Freelance translation services for free, anyone?

I am a freelance translator and a member of such online translators' networks as ProZ, Translators Cafe and a few more. I work in the language pairs English>Tagalog and Tagalog>English.

The freelance translation business, specially in language pairs that have relatively small markets, is a very competitive field. Unless a translator works with big-market languages like French and German, he or she would be competing with hundreds or even thousands of translators for jobs that number less than a hundred each year.

For most translators, therefore, freelancing is not that profitable. I myself do earn quite a few bucks from the translation jobs that I get but not enough to fulfill my wish to go full-time in the job so I can stay at home and earn and have adequate quality time with my family at the same time.

I have for quite some time been scouring the worldwide web for schemes (and scams) of earning money online. My Google search history is replete with such keywords as "affiliate programs," "online ad services," "affiliate program reviews," "is so-and-so a scam?" and the like. I found a few good ones and this blog is my first attempt to wade into this realm of affiliate marketing and ad publishing.

The idea is to offer free translation services and earn through ad publishing starting with Google AdSense and Matched.co.uk and affiliate programs like Amazon Associates and SiteSell. I have no idea whether this idea would get me anywhere close to realizing my wish to work fulltime at home. This is the start of an experiment.

Freelance translation services for free, anyone?