Is There Actually Any Money Online?

You may have noticed that personal posts here on retired Pay World have been a bit sparse, although I see from visitor statistics that readership is actually improving with my almost 100% diet of guest posts.

One of the reasons posts are a bit scarce here is that I have finally decided to get serious about the affiliate marketing game.  For those who aren’t familiar this means commissioned dales or lead generation from one or more sites that you own/control.  I love/hate how a whole language of words used in new ways has grown up around the Web … everyone wants to sound different and no one wants to admit they are in sales.

I’ve been seriously considering moving into a program (as in for a monthly fee) source that really gets you on track and keeps you there.  Everything they do is geared toward one goal, finding what people are looking for (with their credit card in hand) and connection the buyer with a seller offering what they need.  For that, you earn a sales commission and if people want to call that affiliate marketing, far be it from me to argue, as long as the check clears.

You can take a look at the outfit II am considering here … don;’t worry that is not an affiliate (commissioned) link and I do not have any business relationship with these guys … at least as yet.

But a piece of sales copy they floated recently caught my eye as few others have:

…Let’s just take a look at how you can increase your earning potential through educating yourself:

Profession
Tuition Cost
Yearly Earning Potential
Time

Brain Surgeon
$80,000 $100,000
$200,000
8+ Years

Business Degree
$20,000 – $80,000
$40,000
5 Years

Internet Marketing
$29.99* / Month
$360,000+
1 Year

If you think you are reading this wrong, you are not. With Internet marketing you have the ability to connect with the worlds largest marketplace…

OK, so you want to argue that a brain surgeon earns more than $200,000 a year?  Well maybe. but few net more than $200K.  In recent years I think a lot of business graduates got starting salaries higher than $40,000 as well, but then many of them were with Morgan Stanley and other stock and mortgage idiots who are now either out of business or begging at the public trough.

Online business has never been better and it is growing in the face of contraction in the conventional world.  Why wouldn’t it?  You want to peddle stocks?  instead of expensive shiny offices you put up a web site and the net effect to your bottom line is the same and it’s even better for the customer … he or she can buy and sell in their jammies.

I don’t care if you are already retired, ready to retire soon or wishing you could find a way to retire, someday, you better start studying because the world is changing and the change is profitable.