How hard are you willing to work?

The question I always get when people are looking to start a website based business is, "How much money can I make?"

To which I always replay "How hard are you willing to work?"

Hard work is really the answer to all of your questions when it comes to making money with websites.

With our own experiences running our affiliate program we found that people all want to make money, but none are willing to do what it takes.

Our affiliate program has huge payouts and the potential to earn $100,000 or even $200,000 a year in extra income and that is no joke.

So we would get calls, regularly asking "how fast they can make money, I need it by the end of the week" in most cases.

I would tell them, I can send you money as soon as you get a signup, so sure, you can make money by the end of the week if you go out and find me some customers.

But what I get instead of "Great, I am ready to get started" I get, "well how hard do I have to work?"

Here is an actual true story of one man that calls me and say, I am willing to do anything. I am getting kicked out of my apartment this week, my kids can't eat and I have no money. I need to do something fast and get paid fast.

OK, I said, if you are serious I will make you a deal. We will offer a free website design to each person you can sign up, $300 value as long as the person pays 1 year of hosting in advance. So for $240 they get a $540 value and i will pay you $150 of the $240.

Just go out, approach some business owners and if you can get even 1 person, I will overnight you the commission of $150. And of course if you get 5 people $750. That is 60% of our gross and I am adding a free website design on top of that so you can easily get sales.

If you hustle, you can get 10 sales and make $1500.00 by the end of the week and I will overnight the check to you or even Western Union you the cash.

The guy starts with, well, can I do it from my computer? I don't really want to go out and talk to people. That is hard work. I don't have gas for my car, I don't really have the time.....

I said: If you need the money, you will do it.

He says: Well, I have to think about it and let you know.

Now, lets see, he has no money, is being evicted and his kids will be homeless by the weekend and I offer him a job and he says that is more work than I want to do.

And I guess we know why he is in the situation he is in. While I don't feel sorry for him, I do feel bad for his kids.

When it comes to any business you get back what you put in.

If you are lazy, you might get nothing but if you work hard you should get quite a bit back out.

People expect websites to be easy and they are not.

While the building of the website is the easy part, getting traffic and managing any business is hard work.

You want to compete with walmart and sell widgets, that is not going to be a simple task.

On the Internet, you have to compete with every single person out there in your field and many of them are very hard workers.

I have seen forms where people have posted thousands of posts in the forum in just a few months. then I see websites that don't even have 2000 words on them.

That person in the forum has done more work than the average business owner and people are reading the posts and comments they have written. While the business owner keeps call me asking why they don;t have any website traffic.

And no matter how many articles I write, no matter how many times I tell them to add more content, they sit back look at a website with less than 100 words on it and complain, how they are not making money.

I have watched bloggers become millionaires and millionaires go broke trying to run websites.

and it all comes don to the same fact, the one that works harder always make more money!

There is no shortcut to success. There is no easy button but there is a way to make money, but nobody wants to hear about it, because it is HARD WORK!

I wish I had a dollar for every hour that people spent online looking for an easy way to make money.

People will spend days searching for an easy way to make money such as the case I noted above. When a job presents itself they look for something even easier.

I don't know what happened to America and why people are so lazy and unmotivated, but they are as a whole.

For those of us that are motivated, do work hard and are willing to do what it takes there are huge rewards.

As for Me Personally

Being a millionaire is nice, but it does not come without considerable effort. I love my classic cars and nice home and all the luxuries I enjoy daily but I have worked my ass off to get them.

People look at me and think, that was easy, "I could have done that", they think to themselves. But they don't see the years of 18 hour days, the millions of dollars I spent and the hard work I put in.

I look at them and ask, "if you could, why haven't you?"

They only see a nice guy that does not appear to work very hard at least in their eyes.

Don't ever think that people got what they have by sitting around and collecting free money. Making money is hard and people that have money usually worked very hard to get it.

When I suggested that the nearly homeless person could go out and talk to business owners and make money I was talking from experience. Because that is how I started this business in the first place, pounding the pavement except in my case, I was not being paid and I still had to provide a product to boot.

So when I offer someone an opportunity and they pass it up, I don't feel bad I don't care, because if you really were willing to work hard you would have all of the things you want.

Here I am with more success than most people will ever have and I still work 18 hour days, write articles, create new programs and manage my network. When you are a hard worker it is just a lifestyle choice. Just like being lazy is another lifestyle choice.

If you want to be successful, stop looking for the easy solution and start working hard to get where you want to be. The money is out there, you just have to work for it.