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The Secret to Making Money Online and Why Most People Fail
Most people fail to make money online; it's not because they can't make money on the Internet but because they don't understand how the Internet works.
The concept of commerce hasn't changed for thousands of years; however, how people make money has differed. The Internet has its own rules and methods of making money. You will fail miserably on the web if you try to apply traditional offline business methods to making money online.
The Internet comprises 80% porn and media and 20% of commerce; only four out of the top twenty websites in the US relate to buying and selling products, while the rest are media and search.
To make money faster on the Internet, it's evident that working with information makes you much more money more quickly than selling a physical product. However, almost everyone I knew wants to sell something online began with e-commerce and failed.
Developers built the Internet around information and engagement; that's why a fifteen years old kid live-streaming games on YouTube with zero cash investment might make a lot more than a small e-commerce website that invests millions of…
