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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
A Watery Tale
2007-09-12 15:24:00 I read this storey on holiday and thought it was pretty appropriate to my way of thinking about this money making Internet lark. Once upon a time (I?ve always wanted to start a post with that) there was a village out in the sticks and the closest water supply was 2 miles away. So the head ... More About: Tale
Datamine your stats for unregistered UK domains
2007-09-11 10:02:00 Although I like to have a few generic uk domains I am not a serious domainer, I don’t really know what I would peg myself as if I had to, I’d struggle, I like to try different things even though a lot of the time the line between them grows increasingly blurred. Established domainers now realise why ... More About: Stats , Domains , Regis , Stere , Mains
Why Do Some Website Owners Lie and Deceive?
2007-09-10 11:31:00 This post is going to be a bit of a rant and lesson learned. A year or so ago I was approached by a popular blogger (at the time his blog received a lot more traffic than mine) to see if I fancied posting on his site and I’d let him do the same ... More About: Website , Deceive , Owners , Some
That?s a wrap! - Friday 7th September
2007-09-07 12:28:00 A good week for me and quite productive overall, my Adsense earnings have been shockingly poor the last 2 weeks, from what I can see it is due to a downturn in search volume for my keywords more than anything else, I am glad I have other sources. I was contacted today about leasing a ... More About: Friday , September , Sept , Wrap
Ethically Creating Fresh Content for Free
2007-09-06 17:24:00 Scott has been doing an excellent job sharing his experiences when buying established domains, what I want to do in this post is share a few ideas on how to fill these domains with useful content on the cheap (you’ve just splashed out buying the domain after all). I’ve posted before about how I love databases ... More About: Free , Creating , Content , Fresh , Ally
Case Study - Boat Classifieds
2007-09-05 13:19:00 I know people like examples of sites and case studies so I am going to throw another one out there today, I bought a few sites & classified sites recently one of which is Boat s4Sale which I intend to keep for the long term. Boats 4 Sale was an old classified site that was built ... More About: Study , Classifieds , Case , T class
Finding the Holy Grail Site Idea
2007-09-04 21:00:00 There are many different sorts of sites and money making businesses on the net some of which are way more profitable than others. For new site ideas these are the characteristics that I look for to make it my holy grail (not mini sites rather sites that take a fair amount of investment (time or ... More About: Site , Idea , Holy , Holy Grail , The Holy Grail
Free Website reviews, a weekend away and some booze.
2007-09-03 10:51:00 Al mentioned last week after working together on a few sites for over a year we had arranged to meet up for the first time this weekend in Edinburgh with our families. It’s a funny thing working online with someone and then meeting in person for the first time, you half meet up as strangers ... More About: Site News , Reviews , Website , Booze , Free
That?s a wrap! - Friday 31st August
2007-08-31 12:48:00 I’m heading off to Scotland this afternoon to meet up with Scott, so it’s a good job I heard about Double Wires earlier in the week. The high score to beat is 107.82 yds by Scott’s 7yr old son . Other news: Yahoo complicit in rights abuse and acts of torture by revealing email addresses & ... More About: Friday , August , Wrap
Inspiration for every reader- FREE!
2007-08-30 10:30:00 Another post on finding old sites for sale but a short one, this one is gold dust so for those of you who like the idea of looking for an old site that may have some traffic & rankings already that can be bought then improved upon but you don’t know where to look ... More About: Inspiration , Reader , Free
The Meeting of Minds
2007-08-29 13:48:00 Scott and I have been in business together for just over a year but we’ve never actually met or even spoke on the phone, all communication has been via PM’s, email and MSN messenger. That’s all about to change this weekend as we are meeting up for the first time, which means we can talk ... More About: Site News , Minds , Meeting
A good website for 10-12 times net income, not anymore.
2007-08-28 10:52:00 I mentioned last Monday that I managed to find (in my opinion) another decent gem of a domain, this one is a full website that ranks and is 5 years old and currently not monetised at all at present which means over the last few years it has been able to do it’s job ranking and getting ... More About: Website , Income , Times , Good
I have a pornography site?
2007-08-27 11:11:00 Yesterday I had a complaint about one of the adverts on my websites, it went like this: There is an add of a naked womans rear on your site (www.cleanishappy.com toilet) that shows how to make stars wars characters from paper. I would love to send this link to my 11 year old son but ... More About: Site , Pornography , Graph
That?s a wrap! - Friday 24th August
2007-08-24 10:53:00 . Link bait gone, em crazy! as Joe gets a Digital point & Shoemoney tattoo this week. . Keynote speech by Frank Schilling at the round table conference posted at DomainTools The most amusing part is minute 31:55 where Frank jokes that he just made $100 exhaling. A very good speech from what seems like a really likable ... More About: Friday , August , Wrap
Getting Lots of Designs for the Price of One
2007-08-23 15:20:00 A fair few of my sites are in need of a face lift and as the only design skills I have is knowing how to spell it this is a job I need to out-source. The first job I need doing is a new logo/title for my gadget blog (I don’t rank for gadget blog, ... More About: Price , Designs
Domain Leasing - Become an Internet Landlord
2007-08-22 11:05:00 First I have to quantify this post by saying I don’t know anything about domaining so these are my thoughts on the subject but that doesn’t mean anyone should take it as advice or the like Domain names, well certainly the good one’s, brandable one’s and generic one’s are all snapped up, more and ... More About: Internet , Leasing
Motivation ? What motivates YOU
2007-08-21 14:32:00 To get anything done motivation is key, motivating yourself to clean your teeth every morning is pretty easy, if you don’t they’ll eventually fall out giving you a bit of pain along the way. However motivating yourself when the rewards or penalties are not as obvious can be a bit trickier. Different people are motivated by ... More About: Motivation
Holidays end, Mouse RSI & the vertical mouse
2007-08-20 13:15:00 For me here in the NE of Scotland the kids go back to school tomorrow after their summer holiday (6 week break). Phew! I have to admit I have been a lazy sod over the last 2 months mainly servicing & maintaining instead of doing anything new or productive of note. So I will be getting ... More About: Holidays , Mouse , Ouse , Vertical , Vert
That?s a Wrap! - Friday 17th August
2007-08-17 15:24:00 Could you live without Google, Techblazer spends a week using only Ask.com ScottFish talks about a new domain law that is possibly heading the way of New York that will make it illegal to register a domain name that is similar to or the same as another living person or business. Any one living in New York ... More About: Friday , August , Wrap
Top 10 undeveloped domains
2007-08-16 10:31:00 Having domains undeveloped and parked or worse just a 404 page can often gets some people?s heckles up, on the flip side we don?t drive past beautiful areas of land beside lakes and places of natural beauty and curse the landowner for not building houses there. If you view domains as land then undeveloped domains just ... More About: Domains , Develop , Mains
Oct 2006 - No More Translated Pages
2007-08-15 17:54:00 This is the next instalment of the history of the Coolest Gadgets site. It’s for October 2006, month 14 of the sites life. Finding new gadgets to write about was fairly easy with the crazy USB Hamster Wheel bringing in a nice number or organic links. I also coded a simple plugin to create image based ... More About: Pages , Translated , Tran , Ages
Starting from scratch: The reflective approach.
2007-08-14 10:54:00 How did you start out? What sites do you build? Do you just build lots and see what sticks? Personally I took a different approach when choosing my first genre, many years ago I subscribed to Wordtracker who offer a free email service whereby they email me the top searched terms, I still get this today. This would ... More About: Scratch
Getting Ready for Christmas
2007-08-13 11:40:00 It might only be August but there are only 134 days left until Christmas andif you haven’t started getting ready yet you’re leaving it a little late. The Christmas season is the most profitable time of year for many on-line businesses. In order to profit it from it to the max you’ve got to be prepared ... More About: Ready
That?s a wrap! 10th August
2007-08-10 11:21:00 Interesting study on how many times Blogs in the Technorati top 100 have hit the Digg homepage. Google pagerank update, is it an update or isn’t it, doesn’t matter whether you love or loathe the PR updates they do make for some scary threads on DP. 63 day old thread with 3668 replies and 90,728 pageviews. ... More About: August , Wrap
Rinse and Repeat
2007-08-09 15:06:00 Databases are cool! That may sound like something that only a total computer nerd would say but I don’t care as they make me money. Just over a year a go I had an idea for a site that I thought would be fun to do as a joint project with my daughter (I often look ...
Lies, Turning points, failure & motivation
2007-08-08 11:19:00 I would say it takes a certain kind of person to become self employed, to make your own wage you need more than a bit of motivation and often there is a key moment that changes the direction you take in your working life to spur you on into action. Just wanting to earn money ... More About: Motivation , Failure , Points , Turn , Turning Point
Time for Action
2007-08-07 13:50:00 Along with haggling I did a fair bit of reading on holiday. One of the books I read was The E-Myth Revisted, a decent book about why many small businesses fail (and more importantly not to be one of them). One piece in the book that really got me thinking was a quote from another book: You ... More About: Action , Time
Valuing a website for a possible purchase
2007-08-06 10:41:00 When discussing website valuations there are a two distinctly different thought processes as far as I am concerned, namely whether you are looking to buy a site or looking to sell a site. For me these have two completely different criteria and today I am continuing the developing online posts that I have done previously ... More About: Website , Purchase , Ossi , Hase
That?s a Wrap! Friday 3rd August
2007-08-03 13:20:00 I’m still playing catch up after my hols so a few of these maybe older stories that I’ve only just got around to reading about. A cool study by Chitika showing how the top 50,000 blogs made about $500,000,000 last year, very nice! More info over at TechCrunch. Google makes moves towards in game advertising as mentioned ... More About: Friday , August , Wrap
Don?t always feel sorry for the little guy
More articles from this author:2007-08-02 12:13:00 Sometimes we like to side with the underdog, it?s human nature. Quite recently I learnt to my cost that it is not always in my own best interest to side with the little guy, we have had quite a bit of press lately in the local papers as small shops complain about the new supermarkets ... More About: Feel , Litt , Always , Sorry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
