I just checked my email and found out that I won some coin: 2€ to be exact.
I had bought a Teleloto subscription a few months ago, still I’m not making a surplus and losing money, but 2€ is still better than nothing.
I thought that’s a good idea for a meg.
You can work the right way and the wrong way.
And nothing good happens when you keep working the wrong way.
People assume luck is something that just happens, but think about it: can you be lucky doing nothing? Sure you can inherit the money but that’s totally out of control for the most people.
Working the right way always attracts luck, you could drink beer in the bushes and think why you’re so unlucky. Drinking beer isn’t something producing value.
You always get paid for the value you produce if you have the right deals in place.
You can’t build a blog in one evening and expect money to roll in. If it was that simple – everybody would be a blogger.
Doing worthwhile things takes a lot of years, and most people give up along the way because the sheer amount of work might not necessarily reward you back. That’s the downside of online work.
If my goal was to make money, I would have been making more flipping burgers at McDonald’s. For me it wasn’t about the huge money, for me it was about doing something for myself rather than for an employer.
Anyone can build a blog if he is willing to work, and a huge blog will attract some eyeballs, the question is if you can monetize all that hard boring work, not a fact that you can’t make a blog.
Everybody working these days wants some monetary reward because working for free in capitalism doesn’t make any sense since everything costs money. Sure there is free stuff, but you can’t complain about something you get for free.
Worthwhile things take years to build, it’s not something you can build in one evening.
You can create an enormous archives just by doing the reps. It’s not that hard to create content, but if your goal is to make money with content you’re most likely are going to fail.
As creating content and making money with content are two different things because the fact that you make content doesn’t mean you will make money making it.
Making money is hard and making money online is even harder since you really can’t make any money by your own – somebody has to make a transfer. Otherwise you will just work for free.
That’s why it’s important to have the deal in the first place. Working without any deals is just waste of time and I learned it the hard way.
It took me years to realize that the only thing I was missing was the deal.
So, if you’re something like me who wants a big archive online – you can do it by doing da reps.
Today you no longer need to sit in the office if you don’t like it, because your home has everything to become the office.
For many years my room was my working place and I know how to make some money with the computer without going outside of my room.
So these are wonderful times, of course not everybody will be willing to spend thousands of hours crafting blog posts, but you should know it’s possible.
It’s not something you cannot do, so if you spend enormous amount of time on the PC, then figure a way how to make money. It is possible as it is a wonderful time to be a creator, although it’s not easy. But it’s pretty simple when you have DA DEAL.
You know – something worthwhile takes years to build
Were talking about making money. Sometimes you need to do upfront work without certainty of potential income.
Many people assume, go on YouTube post videos and you’re golden, but many people just give away their labor for some views.
If you want to make money by doing upfront work, you need to get a deal before you do the work.
That could include writing a Kindle book, but publishing it with the deal attached.
It can be making a blog with monetization in place.
So you can definitely make money doing upfront work, but you won’t be certain about the income.
That’s why contracts and agreements are important.
Nobody would make 10000000 kebabs before they get the deal, but people make thousands of videos before they even have a change to earn… And that’s the problem of modern internet.
So the problem isn’t that you can’t do upfront work, you can, but you need agreement of potential revenue for the work you did or are doing.
Not like YouTube, Facebook – we will monetize your work someday, if you reach the monetization threshold.
So the platforms exploit their users who want to make a business, if they valued your work – they would pay you from the beginning. On Facebook or YouTube, it’s not upfront work when your content is not monetized, it’s just free labor for the platform, because when you publish you will get views, but not profit. So they benefit from your free labor.
They run ads on your content, but not for you, but for them. So you are left with nothing.
The problem with online content for making money is that most people create content without DA DEAL™.
I created content for YouTube, for TikTok, for X, for Facebook, for Medium, for Steemit – all to realize I was working without DA DEAL™.
People say work hard, work smart, but when you work online you need DA DEAL™.
Because if you only work without DA DEAL™, you will be wasting so much time and effort and will be working for free.
So, before you even start ‘working’ online, get DA DEAL™ first.
DA DEAL™ is simply a way to get income without relying on DA DONATIONS™ or DA TIP JAR™.
Only handful of people online are actually generous, most are not.
Imagine building a YouTube channel, and you don’t qualify for DA DEAL™. That would be so upsetting.
So to sum it up – never work without DA DEAL™, because working alone won’t produce you any gains.
Capitalism is highly competitive environment and in many businesses it’s not enough to be good.
The best pianist in Lithuania went to Moscow and there was 200 like him.
The internet is highly competitive, it’s not that hard to get views, likes, comments, but all the hardness becomes when you want to pay bills by creating.
And you might be good, but not good enough.
You could also create content just to create, but that would just be a waste of effort.
Today creating a few blog posts won’t earn you anything. And creating content for profit, or even fun, is hard tiresome work.
And sometimes I think that I am doing free unpaid labor rather than making a business or some serious money. But since I don’t have anything else to do – I can do it.
Most people would have given up by now, but I keep going. You know – working for free doesn’t make any sense in capitalism.
So, if you are working alone as I am – you really can’t compete with full teams, companies that have advertising budgets even when you’re good.
I can create content, my problem was that people weren’t willing to support my projects directly.
I wrote two Lithuanian books by myself and actually paid money to voice them and then I put them on YouTube. So I invested 200€ for 2 audio books and put them onto YouTube.
All I got back was comments “nice book, will there be more?” and bunch of likes.
My YouTube channel was not monetized.
So, if you are thinking about investing money into content that you will be giving for free on YouTube or any other platform – I suggest you don’t do it, unless you don’t want return on the investment.
You could invest 1000000€ into piece of content and give it away, but you wouldn’t basically earn nothing back from YouTube.
Most people do not earn from YouTube as their content is not monetized, or their monetized content doesn’t get much views and the ad return is ridiculously low.
If you have 200€, create a product that you will sell instead of giving it away for free. On YouTube you will get views, but views =/= money back.
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