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Face it, making money on the internet is pretty hard, especially when you are new to it and don't know where to start off. In this thread, I am going to mention the best and hardest way to make money online, no there is no site about this and it is so obvious people have pretty much forgotten about this method. I personally have been researching day and night all over the net for around 5 months now and still doing it as of now. But now, I have an idea of ways to make money online, as well as what a pyramid scheme is, a ponzi scheme, what a PTC (Paid To Click) site is, a matrix, what a referral is (lol, you might think its funny but I had no idea what that was), surveys, freelancing (website design, article writing, etc), paid to write reviews, paid to post on forums (kind of like this one), and those few sites that have those unique concepts no one has thought of before, the list can go on forever. To get to the point, I want to say this, have we forgotten how the most successful "Brick and Mortar" businesses came to be? When I was young and didn't know much abou the internet, I always wanted start a business in real life, but I knew it was hard. Now you MUST read this sentence to understand: I understood that the truly most successful businesses had something unique, never thought of, or was a twist on something already made; these are the true and best ways to make money in real life and online. But people have forgotten that online, they tend to have a habit of following the so called tried and true ways of the "gurus" and don't think for themselves. With the new Web 2.0 world, there are endless possibilities, the internet makes it much easier for the normal people to make good money online. Why? because there is no need for a substantial amount of start up capital to fund your business like you do in REAL LIFE. In real life, depending on your business, you need money to fund employees, have a building for your company to provide the service or product, pay for the lease of the building and land, advertise your business (which can cost a lot) and that is only listing a few of the expenses. On the internet, there is very little expenses, if you are starting up a website all you need is to pay for a small fee compared to real life businesses, and the same goes for advertising, much easier and a more variety of ways to promote your site to the world with much less out of pocket expense. Truly the most successful people defy the laws of logic and reason, and think outside the box, they do something crazy, something that in real life would seem like an "out of this world" idea or concept, weird, but it worked. I've been blabbering on for a while now, so I will show you a case study of a person who has made a lot of money using his THINKING CAP. :) CASE STUDY Have you ever heard of the Million Dollar Homepage? This was 4 years ago, in 2005 a 21 year old Alex Tew created a website called the Million Dollar Homepage. In early 2006 he made around a million dollars in a few short months! Alex Tew was originally a normal university guy in business who had loans like 95% of the university population and wanted to find some way to make some extra money so he wouldn't be losing his mind when he graduated that he would be having to spend his first few years paying off his loan. He created this website that sold pixels for 1 US dollar each for advertisers (this was a new concept in 2005), his website had exactly 1 million pixels. First selling to his friend who had a music website for 400 pixels, in a 3 weeks time he had sold 4700 pixels to his friends and family members. After reaching the $1000 dollar amount, a press release was sent out and was picked up by the BBC. News spread and his page became very popular getting more sales and soon he became a certified millionaire in about 6 months (August-January) selling all of his pixels. This is a great case study on being creative with yourself, not limiting your opportunities. This is also a great case study to show how copying the tried and true methods of a "guru" can do, after the success of Alex Tew's Million Dollar Homepage website, many others copied him hoping to get the same success he had, only to find that it wasn't so. So what I want you to walk away with at the end of the day is, be creative and the more hard work you put into it, the rewards will be greater than following those gurus that claim their method is the best. Be diligent, and you don't have to make a totally new concept, just make a twist of something else and be a Real Entrepreneur (Definition: a person who opens a business venture and takes a risk for it) But there is less of a risk on the internet like I said in the aforementioned paragraphs. So go out there and be creative! If it doesn't work, try something else, there is really not that much to lose compared to those real life "brick and mortar" entrepreneurs. "If you can't think outside of the box, make a hole and get out of the box, then burn it, there now you can think outside of the box" EduCashin