Okay, that’s it, I quit! No more chasing pipe dreams. I’m done tilting with windmills. No more going on the prowl for that elusive and probably mythical beast, fast, free, and easy money from the Internet. To be truthful, I gave up that search over a year and a half ago, but when you see a beautifully crafted sales page you just have to be strong and know what is not mentioned, no matter how wonderfully awesome the income producing whatnot is, you still need to promote it.
There is money to be made on-line, don’t get me wrong, it’s just not going to fall in your lap. You will never work so hard as you do when trying to get something for nothing. You have to give to get, that’s how the world works.
Four young boys, about twelve years old, were all hanging around one Friday afternoon in the early 1970′s wishing they had some bikes to ride. “Hey,” One piped up, “Kmart’s having a sale on motor-cross bikes, they’re only twenty bucks.”
The boys put there heads together and came up with a Little Rascal’s type plan, trick their parents into buying them bikes. One boy foresaw a possible butt whooping if the plan went wrong, which their plans often did. He wanted no part of it and walked away amid taunting catcalls, “Wuss” was the only printable one.
Sunday evening came and the three schemers, bikeless, were at the park, exhausted from the weekends efforts to get a free bike, laughing that they didn’t get their butts whooped like the ‘wuss’ thought. Just then their other friend roars up on his shiny, brand spanking new cherry red motor-cross bike.
“How did you get that?” They all screamed at once, “You said our plan was lame.”
“It was, where are your bikes?
Well, I was walking home Friday, Ol’ Man Williams and his pals were playing cards on his front porch like they do every Friday and he yells, “You worthless young punk, go get a job.” “Give me one, you old fart.” I yelled back ’cause I was mad at you guys and then I thought, “Great, there’s my whipping.”
“Ol’ man Williams got this real mean look on his face and I knew he was going to tell my Dad what I said, ‘Be here at eight tomorrow morning and I’ll give you a job. Or at 8:30 I’ll tell your Pa what you just said.’ I got there at eight and he shows me this lawn mower, ‘Hey, where’s the motor?’ ‘You’re the motor, get to work.” I was almost finished when his friends show up and say I forgot to do some things and it takes another hour to make them happy.”
“I finally get done, put the mower away, and Ol’ Man Williams gives me five bucks and says, ‘Good job , kid, come back next week and you can use my other mower, it has a motor, ha ha.’ ‘You like lawn mowers with motors , kid? Go mow my lawn.’ ‘Mine too.” ‘Yeah.’ ‘Ha ha.’
I mowed all five lawns yesterday and today and made twenty-five dollars. Then Ol’…. I mean Mr. Williams said he’d take me to Kmart if my Dad said it was okay.”
The other boys were shocked, Mr. Williams had been yelling at all of them for months to get a job, he was only looking for someone to stand up to him, and to do his yard work.
“You know, guys, it took me all day yesterday and today to mow those lawns. I’m tired but they say I gotta do it every week now and they’re going to tell their friends so I have to mow more lawns. Want to help?”
The boys came up with a better plan and soon you could see them racing their motor-cross bikes down through their well manicured neighborhood.
All four boys worked pretty hard that weekend, the one that got results did it by accident, at first because he was afraid not to work. Then by the end of the weekend he saw how his hard work paid off, his friends were even more tired than he was and had nothing to show for it.
About a year and a half ago I started on a mission to find a real ”fast, free, and easy shortcut to Internet millions” like the ones that show up in your Spam folder, but never quite pans out.
Mission Failed, crashed and burned.
That product may exist, somewhere. All I can say is that since I started paying for advertising and concentrating on what I can do, not what some software can do for me, maybe do for me, the money has started coming in.
Mike
