Making Cash on the Web...Not as Easy as Some Would Have You Believe!

I have now tried the following methods:

1) Offering my own services and skills for pay (the most successful to date; also one of the most "iffy" methods, as potential client interest waxes and wanes constantly; without a solid advertising budget, one is at the mercy of such tides of fortune)

2) Creating a "niche" product, and offering that for sale (see above commentary)

3) Joining affiliate and Paid To programs (the affiliate progs seem mostly geared towards taking the affiliate's monies with no promise of return; the PT progs do not pay substantial amts...not to be considered for the backbone of a main income!)

We shall see, with the online payment processors and various government agencies (at least on the US side) interferring, if the ability to make money on the Web at the end of the day is not limited finally to large corporations with a Web presence; I kind of saw this coming when Big Business first came to the WWW, and tried to warn Web-surfers that if Big Business came to our surfing-ground the following would happen:

A) The fun of web-surfing would be at least partially lost to the eternal "mall syndrome" that web-bound businesses would create, and...

B) Eventually the governments of the world would come in and attempt to "regulate"
the Internet.

To date, I have not failed in my predictions...have I?