Archive for May, 2009

A Little Frustrating

Khalid / May 28th, 2009 / 2 Comments

As you may already know, I’m quite quick at building, selling and moving on and I don’t like to hang about. I always like to move from project to project but since the last sale, I’ve yet to invest in anything else.

Whilst it is quite nice to take a break and have funds sitting in the bank for the right investment, sometimes it can get a little frustrating and I often find myself feeling like I’m just sitting…waiting. I’ve followed up one or two leads for names that are sitting doing nothing but people don’t want to sell or someone has told them their name is worth £xx,xxx when it is often really worth half of that!

What is for you won’t go by you and I think that for every 100 names I research and possibly enquire about, I may only get a handful of responses. This is how it works unfortunately, but it is all part of the challenge and I love it!

I’ve been keeping myself busy by teaching kids boxing training at The Edinburgh Boxing Academy and concentrating on putting on weight after falling ill last year. Things are going well and I’ve just ordered a Cross Trainer for the house so Christy and I can train every evening. I need to work on my cardio as I have Asthma and slightly unfit!

Review of BuyBlogComments.com

Khalid / May 18th, 2009 / 6 Comments

On April 16th I decided to test Jon Warass’ BuyBlogComments.com, part of his Developer-Hut.com network. His website certainly raves about their benefits yet I was slightly skeptical, especially as a number of people had posted negative reviews and many industry folk deemed it as grey/black hat seo.

I paid for 80 comments at a cost of $19.19 and patiently waited for a report. On May 1st I sent a support ticket requesting an update as the system stated my order would be completed by then.

I received a generic reply stating they were busy and so I waited again.  On May 8th I sent another support ticket and received no reply.

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I then requested a refund via their online system and today received an e-mail from Paypal stating that their e-mail address: sales@developer-hut.com was not in use and so I automatically received a refund.

It took me over one month to receive nothing but an automated refund as the e-mail address they are using for Paypal money transfers are not in use.

In short, I would definately not recommend their service.

Good luck with your pursuits,

Khalid.

Bebo Spam

Khalid / May 11th, 2009 / No Comments

I’ve been a member of Bebo.com for some time now and like my Facebook profile, it is kept private. I use it to display photos for friends to see and keep in touch with people I cannot see much.

I find it funny when spammers try to add my to Bebo to promote a sex site or something similar. For a while I’ve ignored the requests and now have quite a collection of users wanting to add me….

The numerous requests from scantily clad women have all been respectfully declined.

April 2009 Earnings

Khalid / May 7th, 2009 / 2 Comments

April’s earnings was dominated by the recent sale of Chiropractor.co.uk. In order to ensure I am taking precautions, I cannot disclose an exact breakdown of my earnings as I have previously done.

April’s earnings totalled around $5337.81 which brings my daily average to $178 :)

Good luck with your pursuits,

Khalid.

Chiropractor.co.uk SOLD!

Khalid / May 5th, 2009 / No Comments

After building a strong website with in excess of 50 unique pages of content, ranking it in the SERPs and actively promoting it’s potential, Chiropractor.co.uk was recently sold to a private client.

Unfortunately, I cannot disclose the sale price but Rob and I are happy with the deal and will continue our 50/50 deals :)

Good luck with your pursuits,

Khalid.