What Exactly Are People Looking For?

Perhaps the very nature of online business is anti cooperation. A sea of anonymous workers, all focused entirely on their own needs, buoyed by the false promise of easy earnings leads to a degree of insularity that actively mitigates against team work and mentoring. Daily I receive e mails that tell me that if I do not participate in some 'new' venture or another then I am bordering on financial lunacy. But what is on offer is just another 'opportunity' to enrich others but rarely of benefit to me. So I agree that it is nice to work collaboratively, but when we are faced with a sea of singleton entrepreneurs all overtly out for themselves how can we make a valued judgement?

Most people are not familiar with online money making. And the few that do know, they would rather keep the secret to themselves, while there is so many scams on the internet at the same time which almost every online money maker once fell into it and suffered some loss. I would say if we are able to guide others on internet money making, We are actually building an interdependent and fruitful network which we can then generate more income from the internet than we had all this while.

I have never taken one penny from MyLot. Nor do I intend to do so. If I can help someone else to earn money, I'm glad. However, I've always thought of this site as a social site.

The online world is very competitive when it comes to making money . I will never make money by joining some body site and affiliate . What i am making online right now is just for fun too small to consider as income .

Most of the people who join online earning sites are confused and still don't know if the site they are in is legitimate. They are trying their very best to invite their friends and even other people just to earn a cent from it. Realizing in the end that the site that they have joined is a scam. They are rushing to earn small bucks without realizing that they have spent too much time for it. Only a little percentage of online earners are not confused and have direction.

This is such a timely discussion for me. I have been laid off a couple of times and have since decided that I was not going to put my future in the hands of another employer. So I decided to start my own thing. The next question was...what??? Once I decided on the opportunities that interested me, I turned to my sponsors for advice. To my surprise, they were either completely non-responsive or gave perfunctory and boilerplate responses. Now mind you, before I signed on, there were all these supportive messages in between the traditional sales letters, talking about how they were available anytime for ANY assistance. They were extremely interested in my succeeding as they had....what a crock! I quickly realized that I was nothing more than a commission for this person...they said what they had to say to get referrals, but had no intention of following through on any of it. I realize that there are a lot of scams out there and fortunately, I have listened to my intuition. I am a firm believer that anything that sounds too good to be true, generally is. Now don't get me wrong, I love the opportunities that I chose to participate in and I believe in them. I decided that I didn't want anyone that I was responsible for referring, to feel the way I did. I want to help my team succeed, not only for me, but more importantly for themselves. Everyone who makes the decision to work online, has the desire to make an income for themselves...no matter what form that may take. A little while ago, I met a young woman on another social network and we quickly became friends. As we began to get to know one another, we discovered that we both were working online (although she is much, much further along than I). She asked me about what I was doing and I told her of my frustration with my sponsors and areas that I was struggling with. She provided me with a number of suggestions and advice (which I am using)...the sort of things I was asking for from my own sponsors. She was such a godsend to me and I knew then that I wanted to be able to do that for someone else. She was honest with me about the realities of online marketing and what I could and should reasonably expect. She cut through the hype for me so that I would be looking at things realistically and could plan accordingly. I appreciated that more than anything. My sponsors (the ones who did respond) kept telling me how easy this would all be...wa-wa-wa. My new friend had nothing at all to gain, except the knowledge that she had helped me. To me, she was the epitome of what a sponsor should be. We now connect several times a day, and I am able to assist her with some of my talents. I personally don't think it takes anything away from your efforts to provide some advice, or to answer a question for someone. We have since collaborated on a number of things and have become sounding boards for one another. I have since joined her in a couple of her opportunities because she was honest with me and provided me with the direction and advice I needed so badly. I believe that this is what teamwork really is. Unfortunately, not everyone feels as I do. I am trying to build something long-term and sustainable. I want to be able to pay-it-forward to someone else, like my friend has done for me.

Good advice that everyone should follow...a team does so much better when the work together...glad it's possible for you to make your living online! I wish I could figure out how to do it...though I don't have the time it probably takes to work up to that!

I agree that there are way too may get rich quick schemes on the internet today. They all promise you to make tons of money. I learned that the hard way myself. I have been floating around the internet now for over 5 years. I have found a few sites that I use daily to earn a little money from. But i still have yet to find my niche I guess. I do agree that if people worked together the internet would be much more profitable. And it would be much more enjoyable. Aside of coming here to MyLot and the few sites I use daily, I have nothing else that I earn from. It would be nice to find that special thing for me.

Hi Writergirl! Well, have you out your words into practice? Have you helped to make a difference in someone's life? All I know is that it has taken me 6 years to make a fairly good amount as a writer for yahoo. I make between $3 and $4 a day, and now since I've been tweaking I am making over $5 a day. It's still not where I want it, but it's getting better. I cannot pave the way for someone else. In not into Internet marketing and Ponzu schemes. It's taken me a long time and hard work to earn what I'm earning now. No one paved the way for me. My own dedication and effort is what helped me get where I am. I hope you are able to do what you are talking about and I hope that you can teach others how to help themselves. I only know what works for me. I've build a large following on yahoo. All the best to you.

Mmm if only there were more people with that way of thinking there would be more of us that are successful. A lot of people are only in it for themselves really so we all become skeptical if something will truly work or not. Not only that but if you work with someone who cares enough to get to know you and genuinely help you then of course you will want to be more productive. A lot of them don't seem to get that

We live in a day in age where helping each other is only seen as valuable if there is monetary compensation for it. The people steadily are searching for their way out of the lifestyle they have to live that their kindness & hospitality comes at a price as well. Its not right, but the actions of those in the past have created the present for us now. Greed is the norm and is such a shame.