TheAnand is The Back!

Sorry to dissapoint, but I am not dead!

Initially it was all the work that kept me busy, then I got angry, sad, frustrated and everything else. Guess all the feelings I have been supressing for sometime now just had to surface. So, I spent the last month or so looking for answers, finding out where I am headed to down the line.

The problem is simple. Internet money, as glamorous as it may seem has terrible headaches associated. I have been online for almost more than half my life and am seriously thinking of taking Internet as my career.

But when you take up something as a career, you are looking for something that  dependable enough that the electricity, cable and the phone guys do not come and pull the plug for non-payment of dues.

But this happened last month, my internet connection and my mobile phone was disconnected for non-payment and it was not some forgetfulness that caused it. Its internet money.

Basically, here is what happened. My earnings from MarketLeverage for December, which is affiliate marketing was

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And my January earnings from MarketLeverage was

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Income dropped from $900 to $200 in just 30 days. And $200 does not even cover my employee salaries to be honest. It is hellish to think about having a life around something which fluctuates so much. And since I am living with my parents, food and accommodation thankfully was not in trouble. When I get married, have a housing loan on my head and not to mention kids to feed, the internet money cannot be as undependable. Got me thinking hard and sleepless. Something has to be done.

Most of you know that I am a college dropout which basically ruins my chances of getting a job offline, and so one of the first decisions was to go back to college in the 2009 batch. I am taking up journalism for my bachelors as it releates to offline journalism and media. Just as a backup in case the Internet starts acting corky again later.

About work, I decided to call quits on all non-potential projects and stop trying “new methods to make money” and stick with what I know best, which is Adsense, Affiliate Marketing and SEO. I know it works, so why waste time on anything else, right?

Next, I decided to concentrate on outsourcing all major and minor works from installing wordpress, adding analytics to creating content and obtaining backlinks so that it will fit into my busy college schedule. This should possibly be completed by the end of April or May in stages. So, do not be surprised if TheAnand or Ayruz Web Holdings come over to recruit youngsters from your college in the days of recession. You know Recession is a joke.  🙂

And another major shift will be to get organized and estabilish a business process which my employees can follow in my absense and get things done easily and productively. Internet is no longer pocket money, but a business as any other. Better start treating it like one!

Hows life taking you guys these days? Hope its better.


Comments

11 responses to “TheAnand is The Back!”

  1. Welcome back to where you belong! 😉 All the best for the new startup and Good to see that you are using Project pier for project management in your startup website 🙂

  2. 😀
    @ Shoban, I found it really good and it has no learning curve…pretty sweet!

    Thanks!

  3. Hi
    i am regular reader of this blog for some months……..i am a person looking forward to walk the similiar path you are in….i am reading this blog because i find you having successful in making money online…….so find it disappointing to read this post………..all the best…………………..keep blogging………

  4. Woa, My Gmail inbox just rippled up, it was calm for a long time 🙂

    Welcome back, btw when are you coming to my college.? And who all are on the interview board.. ?

    BTW, the image on this page is unreadable.. 😉

  5. Yes.

    “Internet is no longer pocket money, but a business as any other. Better start treating it like one!”
    FTW !

  6. Its not a good idea to have just one source of income.

    Also ‘I am a college dropout which basically ruins my chances of getting a job offline’ – its wrong.

    I am a collage dropout – I got a job(offline job – at a web dev company) easily. After that I quit – to become a freelancer.

    Its not what you where taught – its what you know that is important.

  7. @Binny VA,

    Thanks, thats an encouragement! But I was thinking more on the lines of a backup in a non-web related field, like management or something else totally offline for a backup for the worst case to support my online ventures 😀

  8. Welcome back Anand!

    “I was thinking more on the lines of a backup in a non-web related field”

    If I were you, I would not think on that lines. I would concentrate on what I know best.

    I agree that a business model solely based on revenue from ads in not viable for most of us. It is better to try some other forms of monetization strategies.

    I would say start selling your SEO, WordPress skills, and let the ad revenue be a secondary stream of revenue.

  9. Hi
    never depend on once source income
    try to spread business,( but always with knowing domains)

    Me too a college dropout , i got a job ,
    then resigned too’

    so its not much important

  10. @ Niyaz, That is good food for thought! 🙂 Thanks!!!

    @bobit, I never put all eggs on one basket…its been adsense, affliates and ppc all the way…but sometimes one stream gets too hot and you concentrate more on it 😀 Lesson learnt!

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