Check out this project by Spencer from Niche Pursuits :

Well, after 10 long months of “secretly” building my niche site, the time has finally come to reveal the domain! When I initially started this project , I knew that I wanted to reveal the site at some point. I finally decided that after the site was making $1,000 […]

See how he get the site to earning more than $1k per month in 9 months … that’s when Spencer outsourced most of the stuff – especially content generation.

And a closer look revealed that for the first 6-month, the earnings were rather disappointing that most people, I dare say at least 90%, would have given up and jumped to next bright shiny objects. The question is – Will you persist if you tried your best to “make money online” after spending months on your website with a dismayed earnings?! How long really will it be before you throw in the towel?