Been busy off-line, too!

It's a while since I posted on here, so, bear with me, this post may be brief!

I have been concentrating on one of my off-line projects- as
Alexkazam
the magic man! I had a request from a colleague to perform for a birthday party for a four year old. I've not performed for a while but the show went well, there are things that I will change about my show from the experience I'm getting and that is to do more balloon animals and less magic. Actually, the same amount of magic but stream lined and added gags!

I have added to my magic money mini site and added more to my Ebay insider mini site should you wish to be looking at increasing your income and saving money, too.

I will keep this blog brief so that I can add valuable content to my mini sites!

Viral er...stuff

Well, I have been continuing my experiments with my squidoo lens on making easy money in the UK
My magic money uk lens
and I now see that Google has recognised it, at last! I've done so much tweaking to it that it's hard to know which thing I did has brought it to Google's attention- it could even be this blog!

Anyway, I wrote to someone on facebook who has been putting his referral link up to try to get people to join a site- if he gets 13 referrals he gets a playstation... he also sent me a link to his friend's website who had done this successfully - I am looking into this! it all seems legit and the website is down to earth and not over hyped.

I could well be adding this to my My magic money site

and I hope to get enough referrals to do this- but i know from experience and from what other people write- getting traffic to your website is one thing, getting people to actually sign up then take action is another- i suspect that the major reason for this is the over hyped and scam ridden offers plastered all over the internet.

Well, one thing i don't have on my mini site is scams or hype!


My magic money lens

This time next year Rodney..we'll be millionaires!

Welcome to my blog number 3- a hat trick!

I have to admit that my weekend was spend tidying my house in readiness for guests as it was my birthday last week and I had friends over to celebrate with a nice, rowdy, meal!

What I have been doing though, is working on ways to promote my squidoo lenses- these are the wonderful mini-sites which you can build, FOR FREE and use to promote..well, just about anything!

I have used various tactics, such as bookmarking my sites to various sites such as "stumbleupon", "delicious" and so on and trying to ensure i used keyword rich content and, especially headings and subheadings.

I continue to explore the massive world of online business opportunities- finding ways to sort the dodgy ones from the real ones is always a challenge- but I don't fall for obviously over-hyped "squeeze pages" and poorly designed and executed videos or websites by supposed internet millionaires look very suspect to me!

I will continue to work on my "squidoo lenses" to add content that you can use straight away to make you some money!
My magic money lens
My ebay insider secrets lens
My children's party ideas lens

I really do recommend getting yourself a "squidoo lens"- it's free and fun!

CLICK HERE!

UK Internet income

Well, this is my second ever blog with blogger and I thought I'd focus on uk internet income.

There are plenty of American based websites and promotions about making an internet income and many of the ones showing in the UK are of US origin.

I have been experimenting with "squidoo lenses", which, if you don't know them, are mini sites in a web 2.0 format. They are ideal for non-techies like me to build a nice looking, fun and functional mini site. I think the name came from the fact that a squid has far reaching tentacles and the lens bit is because each mini site focuses on the important details with no padding.

I recommend you join squidoo if you have anything to say, sell, promote or just for fun! You get a share of the advertising revenue from the (fairly unobtrusive) Google adwords and you can link your lens to relevant Amazon books or to your ebay items for sale.

Although the modules for ebay and Amazon go to US versions, you can simply include you links within the link list module.

There are many ways in the UK to make an internet income- the easiest are by using cashback sites and doing online surveys see my squidoo lens

SHOW ME YOUR SQUIDOO!


and join in the fun. There are some easy to apply internet income ideas on my lens, too.

Enjoy!

Wow! My first blog with blogger!

Although I have dabbled and produced a couple of blogs, this is my first REAL blog!

Now I have popped my blogging cherry I will get down to the nitty gritty. I will keep this blog chatty and try to make it informative and entertaining and, although I'm English and it's winter I promise not to talk about the weather..unless that last bit was considered talking about it..in that case, sorry!

I have been fascinated with the growth of the internet and how the information age is affecting culture and business. I love the way out creative stuff online and the opportunities to create and network. I have been studying ways to generate an online income but everywhere I look I see badly designed adverts telling you how you can become a millionaire overnight- just send off your money for this life-changing report!

I'm sure there are genuine opportunities out there buried under the pile of shoddy, badly designed, over-hyped and plain dishonest bilge. I am seeking genuine opportunities, ones that work in the UK.

Marketing is ahead of the UK, but alot of the "amazing internet opportunities" I see from the US seem to play on ignorance and greed and much of the over-hyped squeeze pages wouldn't last 3 seconds over here- we're too cynical!

Anyway, this blog will show my journey into finding genuine opportunities
genuine opportunities.... and will be a scam-free zone!