Do you find that newbies have very unrealistic expectation of online earnings?

I've never thought I could earn thousand dollars per month, but I thought it would be easier to get a few hundreds. Before I began to use international sites, I used to write articles in one site and it is a good way to earn money if you have a good free time. But nowadays I am not having the same amount of free time, so I started to look for sites where I could do things quickly, like in mylot, where I can login and logoff a lot of times. In this kind of sites, you really get less money, but you have less work too. I've seen some people, here in mylot, saying that they can earn a few hundreds in a month. But I think you have to work a lot to get it. Nowadays I just think my online money as a bonus for me. Happy mylotting.

I actually thought the same thing when I started doing online stuff. But the thing is the people posting online asking me to join them in this or that site actually said that they are earning that much money. And I believed them, that actually led me to start doing and looking for online opportunities. But as I go along, and after a few months I realized I'm not getting what I was promised, then I started to read and start from the beginning. I tried as much as possible to read and go through the trainings provided by some websites I joined before. And some of it are fruitful, one site led me to this forum. And now, I know better, online earnings is more of an extra income. and it doesn't come that easy and that fast.

I really have not thought about it enough to come to that conclusion. I think that they are just so eager to see how much they will make and that is exciting to them. It makes them aim high and try to make as much as they can. I do get tired of the question on how much others make and how to make a huge amount on here. But hey they wonder about it, so I guess they should ask.

I think most of us who use the internet for some online earnings has the same expectations when we were newbies. Although some did not expect for a thousand dollars a month but at least we do thought that we can earn some modest amount from the web. Even though we did not post it in some forums like myLot but to our mind, we anticipate to earn as much.

The ones that always give me a chuckle are the ones that say, "Tell me a way I can earn $1000 fast" or "How can I earn $100 per day online easy?" So many people seem to think that there is some magic way to get rich online AND that someone will give them the magic formula just for asking. While making such sums of money aren't out of the realm of possibility, it certainly isn't easy or quick. It takes time and effort. Hard work is how you make money online or offline but most people don't want to do that. There seems to be an endless supply of people that want something for nothing and they think they can find it on the internet. Oh well... They'll learn.

since the high-earning sites don't seem to sell for much in comparison to a real-world business with comparable cash-flows.

Every person who asks how to earn money online is a newbie! And none of them will earn because they can't read FAQ's and guidelines, they don't know how to use a search engine even, and they don't want to do any work.

Some of them, yes, but I think it's a bit unfair to say that they all do. But sure, you definitely get more realistic and jaded the longer you try to earn money online. I took me over a year to start making nice amounts, so for me it's always a bit sad when I see people who want to do it over night... I simply know it just doesn't happen like that most of the time.

I think that people expect they can make a ton of money online without doing any work. It's not easy to earn extra money but you have to keep working at it because it's not easy to earn a lot of money, unless you can get a lot of traffic to a website, you have to find ways to earn extra online.

Even as a newbie back then my expectation is not that gastronomic. That is what gullible people believe in. Who would be paid a big amount for exerting a little effort? Anyhow, as a newbie I become familiar with the online scams that most newbies mostly fall for and luckily I was never a victim. Several attempts were made but you have to be wiser than them.

Well, you won't know until you try! When I first became interested in making money online, I thought I could make like $100 a week until I searched a few websites and was horrified at how little I can earn. I know, I was so noob back then. Now, after experimenting with so many sites and abandoned so many of them because they simply wasted my time. But I have stuck to some websites that I can make a decent amount and I just spend like 2 hours day making some extra cash. It isn't much but it is something, better than nothing. just some cash that I could use to buy some online things, nothing big. But if I told a friend who is new to this, she'll simply laugh at me and say how I'm wasting my time making so little and how come I can't make $50 a day. If only she knew how tough it is to make some cash online....

I am a newbie and I couldn't agree more with you. :) That was my first thought. "I need to earn more and fast". But I am glad I realized that now, you have to earn it, really earn it that it's not like a faucet of cents. Maybe you're a bit annoyed but I guess this is perfectly normal especially when a site like myLot is famous as a money generating site. :D

i think they are expecting too much. soon they will realize it. it's not impossible to earn a lot of money from online activity. all you need is "thousands of active downline" and it's almost impossible to have thousands active downline for each site you join. i'm not saying impossible but almost impossible.