The Truth About Working Online

Internet jobs certainly exist and gone are the days when an online career simply meant getting paid to answer emails, stuffing envelopes and things of that nature that most of us wisely ignored.
Rather than discussing the ways that you can legitimately earn money online - and there are plenty of good Internet resources that already do that - I think it would be more valuable to discuss the realities of working online based on what I've seen and learned during my 2 years of experience working on the Internet.
Here are my tips for working online:
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Yes, I just mentioned it above but it's worth mentioning again.
If it was that easy to make money working online, everyone would be doing it.
Working online is an increasingly competitive option.
You can certainly have an online career selling physical or Internet-based products but your best bet is to find a niche and fill it.


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In order to sell products, you obviously need customers.
Keywords are becoming more expensive to bid on and it is becoming more difficult to be profitable in certain markets.
That's because they know many of the tricks of the trade such as getting many people to promote their products for them and having these people cover all the costs of finding paying customers.


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If you expect that you can quit a good paying job on Friday and start earning a similar amount of money working online the following Monday, you will be sadly disappointed.
Earning money on the Internet is usually the same way these days: you win the race by being slow but steady.

If you are going to pursue an online career, go into it with both eyes open.


Working online can certainly be a lucrative option but try to do as much research as possible before diving into the pool headfirst and finding out too late that there is no water.
Today's fad might be forgotten tomorrow.