How to get funding from the Dragons for your website (because they don’t understand the Internet - as proven by DiamondGeezer.com)
I’ve just watched Dragon’s Den, Series 6, episode 2 and my jaw dropped. Why? More on that later, but for now here is how to easily impress the Dragon’s and gain some serious funding.
1. Tell them the turnover (not profit) of the biggest website that currently occupies the same niche as yourself. Obviously the bigger [...]
Dragons Den series 6 - well done to Hamfatter and D4M
Great to see Dragon’s Den make a return to TV tonight with series 6. Congratulations to Hamfatter and Dance4MePromotions who both secured investments.
I have to say that the the decision to appear on a business reality show by indie band Hamfatter was a stroke of genius. Regardless of whether they got an investment or not, [...]
Top 10 excuses given by people who rip-off your site
As many of you will know my various sites have been ripped-off more than once. So much so in fact that I’ve compiled this handy Top 10 list of excuses given by dodgepots who have no talent:
1. I’m new to this and didn’t know that it was wrong to copy.
2. My business partner/outsourced designer from [...]
See you at the Online Bingo Summit
I’m heading down to London today for the 2-day Online Bingo Summit starting tomorrow, it’s my second time to London in 2 weeks, will be getting a headache with all this travelling south soon.
Anyway if you’re attending please do come and say hello. I’ll be on the “Affiliate Management meet Affiliate innovation Panel” Tuesday afternoon [...]
Lee McQueen wins the Apprentice! Has the world gone mad?
So, how on earth did Lee “That’s what I’m talking about!!” McQueen win The Apprentice last night??
The guy has never shown any talent in any of the tasks, and his leadership skills are non existent. He did an impression of a “reverse pterodactyl” in his interview for God’s sake, lied about his uni education on [...]
HungryHouse.co.uk Dragon’s Den investment falls through. The best thing that could happen to them?
Back in last November I wrote about online statup HungryHouse.co.uk appearing on the BBC TV show Dragon’s Den and securing a £100k investment from 2 of the Dragons for a 50% equity share. At the time I really couldn’t make my mind up if this was a good deal or not. It seems it wasn’t [...]
Myspace.com lose Myspace.co.uk domain name
Q. If you happen to be in the fortunate position of registering the .uk domain extension of the name of the biggest social networking site in the world a full 2 years before they launch, what is the stupidest thing you can do?
A. Try to make money from it by putting up a “parking” page full of [...]
More stupid emails, guess what it’s about and win a prize
Following on from my pointless email post, I received the following email today. Here it is in it’s entirety:
Hi Guys,
I have attached a form that I would very much appreciate you to fill in. The finalised document will be sent to the client so they have an idea of the sites, rates etc you have,
Please send [...]
Pointless and ridiculous emails
OK so I’ve just come back from a week’s holiday and despite taking my laptop and logging on every day, I’ve still had around 1600 emails to sort through when I came back
Just to make life even more interesting, I still find emails like this in my inbox almost daily, what is it [...]
AWOL
Apologies for the lack of posts lately, I’m currently in Fuerteventura having a bit of a break. Thanks too, to the readers who have emailed me, asking where I am I haven’t gone AWOL, honest!
Weather here is currently 27 degrees c and I have to say I’ve had a very relaxing time. I brought my [...]
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.
