How things change!
// I started working online (on a part-time basis) almost 8 years ago. Amazing really as this means that I have spent nearly half of my working life involved in some form of Internet marketing. I was recalling to a friend recently how I got started in business online back in 1998 and whilst talking to him, I was reminded of how much things have changed since those early days….. 1. Of course, computers and the Internet in general were considerably slower than they are today. My first proper PC (not including Sinclair ZX81s and Spectrums!) had a 266MHz processor and my dialup connection struggled to reach a speed anywhere near 56k. Not only that but there was no ‘unlimited Internet access’ – I paid something like 4.5p a minute to be connected to the Web and thought it was an absolute bargain when this eventually dropped to just 1p per minute. 2. eBay.co.uk didn’t exist and all sales were conducted on the main eBay.com website. The majority of sellers (read 95%+) were American and nearly everything you bought or sold ended up traveling across the Atlantic. 3. Online payment systems were in their infancy and Paypal (which is today
Google Adsense
// What’s the ‘£300/month ideas’ category all about – Find out here… I don’t recall ever having written about Google Adsense before and given the amount of publicity that Adsense has received over the past few months, I did kind of assume that everyone knew what it was all about. It would appear though that I was wrong…. So let me explain….. Google Adsense basically allows any website owner to act as an affiliate for Google by displaying Google’s paid ‘Adwords’ adverts on their own website. If you are not familiar with Adwords, just do a search on Google – the boxed results down the right-hand side are Adwords and every time you click on one of them, the owner of the site being advertised gets charged a set amount. The exact amount of the charge depends on how popular the keyword is that you searched for and a few other factors – without going into too much detail, you just need to be aware that this charge can be anywhere from 5cents to several dollars. If you sign up for an Adsense account (which is completely free – more details from the link at the very bottom of this
