Making Money is Hard Work!

Last week we talked about making realistic goals for making money. Once again I want to stress that if you want to make a lot of money very fast without spending any this advice will not help you! Making money is hard work. Think of it like making minimum wage at your first job. You had to make the minimum for a while before you could make more. Walk before you run, well maybe crawl before you can walk.

There are many sites out there that offer the end-all be-all success in a box program. Well, selling that information for $97 or $149 or even more did make those people rich. They got rich from working hard and finding out what people want. People want to get rich quick even though everyone knows that the "results may vary" statement should read "results are not typical, the typical result is to quit well before you ever make a dime!"

Alright, back to step one and setting up goals. So, you have set your realistic goal and broken it down into how much you need to make a day for that goal to be made. Keep this in mind, the first month you will more than likely not make any money at all. So, do not get discouraged remember you are trying to build a long term wealth building program even if your goal is to make an extra $25 a week. $25 a week equals $1300 a year. That does not seem like much but that is a realistic goal!

The next important thing to know is that no matter what, the best way to make money with adsense is to blog. Many of the $97 programs out there are nothing more than a list of topics for you to blog about. What these people do not tell you is that unless you are passionate about what you are blogging about you are likely to never make a dime! Blogging is about passion. It does not matter what you blog about as long as you are passionate. Somewhere out there someone is buying adwords about what you are blogging about!

I guess we should back up just a bit and explain adwords and adsense. Adwords is a Google advertising system where people bid on keywords so that when the keyword is used their ad will show up. Adsense is a Google advertising system where they place ads on your site relative to the keywords you use on your blog or website. The easiest way to understand would be to go to Google and read about it there.

O.K. Back to step two. You don't need to be worrying with adsense just yet anyway! The first part of step two is figuring out what you are passionate about. So, until tomorrow, think about all the things that you are passionate about and write them down. Make a huge list, make a small list, just make a list. After you have a list, type the idea into Google or another search engine. See how many pages come up. Tomorrow we will discuss the results.