Category Archives: Making Money
Ignite100 – £100k worth of investment funding and mentorship
Are you a startup with a great idea? Want £100k of investment funding and the chance to work with some awesome mentors? Then Ignite100 is for you. It’s Europe’s first £1 million accelerator programme and it’s an incredible chance for startups from all over the world, not just the UK to really get their business off the ground. Best of all it’s based here in the North East. Ignite100 follows on from The Difference Engine that was held earlier in … Continue reading
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Alex Tew selling “SockAndAwe” viral site on eBay while it’s still topical
Alex Tew, you remember him don’t you? He’s the guy who made $1m with the Million Dollar Homepage. Well since that venture he’s now moved on to create a new site (still in Beta) called PopJam. To create a bit of a buzz for PopJam he launched a “viral” game called SockAndAwe to capitalise on the global media attention of the incident a couple of days ago when a reporter threw his shoes at President Bush. It seems Alex has … Continue reading
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Alexandra Burke crashed my server. How to capitalise on topical and one-off events
Unless you haven’t got a TV or access to any press then you can’t have helped to notice that it was the final of the X-Factor on Saturday. This event is undoubtedly the biggest TV show of the year and a massive 8 million people voted for their favourite on Saturday night. The winner of the show is pretty much guaranteed the Christmas number 1 spot, due to the massive exposure and press they receive as the result of winning … Continue reading
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Graze.com – a very good idea
The one downside from working from home on a fulltime basis is that I’m never far away from the biscuit cupboard/sweetie jar As much as I try to be disciplined I find myself continually making trips to the kitchen to find junk to eat throughout the day. As a consequence of eating rubbish and drinking too much coffee I always tend to have low energy levels and come mid afternoon I feel tired to the bone. I’ve tried eating healthy … Continue reading
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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 well in terms of traffic and visitors but it’s certainly no Facebook. The site receives about 8500 visitors per month, is ranked 41,904 by … Continue reading
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Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I am the founder of ShareMyPlaylists.com, ContentNow.co.uk and some other stuff. I have no idea why I'm blue on this photo though but I like it!
