Myself and my girlfriend went to Bali a few weeks back for a holiday – see the photo here – its called Tanah Lot Temple. Such a beautiful place! Anyhow, we took one day to travel around some of the Island and see some of the amazing sites there. Our driver was a great guy – very family orientated and very humble.

Me being me, I’m always thinking “business”. I was wondering how our driver – Wayan, got his customers. He told us in his broken English that he gets them all via a couple of hotels on the south of the island. His service is excellent actually. Its a very comfortable car he drives and he is a super driver – very safe and methodical. He told me that when he is too busy he gives some of his clients to his brother. Well of course, this sort of thing gets me thinking a bit. The old brain gets into gear…

But it was not until I checked out his website that I thought – aha!

Apparently, the website was designed a couple years back and given to him for free by some Dutch clients he had. When I queried him about it he told me he never gets any customers through the site. Never? Hot dang! Why not? Bali is rife for tourists, and his services are prime! Prime, prime, Prime!

Okay, so here’s the scenario. He asked me to re-design the site, which to be honest with you is not my forte. Sure, I can bang together a decent looking WordPress job with little to no frills but that’s about as far as it goes. I can’t really afford at the moment to employ someone else to do it – over-spent on my Bali holiday in addition to forking out on a rather nice television system just a few weeks back (oh, the joys in life!!). What to do here I’m wondering?

But, I had a quick check of the keyword scenario for Bali. Yup, not too bad. There are a few keywords I can rank the site for with little doubt, thus attracting some customers and making some “sales”, so to speak. Nothing too hot, but still, some decent pickings to be made.

This is not the sort of thing I have tackled before but it is too exciting to turn it down. Apart from that though, Wayan is such a deserving guy that I would be obliged to help him and his family, who quite honestly are far from being wealthy! I can see the site rising in the rankings and being excited more for the fact that this would be helping his business, rather than me making lots of money from it, albeit I would make something of course. Helping others such as Wayan is far more of a driving factor for me than is making a heap of money.

Don’t get me wrong though – I’m no real saintly figure as such. Saint Joseph, hehe. Its perhaps more of an egotistical thing going on. I love to impress people because I love to be told that I’ve done a great job. Oh shucks, I’m getting a bit deep and opening up a bit much. Actually, this is something I’ve only recently truly understood and come to terms with in myself. You know about Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, right? This one must be kinda high on there – the need for positive feedback from fellow humans. It is a true need indeed! Its a driving factor. A huge motivator!

I’ll keep you posted about this one – this project – the Tour Bali website. Wayan is not going to be paying me for my work (which right now would have been a most welcome thing!). But the potential is there to make this joint venture truly workable, and for me, it would be a good passive income for possibly years to come.

Do leave me your thoughts about this please! Cheers!