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Self Made MindsSelf Made MindsSelf Made Minds is run by two Internet entrepreneurs Al and Scott. The aim of the site is to share experiences and knowledge that weve picked up along the way. Neither of us have a job and rely solely on our businesses to put bread and beer on the ta Articles
Friday Links
2008-04-25 11:40:00 Quick favor to ask, I’ve finally finished off and installed a new theme on Coolest Gadgets and I’m after feedback, be it positive or negative. One of the aims of the theme is to make it less Adsense heavy and provide more space for traditional branding advertising. Using all UPPERCASE in your title tag may look ... More About: Links , Friday
Domain Lease Agreement
2008-04-24 10:43:00 Today I am going to outline the main parts to consider in a domain lease agreement, this is not intended as legal advice, if you were to lease a domain you should get a professional opinion. Furthermore the lease agreement I have used is aimed at UK domains so if it were another extension you ... More About: Domain , Domains , Lease , Agreement
Importance of networking in person
2008-04-23 15:13:00 I’m off to another blogger event this Friday. It’s being thrown by LG (launching a new phone) at the Mayfair in London and looks pretty swish. It will give me the chance to network a bit with other bloggers and also pick up another free phone. The reason I’m posting about it now is they’ve ... More About: Networking , Person
Exit strategy - prepare well in advance
2008-04-22 10:27:00 After a few years of working online I think it is only prudent to have an exit strategy, well it is for me seeing as I want to retire early, or at least have the option to retire when I wish instead of when I have to. So far I have managed to make money online ... More About: Strategy , Exit Strategy
?Winners never quit and quitters never win? that?s crap
2008-04-21 15:58:00 There’s a popular saying in the motivational world: Winners never quit and quitters never win Whilst this saying is true in some cases, it is certainly not a hundred percent of the time. There are plenty of situations where the winners answer will be to quit. One of my first sites was tutorial based for a somewhat obscure ... More About: Crap , Quit
18th April Friday Wrap
2008-04-18 10:22:00 Wendy Piersall’s eMoms blog network rebranded and moved to SparkPlugging.com, go Wendy. Friend and fellow blogger Daniel Scocco (Daily Blog Tips fame) releases his first eBook on how to find killer domains suitably called Killer Domains . Could be useful for those following our advice in picking up expired co.uk’s -hat tip to Stephen for his ... More About: April , Friday , Wrap
Holiday Conversation #2 - You?re a Workaholic
2008-04-17 15:24:00 This is my second post about holiday conversations, the first was about me being a lucky bastard, another term which came up was that of a workaholic, as I popped over to an Internet café each day of the holiday. When I first started out with my we business I was also working a 6 ... More About: Holiday , Conversation
UK Domaining Guide
2008-04-16 10:10:00 I have had a few private questions regarding UK domain names so wanted to document the main points in a post to cover the absolute basics. Buying existing UK domains Pushing or transferring a UK domain name to your registrar does not give you ownership, while the address can be updated for free if you want to ... More About: Guide , Domains , Domaining
How to be a lucky bastard
2008-04-15 12:38:00 I?ve had two trips recently, first my 2 week vacation to the Canaries closely followed 4 days in San Francisco for Elite Retreat. The two experiences were absolutely poles apart, but both enjoyable and enlightening in different ways. My vacation was spent with 5 other adults, one of whom is retired (my partner?s mother (girlfriend ... More About: Bastard , Lucky
Making money from classified sites.
2008-04-14 10:00:00 I stumbled across an ingenious way to make money from a site last week and it’s something I plan to possibly try out and put into practice when I get a chance, if you already know about it then I apologise but it did seem rather a sneaky and clever way to generate income while ... More About: Money , Sites , Classified
Friday Link and News
2008-04-11 11:19:00 This is not public news yet but I’ve heard on the grapevine that a well known online entrepreneur suffered a server failure and has lost his entire site worth mid $xxx,xxx so please take this as a warning and backup, NOW! This one could be interesting: Yahoo and Google, the world’s two biggest search engines, have announced ... More About: News , Link , Friday
Economics and emails
2008-04-10 14:44:00 Quick quick post today - I recently upgrading an email forwarder to a pop3 box on one of my main domains but forgot to add it to my receive list in my email client (I used to already send from that email), when I worked it out this morning it had 1287 emails in it of which ... More About: Economics , Domains , Emails
Elite Retreat - First Impressions
2008-04-09 18:45:00 Elite Retreat is over and I ‘m now flying back to the UK, either sat at the Virgin bar or lying down fast asleep, either way flying with Virgin is cool. Slight delay with posting this as I’m now sat on a train coming back from London after a Panasonic blogger day (whic was also ... More About: First Impressions , Elite , Impressions
Getting in touch with the right people
2008-04-08 10:44:00 It can be unproductive and often boring sending out email after email to try and lease out some of my sites, so many companies seem to be making contacting them by email nigh on impossible! Spam has played it?s part in that I am sure. Still, I often get the feeling my emails never get in front of ... More About: People , Touch
April 4th facts and fun
2008-04-04 11:45:00 If you missed any of the April 1st shenanigans, Blog Storm has a nice summary list, ….. Domain sales are still bucking the economic downturn by growing in strength and sales In the first quarter of 2008, 3,764 sales were reported to DN Journal making the average sale reported $10,103. In the first quarter of 2007, 3,086 sales ... More About: Facts
Starting out with some furniture affiliates
2008-04-02 11:04:00 I am brand new really to affiliate sales but with a set of furniture domains that need something on them I decided to start and it was also part of my list of goals for this year. I paid around $1000 for my programmer or coder or whatever you would have him called to make my ... More About: Furniture , Affiliates , Starting Out
Journey to Elite Retreat - Virgin Upper Class is the business
2008-04-02 10:48:00 My journey to Elite Retreat begins, the started at 3.45AM though I did manage to get a bit of shut eye in the taxi on the way to the airport. For this trip I bit the bullet and decided to donate some of my earnings to Sir Richard Branson rather than Mr Taxman by flying ... More About: Business , Journey , Virgin , Class
Back from Vacation and now off to Elite Retreat
2008-04-01 14:13:00 I’m now back from my “somewhat” relaxing early summer holiday and first off need to send a massive thanks to Scott for the extra excellent posts he’s been doing the past fortnight and a congratulations on his 2 domain purchases, it will be interesting to see how they develop. Whilst Scott is investing in domains I’m ... More About: Vacation , Back , Elite , Retreat
Free Page peel script
2008-03-31 11:28:00 I have a few furniture domains and it is my intent to lease them out, leasing out the sites should offer better value for money for companies than using Adwords. I have already done this with one site for £500 per month so if I can replicate that a few times I’ll be a happy chappy, but ... More About: Free , Page , Script
End of March mix of merriment
2008-03-28 09:00:00 Do websites have things to learn from slot machines, the BBC reports on how website need to chance with the user, people surf and act differently depending on whether they are at work or at home, user behaviour needs to be studied and applied immediately with websites changing in real time. The BBC also had ... More About: March
Twice as many want to work for Google as themselves
2008-03-27 09:02:00 The Register did a survey at the end of last year in which they were looking for specific data on jobs, salaries and qualifications, quite an interesting read which was released recently, you can see the whole PDF results here. More than 6000 filled in the survey So the average UK salary came in at £35k which ... More About: Google , Work
Get the services you need and a backlink
2008-03-27 09:01:00 Search in Google for things like the following; previous clients testimonials portfolio If you do you see portfolio type pages, strong pages with few links offering services which are often affordable, how about trying out a service and getting a valuable backlink? After using services it often pays to submit feedback in the form of a testimonial that could be ... More About: Services
Possible Domain Appraisal Scam
2008-03-27 09:00:00 Found a new domain appraisal service last week, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a scam, actually quite a good angle, I noticed a post on Acorn about Whythink offer free appraisals, always interesting to get someone else’s objective opinion - if it is that. I decided to send in some domains through ... More About: Domain , Domains , Scam
Ebay to stop digital goods auctions
2008-03-26 12:24:00 Remember when people would sell ebooks for £0.01p and within a day get hundreds of positive feedback and then go on to commit scams and theft? Well it looks like those days are past, unfortunately with any major rule change there is always collateral damage. Hello…This is Brian Burke, Director Global Feedback Policy. Digital goods are ... More About: Goods , Ebay , Stop , Auctions
Recycle User Data for a new site
2008-03-26 09:30:00 Nice little bit of recycling done recently that allowed me to create a new website. I do translations and often get phrases that make me sit and think for a second when completing them, many I have heard before but I get some new one’s popping up which are quite cool. I also get a steady supply ... More About: Data , Site , User , Recycle , New Site
2 UK domain purchases for over $20k
2008-03-25 10:43:00 2 domains that I bought recently are going through this week and will be reported by Sedo and you never know I may scrape onto the DNJournal chart for all the wrong reasons Home Mortgage - homemortgage.co.uk £6100 ($12145) Genes - Genes.co.uk £5900 ($11746) Genes was actually sold for $6000 in the middle of last year so ... More About: Domain , Domains
Readers Question - Things to check when buying a site
2008-03-25 09:30:00 A reader question was sent in that I will discuss today and if you have anything to add please do so in the comments. I’ve been to Site point to have a look around but I don’t feel comfortable in evaluating the different opportunities. Are they priced right? Are they really THAT passive? Are the traffic truly real? ... More About: Buying , Question , Readers , Check
Happy Birthday SMM
2008-03-18 10:35:00 It was the 18th of March 2007 Al made the first post! Crikey, a year old. 254 posts 160,266 words 4501 comments If you want to read through old posts they can be found via the sitemap, I would say there is a lot of good info to be found there, some light posts, some long posts and some gold dust. ... More About: Site News , Happy , Birthday , Happy Birthday
Get focused and miss the obvious
2008-03-17 09:39:00 Al being off on holiday means we will be light on posts over the next 2 weeks - I just wanted to share a link today that illustrates a point very well, over the last few years I have been focused, over the last few months I have changed my direction a bit more to generic ... More About: Miss , Obvious
Friday Links
More articles from this author:2008-03-13 15:45:00 Fund.com sells for a reported almost $10 milllion! Google now offering payments via Western Union, hat tip to Google Tutor. Work on multiple machines, synchronise bookmarks, cookies, open tabs and everything with Google Browser Sync and Firefox, found via Digital Solecism. Another new service from Google, is Google AdManager which will let you manage ALL your ads from ... More About: Links , Friday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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