Money Making Opportunities: Misfit or Just Misunderstood?

Eh, in my experience there's only a negative image until you tell your friends that you're crushing it online.

Then you loosely explain how you're doing it - they look wide eyed and admit not really understanding - then you either explain more or shrug it off smiling and asserting how simple it really is.

That's exactly how it was for me...depending on which of my friends I was talking to lol

The fear, anger and confusion people have of the industry largely stems from huge misunderstandings of how sitting at your computer equates to receiving money from stuff done on the computer.

That may seem simplistic but those of us who spend 8 - 12+ hours daily to earn our keep know and understand the work involved to get things rolling. There is no problem because we understand our process, though, yes, there is work involved.

I appreciate that you've also brought up the low barrier to entry aspect of the industry.

That alone by definition brings in the lazies and the low effort opportunity seekers who then exponentially increase the overall failure rate of the industry thereby increasing the misunderstanding of what it really takes to make it.

So as I see it there's really no misfit here, just grand and colossal misunderstanding.

Ah, probably people who market MMO's and those who sell products and software to people in the MMO market. Even if you don't, outsiders will lump you in with them (even if you're an email marketer). Image affects credibility - which translates into sales (or no sales).

A cooling summer mist, a heavy fall storm, even the cold almost snow of the winter...it all rolls off a duck's back.

I treat criticism and praise exactly the same. A thank you.

Then I quack.

gjabiz