Personal Stress Relief from Economic, Environmental Issues

Written on November 12, 2009 – 8:41 pm | by Diane |

Go straight to survey
As I sit and contemplate my next post I wonder how many people are doing the same thing I am. I have been feverishly manning my blog for months, trying to come up with posts that will interest people, trying to find the best way to monetize my blog. Day after day I’m trying to keep up with commenting and responding and following and joining! I don’t mind any of this although it’s not all that easy to keep up when you’re working a full time job as well. I find that by the time I get home, settle in and spend some time with my husband there is little time left in the day. The answer, work into the next day!! With laptop on my lap I am generally poised on the couch until 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning, as I click away. The only break I take is when the computer apparently overloads and locks up and I have to restart it.
My point in all this is I often wonder how many people are actually making an income online that truly supports working at home. In all honesty, my goal is a measly $500 a week. In reality and in comparison to the claims online, this is very little to ask. I find myself surfing through blog after blog where there are posts on how to make money online. When visiting the users’ web pages on Twitter, I find that ninety-nine point nine percent are sales pages or pitches with everyone claiming to generate mass amounts of income.
I have been using the internet almost since its inception. I have searched and researched every online scam that is out there and I admit that I have even fallen victim to a few. The dream of having financial freedom is just so enticing that it’s worth some risks, right? I learned the hard way that you can’t always believe what you read and that there are way too many websites that are mass produced with different people promoting them. A big selling point for me was always the testimonials. Call me naive, but I thought for sure that these people were making tons of money. Then it dawned on me that very infrequently did I actually come across dollar amounts in the testimonials. In fact I even went as far, a couple of times, to search for these people by name and state. Their existence is still questionable. In conjunction with that I have become pretty adept at manipulating graphics and I’ve come to realize that any screenshot of a check or of a list of checks could be so easily fabricated that it’s gotten to the point that I pay them no mind.
All of this leads me to one conclusion. Most of the people promoting these websites and blogs are just like me; striving to find a better way to actually make an income. More than likely, I’m willing to bet that most of them have actually made such a minimal amount that they will eventually walk away and move on to another misadventure. Of course, as anything else, I can’t be sure of this. Maybe, just maybe, I’m going down all the wrong paths.
Never-the-less, I find myself getting frustrated. Not in the fact that I spend an exorbitant amount of hours trying to generate an income, but in the fact that I don’t know if what I’m doing will actually produce one. There are so many MLM’s and then you read you can only make money with a “niche” blog, or selling an “Ebook” or selling “something.” Too much info, so little time.
My husband and I are looking to downsize, A LOT, and if knew that I could meet my eventual goal of $500 a week then I could have unsurpassed enthusiasm. For this reason, I’ve created a survey.
Considering that I am more than likely not the only one having these thoughts, I think the survey will benefit many if it is completed honestly. It is anonymous; no names attached, but will give US, the striving entrepreneurs something to gauge our efforts on. Hopefully, a boost of encouragement, hopefully a “light at the end of the tunnel.”
All of you money making entrepreneurs, please respond to my survey and give us a gleam of hope!

PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

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