Stop me if this sounds familiar...you want to make money online from your home computer and youve tried several ideas and affiliate programs only to see a page full of zeros when you check your stats. You work hours and hours only for a payout of a few cents, and thats only if youre lucky! It hardly seems worth all the effort. Sound like you? Well, thats actually true for MOST of the internet entrepreneurs out there, and the further truth is that it will be like that for them until they finally give up and go back to being the working poor again.

Why the dismal outlook? Because the internet is FULL of scams and programs that pay you next to nothing for working MORE than you would have at a regular 9-5 job. The get rich quick idea is long gone. Even the programs that DO work require you to put in many hours of effort to get a good return. If youre looking to get rich while doing nothing, then stop reading and go to bed...NOW! For the rest of you willing to at least put SOME effort into it then keep reading.

Ok, time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Sure, there are some technically real programs out there that make you REAL money, but not a lot of it. I bet you know what Im taking about. Google Adsense is a good example. I call it Google Nonsense because its crap. You put a load of their ads on your site and get paid, at best, a few cents...a month. Hey, I even made $1.24! Maybe someday Ill make enough to buy a slice of pizza! SOME people can make money from this, but unless you have a huge site bringing 1000s of hits a day, its just not realistic. On top of that Ive read many forum posts stating they have a habit of suspending an account for arbitrary reasons before it hits the $100 payout threshold. Thats their way of avoiding having to pay you in REAL money. It may take you a YEAR or more to get close to $100, only to have them close your account before getting paid. Wasted effort.

You probably also are aware of affiliate referral programs. LOTS of those out there! I read one guy boast that he had 1000s of people in his referral downline. He even showed proof of this accomplishment. So, how much did he make from his effort AND the combined effort of all his referrals together? $25.34...total.

Do you REALLY want to work hard all day long for mere pennies? I have tried MANY programs that will pay you just that...pennies. A few cents a day, if that. Even then, you wont always get paid. I made the grand total of $2.08 from one program after 2 YEARS and then was told they were taking that money as credit I could use on their site. So, now I have to BUY something just to recoup some of my money! Crap!

Truth is, there is no such thing as free money. SOMEBODY has to buy SOMETHING for there to be any money made by anyone. They have to spend money for you to make money. You have to have a REAL actual product to sell people in order to make a decent profit. The internet millionaires out there getting you to join their downlines dont have a physical product to sell you. What they are selling you is the easy money dream. We all want so badly to see our dreams come true that well buy into anything.

Think about it. Have you ever signed up for a program that had a hotmail address for support, or it was a site hosted on a free blog? If these entrepreneurs were REALLY bringing in a six figure income, then why cant they afford web hosting, or real support?

Then there are these link exchanges programs where you have to view other sites just to get others to view yours. Whats worse is that some are automated just to get hits! The only reason those people are there is to increase traffic to their OWN sites. They dont care about yours, and they certainly arent likely to actually BUY anything from you. A lady posted to a forum last week that she was seeing traffic increases since she joined the referral program but no real sales. For the most part, they just want to increase their own traffic rank so they can sell advertising on their sites to other suckers. Problem with that is, if there are no real and interested people surfing the site, then no sales will be made and it all falls apart fairly quickly. Its a vicious circle. You need REAL genuine hits, not bots or programs. Remember that.

So, what do I suggest? For most of you Id say just give up. There is no easy way. Just walk away and rejoin the real world out there. Get away from your computer, maybe go fishing, catch a game with your friends. You know, the REAL people!

For those of you absolutely DETERMINED to make a living at home on the net then I give you my advice. Look carefully at what you join. Forget the click type programs unless you like sitting around all making 0.005 cents per click, literally. Forget the crap email programs paying you to read other crap all day long. Find something that pays a REAL amount of commission and not just a few cents. Even if you only make ONE sale all month of a $100 product, at 30% commission, youve made more than you would all YEAR at any pay per click program. Find a PRODUCT, not a program to join.