Career on the internet

crazy denna · Post by **crazy denna** » 03 Mar 2010, 14:04

i was wondering who is trying to make a Career on the internet? i would like to but i dont think i can make the money.

andr70 · Post by **andr70** » 06 Apr 2010, 08:32

Why not? I mean there are so many ways earning online like creating a blog or selling something

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 06 Apr 2010, 10:03

There is money to be made on the net but its a cut-throat market out there so your website/blog etc will have to be very special to stand out above the crowd.

brownnataly21 · Post by **brownnataly21** » 07 Apr 2010, 08:47

I don;t think it's possible to make a career on the Internet. I do it for pleasure adn to earn may be some money, but not the career.

ResearchScholar · Post by **ResearchScholar** » 10 Apr 2010, 22:21

andr70 wrote:Why not? I mean there are so many ways earning online like creating a blog or selling something

The vast majority of blogs tend to have an audience of 1 -- the author himself/herself. And the vast majority of blogs fail to be captured in search engines. Even a keyword search would fail to pick up the vast majority of blogs within the first 20 pages of a search engine. If you can't get your blog adequately indexed and it fails to show up within the first 2 pages of a search, then I would say not to bother...

That, essentially, is the real challenge of a blog -- trying to drive traffic to it, as it is competing literally with billions of other blogs and websites out there. If you have found a way to surmount this challenge, only then can you start to turn it into a commercial enterprise. For obvious reasons, those who have succeeded have generally been tight-lipped about sharing the basis behind their success.

brownnataly21 · Post by **brownnataly21** » 19 Apr 2010, 08:53

You can make a career on the Internet if you work very hard, but it's not the real career that you can do in real life.

dacoda · Post by **dacoda** » 19 Apr 2010, 12:24

yes its hard to earn money from the internet. if you have a website, you need to do a lot of work and a lot of time and a lot of patience.

Fee Verte · Post by **Fee Verte** » 19 Apr 2010, 13:20

ResearchScholar wrote:
andr70 wrote:
That, essentially, is the real challenge of a blog -- trying to drive traffic to it, as it is competing literally with billions of other blogs and websites out there. If you have found a way to surmount this challenge, only then can you start to turn it into a commercial enterprise. For obvious reasons, those who have succeeded have generally been tight-lipped about sharing the basis behind their success.

Yes, there are blogs about how to blog now! It is all becoming very crazy. I noted an advertisement for BING which used the message "information overload" as a selling point. I think people are becoming weary of it all. I am grateful for the internet though, it is an excellent research tool - Google books is a wonder of the modern age.

ResearchScholar · Post by **ResearchScholar** » 20 Apr 2010, 00:02

Fee Verte wrote: I am grateful for the internet though, it is an excellent research tool - Google books is a wonder of the modern age.

This point is very true. For a social scientist you can write a solid book by using primarily research sources from the Net. (You may not be able to do so, though, for other disciplines, such as the hard sciences, or even history.)

This facility was not available even 10 years ago. So, to me, that is the real benefit of the Net -- using the resources to put together viable projects.

bobjuck · Post by **bobjuck** » 21 Jul 2010, 04:59

not career for me, just for fun. Cos i'm not prefessional enough.

PhotonicGuy · Post by **PhotonicGuy** » 29 Jul 2010, 09:58

I think that everything is possible. But I prefer a career in the "real" world.

carole9087 · Post by **carole9087** » 10 Aug 2010, 17:13

Has anyone heard of Demand Studios? I've sent in a recipe to get in and an article on Feng Shui which so far has not been accepted.

Energyadvisor · Post by **Energyadvisor** » 28 Aug 2010, 21:27

Anything is possible on the internet. But you've got to work as hard as in 'real' life.

ResearchScholar · Post by **ResearchScholar** » 29 Aug 2010, 06:35

Energyadvisor wrote:Anything is possible on the internet. But you've got to work as hard as in 'real' life.

This is true. But I rather say work smart than work hard. Furthermore, the unpalatable truth is that you also have to throw in some financial resources to eventually get a return, which most people are loathed to do.

Tip the Bottle · Post by **Tip the Bottle** » 30 Aug 2010, 08:53

brownnataly21 wrote:I don;t think it's possible to make a career on the Internet. I do it for pleasure adn to earn may be some money, but not the career.

I believe David Wellington got his start in posting his Zombie fiction on the iternet and now he's a published author.

Also the book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski was released in pieces and gathered a strong following online before the entire book was released irl.

I think now is the time when someone would best be able to make a digital career especially for a writer.