Over the past few months, as I continued to earn money online, I’ve also been intent in getting family members into the fray. I think that as a full-time online earner, it was my duty to shower my parents and brothers some extra cash by managing their websites. Not to say that I’ve become a slave to them, I only go through the trouble of optimizing, design, codes, buying domains, and sharing my hosting - you know, the geek stuff.
Needless to say, it wasn’t easy to get my family into blogging. Having been used to the traditional ways of earning, they and the people I’ve tried to open this opportunity with could not anywhere grasp the idea that one can earn from signing up to ad serving sites (such as Adsense), or from getting clicks, or from writing reviews, or from being an affiliate. I mean, who wouldn’t question that, right?! Like many skeptics, my family had that “fact or fiction” question, which, as they know now, is just an eye-roller.
Most of us probably get into conversations like this, but where we already know the answer as FACT, I think we should focus more into the HOW. After all, people who ask such questions are often the ones in the dark about the industry. I think it is important to respond to queries modestly, and explain that the internet is only a good way to make money for those who work hard. And success certainly doesn’t come overnight.
Coz really, the promise of the internet is so huge that people can get lost in their own dreams of greatness, or their fuzzy-wuzzy feelings of fame, or their visions of mountainous cash.
That’s when it becomes FICTION.
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