan out, doesn't mean that it holds true for the rest of them. It also begs the question on what types of ebooks did you buy and what kind of implementation follow-through you had on them.

I only purchase products and services that fit into my business strategy plan, something that many online entrepreneurs lack. I also never make a purchase in a vaccuum. I research the company / author / organization.......I Google them. I find out what others are saying about them. I contact them with questions. And I check and see if they have a guarantee or refund policy.

If I see any red flags, I simply don't make the purchase. Invariably, there's someone else offering something similiar or I can go to Odesk, Elance, etc. and have someone provide it or build it for me.

RoD

There are multiple answers to this question. Here's a couple:

1. Ego. Don't under-estimate the fact that all decisions are not monetary.

2. Because they feel someone else is close to releasing something similar. I've released "secrets" because I've read posts in forums getting close to what I was doing. So if someone was going to do it, I felt it may as well be me.

I think you should put a disclaimer with the 'How' books also. Many times buying these leads to a shortened version of the Ebook they are trying to sell.

That's the problem.

Nobody who is actually making money online is just making money online.

They are doing something other people pay them to do online.

That's because of where you're looking. This forum is full of people trying to make money online.

If you are selling something about how to make money online, this is where you should be selling it.

It's just like if you went to a used car lot, and looked around. You'd find that pretty much the only people making any money are the ones selling used cars. Mostly, that's the salespeople, but every so often a customer will come in and sell his own car or trade it in on a new one.

This isn't because selling used cars is the best way to make money, but because used car lots are full of people who want to buy used cars. Which is because that's where people are selling them. It's circular.

But there are probably a lot of people out there saying "There's no money in new cars. Everyone's buying used ones."

Why wouldn't they?

The fundamental misconception that gives rise to this question comes from a few basic failures of imagination. One of those is the idea that money is like beans - somewhere, there is a big bucket with all the money in it, and every time you take some there is less in there for everyone else. Sooner or later, you run out of beans!

But money is a concept. Most of it is manufactured out of thin air. When I borrow money from the bank, they charge me interest for having money that belongs to them. That money comes out of nothing. Out of nowhere. No actual service has been performed, no work has been done. The money exists because they say it exists, and it belongs to them because they said so.

Which is where the flaw lies in the next failure:

Not for you. Not yet.

But there's an old saying: "Turning a dollar into ten dollars is work. Turning a million into ten million is inevitable."

It's still ten times as much money. It might seem shocking and impossible to you that someone could multiply their money by ten quickly and easily without much work, but once you're working with large amounts of money, it happens all the time.

I said earlier in a thread that I make investments in my business which return five times what I put into them. My business is not terribly profitable, and I do still struggle to get through from month to month... but the struggle is entirely in cash terms. I don't wake up in the morning and work myself into exhaustion. My days are pretty much full of me sitting around thinking about what I'm going to do next.

And they keep getting easier, because while I don't normally make more than a few hundred a month... I still have enough left over to invest, and that investment pulls in another few hundred next month. Most of what I worry about is things like how and when I can afford to make a particular investment, because I need an extra $80.

It's not that I don't have $80, but that I'd sort of rather spend it on groceries than a new tripod for my camera. And even if I did have that extra $80, I've probably got a better investment available than a tripod. My current tripod works okay. Chances are I should put that $80 somewhere else, like in advertising.

The hard part... the part where it's not "easy money"... is that I would be happier if I could spend that money on a copy of Skyrim instead of running an ad somewhere.

Trouble is, Skyrim won't make me $300, and that ad will. So the "hard" part is all in my head: I have to not buy Skyrim just yet because it's a bad use of my money, which means... I have to keep playing the video games I've already got, instead.

How terrible.

But wouldn't you call writing fifteen lines of text "easy money" regardless? It's not hard. What's hard is building the infrastructure where those fifteen lines of text can make you money at all. Once it's built, the hard part is over.

Tomorrow, I'm going to spend about $20 on some very specific and very targeted advertising. Over the course of the year, that $20 will turn into several thousand. I conservatively expect to make four hundred times my investment. But it will take nine months to get the whole thing. In the early stages, I'll make one or two hundred times my investment - just a couple hundred a month. In the later stages, I expect to make a thousand times that investment.

It will also take about 500 hours of work, but that's like having a part time job until August and then taking the rest of the year off. I can live with that. Except I won't be taking the rest of the year off; I'll just be working on other things.

Those other things stand a solid chance of making me seven figures before the end of the year. And, yes, they stand a solid chance of blowing up in my face and barely making me a damn thing. That's happened, too.

Which is why people pay me to tell them what happened when I did stuff. I spend three months and a thousand bucks doing something that blows up in my face, and then I turn around and sell the details to a hundred people for $60. I made my 500% ROI on the thousand bucks, and the people who bought it didn't have to spend three months or a thousand bucks learning it themselves. They only spent $60 and an afternoon of reading.

Find out what people want and give it to them.

All else is commentary.

You can connect the dots on this, right?

It's almost like if you asked me what time it is, and I said "why should I give you any of my time?!"

If I teach you how to make thousands of dollars, you're not taking away any of my money. I'm just giving you something that you would like. It costs me little and profits you much. Why wouldn't I do that?

That's the social justification (it's a mitzvah). The economic justification is found above.

There are hundreds of thousands of people dreaming of making money. They are never going to make money but they are going to keep dreaming. Offer to tell them how to make money and they won't be interested. Offer to sell them something so they can keep on dreaming and they'll happiliy buy it off you.

Who wants to hear the truth?

Put in the same amount of work that you would do in college. Spend time reading and learning. Experiment, test, try to work things out for yourself. Do this for 3 years and, if you're successful, you'll earn as much as an entry-level proffessional in most fields.

Or the dream?

Buy this ebook for $47 and you'll be earning more than those mugs who spend tens of thousands of dollars on college fees just to become doctors, lawyers, accountants, bankers - jobs that don't even earn passive income!