{"id":68,"date":"2014-07-11T03:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-01-22T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:54:29","slug":"internet-marketing-vs-development-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/internet-marketing-vs-development-design\/","title":{"rendered":"I Told My Story! Internet Marketing vs Development & Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I thought why not to share with all of you a question\/answer session between a youngster and me myself<\/a>. There is this friend in my Facebook’s<\/a> friends’ list, he asked a question about choosing between Internet Marketing VS Development & Design<\/strong> and I responded to him with my own story.<\/p>\n

The Question#<\/a><\/h2>\n

Usama is a young technology enthusiast who is trying to make an informed decision. His question<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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I don’t know where I’m heading.
\nI’m learning Photoshop+ HTML\/CSS, learning marketing strategies, working as a freelancer, working on own product launch, working to make more earning streams.
\nI’m getting so confused to whether to stick with Marketing side or Developing\/designing side. I don’t want to be a jack of all trades. I feel like hours or not enough, there is always too much to do.<\/p>\n

I’m tagging all the experts I know, so I might get little assistance. Sorry at first if it’s annoying.<\/p>\n

Here is where I get confuse. When I see\u00a0<\/span>Ahmad Awais<\/a>. He has learnt alot of skills in a short short time while handling number of blogs and products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Answer; My Story#<\/a><\/h2>\n

First of all, I made him clear that it took me about 10 years to reach where I am right now, at least, I won’t call it short. Then I shared my story with him. Which I think could be an important piece of advice for a lot of beginners. So, I am going to publish it here at this blog.<\/p>\n

Let’s Start!<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

I started with programming, because I loved it, you can read a little about me here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>

Then I started to blog. On one side, I was a programmer on other I had blogging skills. Which led me to two things. First one was earning via developing sites and the second one was earning via Internet Marketing.\u00a0<\/span>

In programming, my first project was worth $50 and then $100 which kept on increasing until it hit $250 and then there was a big break. At that time, I realized that people who knew how to design were getting paid better.\u00a0<\/span>

At the same time when I started learning design, I left freelancing for a while, which meant no earnings at all. Let me remind you, I was a student at that time, I didn’t really need to earn.\u00a0<\/span>

It was the second semester of electrical engineering in UET Lahore when I left all my blogs and started focusing at Freakify.com from where after 6 months I started learning about Affiliate income.<\/span>

Then came Google’s Panda update and I started SEO services at the Warrior Forums which in the beginning led me to earn more than I used to \u2014 as a programmer. At the same time, I started trying out Fiverr and spent two months to get more than 500 orders done in the category of logo designs.\u00a0<\/span>

By then, I was someone who knew how to program, who was so-so at design, how to run a blog, how to earn affiliate income, and who was earning through SEO link building services. I thought, “Now we’re getting somewhere”.<\/span>

After that, I started building small products, small guides about blogging, internet marketing, and SEO link building. I invested some money in hosting business with FB marketing, though, it was a big loss at the end.

Finally, I started what I call was a better workflow \u2014 a perspective that helped me start focusing at what I wanted. It was what kept me alive. My workflow led me to optimize myself, be more productive and multitask.\u00a0<\/span>

I listed down all my fears and the scary shit. I planned a way to deal with all of it. I had more than three schedules daily, E.g. If I woke up for at 6 AM, I had a different schedule to follow, if I woke up at 10 PM then my routine was different but documented in another schedule and finally I had a different one for when I didn’t feel like working at all.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I Was Afraid of Stuff#<\/a><\/h3>\n

At that time, I was afraid of stuff like this.<\/p>\n