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 […]

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 […]

Web 2.0 Marketplace

If you’ve ever sold a site on Sitepoint marketplace you’ll know how sometimes it’s just a waste of time and I know I’ve sold a few sites their.
Well Pete at Mashabale has launched the Web 2.0 marketplace which may help.
Obviously Pete has the traffic to do this but it’s not auction based. I’ll try and […]

Happy Squidoo to you

Seth has announced Squidoo is into profit.
And here’s a neat tidbit: We’re profitable. We haven’t raised any VC money, and now we shouldn’t ever have to. This means that we can continue to run the company for our lensmasters, for the people who surf by and for the charities we support, instead of focusing on […]

Changing the game

You probably heard about Radiohead’s In Rainbows album that was put on sale, well for whatever you were willing to pay, even if that was nothing.
The deal has now finished and the album is now a £40 boxed set with all kinds of vinyl goodness included.
Andrew Keen, the sometime Web 2.0 anti-christ has written […]

What Currency

It’s always been a foregone conclusion that the currency you charge will be US Dollars.
But the Dollar is so weak it’s getting to the point where it’s just crazy.
Seven years ago, when I first started an online business the exchange rate (Dollar/Pound) was around $1.40, today it’s around $2.08
You don’t need to be a genius […]

News Roundup

Some interesting news in the world of web this week.
Google fight back at Facebook with the imminent launch of OpenSocial as reported by Techcrunch.
Saga launch a social network aimed at the over 50’s.
Friends Reunited wake and smell the coffee as they propose to drop their subscription model.
Nestoria propose house price data via their API, this […]