While we see the headlines about thousands of new internet sites being launched each and every day of the year, it seems that more and more would be online entrepreneurs are calling it a day. The news that some are struggling will not surprise those who follow the industry but why are people calling it a day? What is the problem?

The problem with many new entrants to the online world is the fact that they see the headlines, they see the multi-millionaires driving about in their new Ferrari’s and they want it – tomorrow!

There is no other business environment which can match the internet for building up your hopes only to scupper them and leave you feeling helpless – but is it really that bad. The sad fact is that many people who join the online revolution come to the party with some great ideas, fresh thoughts and a will to win. However, too many get disappointed and leave the scene before they have given their site and business a chance to breath. It does not happen over night for 99.999999% of people, so give it time and give your new business time to breath. Make sure you don’t give you site and your early start business away for buttons!

More and more people are set to feel real pain and guilt in the future with more and more savvy online business people picking up good sites, good domains and great business ideas for “buttons”. A little bit more “link juice”, a revamp of the site design and the business you sold for a few dollars may well be the success story of tomorrow. Don’t regret it, don’t give it away and don’t lose the faith!

The chance to make a living online is there for all of us, we all just need to take a little more time and work, work, work…..the chance is yours, don’t miss it!

I don’t know if you have heard about AboutUs.org before but it’s a wiki similar to Wikipedia.org, but it’s only for web sites. You can look up any domain name you like in AboutUs.org by typing aboutus.org/sampleaddress.com in your web browser.

There are three ways to get your domain name listed in AboutUs.org:

1. Wait until the AboutUs.org bot has spidered your site
2. Write your own page
3. Pay AboutUs.org $197 to do the page for you

To find out if it’s a good deal to pay for a page at AboutUs.org I pulled out my credit card and paid. To be honest I didn’t only pay just to be able to do this review, I really really wanted a better AboutUs.org page too . A good Aboutus.org page must be as good as a good MillionDollarWiki.com page or maybe even better

At their site they offer you the following for a flat fee of $197:

• Position yourself in front of more than 5,000,000 unique readers each month.
• Increase your results in the search engines.
• Point more traffic to your website.
• Create an amazing article that will tell the world about your business.
• Build strong relationships with the community.
• Develop ongoing dialog about you and your business.
• Generate another way for clients to find you.

I’m happy with the coach I got to help me build the page, but what I don’t like is that most of the stuff at my AboutUs.org page is copied directly from my site. Hey it’s a page about my site so it actually doesn’t matter…. Or?

The traffic they mention is not something I’ve noticed at all , but I guess it will take until the next pagerank update by Google to see some results on the search engine ranking. I think they should offer some kind of statistics for the people that upgrade their page because otherwise it’s going to be really hard to figure out if it was a good investment or not. Especially since it’s your wiki page that’s featured on their front page, not your actual homepage.

So, was it worth $197?

My opinion is that it’s not worth the money, but on the other hand people spend $100 for a page at MillionDollarWiki and then you don’t get any help building the page at all. At Aboutus.org I got a coach helping me at least.

If you can build your page yourself (i.e. you know the syntax) and have the time to do it then do that instead of paying $197. If you don’t know how to do your own page and really really really really want a better AboutUs.org page, then buy this service.

If you’re interested in having a look at my AboutUs.org page you’ll find it at aboutus.org/xaviermedia.com.

Since Clickbooth hasn’t been able to approve my site in time for this review I’m just publishing my review of the signup process. Since I still after several days waiting don’t have access to the publisher functions I have decided to ignore that part of their site.

I’ve been trying to earn some money from Clickbooth Affiliate Network and I have to say that their registration process almost lost me to someone else since it’s over-kill in annoying. For example you have to fill in your phone number to receive a call with a PIN code before you can complete the registration process. They claim it’s for preventing fraud, but I can’t really see how that can prevent any fraud

Next step in the registration are the categories. Unfortunately they didn’t have that many good categories for a webmaster related web site like this so I had to go for “Business/B2B”. What surprised me where all the “Email Submit” categories they had…..

They claim they approve sites within 72 hours, but that’s not the case when I signed up. I sent an email to their support too to speed up the approval process without success. They didn’t even answer my email

From what I can see their just another publisher network for ads, but if you want to earn some extra cash you could try them out (if they approve you that is).