To think it must be possible to make £10k a month online?

[mammaneedsadrink]

Basically I want to earn more money, but I also want to be able to have a life and spend time with my kids. Me and DH both work full time and we earn a very decent income, however, whilst on paper we are probs in the top 1%, in reality we are not rich at all (although we are comfortable). I see all these posts on social media about warning 10k a month online from just a few hours a day. AIBU to think this must be possible some how? Surely all these people can't be lying? Has anyone (successfully) built one of these online businesses, or know someone who has? How do they do it?!?!

If i had money, i'd buy brains!

🤢 Disgusted that PPs are encouraging you to become a sex worker. How sad.

I don't think it was a serious suggestion, although I imagine some very successful cam workers do earn in that range.

Never doubt the niche market

You say it's mainly his salary, not yours so I'd look at increasing your job potential where you are or studying to increase your options rather than adding a third role on top of two full time jobs and kids .

@mysingingmonstersfan i don’t think it’s worth it tbh. My own kids I’m focusing on English and maths and computing will come later. I think their literacy and numeracy skills are far important especially numeracy which will lead to higher paid jobs.

I'm not replying to be rude whatsoever, OP, but, genuine question, have you ever read though a similar thread and there have been many on AIBU?
Or are you familiar at all with AIBU?
If you were you wouldn't be baffled or shocked at these replies at all.
AIBU is not a fluffy place.

If you made a million dollars at an easy job taking just a few hours a week while sitting poolside in a luxury resort, would you spend time buying YouTube ads to tell other people how it's done so they can be your competition?
If a thousand other people started doing it after you taught them for the low monthly payment of whatever, wouldn't you expect to lose some business?

If these people made the money they say in the way they say they do, they wouldn't be running those ads.
They make some money from desperate or gullible people buying their 'course'.

Feels like every other person is shilling an online course these days, it's the 2020s version of a snake oil salesman selling a cure for your financial health.

It is possible to make 10k a month online.
It's unlikely to be something you can get into profit within a year or two with that succeeds in doing that, or done by a one man band putting in a few hours between trips to a coffee shop.
You would need a USP & a product/service with real value behind it in a market with low to no competition.
It's likely you also need some capital to put in that you won't get back for a while & will be prepared to work 70 hour + weeks for a few years without a holiday before really starting to go into profit.

Nobody on Mumsnet who is in that position is going to hand it out as an easy answer to anyone just for the asking.
They may have spent decades earning the skills or knowledge required to be in a position to take advantage of their idea.

Oh, I see. I wouldn't get jealous about some randoms on the www. They can take it as an inspiration to improve their lot, surely.

I never understand how people get sucked into these scams, who do you think is going to give you £10k a month for a few hours work if you have no particular skill set or product or specialist knowledge?

I find it rather odd that someone can apparently be so switched on enough to be in the top 1% of earners, yet at the same time be so, let's be polite and say naive, enough to believe these ridiculous Internet money making scams are actually genuine.

One might say it’s “unkind” to be so tone deaf about your huge family income while there are people actually struggling out there..?

That’s only 5K. Leaving you with £8K .. say that’s about £3K on bills. You’re only just comfortable on £5K disposable income a month?

@nonheme you speak a lot of sense. Good on you.

@Brokendaughter indeed, your post is accurate. I spent 2 months listening to free podcast on different topics, any free time I had including when cleaning, on what I could do to as wanted to change things up a bit- and I got the initial few years developing something and leveraging it with something in the same line. Pretty much the advice I got from an older friend 10 years ago when I asked a different Q, but in the same vein. So it was a reinforcement for me to keep going.

Also this is highly accurate: "Nobody on Mumsnet who is in that position is going to hand it out as an easy answer to anyone just for the asking.
They may have spent decades earning the skills or knowledge required to be in a position to take advantage of their idea."

As generous as I am with my time, I also don't just hand out answers just like that (mine is not on online business), even irl. People have unrealistic expectations. I even spent 5 months advising an acquaintance after years of his pestering and it was astonishing how he just wouldn't listen to the sensible advice I was dishing out to him for free, but just focussed on 'get rich quick schemes'. After doing all I could, I made a formal exit. He already runs a good business with his dad which is what I said he should focus on and other ideas aligned to it but not taking up his focus from his business. He was coming with 10 new ideas all in one week- who does that? Quick to abandon them all too and then repeat, with fresh ideas.

@nonheme @Maiden2021 Very accurate posts- we make good money(this is with physical products) but for many years it cost us around £700 a month in marketing too to get us to a certain level. As you say I doubt anyone making good money is going to be deliberately inviting others into their existing 'space' unless it's to make money simply by leading on others with poor/non existent 'training or advice'

@mammaneedsadrink I am more. I am wondering if your family income is as you say it is - even with your costs , why you feel you need more and am concerned if it's that you don't get to share that income- and are personally 'kept short' - I hope this isn't the case. Just want to say many of these things really are not what they seem and just involve roping in others with cash to burn to pay for 'coaching' or 'training' this often involves then trying to sell to mates or family or spending considerable amounts on Facebook marketing (where there are hundreds doing the same' I would say there are good ways to maybe make a fifth of that- but still require time and effort and more than you might think

@Crikeyalmighty With physical products, are they easy or hard to market?
I ask because it occurs to me that advertising used to be about telling us how much better our lives would be with a product and now seem to be focused on how miserable/fearful we will be without their product - which irritates and makes me far less inclined to buy.

Then you are not in the top 1% which would be about £450k for a couple

if you earn about £ 200k you take home about £10k a month

@Outerlimit it's a different issue for us as we work in music and also an over 50s Audience- ( virtually all male) so products are unique to us- obviously we compete for our demographics disposable 'spend' - but not on the same items - our main issue isBrexit - making products quite a bit more expensive outside UK and our market is 50% export

Come off it OP. I make a fraction of what you supposedly earn and I have the intelligence to know that earning 10k a month from doing only a couple of hours work a day is virtually impossible unless you've been slogging at it for years for nothing.

Top 1% of earners but zero common sense?