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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
Think Tankers Summer Camp
2008-06-10 16:45:00 One of the key features of Elite Retreat was the networking with the other attendees, I learnt more from them than the actual speakers. One of the organizers and all round good guy Dave (AKA dk) spoke about creating an event purely for networking, so there would be no speakers just like minded attendees with ... More About: Summer , Camp , Summer Camp
A few more interesting links
2008-06-06 15:00:00 Want to read books while at work, the New Zealand Book Council certainly took a new approach to building their site. Patrick posts about insurance for bloggers, I’ve had a few legal wranglings in the past so this sounds like a good idea. Google being moaned at for not not providing a prominent link to its privacy ... More About: Interesting , Links
Possible scam on domains and sites
2008-06-05 19:31:00 There is likely a new scam email going about, seems to have been fired off repeatedly with many many people getting it all from different names and email addresses but with the same text so I’d be very wary, looks like a scam, the email I received goes like this: I am interested in purchasing your web ... More About: Sites , Domains , Scam
Mini Sites for sale
2008-06-05 11:01:00 Mini sites is a topic that I have touched on a few times in this blog and usually has been warmly received Mini sites don’t always make mini money - 77 comments! Mini sites revisited Finding good ideas for a mini site Today I am offering for sale the domains; MiniSites .co.uk and along with it Minisites.net Minisites.co.uk has an informational homepage, would ... More About: For Sale , Sale , Mini , Domains
Looking for other technology/gadget blog owners
2008-06-04 13:35:00 I am starting a new regular feature over on Coolest Gadget s where each week we will feature excerpts of the best gadget posts from across the web and ask our readers to vote which they think is the coolest, thus creating a Coolest Gadget of the week. I think this will be a great way to ... More About: Technology , Blog , Owners
Mobilising into mobility and growing markets
2008-06-03 10:30:00 I have to confess I was a real tight arse to my peril at the end of last year, bidding through Sedo is always dangerous when the seller can throw a domain to auction, I bid £350 on Mobility Scooter.co.uk and was countered with £500, a reasonable price I thought but me being me I had ... More About: Markets , Growing
DoFollow, Gravatars and CommentLuv We have them all
2008-06-02 18:57:00 I was having a bit of a tinker with the comment layout here on SMM and whilst I was at it adding a few plugins and made the whole site a lot more commentator friendly (thanks guys), so we now have: DoFollow Links - links left in comments are followable by the search engine (not that ...
End of May pick n mix
2008-05-30 12:17:00 Want to see the percentage change of house prices in the US from 1920 to present, The Economist demonstrates in a graph that’s pretty shocking. It’s a good time to be in Europe and buy in the US, be it domains or websites. … Guy Kawasaki explains how to pick up a venture capitalist and more importantly, ... More About: Pick
How to speak like a loser
2008-05-29 16:46:00 I might create another site I might do that as well Cool, I might try it I might go to that networking event I see blog comments and forum posts like that just about everyday and when ever I do the writer loses all credibilty. I find when people say might you can safely swap it for won’t. By ... More About: Speak , Loser
Sometimes it?s good to have a change of scenery
2008-05-28 10:06:00 Some genres/topics are so much easier to work in than others for backlinks, it is really refreshing to move on to a new website and development and then start looking for some nice links. Hobby sites can be amazing in that the network of sites out there still gladly review and link to good content at ... More About: Change , Scenery , Good
Cool, Blogpreneur Contest Winner
2008-05-27 13:27:00 Earlier this month I posted my entry for the Blogpreneur Contest 2008, I wrote about what I thought made Cool est Gadgets a success. I’ve just heard that my entry is one of three winners, cool. It’s the first time I’ve won something like this and it will be interesting to see what publicity I can generate ... More About: Winner
Friday 23rd bits & bobs
2008-05-23 11:30:00 E2Save have a video showing the changes in phones from 1985 through to the present day, technology has come a long way! … 3rd party ads are to be shown on the Google network The Google content network now accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. Third-party ad serving has been a longstanding request from top brand ... More About: Friday , Bits
Webmasters nightmare #2 - Server and backup failure
2008-05-22 17:05:00 Last week was a bad week, following on from one of my blogs being hacked I also experienced one of my forum accounts being accidentally deleted by our provider. It wasn’t just my host that was completely bloody incompetent, the backups I had of that site had also failed so in the end I had ... More About: Backup , Webmasters , Nightmare , Failure , Server
Can an exchange of emails create a contract?
2008-05-21 11:59:00 Short post and cannot go into too much depth for obvious reasons however I approached a company to buy a domain name, I offered £3000 to which I received a reply. I advise that we are happy to accept your offer in the sum of £3,000 plus VAT Excellent, that was 23rd April and I was over ... More About: Exchange , Contract , Emails , Create
Webmasters nightmare #1 - Wordpress blog hacked
2008-05-20 13:08:00 Last week I had 2 problems that webmasters dread, being hacked and a catastrophic double server failure, I had both on different sites in the space of 2 days. The first thing I knew about the hacking was when one of my writing partners Keith sent me an email and screenshot showing a strange error ... More About: Wordpress , Webmasters , Nightmare , Blog , Hacked
Economy in tatters, opportunity matters.
2008-05-19 10:25:00 In the current economic climate I think it’s fair to say a lot of people are tightening their belts, food and fuel prices are forever breaking new records and the banks & finance are suffering as much as they have been for decades. It is therefor the perfect time to go on the offensive, you will not ... More About: Economy , Opportunity , Matters
More Friday Links
2008-05-16 14:30:00 Google has a new logo today to celebrate the invention of the first laser. Elmer runs into Michael Kovach in Starbucks, Michael bought iphone.com in 1993 and kept it until 2006 when he sold it to Apple. Another hubby puts his cheating wife on Ebay The BBC reports on a recent online acquisition: Television company CBS has agreed ... More About: Links , Friday
Leaving it late
2008-05-14 10:44:00 An older friend of mine Ian, was recently in hospital for a major checkup. He was kept in for over a week while his doctors did their stuff. He’s a bit of a car fanatic so to pass the time read many a car magazines from his hospital bed and saw an advert for a classic ... More About: Late , Leaving
The shopping mall that is the internet
2008-05-13 10:24:00 If the internet is like a shopping mall it?s a big mall! … looking forward and trying to predict the future I can draw a few conclusions: - Some shops I think will work will not, even with lots of effort & investment - Some shops I think will fail, will survive and even prosper - Some shops I just don?t understand If I ... More About: Internet , Shopping , Domains , Mall , The Internet
New Chitika Premium Ad Units
2008-05-12 15:48:00 Chitika are usually one of my top 3 money makers. Previously , they haven’t converted well on information based sites, kind of like this one. This could hopefully be about to change with their new Interactive Premium Ad units. The units look like traditional text based ads but have a relevent image to the left of ... More About: Chitika , Units
Few links Friday
2008-05-09 17:24:00 As Scott has already done a post today I’ll just drop a few links that I have sitting on my desk. Amusing thread over at Digital Point showing peoples lifetime Adsense earnings. Another site after your dollars as the million dollar home page, instead of buying pixels you buy words by the letter, simple but cool idea ... More About: Links , Friday
Second domain lease in the bag!
2008-05-09 10:29:00 Phew, lot’s of emails and lot’s talking back and forth with business owners has taken a small step forward today with my second lease now signed and sealed. I have a small furniture domain that I found for sale last year, I emailed the seller and he said he was open to offers, thankfully my first ... More About: Domain , Domains , Lease
Finding Networking Events
2008-05-08 15:47:00 I’ve done a couple of posts highlighting the benefits of networking, especially in person. In this post I want to share a few ideas on finding networking opportunities. Attend trade shows and events related to your niche There are trade shows for just about everything, for me I visit Vegas each year for CES, various shows in ... More About: Events , Networking
Advertising downturn and long term profitability
2008-05-07 11:01:00 The downturn in advertising revenue is no myth, while small individual publishers can never be sure whether they are just have a bad day, week or month some larger publishers are seeing the same and few are being hit as hard as parking portfolios. Parked portfolios consist of large companies with thousands of domains parking the ... More About: Advertising , Long , Term
Blogpreneur Contest 2008 - Entry for Coolest Gadgets
2008-05-06 14:10:00 With a daily readership of over 100,000 (RSS, email and web), Coolest Gadgets has far exceeded my expectations. CG has enabled me to quit my day job, travel worldwide and earn an income doing what I enjoy. Last year CG generated 6 figures, this year we?re on target to turnover ~$500K. Coolest Gadgets has been running ... More About: Contest , 2008 , Entry
May 2nd, links, free templates and a game
2008-05-02 11:04:00 A free Wordpress theme has recently been released by Brian at Revolution who make really nice high end blog themes, this free one is available in 2 or 3 column layout. MySpace.co.uk has been returned to it’s original owner with the original domain dispute being overturned. Google announces VisualRank as it’s tool in precision image search. Great article ... More About: Templates , Free , Links , Game
What?s New at Microsoft Live Search
2008-05-01 15:57:00 Today’s post was going to be about finding networking events to attend, however I got a call late Tuesday asking if I’d like to speak to Microsoft ’s Search team about some new features they are rolling out into UK Live Search, so I thought it would be more timely to post about that. On the ... More About: Live Search , Microsoft Live
Time of the month
2008-04-30 11:20:00 Timing seems to be playing a large part in the success and failure of a lot of what I am trying just now, not just luck but it’s pretty apparent that with a bit of thought you can improve chances of success when selling and save money when buying. As mentioned previously there is a huge ... More About: Time , Month
The LG Blogger Bash
2008-04-29 18:35:00 Last week I wrote about the benefits of networking in person, in today’s post I want to share the general format of press event for bloggers. The event I went to on Friday, was for the release of the new LG Secret mobile phone (read my review of the LG Secret). The event was held in ... More About: Blogger , Bash
Domain Leasing Q and A
More articles from this author:2008-04-28 12:09:00 Khalid asked a question in the comments last week that I would like to cover today. Can you please post how you actively find clients for your domains and what you say in your e-mails to them? Firstly, to date I only have the one lease, it’s a big one at $1000 per month but I need ... More About: Domain , Domains , Leasing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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