Are you profiting from the Internet?

The Internet is a global social game.

Are you playing that game to win? Or is the game playing you?

Here's what I mean: the Internet is basically a selling machine. Either somebody, somewhere, is using the Internet to sell you something, or YOU are using the Internet to sell somebody something.

If you look at how much money you made in the last 6 months by using email, websites, or the Internet in general, you can see right away whether you are using the Internet profitably, or the Internet is using you profitably.

The question "Are you making money from the Internet?" is a rather blunt and perhaps indiscreet question. It's like asking a married man, "So how's matrimonial life in the bedroom?"

Yet even though we don't want to share the answer with anyone else, we need to know the answer personally. The question of how profitable the Internet actually is for you, is a critical question that has to be answered by everyone.

The Internet has certainly been quite profitable for Indian programmers and workers, who use it to channel services and software solutions to other countries, especially the U.S.

Whether we want to or not, and whether we acknowledge it consciously or not, the Internet is rapidly becoming a powerful platform for commerce. A great number of people will become rich by using and leveraging the Internet. Will you?

The bottom line is that someone who hasn't made $50 from the Internet so far, certainly won't make $50,000 from the Net in a few months, and most definitely won't make $500,000 in a few years.