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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sell it, give it away or keep it to yourself?
There was an interesting debate going on over at the A4U forum the other day where a user asked if people would pay “£50 to see a £50k Xmas 2007 Profit Strategy“. The post was made from a forum member called “Affi Liate” geddit? - and he seems to model himself on the Rick Jerk. [...]
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, [...]
The next big thing? Affiliate opportunity - Sony eBook Reader
I remember at last year’s A4U Expo when I was on the “Ask the Super Affiliates” panel, we were all asked what the “NEXT BIG THING” will be. To be honest I don’t think any of us gave the real answer as why would we? We all wanted to keep our thoughts to ourselves so [...]
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 [...]
Summer’s here - 10 tips on how to survive the quietest time of the year
The kids have broke up from school for the Summer holidays, the sun is out (mostly), the light nights are here and people are either outside enjoying themselves or going abroad on holiday. Either way, the back end of July and the whole of August are traditionally the slowest time of year for online businesses. In my [...]
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 [...]
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.
