Now what?
I’ve been thinking about a nice way to obtain extra money doing what I do best. But what is what I do good? Hard question. But I have an answer.
I’ve been thinking on this for days and days, and days and days, maybe for a total of two full hours. Are you familiar with the concept of free software? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. Anyway, anyhow, please let me explain, at least to fulfil today’s article.
I am an engineer. Yeah, I know it’s not what you may say, “Wow. Now that’s a revelation.” I’m merely remarking the fact that I am a graduate of Computing by the University of Guadalajara. I am an engineer, I was saying. Now, what can I do all day long by being an engineer of Computing that does NOT have a strong effect in my daily life? I mean, I have a job. I need the extra income but I can’t switch jobs right now, not because I don’t want to, but because I’m obtaining a credit to build my own house (eat that, you renters!) and one of the requisites is to have a secured job for at least two years. After you got the credit, you can switch jobs or even stop working and it won’t be a problem until you cease to pay your monthly bill. So I can’t switch jobs right now. How can I obtain an extra income, then? What can I do, and do reasonably good, in order to make more money?
Well, I know how to set up websites. And I can do that fast and easy and cheap, and probably even good. How about starting yet another hosting business? “Oh, great,” I swear I can hear it from the other side of the screen, “not again.” Actually, yes, I think I can do it. You know, it may be a good idea: I could aim for those people that want a website for your business and doesn’t have the “know-how” to set it up. I could charge a reasonable amount, say 1000 mexican pesos per year (that is barely 100 dollars per year) and spend, what, 15 bucks in the domain name and 10 minutes setting up an account in my web server? I could even charge a little more if I set up the actual website, something simple yet powerful, say, Joomla or Wordpress or even Nucleous, fill the appropriate forms, press the correct buttons, pull the right levers, stuff like that. I could be a webmaster-for-hire, to use an expression from the primitive web times, when if we needed bells and whistles we had to program them, and not simply reuse a simple piece of code from another site. So the clients will get hosting in my state-of-the-art web server, and I’ll get money to allow me to keep my server running. I think I have enough capacity and bandwidth for up to 200 websites working at the same time, and I hope, think and believe (not in that order) if I can get 100 bucks for each site, I’ll get 20000 bucks a year, more than enough to pay for the bandwidth of my server.
And it won’t be that much of a problem to obtain the clients. It’s actually a cheap price, and if I could get as low as four clients a month I can get the money I need to build my house without getting red numbers in my bank account. Yeah. I can do that. Now all I need is a good slogan and a good name. I can use the ones I used with my old company, and I can use the ones of my current company. And I need a new domain name. Any suggestions?
Cheerio, partners.
V.
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