Is Making Money Online a Lie? My Painful Truth.

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Like many people, I once dreamed of making money online. I started by creating an e-commerce store using the dropshipping model. I spent a lot of money on hosting, domain names, premium plugins, SEO tools, and advertising campaigns on Google, Facebook, and Instagram.

In total, I invested over $1,500 just to launch. I faced endless issues with payment gateways, ad policy rejections, and product restrictions. I worked hard to solve every problem.
After all that, I launched my first full ad campaign for a month — and still, not a single sale.

I quit for a while, but then came back with hope and opened a seller account on Amazon.
I paid $49/month for 3 months, chose trending products with high demand… and still, no sales at all.

Then I tried content creation. I launched a YouTube channel to share my own custom sound effects. It actually worked — I gained followers and met the monetization requirements. But YouTube rejected my channel, saying my content was “not valuable enough.”

I had already spent money on tools, gear, and software… just to hit another wall.

After trying so many paths and failing over and over again, I came to a painful realization:
Making money online, as it's promoted everywhere, is often just a lie wrapped in hope.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but from my experience, most of the popular "methods" don't work for everyone — and some only work for those selling the dream itself.
 
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You’re right - so many courses and gurus sell dreams without mentioning the grind and risk. It’s not just about trying new methods; it’s about analyzing why things fail (like pricing, targeting, margins, trust signals) and pivoting from there. Don’t give up, but also don’t buy into every shiny object.
 
Paid Traffic is Highly Competitive you are fighting with brands there who are funded by VC with millions to spend on ads you atleast need 10k$ to test products and find a winner unless you are very lucky,

you need to do organic traffic free traffic its a lot of reach for a little spend

i also suffered like that i had so great CTR Campaigns yet no sales and i burned around 3000$ on different campaigns
 
It's not a lie, but it's also not easier than investing time, money, and labor into a real business. However, some people sugarcoat the process to sell their e-books or just farm engagement.
 
If making money online was easy, we would all succeed. Weeks, months without being able to make income, it will drive you crazy but stay focused on what you want to achieve.
Keeping up the pace, perseverance and learning from mistakes is key to becoming successful.

You don't need to be the first, you need to be the most committed, the one who executes and transforms.
 
Most people don't get it right the first time around. Especially the popular methods are saturated and the competition can be high. But making money is not a lie at all. A huge number of people have found their own way to do it, some are just scraping by, some are doing well and some are making a killing. The learning curve can be quite steep and sometimes you need to be persistent for a long time until you crack it. But once you do, your life can change.
 
This is a powerful and honest reflection. The truth is, making money online isn’t easy—and many popular methods are overhyped. Your experience shows the real challenges behind the promise, and it’s a story more people need to hear.
 
I spent years without earning anything online, now I'm finally making money online
The problem is that people treats online work as a quick scheme to make money, not serious like a traditional job
In real life, you'd spend years studying before becoming a professional, why do you treat online job as a quick money scheme? Just put some money in some ads redirecting to your website and boom, a money machine...we wish it was as easy as doing that
 
Making money online isn't lie

Making money online "easily" is "LIE"

You need time, you need good capital for start, you need good strategy, you need consistency and you need to be patient

After all of these, you can't earn single penny too, this is possible. So you will change everything and you will try something different, until find your "sweet spot"
 
You made a mistake by switching from Dropshipping to Youtube, and that's what all "newbies" do (and I used to do it too), they want to make money by anything, and increase the chance of making money by trying many fields, and that's all wrong, and bad strategy. The good strategy is to FOCUS 100% on 1 thing, if it's Dropshipping, then focus only on Dropshipping for at least 12 months (or even more). If you didn't make a single sale, means that something is wrong, not dropshipping is not working.

I don't want to write a big post here, but just here are some pieces of advice:
- Focus on 1 thing, and focus on it 100%
- Do not switch field unless you worked on it for at least 12 months
- Study study study no just the methods, study the fundamentals, like marketing, business management, risk management ...etc.
- Change your believe from "Making money online" to "Working Online"
 
Try to make money without spending money, otherwise you'll burn too much on ads. Better focus on what worked for you, which is youtube. Find a niche that can get monetized by looking at other channels.
 
Yeah, this is brutally honest and relatable.

A lot of online success stories skip over the failures, costs, and mental toll. You've put in real effort, not just followed hype, so it's frustrating to keep hitting walls.

You're right. Most methods pushed online are either oversimplified or just funnels to sell something else. Making money online can work, but it’s rarely fast, easy, or cheap. You're not alone in this, and honestly, your experience is more common than people admit.
 
mohammed2 said:
Like many people, I once dreamed of making money online. I started by creating an e-commerce store using the dropshipping model. I spent a lot of money on hosting, domain names, premium plugins, SEO tools, and advertising campaigns on Google, Facebook, and Instagram.

In total, I invested over $1,500 just to launch. I faced endless issues with payment gateways, ad policy rejections, and product restrictions. I worked hard to solve every problem.
After all that, I launched my first full ad campaign for a month — and still, not a single sale.

I quit for a while, but then came back with hope and opened a seller account on Amazon.
I paid $49/month for 3 months, chose trending products with high demand… and still, no sales at all.

Then I tried content creation. I launched a YouTube channel to share my own custom sound effects. It actually worked — I gained followers and met the monetization requirements. But YouTube rejected my channel, saying my content was “not valuable enough.”

I had already spent money on tools, gear, and software… just to hit another wall.

After trying so many paths and failing over and over again, I came to a painful realization:
Making money online, as it's promoted everywhere, is often just a lie wrapped in hope.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but from my experience, most of the popular "methods" don't work for everyone — and some only work for those selling the dream itself.
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Pick one core skill(copywriting, video editing, SEO, email, etc.) - and become unreasonably good at it. Then plug that skill into other people’s systems until you're ready to build your own again. It’s not sexy. It’s not passive income. But it’s real.
 
The most profitable thing is selling those courses to promote such low-key activities (and even nowadays there are too many people saturating the selling-course industry)

Maybe you think that they are a big deal, but when you discover that there are 100 zillion monkeys doing the same, you start to consider why an extra monkey will succeed (yes, by chance one penguin flies).

The only method that works is the one that is yours and only yours.
 
Its not a lie, its incredibly easy if you know what you are doing. By "know what you are doing", I mean: You need skills.

Going for YouTube is already a bad choice with low success rate. Its saturated. You will need extraordinary content in form of high quality, interesting content, etc. Or you need another popular channel that shares or recommends your videos. I don't say its impossible. I say, the success rate is low.

On TikTok, for example, your success rate is so much higher. Why? Because they throw organic traffic right into your face. You just need to make videos in a way where you keep the retention high, where you make the first 3 seconds as interesting as possible, etc.
 
its really difficult to make money online buts its still possible, all I can say is dont stop and keep going. Hopefully you hit a profit.
 
The vast majority of those who claim that it is very easy to make money online are those who are trying to gain followers or sell courses/methods. Almost all of those who make this claim are unsuccessful in these businesses themselves and are trying to make money by selling these methods. If they were successful in these businesses, they would not bother with social media and do the things they talk about.

However, if you can gain an audience by being an expert on a subject, then you can sell to that audience with different business models.
 
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