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Affiliates Team Clocks Up $20,000 In Kiva Loans!
Here’s something worth celebrating. The Affiliates Team over at Kiva.org has now lent over US$20,000 to fellow entrepreneurs and individuals in a bid to create opportunity, often in some of the poorest place in the World. Kiva, for those who don’t know, is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to [...]
Move Over Duncan Bannatyne – Get Out While You Can Tops Kindle Chart!
There was a time when I would check my Google AdSense stats umpteen times a day. Then I found myself checking for affiliate sales more often than I checked my email inbox. Now I’ve got a new hobby. Seeing where my book, Get Out While You Can, ranks in the Amazon sales charts. This morning [...]
Why Do Only Fools And Horses Work?
I took most of last week off. The Scottish schools are closed for Easter, and with my daughter away on a week long horse riding holiday, we took the opportunity to take some time out for ourselves. We ended up in the lovely city of Durham and stayed at the Fallen Angel theme hotel. If [...]
Kindle Version Of Get Out While You Can Available Now!
Despite suffering from a bout of “man flu” for the past week or so, I have been busy working on the Kindle version of my book, Get Out While You Can, and am pleased to announce that it is available now from Amazon.co.uk. Digital publishing in general really excites me, with the likes of the [...]
Starting An Internet Business – Website Hosting Basics
Since the publication of Get Out While You Can, I have had more emails asking about website hosting than any other subject. It is covered briefly in the book, but perhaps not as thoroughly as it could have been, so I thought I would expand that coverage a little bit here. First of all, a [...]
Feeling The Squeeze? Get Out While You Can
Yesterday saw the launch of a Commission On Living Standards which has been established by think tank, Resolution Foundation, to look at long-term economic trends that affect low-to-middle earners. According to the Resolution Foundation, average pay in the UK in 2015 will be no higher than it was in 2003 after taking account for inflation. [...]
It’s National Back Up Your Computer Day
If it hasn’t happened to you already, your day will come. You will switch on your computer in the morning and nothing. Or you will switch on your computer, some lights will flash and you will hear the whirring of fans, but your screen will remain blank. The lights are on, but nobody’s home to [...]
DomainLore And The UK Domain Name Aftermarket
If you’ve considered building a house of late, you’ll know that good building plots in towns and cities don’t exactly grow on trees. Not in the UK anyway. Which means having to think outside the box. One avenue worth exploring is to find a house with a big enough garden and ask if the owner [...]
The Return Of The Banner Ad
Any seasoned internet marketer will tell you that banner ads simply don’t convert website customers into visitors. Not in the numbers you would like them to anyway. One major reason is banner blindness. Most visitors to a web page will choose to ignore them, either consciously or sub-consciously. We dismiss them as mere advertising and [...]
How To Secure An Expiring Dotcom
For the most part, I register and develop .co.uk domain names because my primary target market is nearly always the UK, but where possible I like to register the .com version too. The latter is easier said than done because finding a dotcom that hasn’t already been registered is not unlike finding a tenner in [...]
