What Katie said. :)
Also you have to realize you WON'T get rich on one site, you won't make all your money here on wizzley (you could but it's rare that anyone without putting in an enormous amount of work would and the other side you have to ask yourself is "will putting all my eggs in 2.0 propeties like this actually be the best use of my time?". What I mean is not that it's a waste of time to write here or squidoo etc... but it's actually the lowest rung in internet marketing and most successful marketers will tell you they don't write to these sites for income, it's almost always for a backlink, which is fine if they offer quality information in exchange.
You have to diversify your portfolio and get into more than one niche (of internet marketing). I have 40 websites I maintain, 3 blogs, and am working on building what I will consider the most potent of my ventures a website that is both a wizzley blog roll of a sort (all the same goodies in wp), but also a product line (I make magic music hehe)... You don't have to develop your own products as I am, you can use pages to create amazon stores (which I will add as a supplemental income to the site i.e. selling my competitions books, CD's etc...).
The learning curve in this business is rough because there is a bazillion ways you can enter, maintain, and develop your career. No two people approach it exactly the same, it's based on your intrest (to sustain passion, for example you have to love to write to wizzle for cash).
The best advice I can give you is to first and foremost develop a sense of what you love, what you enjoy, what you would do if it were free (for me it's music and video production). Take that passion based on your choices in this market and develop your skill sets. As you develop one i.e. movie making, you figure out what you need next (website design) then you learn that AS YOU BUILD what you needed (necessity is the mother of invention no?) to build. So building a wordpress site will take a while to learn how, but once you learn how you can build more sites... you can develop more movies (i.e. building marketing videos and selling them for 3-4 figures). With website design and movie making under your belt you not only have the tools to build one business but you can apply those skills to anything else.
My success is due to my aquisition of massive skill sets- plain and simple. It's the core of everything. Following passion leads to money without trying so hard, the work you do is actually just treadmill at some point not frustration of learning new skills.
Read a lot of books, sites, watch a lot of youtube videos, get your head around how to apply your passion using what you need to manifest it. I was having a hard time finishing my book, I was stuck and had ALL of the information in my head but since I'd never fully written and published a book before the task seems tedious at best, but instead of continuing to procrastinate I built a site, I turned my book idea into a site, that site will later sell said book but for now it's an incarnation of it's best qualities. In building the site I have to learn wordpress (serious learning curve) but in building the site, a few weeks later I have the site up and IT ALONE is powerfully motivating me to write the book now to give my readers closure (step by steps)...
My point here is that I was stuck, I found a way by simply changing angles, now I have a book coming and a site building that I can be proud of- later both will make money. I don't work on one thing usually at a time, I write wizzles while building luck source, I do a lot of SEO work for my boss (another paid training ground!), I wrote at mills for immediate income, and seek out people who need my skills. Often I'll go to a site that has bad copy and rewrite it for them (front page usually). I'll send it to them and say I can do this to the rest of your site- enjoy this free article. Then I leave the seed to sprout or die- either way I don't wait around, I go to the next site and do the same (sometimes it's images, copy, even structure)...
I wasn't born with what I know, I wasn't even given it easily- I worked for 20 years to develop as much as possible, the rest is just the details. Make sense?
On that note, there are a lot of pages I wrote and others wrote that cover the realm (one perspective) in detail... I'd start there. If you put all your time into wizzley,squidoo, hubpages- you may never make enough to justify the work your doing here, diversify diversify diversify. Start small, no big leaps... do one thing and get very good at it. Make it your life for a month. Then go to the next... you'll find the more you develop the faster learning happens and the faster you can see where more money is.
For more insights into creating your own luck (which is what this business is in a nutshell) check out:
http://thelucksource.com/what-is-luck/lucks-source-code-theory-mastery-decoded/
that will take you into the engine room of what I said above... hope it helps :)
