Buying websites online
I’ve been spending some time recently looking at the possibility of buying a couple of website businesses. Why? Well, I want to expand my portfolio but quite frankly, I am too lazy to start something from scratch! // Buying an established business means I can pick up a site which has an existing customer base and income stream without doing the hard work of building the site and doing the initial marketing (which is quite often the hardest bit). What I have discovered is that even finding a suitable website business to buy is an absolute nightmare! Although there are plenty of sites up for sale, you’ve really got to sort though the rubbish to find a gem. Not only that but there seem to be a lot of people out there who are quite prepared to try and mislead buyers if they think they can get away with it. Fortunately I have a wealth of online experience built up over 13+ years so I am probably better placed than many people to pick up on the areas where sellers may have been less than honest. Let me give you some examples of the type of thing I have seen
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
TheUKTrader.co.uk – what’s it all about?
// Over the years, I have written and published countless articles, podcasts, ebooks and other info-products covering various topics related to Internet marketing. Indeed, I have been generating an income online since 1998 and the Internet has provided me with my sole income since 2001. Although none of my main income-generating websites are in the Internet marketing field, I have over the years spent a fair bit of time helping other people to set up their own businesses both online and in the offline world. For the past couple of years I have taken a bit of a backseat from my online businesses and have basically let them tick over with minimal input from me. Any work that I was doing to help other people start businesses pretty much came to a complete stop in 2008 when I stepped back and decided to take a break from Internet marketing for a year or two. Now though, fully refreshed, I am ready to get back into the game again and one of my first projects was to give TheUKTrader site a bit of an overhaul. TheUKTrader was originally my main wholesale website and operated with considerable success from 2002 to around
