By the way, I left your blog an award in my latest post – precisely for the kinds of posts like this one! They are brilliant.

Lots of good points in your comment. Obviously I have to disagree with all of them.

Lets start with the cheapshot – “being a lazy cheapskate trying to get the most for the least.”. I think you missed the whole point of this website. This website does not make lots of money, actually it has made just over $500 dollars. $500 dollars in 9 months with a total of 459 hours work; that makes me uneconomical and possibly stupid, but definitely not lazy and trying to get the ‘most for the least’. But I see your point – people with no experience in making money online think that it is an easy way to make money. The point of this website is to show that that is not true. Visitors who come to this website looking for easy way to make money online will be sourly disappointed.

You suggest that I try to go for the mass market – a market that caters to the simple wants of people: slapstick, easy to comprehend, booby babes etc. You are correct, this is a big market. But as you must know, in all market economies supply equals demand. There is a higher demand for the low brow things in life and so the market provides the supply. The competition is high for that market. It is really hard to get your foot in the door. It appears lucrative but it is not due to the high competition.

This of course, applies to all markets. It does not matter which market you enter. Supply will meet demand. So as a new comer you always have to start at the bottom. To use your term – every market is ‘dead’. As a new comer you need to start at the bottom and slowing work your way up. It takes time and hard work but it can be done – it has been done many times before. The only way to avoid this ‘enter at the bottom’ problem is to create your own market. Come up with something new and hope that a market exists for it. Which is harder?: 1) work you way up an existing market 2) create your own market. I do not know, but until I come up with a way to create a new market I am forced to try to climb up an existing one.

To say that the make money with a website market is dead is to also say that the open up a mini mart is dead. There are already so many mini marts – one on every corner. How can you make money with a mini mart? You can – new mini marts open every day. You just need to be a little unique, cater to a sub market. You can try to compete for the mass market and sell Slurpees and candy bars, but you can get a slight competitive advantage buy focusing on a sub niche – for example, selling only foreign candy bars. But regarless what you choose to sell at the mini mart the problem will be the same. If you cater to the masses then competition will be high, if you focus on a niche product then the demand will be low. Only solution: open a mini mart and see what works best.

I know that I am working in a diluted market. There are 100’s of make money online sites, but I am trying to cater to people like you. I do not know exactly what your likes and interests are but you do seem to enjoy this site – after all you are one of my top commentors. Hopefully there are enough people like you out there that I can finally start making some money.

The only people that are going to visit this site are other people who have the same mindset as you. That being a lazy cheapskate trying to get the most for the least. That means that they’re definitely not going to spend any money when they come to this site and they don’t come here with the intent to read through your posts with concentration so they can learn from your wisdom. Most people, I presume, just come here so they somehow use your site to increase their own traffic.

I suggest you move to the mass market, go after the average Joe, the unwashed, the man on the street per se. The first thing you should do is cut down your content. Yes that’s right, less is more. Nobody has the time, patience nor concentration to read through paragraph upon paragraph of your insights on blogging and life. The minute your average Joe sees a paragraph with sentences and big words he’s going to flip over to the next page like a child who’s offered a carrot in a candy store.

Put up some hard hitting pics, a few boob babes, people in humiliating situations, slapstick comedy etc. Try to add some pulsating “click me” buttons that hypnotically flash bright orange and yellow. And for heaven’s sake don’t have any content that requires anymore than having an IQ of 80 to comprehend. You should use small words and write in point form. For example, 7 guaranteed ways to have a girlfriend by tomorrow, 5 sure fire ways to make a million dollars a month, 10 secrets the CIA does not want you to know etc.

I’m not sure I ever believed in the “On the beach with my laptop fantasy” but I didn’t know I’d have to work this hard! Having said that, I have no regrets.