Vygintas Varnas

Matrix is just a term for a place where something develops.

So, yeah we are definitely living in a Matrix just to be clear it is not in a computer simulation, but in something stronger than computer like God’s simulation.

Many people still don’t know anything about the Matrix, or even don’t believe it. It’s a unordinary world with much stuff to be yet discovered.

All this Matrix works as a system, on autopilot. You can sit and do nothing, the Matrix still would work, so there is nobody controlling this system it works by itself.

If you want to quit your job, the first thing is to make another source of income, most people are stuck in their jobs because they don’t have any source of income. If people had another source of income, maybe even multiple nobody would work.

There are many ways to make another source of income, for me it’s a disability check so I don’t depend on work like most people, I can afford to blog and make some cents here and there.

If you want another source of income, you can make a blog as a business to generate some or full time income, it’s possible but not easy.

When you are away from a job, work on another source of income in your spare time.

No, you don’t need a job in a traditional sense, but you need income of some sort. Many people are stuck in jobs because they don’t know how to make money on their own and independently away from job.

There are really few ways to make money:

• Time for Money
• Skills for Money
• Money for Money
• Business for Money

These are the main ways to make money, of course you could gamble or win the lottery but the odds are very low.

Problems with jobs are that you don’t get money when you don’t work, so it’s better to build a blog as a business because blogs work 24/7 and might generate some income on the side, but it’s not passive income as many people think just because you need fucking load of content.

I been making money from donations and over the period 10-15 years I made just 2000€ in donations.

So to keep this post short I can say that donations are not a reliable source of income, unless you have huge loyal audience, which most people do not have.

As from my experience you need 100K views to just get one donation. You would be making more money via ads if you would be monetized.

If you are starting content creation for fun, sure you can ask for donations, but it will be little 5-10€ and very rare. At least in Lithuania where donation culture is something new.

So, if you want to write a blog, you need to write in this manner.

First is the headline, ideally the headline should be exact search query people type into Google search, and the blog post itself should be an answer to that search, because people online don’t read, they are searching for answers to their problems.

So, first write for search and then for human.

Many people fail at blogging just due to this simple mistake. They write headlines the way nobody is searching for, when you start a blog, your main traffic source will be search, so you need to write for search, later when you build a readership then you can write whatever you want, because you already have an audience.

But at first write for search.

Readers find blogs via Google and other search engines. Nobody will be typing www.vygintasvarnas.lt to find my blog, unless people already know me, but most people don’t even know that I exist. I’m not Elon Musk or so, most people don’t know me, don’t care about me, and don’t pay me.

So readers have questions, and they type questions in search engines, then they get tons of results and they pick one or few from the first page of Google Search, nobody goes to page 100 of Google, that’s rare.

Each article competes with other articles, and the first thing a potential reader sees is the headline, so making your headlines interesting can make or break a website, but I’m not in a business of writing good headlines.

So when you write a blog, you are competing with other billion to trillion content pieces which include photos, podcasts, pictures, videos and finally text. Most blogs don’t get any views. That’s the rule of thumb.

Bad writers don’t have anything to say.

That said, good writers always have new and interesting things to say.

Good writers see the world in words, and have high linguistic IQ.

But at this time and age – you don’t need to be a writer, as it mostly doesn’t pay any money. I’ve been writing for years now, and I barely make any money. These are diminishing returns for the amount of work you need to do.

So it’s better to be a programmer, cyber security expert rather than a writer. Entry to writing is very low, anyone can write, that’s why the competition is enormous.

Yes, you can create value, but that doesn’t translate to automatic payments. Most value people give online is free. It doesn’t translate to any money.

So, if you believe that you only need to produce value and you’re getting automatically paid, that’s not true.

Over the years I made a lot of value, but that did not translate to me being compensated fair.

If you want to make money – you need to sell something, personally me – I don’t want to sell anything. Sales just make me think of ways someone should pay me, but that does not translate into any kind of money.

I think they ‘should’, but that doesn’t mean they ‘would’.

Making money online so far was the most toughest thing I ever managed to do. People are greedy and they don’t want to pay. If people aren’t paying for Hollywood movies, so what makes you believe people will buy your videos, order your newsletter or pay in any way for your content.

The web made stealing very easy. And you are not a thief when you are not caught.

Nah, I won’t make any money from this blog. You know making all the money is a lot of hassle.

It’s better to work for free. When you work for free – you can do anything.

Many people are so obsessed with making money, besides I get my disability check. So I can give content for free and get my disability check for free.

Free for free.

Sure, having money is nice, but whatever, I never was a big money maker. 🙂

Selling direct ads gives you a bigger cut, because you eliminate the middlemen. Google Adsense takes like 40-50% of the cut, so you are left just with 60-50%, WordPress WordAds is similar.

With direct ads there is more management, but more profit.

If you happen to make a good blog with decent amount of traffic, you can ask decent amounts of money for direct ads, currently I sell direct ad for 5€ a pop.

As this blog is fairly new, I won’t make a lot of money, but as I populate the blog with content, I might be sitting on a fair amount of money.

If you want something to work – you need to work, right? 😀