B-Net Blog Network Application Launched

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We have released version 1 of B-Net a blog network application you can download and install on your site to create your own blog network.
B-Net is the first application that let’s you easily and quickly create a blog network […]

Online Fraud

Back in 2000, just 3 weeks after launching my first online business I came face to face with my first chargeback. After 8 years it still leaves me feeling the same.
One thing is for certain your merchant account or PayPal can and will do nothing to help, some are worse than others, Wordlpay for example […]

SEO Success

A very interesting article by Matt McGee where he has created a little SEO success pyramid, well worth taking a look at as a definition of modern SEO.
What is good is that people are starting to document what SEO actually means today and that it is so much more than just good web design or […]

Domain Camping

An interesting post over at Read/Write Web where Richard has received an email from a domain squatter explaining how he’s going to make profit out of the .mobi version of Richard’s domain/brand.
I am going to launch ReadWriteWeb.mobi, the mobile version of ReadWriteWeb optimized for viewing on a mobile phone. I am also launching a number […]

UK Web Business Stock

I wrote the other day about some truths about starting a web business here in the UK and mentioned there was 360,000 web based businesses here in the UK. I also wrote the if you wanted to know how this was calculated get in touch.
Rather than keep emailing this out I have copied below the […]

Pricing Strategies

There is a very good article, if long and dated (C. 2004 although the content doesn’t really age) on pricing software over at Joel Spolsky’s blog.
Joel steps through the economics of pricing, segmentation, value pricing and after 5000 words gets to exactly where I am - you still don’t know what to charge
We […]

10 Truths About The UK Start-Up Scene

Whilst doing some research yesterday I came across this comment by Suw Charman on a post at Plastic Bag.
The post is quite old (C. 2005) asking where are all the UK start-ups but Suw makes some points that I think many UK entrepreneurs will recognise.
To paraphrase Suw

banks don’t understand
very little support or training
you will spend […]

The power of Crunch

We all know Techcrunch has got some leverage with over 600k readers but this little post on CrunchNotes is just great - Help Make Duncan Famous
It’s asking us to vote for Duncan
Duncan Riley is a finalist in a poll for Australia’s top 20 web celebrities. Please give him a hand and vote for him here.
I’ve […]

Sliding into sleaze?

It is well know that Jason Calacanis thinks SEO’s are slime balls, he’s written about here and here and here and lots more, he says
but the truth is that 90% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive people to […]

If you can count it on two hands…

Mike Butcher, over at TechCrunch UK reported a post at FoundRead titled 9 VC’s you’re gonna want to avoid. It’s a funny list and worth hopping over to read.
Of course the real story is that the first six months of 2007 saw a record number of VC investments in UK Web 2.0 companies - so […]

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