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The Dark Side of Making Money Online No One Talks About

Some days I get depressed making money online.

Tim Denning
The Startup

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Making money online seems like a miracle created by a Jesus-type.

Unicorns, $100 bills, cocktails by the beach, no meetings, sexy folks running around your Miami apartment in Calvin Klein underwear.

Not quite.

I’ve made money online for 9 years straight and there’s a darker side no one talks about. It’s worth knowing before deciding to do it.

It looks like a scam on the outside

Just google making money online.

You’ll get images of laptops on the beach and money pouring out of Macbook screens. It’s enough to scare away anyone.

Making money online gets a bad rap on social media. People call it a pyramid scheme or hyperbole. The headlines and hooks used to educate people on the topic are enough to make anyone vomit.

It’s not so crazy to call making money online dishonest.

But the issue is 99% of people who successfully make money online don’t talk about it. (Read that again.)

The people I’ve met who make the most cash online rarely talk about it. They have some eCommerce or affiliate website that…

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