In the face of get-rich-quick, I sometimes lose faith in my get-rich-slowly approach. Almost.

My new program, How to Write Your Own Money-Making Websites, has been selling pretty well since its launch a couple of months back. Actually, I have been really pleased. It has been selling better than I had ever expected.

But sometimes I have this small, nagging doubt.

People ask me how quickly they can start making money with their own sites. Not just $50 a month, but $500 or maybe $2,000. More specifically, they ask me how long it took me to make a reasonable amount of money each month with my own hobby site, CoffeeDetective.com.

Well, in the early days of the site I didn’t keep very good records. I wasn’t expecting too much from the site. But I do have a note that I made about $500 during the ninth month.

Now, three years later, that one site makes over $4,000 a month, on average.

But when I am asked that question it troubles me a bit.

I know that people want me to say that they can be making thousands of dollars within 30 days of launching their site.

I don’t much like telling people that it will take them about 9 months before they see an income that’s really going to make a difference to their lives. I know people want the process to work faster.

But what I say to people is the truth. This really is a get-rich-slowly-but-surely approach.

If I had found a get-rich-quick process that actually worked, and worked for anyone and everyone, I would be using it and writing about it.

There are even days when I feel a little bored with my site and wonder if I should keep working on it or not. And then a voice whispers in my ear, “Dude, this one website about coffee is making you about $50,000 a year in passive income. Don’t even THINK about abandoning it.”

Good point. You have to be pretty rich to say no to an extra $50,000 a year.

But yes, it takes time to get there.

Comments

[Joanna Bartlett-Gustina]

I so appreciate your honesty. After reading your blog and info about your Money-Making Websites course, I decided to launch my own - http://www.gluten-free-life.com. It's still very much in the early stages as I add content and decide what modules I want to add to the site (modules, commenting on reviews and recipes, etc.). Fortunately, I have a background in website design and programming which helps a lot with coding the site, although I'm sure there are ways to set up such a site with less programming experience.

In any case, knowing to expect it to become profitable slowly helps keep me motivated so that I continue to work on it and build it over time. If anything, I'm impatient to get it up so I can start promoting it and then start another site on a different topic.

I'm not looking for a get rich quick scheme - I don't trust them. This method seems much more real and plausible!