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Online Services

If you came to this page from a search engine, you should probably read the Homepage, the About page and the developments page to find out why I am offering these services.

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Advertising

For those of you that would like to help me, I would like to offer you the opportunity to advertise your YouTube channel, or website on the sponsors page. A sponsor page should not be considered as a donation, but a service -- as the sponsors page will serve as an avenue of online income even once I am not longer requesting donations. Advertising on the sponsors page is $5.00

I do understand that advertising on this website might not be considered the worlds greatest investment -- at least right now. However, I am working extremely hard to make this website known online. I am commenting all over YouTube and have received almost 2,000 channel views in the last 4 days. I am asking all subscribers and visitors to help me promote the channel, so I believe that this number should increase. I am also trying to think of ideas to make the YouTube channel more interesting so that people will subscribe because they like the channel, and not just because I initially created it to promote this website.

I am also working to make this website more interesting and informative. Eventually, I hope to turn it into more of a homepage and blog -- and the original purpose of the website will be archived. Another reason for the sponsors page is that I realize that some people "don't do handouts" and would like at least "something" for their money.



Web Development

Believe it or not, I am actually quite versed with HTML, CSS, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, script installations and a whole lot more. I can hand code XHTML and write PHP. I am versed with cross browser friendliness issues and I am aware of W3C compliancy and all the things that go along with creating websites. Well, if you're wondering how I turned this Geocities website from one page onto the size it is now in only a couple of hours -- the above explains it.

If you need help with web development, please let me know. I will work for US $20.00 per hour on your project. As a matter of fact, the job I "lost" was actually a web development contract. I have been working exclusively for a US company for 2 years. However, that company worked me 80 hours a week for $600 and constantly found reasons to pay me less, even though they made a six figure income last year from the website(s) I built for them -- from scratch.

I know that the above might seem untrue, but sometimes people are just SCROOGES. I worked for this company for such long hours for so little money, because there was a sort of gentleman's arrangement (never again) that once I increase sales (which I did by 50% in the first years and 100% in the second year) I'd get a pay increase and could back off a little from working so hard. The original agreement is that I would increase their sales and "prove myself" which I did. I now realize that "proving myself" was unobtainable, and just a strategy for them to use me.

Once the company got what they wanted from me, they got me building more websites, instead of earning commissions "maintaining" and growing the flagship website. I complained a lot because I explained (or screamed into the phone, rather) that I'd given two years of my life to that company (literally), and dropped all my projects and dreams in hope that if I help them, it would come back. Well, it never came back.

The very reason that company wanted me to work for them in the first place is because I contacted them with an idea. I was looking for a drop-ship arrangement. I had previously worked as webmaster for a software and SEO company, and had the experience, skills and knowledge to build a profitable online company. That is what I wanted to do two years ago. However, this company was more interested in what I could do for them than what I was trying to do for myself. They waved some money in front of my nose (chicken feed, in hindsight) and I took it. Before I knew it, I was their web developer and online administrator and I couldn't go ahead with my original plan, because that would be "competition". They made veiled threats of suing me if I ever created a competitive website. They said I had "company knowledge". Company knowledge? I knew everything before I even met them. They were using MY knowledge. Anyway, I am no longer working for them and that "competitive website" is currently in production right now -- under a private domain and a private nameserver. But that's another story.

So back to what I was saying -- I was worked to the bone and taken advantage of. There were many weeks where I didn't even get paid because "something wasn't finished". At the end of the day, my average income over the past two years works out to be about US $350 per week. This is why I was so broke in the first place and why losing that job affected me so heavily. Plus there are other life issues I wont even get into right now that cost me a lot of money (that I didn't have).

I didn't actually "lose the job" I quit. I know, I know -- those of you that insist I am a scammer will say "Ah HA! He quit! He's a QUITTER! He brought this on himself!". But before you get all excited, please put that finger down, pull your eyes and tongue back in your head and keep reading for a bit.

See, I cannot live my life working for a company that has agreed to pay me US $600 per week if they're not going to pay me every other week, for any reason they can think up. I actually quit this company last year, for four months and tried to go solo with my own projects, but without an income, any savings or adequate preparation or time for that preparation, that effort fell apart at the seams. The company asked me back time and time again, with a pay increase too (I was working for $500 a week back them -- yeah, I got it every other week). As I got more and more broke (and the company KNEW I was broke) they kept insisting that I should come back. I eventually explained that THEY were the reason my life was such a mess and that they need to drop $3K so I can fix all my debts before I even talk to them. They sent the money.

Then, once I had FIXED the website that they had totally ruined during that four months (oh and did they do a good hjob of ruining all my hard work) they started getting slack with my pay again. It got so bad that recently I worked 3 weeks straight with NO pay, just to get the pay that they said they'd give me. Then I worked for two weeks with half pay, because I explained that I can't live on "nothing". Why did I do this? Because I needed the money! I was already broke and I just had to finish what they wanted -- to get the money. I know that there are people that have 20/20 hindsight right now, reading this -- but what you have to understand is that when you have no other income, no other job, no other prospects (besides working in a factory or something, which can take weeks or even months to obtain anyway), you just go for the money, even when you know the situation is wrong. If you've got bills to pay, you just work hard and try to do what "the guy with the money" wants, so he'll pay you -- so that you can pay your bills.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, during the last three months, that company worked me through weeks with no pay. I feel so far behind in my bills that I became depressed. I was working seven days a week to finish things that they wanted. The whole problem is that they aren't "web developers". They {{EVISION}}}, in their infinite wisdom, that a certain task should take a week -- when it actually takes a month. Then they tell me to complete it, and when pay time comes and I am not finished they say: "Well how can we send you pay? You already owe us $3k, which we only did to help you!". Well I told them that they OWED me that 3k for causing my life to fall apart, and at the time they agreed (obviously, because they sent the money), but once they had what they wanted, out came the "You owe us $3k of work" gimic and justification for working me for weeks with no pay.

You people who think I am a scammer -- YOU HAVE NO IDEA -- I am not the scam{{{ER}} I have been the scam{{EE}} for two years of my life! So when people accuse me of being a "scammer" after what I've been through, it just destroys me.

So, I really had no choice but to quit. I had to bite the bullet. I sent the boss and email and said: "You can stick your website where it fits, and don't contact me ever again. I'm done. Don't even call, and when your website falls apart again do not contact me accusing me of foul play (like he did last time)". Besides, I had no idea when he'd finally cough up. I am so far behind in my bills, I can't sit here working for a company that rakes in six figures -- for free!

I am sick and tired of working on websites now anyway. I have been working eighty hours a week, seven days a week for two years -- and I'm OFF it. That is why I joined the agencies that put you to labor work, because I just can't stand this computer anymore. I don't have the time or energy to take on any new contracts, or even to look for one, because I don't want to live my life at the whim of online businesses who make you work your life away and then give only half of what they're supposed to, while giving excuses to make up for the rest.

HOWEVER, I do have my evenings to myself now. So I can do some "part time" assignments for anyone who needs something done. I am no longer working eighty hours a week. With these agencies, I'll likely be working about forty hours a week, which is actually a novelty to me. So I will have a few hours in the evening and weekends to work on websites for the extra money.

I am unwilling to go back to contracting as a web developer full time right now -- even if I have to shovel fertilizer, ankle deep in mud, like I did today. Not only because I need a regular and reliable income, but also because I want to run my own business. Web development started out as a hobby and personal interest to me. I am self taught. I don't have much of an education or certificates for anything. So, the knowledge that I have is my ticket to running my own business. Somehow I ended up monetizing my passion, but it it's just not the same. I don't want to work for other people. I want to build my own business. However, with the base income I now have from laboring work, I could work on websites as a side project because I do really need the money right now.