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General Update

Saturday
Mar 15,2008

Apologies for the lack of updates this week; I work in the betting industry and this week it has been the Cheltenham Festival - the biggest week of the year for the industry with predictions of £600m+ in turnover ($1.2bn) across the 4 days - so things have been somewhat busy in the offline world. I’m also in the process of buying a flat so that is taking up any spare time (and money!).

Anyway, on the online front, here’s a quick summary of what’s going on…

  • The new site I launched almost a month ago is starting to make money. I was beginning to think it was a dead dog, but it’s suddenly started earning with £55 ($110) made in affiliate sales in the past 4 days. All visitors are from an AdWords campaign with an Avg CPC of 2p. I’ve had 45 clicks costing me 84p ($1.68) so a very nice return so far!
  • The site I had an idea for and then comissioned through RentACoder is chugging along and seems to be going ok. Following my Top 10 Tips for Buyers on RentACoder has paid off as I seem to have a decent coder.
  • New site - I’ve got an idea for a new site which I hope to finish this week. It’s in a very competetive market and, again, UK focused but I think I have a unique slant on it. The idea is to code a “wizard” type site where users can enter some details and it will choose the right product for them (to buy through an affiliate link of course!). I hope to get this finished by next weekend.
Saturday
Feb 16,2008

My first attempt at flipping a website has gone rather better than expected! The site I created and put up for sale yesterday has been sold already - somebody paid the Buy It Now price ($100) less than 24 hours after putting the site up for sale.

Remember my total costs were $18.41, it took about one hour of work and I sold for $100 - a nice profit of $81.59!

After this success, I will be putting another site up for sale later on today :)