Chapter 25. Do People Really Make Millions Online?

Probably one of the biggest misconceptions about successful people on the Web is that they are all spammers or scammers who make their money from selling porn, advertising bad info-products, or sending spam e-mail messages. Sure, there's a large contingent of those types of people who do profit by the millions by using those tactics, and yes, they do make a lot of money. However, what most people don't realize is that there's a completely different set of Web millionaires who do it legitimately operating as regular businesses or individuals. This book will only focus on those people: The real business people who are no different from the attorney or plumber in your neighborhood who work tirelessly and face the same challenges as every business does. The exception being that they do it online.

One of the biggest lures of making money online is that anyone can do it, without having to have a million-dollar marketing budget or team of employees. Yes, you, who has the full-time job. You can begin to build a Web empire in your spare time after you put the kids to bed and before your head hits the pillow each night. Yes, you, the small-business owner who is struggling to make ends meet and realizes that if you could move some or all of your business onto the Web you'd lower costs and profit more.

Believe that it's entirely possible for you to do it, if you're willing to put in the effort to go out there to try and learn, with a high emphasis ...

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