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Get Out While You Can – 100 Days In The Amazon Top 100 Business Books Chart!
My book, Get Out While You Can, reached something of a milestone today. It has now spent 100 days in the Top 100 Bestsellers In Business, Finance & Law on Amazon.co.uk. It goes without saying that all authors want their books to be read and enjoyed by as many people as possible, but when I [...]
Does EU Cookie Legislation Spell The End For Affiliate Marketing?
When I first heard about the EU “banning cookies”, I thought my favourite biscuits were under threat from barmy bureaucrats in Brussels. When I then discovered that it was the non-edible internet variety that people were talking about, I breathed a sigh of relief. Not least because I quickly realised that the EU weren’t going [...]
Scrap Holidays, Bring On The ‘Worliday’? Why Not Scrap Work Instead?
Financial Times columnist, Lucy Kellaway, has made up a new word. Worliday. Only she hasn’t really because the very similar made up word, woliday, has been in casual use for years now. For those unfamiliar with what a worliday is . . . “Worliday is a bit like holiday and a bit like work,” explains [...]
Get Out While You Can Paperback Is Back In Stock!
I’ve been sweating like a wee pig this morning, humping around boxes of the paperback version of Get Out While You Can. Thanks to Chris Jones and all at CPI Antony Rowe in Chippenham, the latest print run was turned around very quickly indeed which means it will be delivered, processed and back in stock [...]
Ignore Domain Renewal Notices Like This One
If you can charge people over the odds for renewing their domain names, there is obviously a lot of easy money to be had. And the internet being the internet, there are always scam artists looking to fleece you of that easy money. This week I have started to receive emails relating to my dotcom [...]
Here Comes The Summer!
July and August are traditionally months that I like to take off. It gives me the opportunity to recharge my batteries and leaves me raring to go again come September. This year is going to be no different. Apart from a few hours spent here and there maintaining websites and answering emails, I won’t be [...]
Newspeak: Debt Is Good For Your Self-Esteem
George Orwell’s classic novel, Nineteen Eighty Four, envisaged a future world in which government would seek to control and manipulate its people by waging perpetual war, using surveillance techniques and mind control. That sounds a lot like the world we live in today. For perpetual war, read Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya, not forgetting the [...]
Thank You For Being A Friend
When I’m researching and writing material for a book, I tend to live inside my head. I suppose all authors must do to a greater or lesser extent. Ideas are constantly being bounced around by the few brain cells that I have and I find myself reaching for scraps of paper all of the time [...]
How To Take On And Beat The 800 Pound Gorillas In Google
Here’s an idea for a business. Open a small corner shop selling general groceries within walking distance of a Tesco Extra Superstore. It’s an idea, but probably not a very good one. If you want to go head to head with a market leader, but cannot compete on either price or range of goods, you [...]
The Rich Are Getting Richer – What About You?
The rich are getting richer, according to the Sunday Times Rich List which showcases the fortunes of the wealthiest people in the UK on an annual basis. Apparently, the richest 1,000 individuals have seen their collective wealth grow by 18% over the past year. A year in which most people in the UK have been [...]
