When I first started learning about making money online, I got all hyped up by reading that there were these great opportunities to just sit behind your computer and fill in forms for companies. And of course I fell for the illusion that I could actually make a lot of money filling in these forms without having to do anything else.

I guess I am not the only person who ever spent money on this type of program because of the large amount of “online survey companies” you can find when googling around a bit. I thought it was a great opportunity, especially after reading all these excellent testimonials of people who were claiming to make hundreds of dollars a month filling in these surveys, working only an hour or so a day.

I started calculated and soon found that if only I could do that type of work 5, 6 hours a day, I would earn plenty of money to buy myself a nice place outside in the country and live heapily ever after.

Looking back at that time I can still feel just how thrilled I was, I mean, I could give up commuting 2 plus hours a day and spend that extra time working even more and earning even more! I can still feel the excitement  of being able to create my own job, my own workschedule and the starting of what I thought would be my pass to financial freedom.

Thinking that if I was going to persue this carreer as a Fulltime Professional Survey Form Filler I should really organize my stuff and learn as much as possible about it in order to do it right and make the most profit possible. So I bought a few books and joined a few programs and was ready for the money that was soon going to be rolling in.

Needless to say that it wasn´t.

Now, if you have been making a lot of money filling in surveys, the more power to you, but to be honest, the only surveys I ever filled in where the initital ones to join I can´t remember how many companies and all that I ever earned was $50 atmost. Of course, living outside the US didn´t really help a lot so maybe it was because of that, that I wasn´t making all the money I dreamt about.

I would say though that it was due to something else. I was completely missing the point of how to set up an online business that would generate money for the future to come. I started paying closer attention to the websites that I had signed up for and started noticing little links on the bottom of each page. I also started seeing a structure in all these, what seemed to be different companies, websites that were offering to teach you how to make money filling in surveys.

You see, about 90% of them were using the same payment processor, Clickbank and they were all gearing towards visitors who were looking for the same thing:
• changing their lives
• financial freedom
• working from home
• spending less time working

They were giving their visitors exactly what they were looking for and claiming that all these big dreams were possible to achieve. Now, don´t get me wrong, I still believe it is possible to achieve anything you set your mind on, and nobody will ever be able to make me think differently about that.

The whole point that I was missing though was that in order for me to reach those goals, I shouldn´t be filling in forms but rather learn how to do what they were doing, running websites and selling something.

I give you permission to call me stupid, but it wasn´t untill I read a certain ebook about Internet marketing that I actually made the link between  those little links on the bottom of the page, clickbank and earning a living online and I can honestly say that ebook did make a huge change in my life.

Want to find out which book I am referring to?

Be patient, you will find out soon!

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