I really don’t know what else to say, but I want to take a few steps back and play Socrates for a second.

If making a career and massive amounts of wealth online was easy, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?

“Make $500/day in the next 24 hours”…WHERE?  Starting from scratch?

“If I were to fill out 10 paid surveys per day at $10 each, I would bring in an extra $3000!”…Huh?  Where are you going to get 300 surveys to fill out?  A Paid Survey program?  You would be doing well if you got 10 surveys in a week.

“Data Entry:  Make HUNDREDS per day with only filling out 4 line forms!”…WOW!  This form must be really important!  (And it is…it is Google Adwords, and it is advertising you are filling out…AND PAYING FOR!)

“Process Rebates From Home!”…Do you really think Nordstrom’s is really going to be sending their rebate processing tasks to people who they don’t even know?  This is a big twist in words.  In this case, “Rebate” is referring to affiliate commissions and “Processing” is the act of receiving these commissions.  (You still need to market it!)

“Templates and Websites in a Box! - Your turn-key solution!  Proven to work!  We give you the website, email templates, and copy and you just SIT BACK AND WATCH THE MONEY FLOW!”  If it was that easy, why aren’t they doing it themselves?  There is a law of diminishing returns and if everyone was doing the SAME thing, do you think this would work?  Sure, you can make money with this, but marketing and “OUT-of-the-box” marketing is what is going to make something like this work!

“Make millions with Forex!” - Sure!, if you have millions to invest!

“Close to a HALF TRILLION Dollars in Grants WAITING to be Claimed!”  That is a whole lot of money.  If I could only get 0.001% of that I would be rich!  The process:  Find a grant that you could qualify for (and for most of us, that is very few), fill out a lengthy form, submit it, follow-up, receive a “run-around”, probably resubmit again, and maybe (someday) you will receive it.  Remember that grants are there for a purpose (and that is usually not to support a work-at-home lifestyle).

Do you see my point here?  If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!  There are always exceptions to all of these rules (and these exceptions are what drive these industries).  People DO process rebates and participate in research forums (like paid surveys) and make millions in Forex markets and receive large government grants to support their lifestyles.

But most of these are NOT found on websites showing you how to do it.  Trivial, easy, brainless tasks are usually outsourced overseas these days for pennies on the dollar.

Online business, like affiliate marketing, eCommerce, blogging, etc are great ways of making money online, but they take time and effort before they become profitable.  In the long run, the $500/day dream is achievable.

My best advice for those of you wanting to make extra money on the side without having to build a business (or website for that matter) would be to simply freelance.

If you have any skills such as writing, typing, coding, speaking, writing in forums, twittering, MySpacing, etc., there are tons of jobs and people (like myself) constantly on the hunt to outsource our own work.  Services like eLance, Rent-a-Coder, and GoFreelance offer services to help you find work or simply hang out in the forums of internet marketers (like the Warrior forum).  Check out Craigslist.org, too.

You will be amazed at how many people are looking to get their little jobs done.

And yes, I understand that we are always looking and HOPING for that big break online.  But at some time, you need to make the decision on what is more important right now:

Finding the “Big Break”  or Just Making Money Online

cheers…matt