Don't believe anyone's self-assessment of how much they make. First, it's probably gross, not net. Secondly, there's not much incentive to be truthful. Thirdly, some guys just can't resist spinning a yarn.
However, the way some of my customers write checks tells me they do have money and are not scraping by at all.
It takes time to make a site payoff. My own pay site is making more than three times as much this year as it did the same time last year.
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