Hi, I am Hector.

This is my corner of the internet where I try and “hustle” my way to freedom by trying out all sorts of stuff on the internet. I love trying new things, sometime to my detriment. I don’t have a natural bias to action, but I am trying to take more action, invest in myself, and grab opportunities as they come. It’s not all money focused but I do mainly focus on this.

I like to keep a scorecard of my projects to see it all in one place and, frankly, I thought it would be good to share this scorecard with the world. I plan to update this page as things change. Be warned reader, I have a track record of not doing this.

This includes, past projects, future, running tally on revenue from all these different sources. I might just clone the below whilst I update or make individual pages for the projects. We will see how it goes, I suspect a couple will take up most of my time.

Past:

1.) www.growingmoneytrees.org (acquired)- $300 – for a few hundred $ dollars, but this money has funded all of my activity since then (software purchases, domains sprees etc)

2.) ReWildin.com – (acquired) well I sold the domain for $50 before I could build the blog I wanted but I will take it

3.) ChessNetWorth.com – (acquired) $50 I think it was again sold before I could really be bothered to build it out fully.

I have a pretty solid day job but I always want the revenue generated online to fund my new projects (ideally eventually fund my life too, but it’s bit by bit).

Present:

Freelance: $80 (ongoing)

I recently acquired my first freelance customer, basically be accident. I was looking at building a SaaS company with my limited coding knowledge. I simply dm’d the owner of one of the smaller companies in the niche, had a chat with him about working as an affiliate, and he offered me some creative work (pinterest/youtube/seo images / content writing).

I’m not charging much for my services, but I am looking at this as more of a “get paid to learn” opportunity. I am learning so much about myself, how to negotiate, new technical skills, and it’s funding a lot of my other purchases too.

Once I feel more comfortable I will look to expand this, as I do enjoy it and the money is much more reliable. But I also love working on my own stuff, even if the money doesn’t always come!

PartnerStack / Affiliate Marketing: $143 ($650 generated for clients)

I started writing about this on Medium when I cloned my voice for money using ElevenLabs and people started signing up through my affiliate link. Since then I have tried to push it a bit more, without much success, currently sits at around $30 per month in recurring commission, but only lasts for 12 months rather than lifetime.

I’ve joined some other programmes but I haven’t (yet) been able to replicate the success.

Voice Cloning: $134

I started blogging about this on Medium, my earnings are now just over $110 over 6 months. It’s a nice little side earner but it’s never going to be something that grows to more than $20 a month for me. Others may have more success than me, I think there is a lot of money to be made in the niches and for women (as most people who try and do stuff like this are men…I guess?).

I put all this money into the pot, and it funded my purchase of www.createpages.com which is nice. The UK government allows you to earn quite a bit of money before they tax side hustle, well I think it’s like £1k per year, but still nice. It means the money is really worth £2k as it’s tax free. If I get to £1k per year I need to consider the tax implications and how best to proceed.

www.influencermoney.org:

Revenue: $0 using www.createpages.com I am using this as a test case for programmatic SEO. So far I have had a decent amount of clicks. This tool allows you to use CSV files to generated 100s/1000s pages of content in seconds. You need great data to make it really good.

Below are my results after just a few days, you can see I had a lot of clicks in the first couple of days but it’s already starting to fade. I’m interested to see where this settles. I published 1000 pages of basically trash content as a test. Cost about $0.3 to publish these pages, it’d be much more if I had photos.

14/08/2024 – Published 100 more pages comparing various voice to text softwares. If I can get this to rank even a bit, I can make some decent affiliate income, if google decides my content is shit, then so be it.

Once the dust settles I might take the high performing content and manually edit them so they add a lot more value / have a photo etc.

www.NextGenerationJobs.co.uk

I acquired this domain as it was expired in a niche that I thought could be interest. Some guy in the UK tried to build a job boards for those early in their career, this is something I have some knowledge of. I just published 100 pages of content, again using createpages.com.

My plan is to eventually go over the content and spruce it up but I want to see it start to rank a bit first. I covered all the biggest apprenticeship companies in the UK. Using data that somebody gave me that might come from Linkedin. They don’t love scraping so not sure how it will go down in Google.

www.CambridgeGraduate.com

Similar to above, I have some experience of this industry, my plan is build a site with a geographical dominance that I can then sell to Cambridge pharma / tech companies that would like to hire graduates / interns and the like.

This one is on the backburner but I have published some cheap content and will again go over it an see how it ranks once the dustle settles somewhat.

others

Need developing:

• APlant.org
• WhattoPlant.org