Vodafone Meet LiveGuy promo - treasure hunting web 2.0 style
For those of you who haven’t seen it Vodafone launched quite a low-key viral/promo this week to promote their range of Vodafone Netbooks called Meet LiveGuy.
The idea is quite cool, LiveGuy will be visiting 12 cities in the UK over the next two weeks. He posts clues and photos etc. on the site each day [...]
How to sell your 2 year old blog for £8.5m
Unbelievable as it may sound but a 2 year old WordPress blog run by just 1 person sold this week for $15m (£8.5m). The blog is Bankaholic.com and the press release about the sale can be found here.
On the surface this looks like a too-good-to-be-true scenario for the owner. After all the blog does reasonably [...]
Happy Birthday Unique Blog Designs - win an iPod Touch and new Citrus WordPress theme
Happy Birthday to my friends Nate and the team at Unique Blog Designs! They are celebrating 1 year in the business and are doing so by running a competition to win an iPod and a copy of their new WordPress theme.
My regular blog readers will know I really rate these guys and have recommended them [...]
WidgetBucks launch customisable skin platform - brand your own widgets
Following on from their launch in the UK in July, WidgetBucks have just launched their own customisable skin platform for creating your very own WidgetBuck widgets.
As well as being able to create your own branded widgets you can also choose from a wide range of pre-made templates that WidgetBucks have created for you. For example, [...]
Why blog publishing in the UK has “failed”
11 months ago I asked where are all the good UK blogs? Now, almost a year later Ashley Norris the former founder of UK blog network Shiny Media wrote a piece on TechCrunch on why he thinks blog publishing in the UK has failed.
As someone who has been blogging for over 3 years now and [...]
Affiliate sites done well - Trispace.co.uk
Time and time again people ask me what makes a good affiliate site and time and time again I say that all you need is to be passionate about something enough to write well about it. I truly believe that if you are knowledgeable enough about a subject to write engaging content then you will [...]
Introducing WhiteCarWorld.com!
Well, I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve created WhiteCarWorld.com to satify my passion for white cars. Being honest, it’s just a bit of self indulgence and not really a project that I envisage will make money. However it’s something I enjoy and that’s what I always tell people they should be writing about. Big [...]
WidgetBucks launches in the UK and Europe today
As of 10pm GMT today, WidgetBucks are launching their contextual ad network of shopping widgets for online publishers to the UK and European market.
So what’s so good about it?
Well a few things actually. First of all WidgetBucks gives bloggers and site owners another revenue stream via it’s widgets. But what’s different about their widgets is [...]
UBD Block Ad Plugin for WordPress
125 x 125 ads are becoming pretty commonplace on blogs these days and thanks to the new Unique Blog Designs Block Ad Plugin, it’s as easy as a very easy thing to display them on your blog too.
As well as sites like Techcrunch using the 125×125 block ads, my new blog all about white cars will [...]
-25.67% ROI is not good. Give it up
Over in the USA, affiliate network Market Leverage and Tyler Cruz are running an affiliate challenge where they are giving away the usual stuff that every affiliate marketing company in the world gives away, (ipod, flip video camera, usb pen and the like) in a competition
To be in with a chance of winning you have [...]
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
