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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
Holiday Time
2008-03-13 15:00:00 Today’s post is going to be a bit of a shorty, I’m off on holiday tomorrow and I again had server issues which my new found knowledge of SSH couldn’t fix (I could ping but nothing more). So the post I had planned for today will have to wait until I return as it needs ... More About: Holiday , Time
Business ideas connecting people and domains
2008-03-12 10:49:00 I love website ideas that let users create content and interact with each other, all the while they create free content and improve your site in a fashion that lets you stay hands off. Starting a site like this is slow and painful but once they get natural momentum they can really take off, you ... More About: Ideas , Business , People , Business Ideas , Domains
Know Thy Server
2008-03-11 13:10:00 I had one of those nightmarish days yesterday where one of my servers stopped responding (well two servers by the end of the day). This occasionally happens and normally can be resolved by connecting using WHM (Web Host Manager) and restarting the failed services or in the worst case a full reboot. However on this ... More About: Server
Sedo Feautured Listing - save your cash
2008-03-10 10:13:00 As a test I decided to use Sedo’s featured listing to see whether it helped offers or sales, it’s quite apparent they are not a broker in the sense that they would seek out a buyer for premium domains however they are the only real shop window so worth a test I felt. I don’t have ... More About: Domains , Listing , Cash , Save
Fridays Links
2008-03-07 13:14:00 Over on Get Rich Slowly there’s a cool interview with Tim Ferris from the 4 hour work week fame. Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 (looking at the release notes it’s not that big a deal) and also Microsoft Office Live a currently free online version of Microsoft Office. Cool interview with Matt Mickiewicz, the Co-Founder ... More About: Links
Why build on a category killer generic domain?
2008-03-06 11:40:00 If there is one lesson I have learnt and one thing I would do differently it would be to do whatever it took at the start to acquire the prime generic domain for my niche. Having the generic domain holds a lot of value in itself, value that increases year upon year, add that to developed website ... More About: Domain , Killer , Domains , Build , Category
Stop Adsense Bashing with a Few Tips
2008-03-05 12:57:00 Yesterday Scott wrote about how one of his goals was to be Adsense free, I think a better goal would be “Not to be Adsense reliant”. In this post I want to share a few tips on how you can improve your Adsense earnings, I’m not saying do solely Adsense but if you use it ... More About: Tips , Stop
A goal achieved and a goal to be Adsense free gained
2008-03-04 11:18:00 I managed to achieve another goal of mine this week which was a boost! At the start of January I stated a list of 7 goals I wanted to achieve in 2008, so far No.2 on the list has been achieved - to get involved in an offline venture, a rocky start with the vehicle breaking ... More About: Adsense , Free , Goal
Subscriber Survey Results
2008-03-03 16:26:00 Last week, to coincide with the launch of the email version of our feed we ran a quick survey on how you followed your favourite sites. Well the results are in: The data set is pretty tiny with only 75 votes, which also tells a story. We currently have ~1400 RSS subscribers (time to add the ... More About: Survey , Results , Subscriber
Leap Year Links
2008-02-29 09:43:00 If you agreed to the new terms of service for Adsense but couldn’t be bothered reading it all then fear not as Jensense has explained it in English. … Interview with me by Dan @ PowerDosh … An interesting post on sponsored themes at Blogstorm and the thread over at Google groups is well worth a read if you dabble ... More About: Links , Year , Leap
How to expand your blog without more blogging
2008-02-28 13:37:00 Nearly 10 ways to extend your site When I started this post it was primarily aimed at blogs but it’s relevant to pretty much any site. Here are a few ideas on ways to extend a site in a different direction by adding new features. For the following features many are available as scripts (both paid ... More About: Blogging , Blog
Find trends and inspiration for future tech domains
2008-02-27 10:07:00 Company websites are great for information and ideas for reg fee domains- When I was researching genomics I checked out genome.com ? an actual site, on their homepage it says ?Functional Genomic Fingerprinting? I checked and both these were available…. FunctionalGenomicFingerprinting.com GenomicFingerprinting.com Now they could be worth quite a lot come time! When I was researching braille and products for blind ... More About: Inspiration , Trends , Future , Tech , Find
Attracting RSS and Email Subscribers
2008-02-26 13:57:00 Writing my task list the night before has increased my productivity, one of the things I wanted to do for a while was add an email subscription option to both here and CG. That was added to my list last night and done today, so if you want to receive a daily email from us ... More About: Email , Blogging
Spring cleaning domain style
2008-02-25 11:05:00 Spring is on the horizon here in the UK and my spring cleaning is long overdue! I think I have used the phrase “I am not a domainer” many times but my domain list is starting to bulge and I have to question more and more the reason for what I am holding. There are certainly some ... More About: Domain , Cleaning , Spring , Style , Domains
Links and Stuff on 22/02/08
2008-02-22 13:52:00 A new addition to BlogRush (the headline sharing widget) is Traffic Jam, a supposedly easy way to see what is happening in the blogosphere. Niall Kennedy has come up with a very cool script that you can use to display Social Bookmarking buttons only to your readers that have visited those sites by looking at the ... More About: Links , Stuff
Affiliate Opportunity for someone in the UK
2008-02-21 11:49:00 I was speaking to an old friend this morning who has had nothing but trouble with his hosting/webmaster and was asking for advice as he is treading water, at present he pays a monthly fee to cover small website changes and the hosting but anytime he needs something done it is never carried out. So a possible ... More About: Affiliate , Opportunity
5 Time Suckers for the Internet Entrepreneur
2008-02-20 12:17:00 For the past month or so I’ve been neglecting my business somewhat. I’ve been working my usual hours but looking back the time I’ve been investing has often been wasted. You could say I’ve spent the last month learning how to be busy without actually doing anything, which isn’t smart. So where’s the time going. Email As I do the majority of my business on the Net, email is the preferred and predominant communication method. I currently get around a thousand emails a day, of which Google automatically trashes about 700. This still leaves 300 that need reading ad responding to or deleting. What I’ve been doing in the last month is checking my email way too often and often reading an email without acting on it so needing to read it again, so losing double the amount of time. Starting as of yesterday my solution to this is to just check email twice a day and have the time set aside to act on all received. If I am waiting for an email off somebod... More About: Internet , Entrepreneur , Time , The Internet , Suckers
The 5 month Google Images sabbatical
2008-02-19 11:02:00 How long does it take Google Images to update… Around September 1st, pretty much when Google Images implement their image labeler my Google images traffic plummeted on my tattoo site. Unlike many others, I always benefited pretty well from the traffic that Google images supplied, probably because my site is image based, that traffic converted well into ... More About: Month , Ages
Site Clinic - Website Review : Gadget Box (Part 2 - Checking Out)
2008-02-18 16:43:00 This is a follow-up to the site clinic that we did about the Gadget Box. In the previous part we looked at the site from a usability and SEO perspective, this time we are going to look at the order process. It’s taken a while for us to do this follow-up as the majority of ... More About: Website , Review , Site , Part
Post Valentine?s Videndum
2008-02-15 11:59:00 Yahoo gets back to business on Tuesday and buys Maven Networks for $160 million, Maven sells a system that embeds advertisements into videos. … Rick Latona’s blog is live, Rick intends to sell premium domains fast and cheap! … At the end of every URL and email address is a top-level domain (TLD). Although .com is the world?s most ... More About: Valentine , Post
What Do You Do When Your Adsense Earnings Plummet
2008-02-14 15:01:00 Since Christmas I’ve seen a hefty drop in my Adsense both the CTR (Click Through Rate) and CPC (Cost Per Click) have fallen resulting in the CPM reducing more so. I was expecting a downturn after the Christmas season but the drop is more dramatic than I’ve experienced in previous years. Looking around forums it ... More About: Earnings
No use crying over spilt milk
2008-02-13 10:55:00 It has been an interesting week for me so far, I was feeding my daughter Eve and with no warning she managed to throw up her milk all across my keyboard, there was no saving it so I had to do some research for a new one, I wanted something that was ergonomic after last year when I changed ... More About: Milk , Domains , Crying
Different Types of Sites - Cash Back
2008-02-12 15:35:00 One of the ways I judge a site idea is if it already existed would you recommend it to other people, if the answer is no you have something of a none starter whilst if it’s yes then you have the beginning of a viral marketing campaign. I enjoy browsing other sites away from my ... More About: Sites , Back , Cash , Types
How to make money like 6 figures on a budget
2008-02-11 10:32:00 Surely you can?t make tens of thousands if not 6 figures with only a limited budget of say $1k? Well I firmly believe that you can, each and every person reading this post has the potential to do it within the next few years, no question, if you have $1000 and time it can be achieved ... More About: Money , Make Money , Domains , Budget , Make
A number of Links and Stuff on Friday
2008-02-08 15:24:00 Cruises.co.uk has reportedly been bought by the owners of Cruise.co.uk for $1.1 million which is a great return on investment seeing as it was sold in 2006 for $184k I think the big thing here is that it ranks No.1 for cruises so yet again possible a huge value added benefit to the new owners ... More About: Links , Stuff , Friday , Number
No more numbers please!!
2008-02-07 09:30:00 Boy o’ boy am I sick of seeing blog posts titles with numbers in them, if I see one more 5 this, the top 10 that and 7 ways to the other I’ll crack up. The amount of blog posts that are churning out regurgitated and link baiting posts with lists are ever growing and it’s ... More About: Numbers
New Blog Plug-In Check List
2008-02-06 13:21:00 First off thanks to everybody that gave us feedback with our setting up a new blog check list, I’ve updated the list with your suggestions (and link credited accordingly). Following on from that I’m going to a check list of plugins that the majority of new blogs will benefit from. Again if you have any ... More About: Blogging , Blog , List , Check , Plug
Master stroke or just mad to turn down a $57,000 profit!
2008-02-05 11:48:00 Happy days indeed, I mentioned on Friday’s roundup that I sold a domain and had to travel to do the deal, I have to say that although I am not a domainer and prefer to buy domains to develop thus greatly increasing their value, I did enjoy this experience! For those long time readers you may remember last July when I commented on my discover of led bulbs from the New Scientist in a post about getting ahead of the game. The fact of the matter is that even when you come across future technology chances are someone had reg’d the domains before you, which they had. You can still make good investments from buying from domainers and domain owners, ledbulbs.co.uk cost £675 ($1328)  after some negotiation. Once I had that secured I always like to try and cover myself with the next best if possible so contacted the owner of ledlightbulbs.co.uk which I had to pay £1000 ($1967) for and it came with ledlightbulb.co.uk I am pretty sure many people would have baulked at paying Â... More About: Profit , Master , Stroke , Turn
Off to Elite Retreat
2008-02-04 17:34:00 One of my aims for 2008 is to expand the affiliate marketing side of my business, I did quite well in December but still have a lot to learn so it’s time to re-invest some of the profits into a trip to San Fransico to attend and learn from the experts at Elite Retreat . Elite ...
February the First?s Feed of Fodder
More articles from this author:2008-02-01 09:31:00 … Courtesy of Hammer from Acorn 1) Open www.google.com 2) Type in ?find chuck Norris? (with quotes) 3) Click on [I?m feeling lucky] … Not sure if I’d call it addictive but this is the most bizarre game I’ve ever seen http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/ gamegame.html … A first time domainer point of view well worth reading over at Supernatural Agency … Bill Gates contemplates his last day as ... More About: Feed , February 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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