Screw You, Steve Pavlina

Let's start off by saying that I have nothing against Steve Pavlina, I'm sure he's a wonderful person, and props to him for being about to do what he does with just a blog and a few advertising spaces.

I'm just utterly and completely jealous of Steve Pavlina. This person and many others, others like Darren Rowse of Problogger.

Making money blogging is hard work, and teaching others how to do it is even harder, I might even go so far as to say it's impossible to teach people how to blog effectively enough to make money. I mean, sure there are tips you can give them to optimize what they've already got, but if they don't got it, they don't got it. There's nothing anybody over at Copy Blogger or Problogger, or Steve Pavlina's blog can do to make somebody into the perfect blogger.

There's no formula anybody can follow to get the best blog ever that's going to be read by thousands of people every day. There's no formula for the perfect monetization model for a blog. There's no advertising agency that's going to get you a fantastic amount of money for very little effort, or an affiliate company that's going to get you the biggest commission for products that EVERYBODY buys.

Nobody is going to just walk up and hand you the perfect blog and a formula for making it into the perfect money making blog. It just doesn't happen and it just isn't practical to believe so.

How do I know these things? Simple. I've read every article on every blog ever concerning making money online (not really, but I've read a lot), and let me tell you: They all say something different about the "right way" to go about blogging. Shouldn't that lead you to believe that there is no "right way"?

I mean, come on people, we live in the information age, it's so simple to be able to access millions of sites on a million subjects, you'd think that people would start to realize that the internet isn't some gold mine where anybody can make thousands of dollars every day by taking surveys and writing a blog dedicated to food and cats (I don't know, there are some weird blogs out there...you're reading one).

There are literally hundreds of books on amazon about making money blogging most of them will probably tell you the some of the same regurgitated information; promising unrealistic things if you follow their instructions, but some of them might contain kernels of useful information. And I promise if you buy these books, you'll probably learn something new, but you won't meet the goals that they place on you.

The only way for you to do that is to start Blogging and learn for yourself how to blog your own way, everybody should have their own formula.

I'm absolutely appalled by the amount of people I hear about who fall for internet schemes designed to capitalize on people's lazyness and wish for easy money, promising a perfectly monetized blog and thousands of dollars a day in income. I'm stunned, I really am.

Get a grip people. It's  not possible in real life, and it's not possible on the internet, which -contrary to popular belief- is also "real life".

If you want to make money online, with a blog or with affiliate marketing or with whatever method you happen to come across, you have to put in a lot of hard work. If you're looking to make money blogging you can't look at it like a substitute for a job, you have to look at it like a new job. It's that simple (but it's actually very complicated).

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