RE: Seems like everyone wants to get rich on Steem

I have been making a full-time income from the Internet since 2008. During that time, I've had numerous friends and family members ask me to show them how to do it.

I do a whole lot of different things to earn my living online such as ghost write articles and eBooks, create tutorial video courses and other digital products, blogging, website creation and flipping, and building email lists of highly targeted subscribers so I can promote affiliate products to them. I've done quite well for myself over the past 8-9 years.

However, I have yet to have anyone that I have tried to teach achieve my level of success. Is it because I am a bad teacher? Absolutely not. If that were the case, my tutorial courses would not be so popular and nobody would hire me to ghost write their eBooks for them.

The problem is that because my family members see that I work from home and don't appear to be working a lot (which is not true), they assume that what I do is very easy. The fact is, nothing could be further from the truth.

It took me almost 3 years of putting in 12-14 hour days on the computer before I was able to make enough money to support myself completely. Yet, the people who ask me to teach them don't want to hear that. I've even had perfect strangers approach me on Facebook and some other marketing forums and ask me if I can show them how to make $600 in the next 7 days so they can pay their rent.

Well, the answer to that question is absolutely NOT! The real shame is that once people see exactly just how much hard work is involved in running an online business, they up and quit and then comes the "this doesn't work."

Well, obviously it does work, since I have been doing it for almost 10 years. I often feel like coming right out and telling them "It's not the business model that doesn't work, it's YOU that doesn't work!"