I have been buying for some time now which cannot be sustained forever. I also make a really crap seller as I am usually the one with ‘unrealistic asking prices’ Selling is not something that comes naturally to me as I am building a present and a future, after spending hours finding gems and buying

A couple of extra bits I thought should be shared today: Free stuff for bloggers. I’ve just had an email from my friend Chris (LG Blog) that Berocca are sending out a load of freebies to bloggers to help us de-stress. The Blogger Relief Pack includes: Stress ball USB “stress” button Bubble

Bido.com launched this week, with the promise of one domain per day being auctioned off and a guaranteed price for domain sellers by the house it will be interesting to see what quality of names come up and whether they can generate enough excitement to get good prices in what will more often than not

There are many good old sites out there are still available and right in everyone’s sight, ready for a quick negotiation. You could buy a site tomorrow that has the potential to earn all your money back within 6 months. If you search the main 3 search engines just the top 20 results for the the

Last year I was approached by fellow entrepreneur Scott Evans to be featured in his new book Success Alert Volume 2 (if buying see the end of the post for a discount code). In the book he interviews 10 Internet entrepreneurs with various different business models, I received a review copy last week

Seriously this is like “how not to make money online“. Coming to the party a bit late and spamming multiple forums. … If your struggling to read some websites and you feel you have ample desk space Sharp have now put their 108 inch LCD monitor in sale, built to order for $102,000 … Yahoo

Before I leased out my second domain I had sent out a fair batch of emails to likely companies looking to flip the domain for a good price, bought for £450 I was looking for something in the £2000 kind of price range which would give a nice profit, it was not a domain on the development list. I keep

One of the key features of Elite Retreat was the networking with the other attendees, I learnt more from them than the actual speakers. One of the organizers and all round good guy Dave (AKA dk) spoke about creating an event purely for networking, so there would be no speakers just like minded attendees

Want to read books while at work, the New Zealand Book Council certainly took a new approach to building their site. Patrick posts about insurance for bloggers, I’ve had a few legal wranglings in the past so this sounds like a good idea. Google being moaned at for not not providing a prominent

There is likely a new scam email going about, seems to have been fired off repeatedly with many many people getting it all from different names and email addresses but with the same text so I’d be very wary, looks like a scam, the email I received goes like this: I am interested in purchasing

Mini sites is a topic that I have touched on a few times in this blog and usually has been warmly received Mini sites don’t always make mini money - 77 comments! Mini sites revisited Finding good ideas for a mini site Today I am offering for sale the domains; MiniSites.co.uk and along with it

I am starting a new regular feature over on Coolest Gadgets where each week we will feature excerpts of the best gadget posts from across the web and ask our readers to vote which they think is the coolest, thus creating a Coolest Gadget of the week. I think this will be a great way to show readers

I have to confess I was a real tight arse to my peril at the end of last year, bidding through Sedo is always dangerous when the seller can throw a domain to auction, I bid £350 on MobilityScooter.co.uk and was countered with £500, a reasonable price I thought but me being me I had to make a good

I was having a bit of a tinker with the comment layout here on SMM and whilst I was at it adding a few plugins and made the whole site a lot more commentator friendly (thanks guys), so we now have: DoFollow Links - links left in comments are followable by the search engine (not that there will be

Want to see the percentage change of house prices in the US from 1920 to present, The Economist demonstrates in a graph that’s pretty shocking. It’s a good time to be in Europe and buy in the US, be it domains or websites. … Guy Kawasaki explains how to pick up a venture capitalist

I might create another site I might do that as well Cool, I might try it I might go to that networking event I see blog comments and forum posts like that just about everyday and when ever I do the writer loses all credibilty. I find when people say might you can safely swap it for won’t. By saying

Some genres/topics are so much easier to work in than others for backlinks, it is really refreshing to move on to a new website and development and then start looking for some nice links. Hobby sites can be amazing in that the network of sites out there still gladly review and link to good content

Earlier this month I posted my entry for the Blogpreneur Contest 2008, I wrote about what I thought made Coolest Gadgets a success. I’ve just heard that my entry is one of three winners, cool. It’s the first time I’ve won something like this and it will be interesting to see what publicity

E2Save have a video showing the changes in phones from 1985 through to the present day, technology has come a long way! … 3rd party ads are to be shown on the Google network The Google content network now accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. Third-party ad serving has

Last week was a bad week, following on from one of my blogs being hacked I also experienced one of my forum accounts being accidentally deleted by our provider. It wasn’t just my host that was completely bloody incompetent, the backups I had of that site had also failed so in the end I had to