9 Rules They Don't Tell You About Making Money Online

Regular employment is your safety net until your online hustle becomes the main act.

Rule 1. Play the game on hard mode or not at all

Many people looking to make money online approach it with the wrong mindset. 

They're on the hunt for shortcuts, instant successes, and lots of cash. 

However, that's not how the online business world works.

Earning online is challenging because the rewards can be life-changing and pave the way to personal freedom. I believe these are achievements worth fiercely striving for. 

If you're seeking simplicity, consider traditional and stable employment.

In employment, challenges are minimal, risks are almost nonexistent, and job opportunities are aplenty.

Rule 2. Stop listening to advice - givers projecting their failures & limitations on you

Learn from practitioners. 

People who actually make money online. 

People you look up to. 

People who share similar values to you.

Rule 3. The secret ingredient no one tells you

There's a high chance you are not going to make 6 figures in 30 days

Great, successful and sustainable online businesses don’t become overnight successes. 

Most of them take 5+ years to do it.

Set the time horizon for 5 years. If it happens sooner then great. 

However, you should be seeing progression every 6 months.

Rule 4. The goal is to have the least amount of employees as possible (Ideally zero)

Why do people want a bunch of adult babies walking around their 'office' that require a babysitter?

Smart people who make money online have as few employees as possible.

They may have 1–2 freelancers but that’s about it.

The goal with online business isn’t vanity metrics like employee headcounts that scream “I’m important.” No.

The goal is to be free. To do whatever you want.

Rule 5. Your job pays the bills until your online business can

Money is a distraction. In the early days you want to get good at the online game and learn copywriting, marketing, writing, sales, automation, AI, etc. 

Focusing too heavily on money will throw you off your game.

Money comes later.

At the start your job is supposed to keep paying the bills while you figure this stuff out after work and on the weekends.

Start part-time. Then go to 4 days of a job. Then 3. 

Then you can eventually go all in full time.

Rule 6. Expect to take plenty of risks (a few will melt your face off)

Everything online can look scary.

But if you always focus on what could go wrong, you'll never start. 

Instead of just seeing the problems, think about how you might feel if you never gave it a shot. 

It's better to try and learn than to wonder what could have been.

Risks = Growth

Growth = 6 -7 figure incomes

Rule 7. Allow uncertainty to make you feel sick

Most people go to school, get a job, earn less than they deserve, and do it until they retire. That's the usual predicated way.

Earning online is unpredictable.

One day you might earn a lot on a website. The next day, you are shadow banned, de-platformed and things change and you earn nothing anymore.

Life online is full of surprises. 

The best way to stay safe? Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't post on 1 website, build your audience or clientele on different sites.

Rule 8. Underthink

Many people never make money online because they overthink it.

So they become their own roadblock and give up after 90 days. T

he career progression from there is to become a hater and call other people’s online dreams get-rich-quick-schemes to scam people or they shame people to make them feel like a fraud.

I prefer to underthink. Nothing online matters as much as you think.

Underthinkers simply take more action and let the results decide. 

All the ‘doing’ means they eventually find a way to win. Not because they’re smarter but because they’ve tried more things.

Rule 9. This is an infinite game with no end in sight

You earn online to maintain a good life, not just to get super-rich and stop working. 

“There are at least two kinds of games: finite and infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”

- James Carse

The online money-making game is an infinite game. You keep doing it because you learn to love it. Not going back to a job you hate is all the motivation you need to figure it out and not let progress fall off a cliff.

It goes a step further. The internet has no end. 

You can literally make more money than you can ever spend. 

The number of internet users continues to grow and more and more businesses will only exist online.

Make money online or die tryin!

- Till next time