Finding the right images for your blog posts can be a real pain. To complicate matters even more, bloggers need to ensure that they only use free and creative common images. This greatly restricts the quality and quantity of images they can use, however using stock images without permission is a risky affair as stock … Read more
Although social media has been grabbing the headlines for the last few years, email is still the king of marketing on the internet. I am still far from perfecting the art of marketing people, however you can learn a lot about email marketing by looking at what other people are doing. This is particularly true … Read more
My article from last year, entitled “Why I Deleted My Warrior Forum Account“, touched a nerve with a lot of people. It currently has around two hundred comments, most of which came from other disgruntled Warrior Forum members who were unhappy with the way they were treated. The most common reason given for being unhappy … Read more
Refunds are an essential part of providing good customer service. In the world of web development, the sales of digital products are handled in a variety of ways. Many sellers flat out refuse to provide any refund, regardless of whether their product worked or whether their service did what was advertised. The reason many sellers … Read more
There is basically two ways in which you can buy likes on Facebook. You can either buy likes directly from Facebook or you can purchase likes from an external service. External services have a bad reputation for being click farms and doing nothing more than inflate your subscription numbers. This is why most website owners … Read more
It can be interesting talking about websites and blogging with those who do not work online. Those who do not work online for a living see the internet differently; so I always enjoy hearing their perspective. Me and my friends are currently training for our first marathons. Whilst doing a ten mile run this morning … Read more
I have been getting a lot of clients for freelance writing over the last few weeks. Getting some extra work is always welcomed as it increases my income in the short term, however it does give me less time to update this blog. With the development of this blog being one my main priorities, I … Read more
When it comes to making money online, it is amazing how the smallest of changes can make such a big difference. I have been reminded of this over the last week. For the last year I have had a link at the bottom of my bio widget (top of sidebar) that says “Hire Me”. It … Read more
Helpouts by Google is a a video support website that was launched in Google two months ago. I missed the announcements at the time, though I was intrigued when I came across it today. The premise of the website is simple. People can get help on a wide variety of issues through video. Whilst it … Read more
A year ago I criticised Flippa about how expensive and ineffective their listing upgrades are. I have never been alone on this matter. Over the years, many active Flippa traders have criticised them for charging abhorrent fees for listings. My last listing there was a domain listing in December 2013. It worked out that the … Read more