Rants

Congratulations to myself! It's been 5 months exactly on my online enterprise mission

I wanted to share some of my insights.
First of all hat off to you, everybody here for doing what you do, whatever you were doing, especially to newbies who started with zero zero experience. It's a hell of a job even if you didn't make a dime yet.
Let me tell you this, whoever tells you, it's easy way to make money, run away from that person. Must be crazy or lying.
Let me tell you how I started.
I wanted to a) improve my financial situation b) go public with several ideas that I had long ago, including an e-book I wrote before c) eventually quit the job.
I started happily - click here, click there, set 5 sites in 2 days. Wordpress and other nitty gritty was a peace of cake, since I have experience (making websites part time too if somebody asks). Then I hired an editor (english is not my first language), added some affiliate content. And I thought, that's it! I'm ready to making millions. (Well, actually I had a little bit less money in mind :p )
Then I started to realize that I'll need to fill up half of the internet with content if I am to make any money for free. I poured some money to test paid traffic too. All in all, the results I got were way less then I've expected.
Seems that I've made some 30$ bucks so far. :rolleyes:

Anyway, what I realized is that Internet marketing is way more complicated than I thought. As you can see, my start up was much easier for me than it is for complete newbie. In spite of how easy it is for me, some things are time consuming. I spent hours in setting opt-in forms the way I wanted, I spent hours in deciding weather to use background image or just color.
Then I spent days in reading about traffic. Comparing different approaches (!!) Then I realized that content I have on my site should be (or could be) organized in a different way if to really make the most out of it. Than I came to the conclusion to better drop initial idea completely for the time being, in order to make money quicker with related affiliate products.
See, learning while taking action means that you need to adjust fast. Time is running, because I'm very tired, from working too much. I need some results. Sometimes I feel like a lunatic. There is none around with whom I can share all of my virtual revelations. People n my RL are mostly bored with this topics. Who would blame them.
I'm not giving up, of course. But still, this is all so freaking hard.