Google’s recent push into tablets and mobile along with offering new search services such as Google Instant are pushing up company’s capital expenditures, which is slotted to grow almost 184 percent in 2010 as compared to last year. And next year that amount is going to go up even higher. But this spending is a good thing – for it allows Google to leverage its inherent advantage – infrastructure.
A few years ago, in a post I noted that infrastructure was Google’s key competitive advantage. It is what allowed the company to innovate and outpace its rivals. It allowed the company to give us results faster than our broadband connections could offer — in the process making us more subservient to its search. In the end, we all forget the directories and instead focused on the search-box as the start of our Internet journey. Today Google is a gigantic, $7.3-billion-in-quarterly-sales business.
One thing Google knows: it needs to keep spending money on this infrastructure in order to stay competitive and current with times. The company recently introduced Google Instant, a new feature that allows you to get results even as you are still typing the search term. It is a service akin to the old days when an Intel chip got multimedia extensions.
Google Instant, in many ways is an evolution of a product to keep up with times – today’s faster broadband mean that the search results need to come up faster than one could type. More importantly, Google Instant is a search product optimized for a brave new world where the user interface is touch rather than keyboards, and devices are not your classic computer, but instead mobile and tablet-like.
One of the reasons Google has been able to launch Google Instant is because it can afford to spend a lot of money on its infrastructure. During the third quarter of 2010, the company spent nearly $757 million, the highest amount since the first quarter of 2008, according to investment bank, J.P. Morgan. (In comparison, Google spent a total of $810 million on capital expenditures in all of 2009.) In a conference call with Wall Street yesterday, Google vice president Jonathan Rosenberg told the analyst community:
From a revenue standpoint, its impact has been very minimal; and from a resource standpoint, it’s actually pretty expensive. So why did we do it? Well, we believe from a user standpoint, Instant is outstanding and the data that we are seeing actually bears this out.
Google’s spending on capital expenditures (mostly on data centers) had been on a decline. THat is about to change. According to J.P. Morgan, the company is going to spend $2.3 billion on capital expenses in 2010 versus $810 million last year. For next year the investment bank is forecasting, $3.2 billion in capital spending.
Some Wall Street analysts are going to view this increased spending and wring their hands. They are idiots and short-term thinkers. I see the growth in capital expenses as a sign of health, and that things are going well for Google – actually really well.
Let me explain – till recently Google had to focus on a small subset of actions to satisfy its end customers – You and I – and thus make money off of advertising. Throw in YouTube videos and Gmail, if you want, but browser-based search and search-based advertising were its bread and butter.
Google is said to be the single biggest source of traffic on many of world’s networks and that is with only a handful of offerings. Now imagine how big Google will be as a percentage of the source of Internet traffic once we start taking their new initiatives into account. That also explains why they need to build their own networks and lay their own fiber pipes.
Now the number of consumer interactions has grown multifold. Google’s Android mobile operating system is an Internet-enabled OS, which is peppered with Google services that are used more frequently because we have access to them in our pockets. This overall growth in data center capabilities is only going to go up as the company becomes more successful with its Android push. By spending on data centers and networks, what Google is ensuring is that Google Android will always have a great user experience. Remember, in a world dominated by cloud clients – nothing matters more than instant access to various Internet services.
Related content from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d) about Google, and its Mobile Efforts:
- Why Google Should Fear the Social Web
- Report: Google’s Voice Possibilities.
- How Mobile Cloud Computing Will Change Tech
I'm a DJ (well, more like I used to be at this point). I've played gigs opening for some of the biggest DJs in the world (Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Crystal Method, etc). I've met a bunch of DJs and producers, I know a bunch of promoters and agents, I've booked headliner DJs for a party I promoted, and I was involved one of the biggest weekly parties in the country for a few years, so I know what I'm talking about.
Being a techno DJ is not a career. Don't get into it planning on doing it as a career. The vast majority of local techno DJs do it for free or for very little money. You will almost definitely not become a professional techno DJ if that is what you set out to do.
Also, the reality is that you are going to be dealing with a lot of organized crime, alcoholics, drug dealers, drug addicts and general sleaze balls. Club owners are rip off artists, promoters are disorganized and shady, etc. Getting involved as a DJ can be rewarding when you play a successful party and everything goes well, but man when you first start it's just a lot of hard work for almost no pay off. I did get to play for 3,000 people who loved everything I played and were screaming and yelling once, but man there were hundreds of shitty gigs playing for disinterested assholes that I didn't get paid for that led up to that.
I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying keep it as a hobby, and be realistic.
However, you can be a producer without going through any of that shit, and its a shortcut to skip past the local DJ scene and go straight to the big time. Also, if you know how to produce, there are plenty of tools (notably ableton) that are basically a shortcut to DJing, so you won't need to learn how to beatmatch or scratch to get gigs if you have a couple of big remixes out.
It will probably take you 8-10 years to get good enough to have make a successful dance record. This is why most 'big name' producers are in their 30s and 40s. It takes that long to figure everything out.
You're 17 and you have music training, which puts you ahead of 90% of the beginning music producers out there, so you have a head start. If you can get some quality records out by the time you're 25 or so, you'll have a good shot at actually being a headliner, but you have to not give up when you're doing it for 2 or 3 years and your stuff still isn't good enough. I'm not exaggerating, I have friends that spent 5 or 6 years failing before they made anything good at all and started selling songs.
As soon as you turn 18, you NEED to start going to clubs, because I don't think you can understand the music on a deep level until you actually dance to it at a club with a room full of people. You don't need to go every week, and you don't need to drink or do drugs to understand it, no matter what anyone tells you (and lots of people will tell you that you do).
Don't hyper-focus on one subgenre. Go to see dubstep shows, hip-hop, drum and bass, trance, house, all of it.
Join the messageboards or facebook groups for every club that you go to. Send emails to local DJs and producers that you like. Make friends with them. Believe me, they all love to hear from people who like their stuff and most DJs will talk endlessly about the stuff they like and what they do and why. Try to find a local DJ or two or three that will reliably play your songs and give you feedback on them. And if you can write melodies and understand harmony and chords, you will be way ahead of 90% of local producers, and a lot of them will want to work with you. Believe it or not, many of them write by trial and error and don't have any clue about music theory, chords, etc, having someone who can take all their awesome synth patches and make a decent pop hook out of them is like striking gold.
If you focus on going to one club or party, it's not hard to get to know the promoters, which will let you make contact with big name DJs when they bring in headliners. Don't harass them to listen to your stuff, but it doesn't hurt to be a face or a name they recognize for when you do have something worth listening to, but don't waste big name DJs time listening to your stuff until you start getting positive feedback from local DJs.
As far as equipment -- Get a laptop with Ableton. Optionally, get an APC 40 controller and a midi keyboard. That's all you need. Everyone uses it, it's relatively simple to use and you can use it for both production and DJing. Beyond that, once you start meeting local producers, find out what they use and ask them to show you how to use it.
Once you get ableton, get a local DJ that uses it to show you how. You can pick up the basics in a few hours. Then start harassing your friends to let you play at house parties. They will mostly hate your music but that's fine, you'll still learn a lot. You'll find out what songs they like. Start downloading them and have them ready to play. Eventually they'll stop hating you and you'll have enough stuff to play at non-techno gigs, when you get offered. Knowing how to play a good techno set is important, but knowing how to play every genre of music is key to actually getting a lot of gigs and making you better with crowds, etc.
FWIW, I don't know any producers who actually went to college for it. Taking a few audio classes can be useful for a variety of things, but I wouldn't get a degree in it. Almost none of the professional producers I know have a degree in it. If you want something practical, that you can apply to a DJing career, then go with either Marketing/PR/Business (I know a lot of mediocre musicians who made careers out of it entirely because they know how to market themselves well), or Comp-Sci/Electrical Engineering, if you really want to get deep into programming synths, etc it can be useful, and obviously there are a lot of jobs out there if the DJ thing doesn't work out.
Sorry, that was a bit of a ramble:
tl;dr -- Techno DJing is not a great career, but if you want to get involved: Start going to a lot of clubs, try to avoid hanging around with sleazeballs and drug addicts (which is harder than it sounds), and get to know local producers and djs, (which is easier than it sounds).
If you have questions, feel free to memail me.
posted by empath at 11:49 AM on September 26 [4 favorites]
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Google’s recent push into tablets and mobile along with offering new search services such as Google Instant are pushing up company’s capital expenditures, which is slotted to grow almost 184 percent in 2010 as compared to last year. And next year that amount is going to go up even higher. But this spending is a good thing – for it allows Google to leverage its inherent advantage – infrastructure.
A few years ago, in a post I noted that infrastructure was Google’s key competitive advantage. It is what allowed the company to innovate and outpace its rivals. It allowed the company to give us results faster than our broadband connections could offer — in the process making us more subservient to its search. In the end, we all forget the directories and instead focused on the search-box as the start of our Internet journey. Today Google is a gigantic, $7.3-billion-in-quarterly-sales business.
One thing Google knows: it needs to keep spending money on this infrastructure in order to stay competitive and current with times. The company recently introduced Google Instant, a new feature that allows you to get results even as you are still typing the search term. It is a service akin to the old days when an Intel chip got multimedia extensions.
Google Instant, in many ways is an evolution of a product to keep up with times – today’s faster broadband mean that the search results need to come up faster than one could type. More importantly, Google Instant is a search product optimized for a brave new world where the user interface is touch rather than keyboards, and devices are not your classic computer, but instead mobile and tablet-like.
One of the reasons Google has been able to launch Google Instant is because it can afford to spend a lot of money on its infrastructure. During the third quarter of 2010, the company spent nearly $757 million, the highest amount since the first quarter of 2008, according to investment bank, J.P. Morgan. (In comparison, Google spent a total of $810 million on capital expenditures in all of 2009.) In a conference call with Wall Street yesterday, Google vice president Jonathan Rosenberg told the analyst community:
From a revenue standpoint, its impact has been very minimal; and from a resource standpoint, it’s actually pretty expensive. So why did we do it? Well, we believe from a user standpoint, Instant is outstanding and the data that we are seeing actually bears this out.
Google’s spending on capital expenditures (mostly on data centers) had been on a decline. THat is about to change. According to J.P. Morgan, the company is going to spend $2.3 billion on capital expenses in 2010 versus $810 million last year. For next year the investment bank is forecasting, $3.2 billion in capital spending.
Some Wall Street analysts are going to view this increased spending and wring their hands. They are idiots and short-term thinkers. I see the growth in capital expenses as a sign of health, and that things are going well for Google – actually really well.
Let me explain – till recently Google had to focus on a small subset of actions to satisfy its end customers – You and I – and thus make money off of advertising. Throw in YouTube videos and Gmail, if you want, but browser-based search and search-based advertising were its bread and butter.
Google is said to be the single biggest source of traffic on many of world’s networks and that is with only a handful of offerings. Now imagine how big Google will be as a percentage of the source of Internet traffic once we start taking their new initiatives into account. That also explains why they need to build their own networks and lay their own fiber pipes.
Now the number of consumer interactions has grown multifold. Google’s Android mobile operating system is an Internet-enabled OS, which is peppered with Google services that are used more frequently because we have access to them in our pockets. This overall growth in data center capabilities is only going to go up as the company becomes more successful with its Android push. By spending on data centers and networks, what Google is ensuring is that Google Android will always have a great user experience. Remember, in a world dominated by cloud clients – nothing matters more than instant access to various Internet services.
Related content from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d) about Google, and its Mobile Efforts:
- Why Google Should Fear the Social Web
- Report: Google’s Voice Possibilities.
- How Mobile Cloud Computing Will Change Tech
I'm a DJ (well, more like I used to be at this point). I've played gigs opening for some of the biggest DJs in the world (Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Crystal Method, etc). I've met a bunch of DJs and producers, I know a bunch of promoters and agents, I've booked headliner DJs for a party I promoted, and I was involved one of the biggest weekly parties in the country for a few years, so I know what I'm talking about.
Being a techno DJ is not a career. Don't get into it planning on doing it as a career. The vast majority of local techno DJs do it for free or for very little money. You will almost definitely not become a professional techno DJ if that is what you set out to do.
Also, the reality is that you are going to be dealing with a lot of organized crime, alcoholics, drug dealers, drug addicts and general sleaze balls. Club owners are rip off artists, promoters are disorganized and shady, etc. Getting involved as a DJ can be rewarding when you play a successful party and everything goes well, but man when you first start it's just a lot of hard work for almost no pay off. I did get to play for 3,000 people who loved everything I played and were screaming and yelling once, but man there were hundreds of shitty gigs playing for disinterested assholes that I didn't get paid for that led up to that.
I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying keep it as a hobby, and be realistic.
However, you can be a producer without going through any of that shit, and its a shortcut to skip past the local DJ scene and go straight to the big time. Also, if you know how to produce, there are plenty of tools (notably ableton) that are basically a shortcut to DJing, so you won't need to learn how to beatmatch or scratch to get gigs if you have a couple of big remixes out.
It will probably take you 8-10 years to get good enough to have make a successful dance record. This is why most 'big name' producers are in their 30s and 40s. It takes that long to figure everything out.
You're 17 and you have music training, which puts you ahead of 90% of the beginning music producers out there, so you have a head start. If you can get some quality records out by the time you're 25 or so, you'll have a good shot at actually being a headliner, but you have to not give up when you're doing it for 2 or 3 years and your stuff still isn't good enough. I'm not exaggerating, I have friends that spent 5 or 6 years failing before they made anything good at all and started selling songs.
As soon as you turn 18, you NEED to start going to clubs, because I don't think you can understand the music on a deep level until you actually dance to it at a club with a room full of people. You don't need to go every week, and you don't need to drink or do drugs to understand it, no matter what anyone tells you (and lots of people will tell you that you do).
Don't hyper-focus on one subgenre. Go to see dubstep shows, hip-hop, drum and bass, trance, house, all of it.
Join the messageboards or facebook groups for every club that you go to. Send emails to local DJs and producers that you like. Make friends with them. Believe me, they all love to hear from people who like their stuff and most DJs will talk endlessly about the stuff they like and what they do and why. Try to find a local DJ or two or three that will reliably play your songs and give you feedback on them. And if you can write melodies and understand harmony and chords, you will be way ahead of 90% of local producers, and a lot of them will want to work with you. Believe it or not, many of them write by trial and error and don't have any clue about music theory, chords, etc, having someone who can take all their awesome synth patches and make a decent pop hook out of them is like striking gold.
If you focus on going to one club or party, it's not hard to get to know the promoters, which will let you make contact with big name DJs when they bring in headliners. Don't harass them to listen to your stuff, but it doesn't hurt to be a face or a name they recognize for when you do have something worth listening to, but don't waste big name DJs time listening to your stuff until you start getting positive feedback from local DJs.
As far as equipment -- Get a laptop with Ableton. Optionally, get an APC 40 controller and a midi keyboard. That's all you need. Everyone uses it, it's relatively simple to use and you can use it for both production and DJing. Beyond that, once you start meeting local producers, find out what they use and ask them to show you how to use it.
Once you get ableton, get a local DJ that uses it to show you how. You can pick up the basics in a few hours. Then start harassing your friends to let you play at house parties. They will mostly hate your music but that's fine, you'll still learn a lot. You'll find out what songs they like. Start downloading them and have them ready to play. Eventually they'll stop hating you and you'll have enough stuff to play at non-techno gigs, when you get offered. Knowing how to play a good techno set is important, but knowing how to play every genre of music is key to actually getting a lot of gigs and making you better with crowds, etc.
FWIW, I don't know any producers who actually went to college for it. Taking a few audio classes can be useful for a variety of things, but I wouldn't get a degree in it. Almost none of the professional producers I know have a degree in it. If you want something practical, that you can apply to a DJing career, then go with either Marketing/PR/Business (I know a lot of mediocre musicians who made careers out of it entirely because they know how to market themselves well), or Comp-Sci/Electrical Engineering, if you really want to get deep into programming synths, etc it can be useful, and obviously there are a lot of jobs out there if the DJ thing doesn't work out.
Sorry, that was a bit of a ramble:
tl;dr -- Techno DJing is not a great career, but if you want to get involved: Start going to a lot of clubs, try to avoid hanging around with sleazeballs and drug addicts (which is harder than it sounds), and get to know local producers and djs, (which is easier than it sounds).
If you have questions, feel free to memail me.
posted by empath at 11:49 AM on September 26 [4 favorites]
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Google’s recent push into tablets and mobile along with offering new search services such as Google Instant are pushing up company’s capital expenditures, which is slotted to grow almost 184 percent in 2010 as compared to last year. And next year that amount is going to go up even higher. But this spending is a good thing – for it allows Google to leverage its inherent advantage – infrastructure.
A few years ago, in a post I noted that infrastructure was Google’s key competitive advantage. It is what allowed the company to innovate and outpace its rivals. It allowed the company to give us results faster than our broadband connections could offer — in the process making us more subservient to its search. In the end, we all forget the directories and instead focused on the search-box as the start of our Internet journey. Today Google is a gigantic, $7.3-billion-in-quarterly-sales business.
One thing Google knows: it needs to keep spending money on this infrastructure in order to stay competitive and current with times. The company recently introduced Google Instant, a new feature that allows you to get results even as you are still typing the search term. It is a service akin to the old days when an Intel chip got multimedia extensions.
Google Instant, in many ways is an evolution of a product to keep up with times – today’s faster broadband mean that the search results need to come up faster than one could type. More importantly, Google Instant is a search product optimized for a brave new world where the user interface is touch rather than keyboards, and devices are not your classic computer, but instead mobile and tablet-like.
One of the reasons Google has been able to launch Google Instant is because it can afford to spend a lot of money on its infrastructure. During the third quarter of 2010, the company spent nearly $757 million, the highest amount since the first quarter of 2008, according to investment bank, J.P. Morgan. (In comparison, Google spent a total of $810 million on capital expenditures in all of 2009.) In a conference call with Wall Street yesterday, Google vice president Jonathan Rosenberg told the analyst community:
From a revenue standpoint, its impact has been very minimal; and from a resource standpoint, it’s actually pretty expensive. So why did we do it? Well, we believe from a user standpoint, Instant is outstanding and the data that we are seeing actually bears this out.
Google’s spending on capital expenditures (mostly on data centers) had been on a decline. THat is about to change. According to J.P. Morgan, the company is going to spend $2.3 billion on capital expenses in 2010 versus $810 million last year. For next year the investment bank is forecasting, $3.2 billion in capital spending.
Some Wall Street analysts are going to view this increased spending and wring their hands. They are idiots and short-term thinkers. I see the growth in capital expenses as a sign of health, and that things are going well for Google – actually really well.
Let me explain – till recently Google had to focus on a small subset of actions to satisfy its end customers – You and I – and thus make money off of advertising. Throw in YouTube videos and Gmail, if you want, but browser-based search and search-based advertising were its bread and butter.
Google is said to be the single biggest source of traffic on many of world’s networks and that is with only a handful of offerings. Now imagine how big Google will be as a percentage of the source of Internet traffic once we start taking their new initiatives into account. That also explains why they need to build their own networks and lay their own fiber pipes.
Now the number of consumer interactions has grown multifold. Google’s Android mobile operating system is an Internet-enabled OS, which is peppered with Google services that are used more frequently because we have access to them in our pockets. This overall growth in data center capabilities is only going to go up as the company becomes more successful with its Android push. By spending on data centers and networks, what Google is ensuring is that Google Android will always have a great user experience. Remember, in a world dominated by cloud clients – nothing matters more than instant access to various Internet services.
Related content from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d) about Google, and its Mobile Efforts:
- Why Google Should Fear the Social Web
- Report: Google’s Voice Possibilities.
- How Mobile Cloud Computing Will Change Tech
I'm a DJ (well, more like I used to be at this point). I've played gigs opening for some of the biggest DJs in the world (Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Crystal Method, etc). I've met a bunch of DJs and producers, I know a bunch of promoters and agents, I've booked headliner DJs for a party I promoted, and I was involved one of the biggest weekly parties in the country for a few years, so I know what I'm talking about.
Being a techno DJ is not a career. Don't get into it planning on doing it as a career. The vast majority of local techno DJs do it for free or for very little money. You will almost definitely not become a professional techno DJ if that is what you set out to do.
Also, the reality is that you are going to be dealing with a lot of organized crime, alcoholics, drug dealers, drug addicts and general sleaze balls. Club owners are rip off artists, promoters are disorganized and shady, etc. Getting involved as a DJ can be rewarding when you play a successful party and everything goes well, but man when you first start it's just a lot of hard work for almost no pay off. I did get to play for 3,000 people who loved everything I played and were screaming and yelling once, but man there were hundreds of shitty gigs playing for disinterested assholes that I didn't get paid for that led up to that.
I'm not saying don't do it. I'm saying keep it as a hobby, and be realistic.
However, you can be a producer without going through any of that shit, and its a shortcut to skip past the local DJ scene and go straight to the big time. Also, if you know how to produce, there are plenty of tools (notably ableton) that are basically a shortcut to DJing, so you won't need to learn how to beatmatch or scratch to get gigs if you have a couple of big remixes out.
It will probably take you 8-10 years to get good enough to have make a successful dance record. This is why most 'big name' producers are in their 30s and 40s. It takes that long to figure everything out.
You're 17 and you have music training, which puts you ahead of 90% of the beginning music producers out there, so you have a head start. If you can get some quality records out by the time you're 25 or so, you'll have a good shot at actually being a headliner, but you have to not give up when you're doing it for 2 or 3 years and your stuff still isn't good enough. I'm not exaggerating, I have friends that spent 5 or 6 years failing before they made anything good at all and started selling songs.
As soon as you turn 18, you NEED to start going to clubs, because I don't think you can understand the music on a deep level until you actually dance to it at a club with a room full of people. You don't need to go every week, and you don't need to drink or do drugs to understand it, no matter what anyone tells you (and lots of people will tell you that you do).
Don't hyper-focus on one subgenre. Go to see dubstep shows, hip-hop, drum and bass, trance, house, all of it.
Join the messageboards or facebook groups for every club that you go to. Send emails to local DJs and producers that you like. Make friends with them. Believe me, they all love to hear from people who like their stuff and most DJs will talk endlessly about the stuff they like and what they do and why. Try to find a local DJ or two or three that will reliably play your songs and give you feedback on them. And if you can write melodies and understand harmony and chords, you will be way ahead of 90% of local producers, and a lot of them will want to work with you. Believe it or not, many of them write by trial and error and don't have any clue about music theory, chords, etc, having someone who can take all their awesome synth patches and make a decent pop hook out of them is like striking gold.
If you focus on going to one club or party, it's not hard to get to know the promoters, which will let you make contact with big name DJs when they bring in headliners. Don't harass them to listen to your stuff, but it doesn't hurt to be a face or a name they recognize for when you do have something worth listening to, but don't waste big name DJs time listening to your stuff until you start getting positive feedback from local DJs.
As far as equipment -- Get a laptop with Ableton. Optionally, get an APC 40 controller and a midi keyboard. That's all you need. Everyone uses it, it's relatively simple to use and you can use it for both production and DJing. Beyond that, once you start meeting local producers, find out what they use and ask them to show you how to use it.
Once you get ableton, get a local DJ that uses it to show you how. You can pick up the basics in a few hours. Then start harassing your friends to let you play at house parties. They will mostly hate your music but that's fine, you'll still learn a lot. You'll find out what songs they like. Start downloading them and have them ready to play. Eventually they'll stop hating you and you'll have enough stuff to play at non-techno gigs, when you get offered. Knowing how to play a good techno set is important, but knowing how to play every genre of music is key to actually getting a lot of gigs and making you better with crowds, etc.
FWIW, I don't know any producers who actually went to college for it. Taking a few audio classes can be useful for a variety of things, but I wouldn't get a degree in it. Almost none of the professional producers I know have a degree in it. If you want something practical, that you can apply to a DJing career, then go with either Marketing/PR/Business (I know a lot of mediocre musicians who made careers out of it entirely because they know how to market themselves well), or Comp-Sci/Electrical Engineering, if you really want to get deep into programming synths, etc it can be useful, and obviously there are a lot of jobs out there if the DJ thing doesn't work out.
Sorry, that was a bit of a ramble:
tl;dr -- Techno DJing is not a great career, but if you want to get involved: Start going to a lot of clubs, try to avoid hanging around with sleazeballs and drug addicts (which is harder than it sounds), and get to know local producers and djs, (which is easier than it sounds).
If you have questions, feel free to memail me.
posted by empath at 11:49 AM on September 26 [4 favorites]
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This paper is to hopefully help those lost housewives, job-seekers with bad luck, and others seeking extra income make mistakes and waste both time and money. I hope it is insightful and I hope my experience can help those from wasting their time like I did. I wrote this to inform because there is an endless barrage of people misleading the public into thinking there's a great wealth waiting for them when there's not. Hopefully whoever reads this will save time, money, and a little bit of his or her sanity. What's written here is from my own experiences in trying to make money and from crossing paths with others trying to do the same. This guide is for the beginner and novice who's not a big player but wants information to keep him or her from losing money in an effort to make it.
Every year millions if not billions of dollars are lost by people hoping to find work online only to find nothing. The FBI, the postal service, and other government agencies vigorously go after the fraudulent means of taking your money, but new scams always pop up in large quantities anyway. For the legitimate means of earning money, the competition usually tends to be too fierce for you to earn a decent living.
There are also many legitimate and honest means of earning money online that I do not wish to disrespect, but the issue with those tends to be the same with lots of people just like you trying to earn some honest money, which drives down what you can earn.
1. Online surveys.
We've seen the offers to pay us for taking online surveys. The truth is that they never ever materialize into cash. They're just scams intended to bombard you with a page full of sponsors. After you answer the questions, you get spam in your e-mail, and sometimes even get unsolicited calls, to get you to buy the stuff you selected in the surveys. They basically function the same way spyware does with collecting personal information, buying habits, and what items your buying tendencies lean toward in order to more effectively market more stuff towards you.
2. Get paid to click on pop-up ads.
Pop-ups are intended to get you to a site to BUY stuff, not casually browse then leave. I've read reports that some have gotten paid - pennies. Other than that, they're just another way to steer you into making money for someone else. Get the scam? You are lured in with the false hope of making money for the sake of trying to get you to make money for others by buying from them.
3. Get a free TV or video game system (or whatever).
Like online surveys, the "free offers" are intended to steer you towards pages full of sponsors. The catch is that you must buy a certain value of dollar's worth of goods and/or services from sponsors before you can get your "free" item. After completion, do you get the "free" item? No. There's always an "accidental" glitch in the system that keeps your fulfillment of the obligations from registering with the company making the free offer, the site closes and disappears, or they just blow you off completely. To add to it, the personal information collected will serve to spam you with more harassment to buy more junk.
4. Mailing lists.
There are scams involving making money off of mailing post cards or letters. They don't work. The only ones who make the money are the ones parting you with your money in exchange for information on how to buy lists to sell post cards with offers on them. Many mailing lists you partake in are illegal pyramid schemes that will land you in all sorts of trouble if you're caught, so do yourself a favor and avoid them.
5. TV Infomercial "get rich quick" schemes.
These are glorified scalping schemes. You hoard what's in demand and sell for a profit; often on EBay, Craigslist, or in the paper. It sometimes works, but the problem is that a lot of people do it, so whatever you're planning on selling, you can expect a saturated market. There is almost no market left on Earth that doesn't already have large players hoarding the lion's share of the profits. Some of them also involve opening your own online store in which they drop-ship under your name, and others involve government auctions, and they will be discussed later.
6. Real estate
It's a great idea. Buy a house on the cheap and flip it for a profit. The downside? Too many people do it, making for a saturated market even when the housing industry is doing well. As of this writing, it's not doing well at all. That makes for cheap houses, giving the advantage to buyers, but if you're buying to re-sell, re-selling is a problem. It could take a while to sell it in the current down market, and in the mean time you're paying taxes and maintenance that could eat away at any potential profits. If there are added complications like back taxes, liens, etc, then it's only that much harder to turn a profit. To add to it, when you buy real estate over the net, you have the extra issue of not being fully disclosed on everything that may be wrong with the property.
7. Buy at government auctions on the cheap, sell for profit.
Another great idea if those auctions weren't filled with bargain-hunters who drive up prices so high that bargains are seldom found. Still, people selling packages online promising huge amounts of cash for doing just that are everywhere, and even in infomercials too. Some auctions won't let you through the door unless you are representing a business. A lot of used car dealers frequent them to hoard up the cars for re-sale, and make it expensive for you if they don't win. A lot of house-flippers go there for the houses, driving up prices. Hell a lot of everyone goes to government and private auctions for everything to be found in them, and the end result is that there are seldom any bargains to be had.
8. Christmas time "it" item store raids.
We've all seen it: $1,000 Tickle-Me-Elmo's, $1,000 Nintendo Wii's, Furbies, Xbox's, PS3's, toys, etc. Waiting in line at a brick-and-mortar retail store to hoard up what WILL be a sure-seller is a long process, and competition is without mercy, so seeking to sell what is in high demand isn't as simple as it sounds. You have people maxing out their credit cards to buy as many as possible, and for stores who post limits, bring family members and friends with them. It's not just Christmas time either. It's easy to figure out when toy stocking day is at a given retailer because before it opens you see all the toy hoarders standing in line before sunrise, hoping to snag that short-packed (one per case or sometimes one per multiple cases) Hot Wheels car or Star Wars figure.
To make it worst, many low-pay store employees do the same thing, charging their credit cards to pay for it in order to make some money on the side. BUT they have the advantage because they can and often do prevent that one rare action figure from even reaching the shelves in the first place. Casual scans of EBay over the years have shown me many instances where the seller showed off his/her entire store case of high-demand action figures that he could not have possibly gotten without being an employee.
Now on to selling your Christmas "it" gift on EBay. You get lots of bidders, but many are low feedback or zero feedback buyers. That's because most are deadbeats. They're also often YOU using fake alternate accounts to bid up your own auctions to gain more money, which is dishonest. It's easy to spot shill-bidding because someone will keep bidding repeatedly even when he/she is winning, or the same two zero-feedback buyers will engage in a fake bidding war to drive up prices. Because of this vicious cycle of high reserves, buy-it-now prices, fake bidders, and deadbeats, very few Christmas "it" items get sold at a high price. Most people just aren't stupid enough to pay an insane price for something that will be in high quantities a month after Christmas. The end result: Christmas passes, you still have your "it" item (or stockpile of them), some child who wanted it didn't get it under the Christmas tree because of the prices, and you are left with either lowering the price or returning it to the store for a refund.
9. Create your own brand.
You can connect with a Chinese supplier to supply you with anything you can imagine. Some will even let you put your own name on whatever you're selling. Just add "China wholesale" or "China manufacturer" to whatever item you are interested in selling to Google or any other search engine. You will find sources, usually organizations made up of multiple suppliers and producers, who can help you, and signing up as a buyer is free most of the time.
Owning your own electronics firm sounds pretty nice and prestigious, and the start-up costs are the minimum number of units each producer requires (ranges from a few dozen units to just one unit) plus shipping. Electronics and musical instruments in particular are comparatively cheap to buy wholesale from a Chinese manufacturer. It's not entirely that easy, though. If it were, I'd be a millionaire. There is a problem and it lies in the customer. The average saxophone or guitar player would rather hold out for a $1000 name brand instrument than pay $200 for a no-name one, and it doesn't help that Chinese-made instruments of any kind are stared down upon by professionals, amateurs, and instructors alike as inferior. For electronics, people would be reluctant to buy a no-name HDTV off of an online auction instead of buying a brand he/she feels is reliable. Still, these items do sell well in overall volume, but there are lots of sellers, so profits are slim.
For other means of creating your own brand, like for goods you produce yourself, the situation of high competition remains. Still, if you can find a niche market, you can do OK. That's hard to do though. The internet is flooded with plenty of sellers for everything you can think of. There are also domestic suppliers of toys, candy, health and beauty supplies, clothing, and just about everything you can imagine. I have not seen any instances where domestic suppliers let you put your own name on their items, but I am sure they are out there.
10. EBay
What to sell? There's always the Christmas "it" item, but that's seasonal. The problem of what to sell to make any money off of is a huge one. There are honest means, of course. There are many organizations that sell to EBay store owners and some that even do drop-shipping (you sell it, they ship it under your name). They are also easy to find on search engines. The problem of "saturated market" once again shows itself, which is the main problem. If you have something to sell, odds are dozens of people have the exact same thing bought from the exact same source. Finding something unique to have a niche market is the most desirable and the most difficult situation to have when trying to sell stuff online. If you're just barely making a profit off of what you're selling, the auction listing fees could and often does make those profits disappear.
11. Work at home.
Most "work-at-home" jobs are a crock. They sell "programs" that are sometimes just lists of potential clients for you to work for with no guarantees (like the get-rich-quick scams), and sometimes programs that teach you how to sell the same junk you just bought to other people for a profit. Some that are legitimate offer transcriber work that is so low-paying that you don't recover the cost of the service or net so little that it's not worth the time. Medical billing services in particular come up a lot when searching for work-at-home jobs online. They're nothing. They sell you worthless lists that won't make you any money.
There are legitimate ones though, like guru.com and other freelance sites, which hooks freelancers with people who need certain work done. They have free basic access to potential freelance work, but the big-paying jobs are for paying subscribers only. The catch: you have to bid, and the winner is the lowest bidder with adequate skills. That makes it difficult, especially if your resume is on the lacking side. There are also quite a few bidders for work at these sites. Freelancing is good honest scam-free work without a doubt, but you have to be willing to work many hours to make any money since the low bid wins. The type of freelance work varies from simple audio/video transcription to complicated IT, research, accounting, and finance work, so a college degree pays here. You won't get rich doing it, but at least it can pad your resume with a diverse selection of employers. Then there are sites like trialpractice.com and online verdict.com that pay you to listen in on mock trials lawyers perform as mock jurists so they can rehearse for a case. The pay is fair for the service, but not much work is offered.
12. Franchises.
Yes it's possible to buy a franchise over the internet. You can buy anything over the net. Most of the large firms require big money (from several tens of thousands of dollars up to a million dollars or more) and require brick-and-mortar store operations. It's very expensive and the start-up costs (thanks to the franchise fees) are beyond unrealistic. It takes a long time, often years, to recover the start-up costs. Loans are used most of the time to pay for them, and adding interest for the loans only compounds the difficulty of breaking even before you start turning a profit. Still, if you can bear it, a franchise can be a no-brainer if you pick a good location in a good market.
13. Referral sites.
There are tons of sites that are on the net for the sole purpose of kicking you over to another site. A classic example is Musician's Friend, a musical instruments store with probably hundreds of sites whose sole purpose is to kick you over to Musician's Friend when you find something you like. Adult sites are also notorious for using high volumes of referral sites. The purpose is simple: flood Google. How nice it would be for a store if most of the search returns took you to the same place. Stores who do this offer a referral service in which you are paid or get barter (trade) for their goods. The problem is that it takes an unrealistic amount of visitors to your referral site (thousands or more) to add up to any amount of money, and when considering that you're not the only referral site for the "mother site," you will make little to no money that often won't even pay for the fees to host your referral site.
14. Porn.
This had to come up because of the sheer numbers of people who get into the adult business with the hopes of easy money. They're usually done by offering access for a subscription fee. The flaw in them as a money-maker once again is a saturated market. There is no shortage of them, so the chances of you making any money are slim at best. It doesn't help that torrents, file sharers, and various adult version copies of YouTube make the average adult site patron not have to spend any money at all to see adult material.
15. Spamming message boards.
One of the oldest means of advertising is showing up on message boards to advertise a site in the discussions. Moderators ALWAYS delete spam and almost always ban the spammers. It's not done as much as it used to because of it. Still, there are some who are promised easy money to advertise in forums, only to find they earned pennies or nothing at all. It annoys the message board patrons, moderators will get rid of it, and it's easily one of the most dead-end ways of trying to make money.
16. Junk E-mails.
Junk e-mails are easily the most notorious and hated form of soliciting business. You bulk-send ads and hope for responses that lead to sales. You use multiple e-mail accounts to get past people's spam blockers. You even go through illegal means of using the e-mail accounts of other people and proxies to hide your identity from angry victims while bouncing the spam through multiple e-mail accounts. Spam e-mail is itself increasingly becoming illegal and bulk e-mailers are even prosecuted when they're caught. 99.99% of all people hate it, so you have to send out millions of spam e-mails in order to make that 0.01% profitable. Besides, above all else, people will hate you for this more so than any other online profession.
How do you get the list of victims to spam? There are many marketing firms who unleash email harvesters onto the internet to scour it for e-mail addresses, and the lists are acquired from them; for a price of course. There are also associations of direct marketers who share information that you could always join. Both have questionable ethics, but like people who make bongs for smoking drugs, they claim innocence and claim they're not responsible for what people do with their goods even though they know what their goods were developed and intended to be used for.
17. Letting others advertise on your site.
If you have your own site (maybe a fan site, an educational site, etc), you think you can help yourself to some extra cash by putting a small ad above and another one to the side, and maybe a pop-up or pop-under. The problem is they pay so poorly that they often just barely cover the cost of the servers, and no one gets rich off of them. They're good if you want support for a non-profit site of some sort, but as a money-maker they won't help. Another problem is spyware that YOU distribute, which can and does often come as part of the price you pay for letting advertisers in. Many banners for ads also collect information on your visitors too, so too many ads can actually keep customers and visitors away, especially if they have scumware.
18. Your own online store.
Ah.....the freedom and independence of being your own boss of your own store. Been there, done that, made no money. This, like so many other methods, is hard to make money at thanks to market saturation. You have to pay server fees that increase with traffic, marketing, fees to list in search engines, etc. For this to work, you really need to stand out and establish your site as a brand. Search for anything on a search engine. The majority of you will not make it past a few pages in the results to see the small no-name shops. Still, setting up an online store isn't as hard as it sounds. Many service providers offer simple-to-use templates that make setting up to be simple and quick.
19. Online shopping/mystery shopping.
Online shopping is just survey taking and follows the same scam as it does, so no money is to be made there. Mystery shopping in stores is a scam. People promise to pay you if you go to the store and do an incognito "survey" by buying goods and forwarding the prices to the surveyor. The problem is that they either never pay you, or engage in a scam (that could land you in jail) in which they give you a fake check, you give them your bank account information, you cash the check, they clear out your account, and you're there having to deal with the bank when it realizes it has a fake check that you signed and gave them. Avoid at all costs, even the ones posted on job boards that seem legitimate.
20. Your own auction house.
Yes it's possible, and there are quite a few independent auction houses on the net. To get one, you must first get a host, which is relatively cheap. Then there is the auction software, which varies in cost from $300 up to $1,000. Then there is getting attention to your auction site and away from EBay, which is hard. Having your own auction house works best when you are selling items EBay won't sell or makes difficult to sell, like for wine and other alcohol, guns, etc. These bear huge legal liabilities though, and can be more trouble than they're worth. For items readily available on EBay, it is simply not worth it and the odds of you even paying for the high cost of the auction software are really small.
21. Online casinos.
You have a "system" for slots, craps, roulette, or poker for increasing the probability of winning, so you think its easy money, right? Wrong. Online casinos rig the games in their favor. For Blackjack, Poker, and other card games, there is simply no way you the player can know the number of virtual decks being used, the shuffle rate, or if they're even stacked against you by rigging the good cards to go to the dealer and the junk going to you. For roulette, the probabilities are simply changed to rule in their favor. For example, the roulette table divides into three sections (1 - 12, 13 - 24, and 25 - 36). The statistical probability of each is a clear 1/3. If you place chips on two of them, you increase the probability of winning to 2/3. The casinos change what they're willing to pay to 2-to-1 in order to give a payout of zero if you win through that method. The probabilities of all the numbers are also lowered to reduce the payout and the probability of winning if you "spread" your chips over a large area. Even if you go ahead and try covering 2/3 of the board for a 2/3 statistical probability, the game will still beat you anyway. I tried it, and couldn't believe how many times the game beat the statistical advantage I had. It was to the point of being unrealistic.
I know the situation: you tried the free play they always offer, and did pretty well at it. You then tried to play with real money only to find yourself on the bad end of a losing streak. You think it was just bad luck and since the free play went so well you KNOW you can make money playing. So you add more money, and keep losing it. This is how online gambling addictions form. I tried it, and my only conclusion is that the game is rigged to be in your favor (or at least a little fairer) for the free play and rigged in favor of the online casino owner for the cash play. Avoid it. Losing money this way breaks up families, wrecks lives, and most certainly doesn't bring wealth. Don't forget it's their software, and software writers can write it to do anything they want it to do.
22. Selling travel packages
This scam does occasionally appear online. It involves you selling tour and vacation packages for someone else. The thing is that there are no packages, and what you're selling is a big pile of nothing or is a package that doesn't fully disclose what it comes or doesn't come with. This is another criminal scheme that you should not get involved with.
23. Online Investments
A classic way to wealth is to simply invest it in stocks, precious metals, business ventures, etc. Investing is also not short in the area of dishonest thieves tricking you out of your money. Always research any firm before you give your money to them, and be reluctant to deal with an investment firm you've never heard of before.
Still, there are honest ones, and can lose your money with the honest ones too because it's up to the markets as a whole and the companies you and your firm invested in to determine your profitability. To make a lot of money investing, you need to have a lot of money invested. Having a couple of thousands of dollars to invest will only yield you small returns of a few dollars. You also need time. Investors build their wealth over many years. Government bonds are generally considered safe investments, as they are steady, predictable, and reliable.
When dealing with investment firms online, always ask for securities licenses. A legal and honest broker will have NASD securities licenses. Series 63 and 65 licenses are usually the first ones they have, as they legally authorize a broker to sell financial services, and they're the easiest to get. The Series 7 license authorizes an agent to sell any type of security. A Series 3 license authorizes a broker to sell futures or options on futures. There are many more, so do your homework. I also repeat: always ask for licenses! I am sure some crooks out there will have licenses anyway and some will lie and claim they have them, but checking certification does help minimize risk.
Gold is another attractive investment that tends to be reliable and stable. People need to be careful because a newbie to investing can and often is suckered by unscrupulous dealers and by their own ignorance. There are TWO types of investing for metals: intrinsic and numismatic.
Intrinsic amounts to what I call inflated junk. You turn on the TV, watch the shopping channels, and see them selling coins at well above what you'd rationally think they're worth. The salesman swears they're worth the high price because they're "special limited edition" and because they're "proof" (uncirculated, sometimes with special finishes) coins that have been graded by an official grading service. I watched such a show a week before writing this, and saw a salesman swearing that since the value of gold is increasing, his graded coins selling for nearly twice the market rate for gold will increase. He was wrong; completely. You almost never get what you paid for graded coins when you try to re-sell them because graded or not they're only worth the market rate for their metals. They're a glorified scam that sells to collectors who see them as valuable in their minds even if the markets say something different. That's why they're called "intrinsic." I cannot stress this enough: avoid intrinsic coins. As investments, they're junk. The graded coin salesmen try non-stop to sell them as investment-grade collectibles when the truth is they're flat-out wrong. Every day uneducated new investors are suckered out of their money by buying intrinsic coins that cost above what they're worth while thinking they'll get a return that exceeds what they paid. Those coins are fine as collectibles if you're a collector and not an investor, but do not believe the sales pitches from the people selling them that they're investment-grade because they're not.
That is where numismatic metal comes from. Numismatic metals are the true investment metals that are worth exactly what the commodities market rate for an ounce is this very second. There are plenty of dealers who sell them, too. Dealers sell them at market rate plus a fee that decreases as the volume of that metal you buy increases. Still, like stocks and bonds, it takes time and lots of money to gain a good return off of the investment in gold and other metals, but more like bonds numismatic metals like gold tends to be very reliable and stable.
Well there is my 23 ways you won't make money on the internet. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but the reality is that for every good idea you have, a thousand others had the same idea already and are already in play.
There are exceptions though; there are always exceptions. Most online stores that do well are ones that are well-established and have a name brand to them, such as Amazon, EBay, etc. Not to forget that almost every brick-and-mortar store has its own online store to bring that name brand recognition over the net paired with locally available customer service. Many sellers on auctions and online store owners live off their online incomes as full-time jobs, but they do so through volume sales being high enough to where the small returns add up to a livable amount of money. This requires a level of work that some may not find suitable for their goals.
Your most idealistic situation for selling goods is one in which the number of sellers are low and the number of buyers is either high or consistently in demand of what you are selling. This is where niche markets excel. Those with the creativity to offer goods and/or services not tapped by the broader market for your goods do well. Having a name brand established always helps, and for someone just entering the market to do it, you establish it through persistence, quality of customer service, and reliability. For online jobs, IT work never goes into shortages. Most other online jobs either pay poorly, don't pay at all, or downright criminal scams.
If you do decide on an online venture to make some money, I recommend starting off doing as a means of supplementing your income only. Don't jump into depending on it as your primary source of income because that is just too risky. By all means you should avoid any and all criminal scams because going to jail isn't worth it.
If you ever question whether a venture you got involved with, there are sources to go to. One is the FBI, which does look into it and does go after perpetrators if a crime has been committed. Another is www.scam.com, which is an excellent message board for people to help each other avoid new scams.
The future is unwritten. When I was in high school, I foresaw the internet and most aspects of it like many science fiction fans did, bit I did not foresee the billions to be gained from all the good ideas that came with it. The best way to fortunes on the net is the same way fortunes were made in the 1990's: find and bring a new idea to the market and capitalize on it. There are still countless good ideas that no one has even thought of yet, and imagination is by far the greatest asset you can possess when it comes to sitting there and thinking of something that has never been done before. Living like everyone else is achieved by doing what everyone else does, while wealth is achieved by being the one who thinks differently. Tomorrow is only limited by your ability to imagine it, so don't be afraid to think outside what you consider to be normal.
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