With the economy affecting a lot of people worldwide right now, a lot of people are turning to the internet to make a few extra bucks. Personally I think that most of these people will not find what they are looking for. Contrary to popular belief, the internet is not some magical money making machine that will start sending you checks in the mail as soon as you pay $10 for the current best selling eBook.

The internet has been around since the early 90’s and yet it’s potential is still vastly untapped. That’s what money promising eBooks would have you believe. While this is in many ways not too far from the truth, it’s definitely an overstatement to claim that just anybody can retire with unbelievable monthly checks from an internet business that requires mere hours a week or work or less. It’s simply not the case.

I’ve looked into a lot of eBooks out there. Not because I was interested for myself necessarily, but moreso because I was interested in the very idea of selling eBooks for profit. A lot of these books make earning money online sound really easy. Honestly it really can be fairly easy. Easy is a baited term though. Easy as in “You can be lazy and still make money?” or easy as in “The work is easy, but you have to be dedicated and committed in order to see a profit?”

When somebody promises you thousands of dollars a month for little to no work at all, think about it from a few perspectives. Who would pay somebody thousands of dollars a month for doing next to nothing? Nobody right? Either nobody, or somebody who is really dumb with zero business savvy. Are you still with me? How about taking it a step further. Would somebody who is really dumb with zero business savvy even have hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars to pay people to sit around and watch paint dry? Unless they inherrited a fortune somehow, probably not. So, it’s safe to say that “easy” might not necessarily mean “no work”. Instead, you might just be looking at a lot of very repetitive work that just so happens to be easy. Can you make money from the internet? You better believe it. Can you retire from the internet with little to no work on your part? Perhaps, but not simply because you buy an eBook.

I know it’s been a while since my last update. Basically I have been swamped and this blog got put on the back burner a few times. Anyway, I’m getting back into blogging and the first thing I wanted to do with this blog is narrow its focus a bit. I’ll keep the money and investment commentary going here but the web admin topics will be posted on my new blog in the future.

As you probably know (if you’ve read my blog in the past), I run a web development and marketing company NURV. I’m launching a sister site/blog titled “The Nurv” where I’ll comment on various aspects of the web development and marketing industries. Check out my new blog and make sure to bookmark it. I’ll also be updating Money Complex again shortly so keep an eye out here as well.