Building web sites is one way I've learned to add to my income.
I remember a few years ago when I was on the phone trying to get a loan. The loan rep was telling me that my debt to income ratio was bad and that I was getting turned down.
I tried to explain to her that I couldn't get my expenses any lower.
She said some magic words to me that day, and I credit that woman with helping me out big time. She told me if I couldn't lower my expenses anymore, that I should raise my income.
Hmmm...
It wasn't too much longer after that when I started to learn to build web sites myself. I didn't know about code (I barely knew about the internet!) but I played around selling some stuff on eBay for a while, and got curious about controlling my own traffic.
Anyway, to make a long story endless, fast forward a few more years (today) and a big chunk of my income now comes from web sites that I build (and continue to build).
It's my opinion that the current economic environment will be solved one person at a time building her or his own business. And the internet is the best way to do this (well, to me it is). I'm a dyed in the wool loner and much prefer staying home with my little dog, so having a business where I have to be out in the world networking is way out of my idea of a good time.
But with the internet I get to build my own web sites. I'm still not good at code much, but I found a way around that with the site building tools I use. I like the control of building from scratch.
My newest site is [moderator edit] (I think I'm allowed to say that here?). Anyway, it's a few months old and I've gotten it built up to a point where it gets about 1200 visitors a month, and the traffic is nearly doubling each month. And since more traffic means more $$, I'll be making decent income on that one pretty soon. Right now the income is low because I haven't worked on that aspect of it yet. I figure I want to get the people there first and give them value first.
Anyway, I learned how to do all this with SBI!, which is great 'cause as I said I didn't know how to do code, or anything fancy online.
So Arif, if you're considering building a complete web site or starting yourself, you might consider learning to do it yourself. I like the control, rather than having to tweak someone else's work.
Success to you,
Amy