Hotel Sprint

April 11, 2011

My wife is staying in a hotel for a business trip so I’m tagging along and keeping her company. While she’s doing work stuff  I’m in the hotel and have decided to build a prototype for my latest project, or at least try to get as much done as possible. Yep, I’m tired as hell [...]

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Old money and 2 different plans for new money

March 13, 2011

I did some affiliate marketing a while ago and had some success. I built some small sites and pages and added reviews of products that I had used. At the end of the review I linked to the merchant and some people went ahead and bought, earning me a commission. Some pages earned 0. Some [...]

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Company Culture

February 23, 2011

I’ve been reading Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh who is the CEO of Zappos. Zappos is an online shoe retailer who are focused on customer service. they call themselves a company powered by service and this approach has helped them to turnovers of over a billion dollars and zappos was recently acquired by amazon.com for [...]

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Checking in some code

February 21, 2011

I’ve been working on my language learning project for the last 2 weeks or so, getting to grips with python. Today I checked in some code for the first time. I’m using the free version of kiln which is a fancy free frontend / version of mercurial. The last time I used a versioning system [...]

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More connected in 2011

January 6, 2011

The start of a new year – resolutions, hangovers. Quickly followed by broken resolutions and regret. I don’t even remember last year’s resolutions so they obviously haven’t been maintained. They were probably about earning money online and while 2010 wasn’t a complete washout it was far from the success I wanted it to be. So, [...]

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Where I earn money online

June 26, 2010

The title of this post is a bit of a tease because I’m not going to tell you exactly where I earn money online. What I do want to do is share how many different products I promote and what kind of thing I do in order to make some affiliate sales. In time this [...]

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Get into Wealthy Affiliate before price increase

June 1, 2010

Just got a message from Kyle confirming that they are going to increase the price of their membership forum Hi Declan, So here we are 6 days away from the biggest price increase in Wealthy Affiliate history.  This is not necessarily a bad thing for you, because we are giving you ample warning to get [...]

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Weeknote 2

May 29, 2010

Trying to keep on top of these updates and add to them daily before publishing. Progress is still slow but I have got a basic autoresponder set up in mailchimp which needs more content. I’d like to have lots of good stuff before I open it up to subscribers but if there’s just 2 or [...]

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Donating a percentage of my profits to charity

May 18, 2010

What would you do if you won the lottery? Everyone has their own ideas about the kind of house they’d buy or where they’d go on holidays but I bet I’m not alone in thinking that it would be a great opportunity to help other people. I’m not likely to win the lottery anytime soon [...]

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1st update of the Summer

May 15, 2010

Last week was a pretty rough one thanks to some personal stuff. So in terms of work I didn’t get a lot done. My most recent efforts have been with trying to set up an autoresponder with mailchimp. Mailchimp is pretty easy to use but there are some differences between it and aweber, which I [...]

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