How the South Africa World Cup could affect your business…
// In case you hadn’t noticed, the World Cup has started! Now, I personally have very little absolutely no interest in football whatsoever BUT despite this, the World Cup could affect the profitability of my businesses over the next few weeks… Football, in the UK at least, is one thing that will drag people from their computers to in front of the television and if people are not in front of their computers, they are not spending money with me (or you). Therefore, if you are planning any kind of promotion or launch over the World Cup period you would do well to ensure that it doesn’t coincide with one of the major matches. Even if you don’t run an online business, it is possible that the World Cup could affect you. Do you sell on eBay? Do you buy on eBay? If so, avoid posting auctions which will end during a match and if you are buying, lookout for auctions which DO end during a match as there is every possibility that you could grab yourself a bargain. And don’t think this is just a bit of theory on my part, I learnt the hard way some years ago
iPhone Apps – Developing Apps Without Programming!
// As iPhone sales (and now iPad sales) continue to grow, the demand for new iPhone apps is growing at a similar rate. Although I have been busy with my web businesses over the past few months (mainly on account of the fact that I have had nearly three years ‘off’!), I have had one eye on the iPhone apps market as I think there is considerable opportunity to make some serious money over the next few years. Now I am no app expert but I have been reading a fair bit about the marketplace over the last few weeks and have followed a couple of individuals as they have developed and released iPhone apps onto iTunes. There are two main ways of ‘selling’ an iPhone app, either for free or for a fixed price. My initial thoughts were that the paid apps would be the best way of earning however this does not necessarily seem to be the case. With a free app it is possible to include adverts (a bit like Google Adsense) which earn you money whenever someone clicks on one. This means that you could potentially earn something every time a user opens the app whereas
Writing for Info Barrel can make you money!!
// If you can write articles, this might be one of the most important things you read over the next 12 months! Info Barrel is a revenue sharing website. What this basically means is that the site acts as a location for people to publish articles in return for a share of any revenue which these articles may generate. The revenue generated tends to come from Google Adsense adverts which are placed on the article page so that when a reader finds the article via a search engine or other link, the hope is that they read it and click on an ad. Info Barrel also allows you to place a couple of affiliate links in each article and will also display Amazon adverts with your affiliate link. There are many similar sites around for example, eHow and Squidoo, both of which are very well established sites with many many writers and articles already online. Info Barrel is slightly different in as much as it is relatively new BUT it is growing at a considerable rate and shows every chance of succeeding in giving the big boys a run for their money. I only heard about Info Barrel a couple
