WHAT'S THE REAL COST IN STARTING? IT'S NOT $0

Google the words 'making money on the Internet through blogs' and one will get over 141,000,000 hits and growing. For the most part a majority of the ads purport to says that you can make money by just starting a blog or creating a website and then adding some Google AdSense code to your site and off you go making money. BUT!!! Few explain the upfront and/or preliminary behind the scene work that must be done or that it cost money to start making money and exactly how much it will cost to start up so I am going to give a running total of all I spend and all I recoup as I go along with some of the left out steps. One main theme I am discovering is that everyone one wants you to buy their systems for a small sum, or resort to the bait and switch. That is; They give you a little info and entice you to spot up your credit card for $2.00 and then 7 to 10 days later they charge your card $50 or more. Here is my running total so far starting with $159 for the http://www.chritianmoney.com/ coaching system, (which is the best I’ve found so far), $33.00 for my website and domain name, and a recurring $8.95 per month for website hosting using SmartSpace™ all at www.godaddy.com. Take note that before I even established an Internet presence I was already in the hole for about $200. One site I visited even had this disclaimer that they posted in USA Today newspaper, “Everything you’ll need to make fast money on Google guaranteed: Your Cost = $0. In just a few minutes a day XYZ Company will show you how to earn $99 - $375 per day working from home!” But when you click on their START MAKING MONEY TODAY flashing symbol you are redirected to fill out a survey to see if you qualify (everyone qualifies - what a joke) then they hit you up with the proverbial bait and switch I mentioned above. So much for their claims of “Your Cost = $0.” I have been at this for a little over a week and I have discovered since then that if all you are interested in doing is blogging then you can go to http://www.blogger.com/ and get a free account but you should view a few YouTube clips called “blogging blunders by Andy Wibbels at www.bloggingblunders.com to really count the cost. My Google AdSense account was approved on 29 June but was first unaccepted because your website or blogsite has to be active and not under construction in order to be accepted into the program.

My investment day 10 = $209.31
AdSense total earnings = $0