I’ve done nothing in the past couple weeks in working towards building wealth. Well, that’s not quite true, I’m in the process of opening an index fund account, but that’s not what I mean when I talk about building wealth. I went down the path of Internet Marketing for a while when I stumbled across Ridiculous Income Goals and its reports for only $7.20. Usually internet marketing reports cost a heck of a lot more so I decided to spend the $7.20 and see what this was all about. I can honestly say that the stuff I received was easily worth $7.20 and I haven’t even finished reading them all yet.

This made me seriously consider getting into the whole internet marketing game. However, after thinking about it some more, I started wondering where the true value was. I have no doubt I could make money at it (and may still give it a shot), but where is the value to the customer? It seems to me that most of the customers will be other people like myself looking to build wealth (aka MAKE MONEY!). That just doesn’t sit right with me. My original concept of providing video tutorials and (hopefully) generating revenue from ads was based on the idea of first providing valuable content then monetizing it. At this point, I just don’t see any value in internet marketing beyond gathering money from others who are looking to do the same.

That’s not to say that “gathering money” is not valuable, I just don’t feel that’s what I want to be all about. I suppose if I was using internet marketing as my primary income then I might feel differently. My day job is all about using technology to provide value to my customers (being other internal employees) and I really enjoy that. It feels good to make someones life a little easier and I think I want to do that with my other wealth activities. Unfortunately, that has left me blowing in the wind a bit these last couple weeks and I still don’t know what I’m going to do yet. I like the training/tutorial idea, but I just don’t have the motivation to work on that right now. Taking a page from the internet marketing book, I think I could work on reports of my own with content about more than just making money but again, I’m not motivated to work on that right now. Heh, maybe I need to read more of these reports and see where it takes me. I don’t know, I’m really not sure what to do. I guess I’ll have to let it sit for awhile longer…

- Dave