What’s The Correct Amount of Thinking Time?
First of all, it’s crazy to think back and actually use something I learned in primary school and apply it to a real life situation. No offense primary schools.
Either way the point of this post is to work out what the correct amount of thinking time is for any given situation in life. I mean, much like the equations in school thinking time is altered by the conditions around a driver – is it wet? Icy? Dry? Gravelly? How fast are you going? What restrictions do you have? What are the options? These relative conditions will be deciding factors in your ultimate decision; they also alter how long your thinking time is. The point applies to business, relationships, socials, buying, selling, any act you can think of – thinking time is part of it, as are the relative conditions which alter the end decision. Sometimes you will over think, sometimes you will under think and often enough you will wonder whether the right decision was made. So the point of this post is: to simply talk about, and work out, whether there is a correct amount of thinking time needed. read more…
Stop F*cking Around, It’s Time To Knuckle Down: Motivational Music
A great guy I once knew said, “No more f*cking around, it’s time to knuckle down”. I tell a lie. It was me that said it, wait…that means I’m not lying, I am great. Ok sweet.
Anyway, I posted this as a Facebook update. I then tagged several of my close friends that I knew would be able to help and simply said “Motivational songs people, go!”.
The response was intense; I believe it’s my longest chain of responses to date; around 60 responses! I’d simply not had the best of days and was looking for some motivational music to really kick me into the mood of working – you see, I’ve had some tasks lingering over me for a while and had kept putting it off. It’s time to get going. True, Facebook did end up distracting me a bit, but man was I ready and rapidly soaring through my work once the playlist was created.
So, without further ado… read more…
How I Built A Fully Functional Affiliate Site in Two Days
So, what with my new found interest in helping others; along with the fact that I want to turn this blog into a monster, I’m going to teach you how I built a basic but effective affiliate based website in just two days. If you already follow my blog you’ll know that I recently purchased great domain called LiverpoolAirportParking.co.uk; I’ve now turned this into a working affiliate website. This is how I did it…
Just to clarify, this post does not include choosing the domain name, niche, or setting up the domain with a web host. If it turns out you need help with that too, let me know in the comments and I’ll be more than happy to help. So, here goes…
Step 1 – Affiliates
I’d expect this part to be carried out before spending any money on a domain name anyway, but for the sake of this blog post I’ve added it to help you guys. The first step is to find out exactly who to promote. For instance, if you’re looking to sell car insurance you may want to use a comparison website script, or alternatively you could exclusively advertise one companys’ products. There are two leading ways of doing this which includes using an affiliate network (a middle man to make life easier) or directly through the company. However to really explain this section properly I need to break it down somewhat… read more…
The Day I Decided To Change My Life
All I’m saying is, today is the day that I announce to myself, and to any other readers I may have that…
…Today is the day I begin my journey, project133. At 11:33pm, 16th August 2012, I made this decision while reading SeanOgle.com – though it should be mentioned I’ve been following Tim Ferris for a long time.
More to come…
Thailand & Roulette.co.uk
So my life has been rather exciting and extremely busy lately. I’ve just arrived back from one of the most amazing experiences of my life…
Thailand
To keep this short and sweet, i went for just over two weeks to a beautiful island called Koh Samui in the South of Thailand. In and around the island is a whole lot of other islands too – making it a whole lot more exciting to dot around. The whole trip was one big explosion of heat, madness, culture, nature, drinking and exploring. It was amazing.
One of my favourite moments was being blessed by a Monk at one of the temples. Another was exploring Anthong Marine National Park; a series of 42 protected islands.
Anthong Marine Park - Took This Myself
Roulette.co.uk
My company, Right Casino Media, recently partnered up with the owners of roulette.co.uk to renovate, revitalize and monetize the website. With such a powerful brand name Roulette.co.uk has the potential to become one of the largest casino affiliates around.
The website has been re-designed and re-structured though is nowhere near complete, it will be updated on a regular basis and constantly added too with the latest and greatest in roulette gaming. Check it out at www.roulette.co.uk.
Using Google Keywords & Insights To Catch Fresh Fish
Straight to the point here: Fresh Fish = Fresh Ideas
On many, many nights on my laptop I’ll be searching through domain forums, affiliate forums and generally keep myself up to date and looking at domain names for sale – with the Google keywords tool open in another tab of course, need to spot that opportunity now don’t we.
Anyway, I spotted a domain relating to Mother’s Day, that magical day we celebrate our mother’s aka mothering sunday. To be honest, the domain was poor, however, I was intrigued (remembering old clients heavily targeting mothers day and similar in the past) so I did a little research. I was shocked to see that the Google keywords tool reported back to me with shockingly high amount of search volume for “mothers day” and to my further surprise “mothers day 2011”. I thought, ‘ok, let me check what this is like in the month of March…What!? That Much!?’.
Mothers Day Search Volume Stats
I couldn’t believe it. That’s a lot of people searching for a public holiday, that’s 664,500, what are they after that’s the question?
I verified this wasn’t a one off and that I hadn’t missed some sort of 2011 stunt I wasn’t aware of using Google insights. Google Insights offers trends and data spanning back to 2004 over any date period you like, it’s ace!
It showed that every year “mothers day” searches were growing and so were “mothers day [year]” searches. On the image above the red line illustrates the most recent years search trend.
What did I do next?
Went and found that mothersday2012.co.uk was available for registration…and bought it!
What question should I have answered first…?
What are these people after when they search for “mothers day [year]”?
Well, after doing a bit of research and speaking to a few close friends who are also extremely savvy to this sort of thing – I figured, a very high percentage of the people are most likely just looking for the date of mothering sunday. I put them into 3 categories, 1) People who want to know the date, 2) People who want to know the date and thinking about buying gifts, 3) People who are looking to buy gifts for mothers day.
So the way I see it is, this was a very exciting find with the potential to make a lot of money based on the pure masses of traffic I should be able to gain. And it’s low risk as I have only paid £7.09 for the domain and running it won’t cost more than a few pennies.
I hope this mini story / unobvious tutorial will help in some way with your possible new idea. Find a trend, spot a gap, you might just make some money from it!
P.S The site was launched in November. It’s Janaury 4th and it’s already making sales with the first sale made mid-December. Check out Mothers Day 2012.
About Mikey Charalambous
"Mike is probably the most talkative guy I've ever known - if he has an 'off' button, I haven't found it! Commonly referred to as 'Chara', he has an uncanny ability to talk passionately about practically any subject. His energy and positivity is infectious. Expect to see him shredding up the dance floor, particularly when Michael Jackson drops. A lover of travel, adventure and meeting new people." - A Close Friend
