Making money online without Affiliates.

As I have said in one or two of my other posts, I have been creating web pages since I was about 10 years old, when my mom brought home our first computer. I can’t believe I’m actually going to show this to other people. but here is my first ever web page….cringe…..

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/ericmitz/Indexo.html

Looking back at it now, I can’t believe the absolute mess that thing is! When I was 10, I thought it was the coolest thing to ever hit the web. It looks like a 1st grader on crack wrote it! Spelling and grammer mistakes everywhere, crappy animated gifs that i tried to make, and a complete lack of coherent design.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, I was a professional yo-yo demonstrator from age 9 to 16. I had a lot of great times, won a lot of championships, got paid a lot (for a 10 year old), and traveled the word for free thanks to a sponsorship from the Yomega yoyo corporation. I even made a yoyo training video that sold over 100,000 copies in the U.S. and Japan. Those were definitely the best years of my life.

Ok…So what?

The reason I posted all that is to show you just how passionate I have been about web development from an early age, because I was recently offered a freelance web design position to redesign http://www.dunbareurosports.com, which is a Ducati and BMW motorcycle dealership. They are looking for a complete overhaul of their web page and asked me to do it. I was referred to them by my future mother in law, who currently works there and told her boss that I was “into computers and web stuff”. My beautiful girlfriend Valerie also used to work their, so I am pretty familiar with the company and the people who work there.

The point of this post is because I am kind of stuck in a dilemma. On one hand, I would love the opportunity to design a web site for an established company, but on the other hand its obviously going to take a good amount of time to do. As I have grown older, my time has become more valuable, and I would hate to waste even a minute of it doing something that is not worth while.

I really have to sit back and ask myself if doing this will be a good use of my time, or should I focus my free time on other things that may be more worth while (like affiliate marketing). Lets go through the pros and cons of taking this job.

Pros

• Guaranteed money. No risk.
• Can dump the money made into Affiliate marketing
• Great for my online resume.
• I enjoy creating web sites.
• Could lead to future freelance jobs if i execute correctly

Cons

• Going to take time.
• Less time to spend on Affiliate marketing
• Its not an small or easy job (the current site is a mess!)
• Will be starting school again on the 3rd of January, which means less time.
• Already have a “9-5″ job which takes up a lot of time.

I have pretty much decided that I am going to take the job, but there is still a little bit of doubt in my mind about not being able to do it well because of school, or worse, not being able to finish it.

Secret squirrel script

One good thing is that as I develop this web site, I can continue to work on my “automatic landing page” script that I have been working on the last couple of weeks and kind of kill two birds with one stone.

I havn’t really said anything about this script to anyone, but basically I have been developing something very similar to BANS, but rather than using the ebay affiliate program, I plan on making it 100% generic and plugin based so that you could use Ebay, or Amazon, or whatever affiliate API (or no API at all) that you want. It is 100% XHTML compliant and built from the ground up with SEO in mind.  The ultimate goal is to make something that is highly dynamic and can deploy multiple landing pages with different keywords very quickly. I do plan on releasing it to the public when I am finished with it, probably free of charge. So keep an eye out for it! maybe I’ll release Alpha versions of it as I develop it.