I’m a little shy of investing my head-earned money in stocks and bonds. In fact, I don’t even trust a third party to “look after” my money.

If the meltdown over the last 18 months has taught us anything, it’s that we are not in control of our wealth when we invest it in stocks and bonds. Bad things can and do happen.

But…I’m not in the least nervous about investing a little time in my own websites.

Let’s take a look at my best-performing website so far, CoffeeDetcetive.com.

Back in 2006 I spent quite a bit of time on research and getting the first twenty pages written and online.

Since then, I spend maybe one or two hours a week on the site. That’s nothing. It’s the time we spend on watching a couple of TV shows.

But today that site earns me close to $50,000 a year in revenue.

And that’s not all. A website with a proven track record of revenues is also quite easy to sell. A site like mine could sell for two or three times its annual earnings. That’s $100,000 or $150,000 dollars.

That’s a pretty good return on two or three hours a week doing something I enjoy anyway.

That’s as asset. Like a house or a retirement fund.

In any event, I won’t sell the site. I’ll rather keep adding new pages and increasing my monthly earnings.

Do you think you can beat that kind of return by investing a portion of your hard-earned salary? I doubt it.

Instead of investing money, invest a little of your time. And make you site about a topic that already interest you. Do that, and adding more and more pages feels more like a hobby than work.

If this sounds interesting to you, you’ll love my book, New Path to Riches.

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