Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee
That ain't working that’s the way you do it
Get your money for nothing; get your chicks for free
So wrote Mark Knopfler way back in the last Century (1985 to be precise). There have been many interpretations of the song Money For Nothing but for my money at least I reckon Mark was a latter day Nostradamus no less.
The lyrics foretell of a very 21st Century phenomenon. Not unlike the days of the great Gold Rushes, the 21st Century bears witness to the mass pursuit of riches in return for, well to be honest, if not quite nothing then certainly not a lot.
Let's examine a specific chimp at random - billed as make money doing nothing this gem pretty much encapsulates the whole dinero4zero zeitgeist that infests much of today's Internet.
Here we see an individual engaged in hot pursuit of money for precious little by hoping to draw in other individuals on a similar quest to locate the secret to making money for nothing. It's a sort of Moebius pyramid scheme where all the participants endlessly chase each other in a huge loop with no hope of ever actually getting anywhere, or indeed of making any actual money.
This particular site is especially enjoyable for the quality of the writing. For example "...advertisers pays to bux.to to serve adverts to You. Off course..." and my personal favourite "Earn money from home: as proffesional rewriter". Rewriting the word "professional" is simply inspired. One has to guess of course (or off course even) that this is the work of a rather dyslexic Article Spinner.
But even so, failing to run it through a spell checker or at the very least check it looks like English rather than the result of a game of scrabble played through a haze of Class A narcotics? That really is shooting for money for absolutely nothing. And inevitably and justly doomed to failure.
The 21st Century may have ushered in all manner of new and exotic stuff, but short of paying Idiot Tax (or playing the lottery as some call it) you still can't get money for nothing. It's some kind of socio-economic twist on the Laws of Thermo Dynamics. Don't ask why; it just is. If you want to acquire money then you need to provide stuff of value to others. And YetAnotherMediocreMeTooBlogAboutMakingMoney doesn't really tick the value box.
As a slight diversion from making money for nothing, how about spending money on nothing, or even Sarah Palin glasses? As you can see from the link, I'm not making this up; this guy (or gal, this is the web, who can tell) is evidently turning a decent dollar selling Kawasaki 704 spectacles. And good luck to him/her - they've uncovered and exploited a potentially lucrative niche that provides something quite clearly of value to, how shall I put this, a certain type of woman.
Because it would seem that where until only recently it was de-rigueur for the aspiring woman about town to mimic the lively, animated features of a stroke victim using injections of the nerve agent Botox, now it seems the Pitbull-with-lipstick-look is where it's at.
Putting aside the worrying observation that a pig with lipstick is still a pig, it seems that many women have adopted Sarah Palin as a fashion icon and role model. I guess some might also continue with the Botox and aim for the "Pitbull chewing a wasp" look.
I would ask rhetorically, whatever next? Unfortunately I fear the question might be answered all too seriously as "the rod that Hillary Clinton has wedged up her ass - only $324.99 on eBay".
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How to Make a Million Dollars (Thirty Cents at a Time)
Anytime new stuff appears it's only a matter of time before folk get to thinking "Hmm, I wonder how I can make money with that?" and the internet has not turned out to be a shining, virtuous exception to the rule.
What tends to initially catch people's attention of course are the yarns of epic wealth that the media likes to breathlessly spin about the few fortunate entrepreneurs who cooked up some whizzy new idea, razzle-dazzled an awestruck world and walked away two weeks later with loot so far beyond avarice their first problem was having it shipped to a medium sized moon orbiting Jupiter simply for storage space.
So where do you suppose most folk then go hunting for further information about this latter day Klondike? You guessed it - online, where even more lurid rumours abound and practically every search engine query turns up a whole new set of wise and friendly experts only too willing to assist you in your quest, in return for a modest consideration of course.
In this online El Dorado no serpent escapes the relentless trade in oil futures. Here our intrepid adventurer learns of unbelievable (yes, really really unbelievable) sums of money simply ready for the taking; little effort and no previous experience required, apparently.
Of course, it's not so much "too good to be true" (which it is) as "too far-fetched to be plausible". And when the cold shower of reality inevitably drenches our plucky online hero, soothing badly burned fingers is scant consolation for a harvest of shattered hopes and bitter disillusionment.
So how can you make money online? Is it even possible, or is it all just hype and bullshit with the occasional lucky sod promoted like last week's lottery winner purely to encourage all the other suckers?
Well actually you can. I do for instance and although it's not especially difficult it does nevertheless require that you stump up a certain amount of thought, effort and determination of your own.
It's a matter of mindset. Back in the days of the good old gold rush many people did very well indeed, but they weren’t usually the fools digging for gold. The gold diggers for the most part lost their money, a good chunk of their lives and much of whatever else they had before they set off in search of that one lucky strike that would mean they might spend the rest of their days sitting around doing sweet FA.
Those who did well on the other hand were mostly looking to make a buck here, a buck there selling mining paraphernalia, secret maps, expedition supplies, beer, liquor, sex and no doubt towards the end marriage guidance and debt counselling. And when the whole fuss died down they carried on working, 'cos they were persistent buggers, figuring out how to scale up from a buck here to two bucks there as the gold diggers moved on to seek their instant fortunes from the next Big Thing.
Now I don't know how to create the next eBay or Digg or whatever else attracts popular attention any more than I know how to write down the winning numbers for next week's lottery. But I do know that if I can figure out how to go from zero to one dollar a day online, then I can just as simply work out how to turn one dollar into two and after that two into four and so on.
But it's not worth it, the online gold diggers in unison retort. All that effort for what, five bucks a day? Yes, but in the few months it typically takes to scale the dizzy financial cliff that is five dollars a day (which incidentally is $150 per month or just over $1,800 per annum - a useful sum to many) you will have learned lessons that will lead to a lifetime of relentless and relatively easy accumulation of real, countable, spendable money.
Making a million dollars thirty cents at a time is more straightforward than many folk appreciate. The rate at which other people will in effect throw thirty (or twenty or fifty, the actual amount isn't really important) cents at you online is one part of the equation. Another is the fact that once this flow of funds gets started it just keeps going pretty much by itself. It might take significant effort to get the darn thing rolling to begin with but it's close to effortless once you have momentum, at which point you will find yourself delicately perched on the horns of most agreeable dilemma.
You can either leave it to get on churning out the same amount day in day out while you spend more time with your golf clubs, or you can get beavering to divert another stream your way (yes I know that's not what beavers do, I just want some beaver/stream imagery without the dam clogging things up so to speak - I don't think this explanation is helping...).
So how in fact do you get off zero to any amount of money at all in the first place? Well, many are the ways and one in particular is ideally suited to the overly opinionated novice with far too much to say for him or herself. But this post has rambled on long enough already, so check back here some other time and I shall spell it out in detail for those to whom any of this might not be old news.
What tends to initially catch people's attention of course are the yarns of epic wealth that the media likes to breathlessly spin about the few fortunate entrepreneurs who cooked up some whizzy new idea, razzle-dazzled an awestruck world and walked away two weeks later with loot so far beyond avarice their first problem was having it shipped to a medium sized moon orbiting Jupiter simply for storage space.
So where do you suppose most folk then go hunting for further information about this latter day Klondike? You guessed it - online, where even more lurid rumours abound and practically every search engine query turns up a whole new set of wise and friendly experts only too willing to assist you in your quest, in return for a modest consideration of course.
In this online El Dorado no serpent escapes the relentless trade in oil futures. Here our intrepid adventurer learns of unbelievable (yes, really really unbelievable) sums of money simply ready for the taking; little effort and no previous experience required, apparently.
Of course, it's not so much "too good to be true" (which it is) as "too far-fetched to be plausible". And when the cold shower of reality inevitably drenches our plucky online hero, soothing badly burned fingers is scant consolation for a harvest of shattered hopes and bitter disillusionment.
So how can you make money online? Is it even possible, or is it all just hype and bullshit with the occasional lucky sod promoted like last week's lottery winner purely to encourage all the other suckers?
Well actually you can. I do for instance and although it's not especially difficult it does nevertheless require that you stump up a certain amount of thought, effort and determination of your own.
It's a matter of mindset. Back in the days of the good old gold rush many people did very well indeed, but they weren’t usually the fools digging for gold. The gold diggers for the most part lost their money, a good chunk of their lives and much of whatever else they had before they set off in search of that one lucky strike that would mean they might spend the rest of their days sitting around doing sweet FA.
Those who did well on the other hand were mostly looking to make a buck here, a buck there selling mining paraphernalia, secret maps, expedition supplies, beer, liquor, sex and no doubt towards the end marriage guidance and debt counselling. And when the whole fuss died down they carried on working, 'cos they were persistent buggers, figuring out how to scale up from a buck here to two bucks there as the gold diggers moved on to seek their instant fortunes from the next Big Thing.
Now I don't know how to create the next eBay or Digg or whatever else attracts popular attention any more than I know how to write down the winning numbers for next week's lottery. But I do know that if I can figure out how to go from zero to one dollar a day online, then I can just as simply work out how to turn one dollar into two and after that two into four and so on.
But it's not worth it, the online gold diggers in unison retort. All that effort for what, five bucks a day? Yes, but in the few months it typically takes to scale the dizzy financial cliff that is five dollars a day (which incidentally is $150 per month or just over $1,800 per annum - a useful sum to many) you will have learned lessons that will lead to a lifetime of relentless and relatively easy accumulation of real, countable, spendable money.
Making a million dollars thirty cents at a time is more straightforward than many folk appreciate. The rate at which other people will in effect throw thirty (or twenty or fifty, the actual amount isn't really important) cents at you online is one part of the equation. Another is the fact that once this flow of funds gets started it just keeps going pretty much by itself. It might take significant effort to get the darn thing rolling to begin with but it's close to effortless once you have momentum, at which point you will find yourself delicately perched on the horns of most agreeable dilemma.
You can either leave it to get on churning out the same amount day in day out while you spend more time with your golf clubs, or you can get beavering to divert another stream your way (yes I know that's not what beavers do, I just want some beaver/stream imagery without the dam clogging things up so to speak - I don't think this explanation is helping...).
So how in fact do you get off zero to any amount of money at all in the first place? Well, many are the ways and one in particular is ideally suited to the overly opinionated novice with far too much to say for him or herself. But this post has rambled on long enough already, so check back here some other time and I shall spell it out in detail for those to whom any of this might not be old news.
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