South West eCommerce

You may have noticed that we had steered clear of buying into sites until now.  We’ve always thought that it’s a good way to grow the business, but it’s very difficult to do your due diligence in buying a site.  Having taken a big hit early i...

This is an interesting month.  Our aim here is to achieve the place where we are making a living and the actual figures are down a little, but we’re feeling pretty up, why is that? Well some important things happened.  First and probably most imp...

You’ll remember our blog about four months ago, when we pondered how to use facebook.  We’ve been sure for all this time that there has been a way to take a facebook presence and turn it to something that supported the business, or strengthened ...

It’s occasionally important to step back and take a look at what we’re doing.  In some ways we’ve been blessed with the situation where we don’t even have a vague feeling that we’ve got this all under control, so we have to take a look fai...

The internet is a vibrant and ever changing place.  We’ve started to make sense out of it and that’s becoming our living.  In the last year or so social media has become one of the greatest drivers not only of fun and pleasure on the internet, ...

Recently we attended the Affili@Sydney conference, to talk with a bunch of other high flyers about what the future holds for our industry, and to pick up the tricks that are going to make us winners in a game that’s growing all the time. There were...

There is a bunch of trial and error in this game.  We use some tools and they improve our hit rate really significantly, but I don’t believe you can get a guarantee of a site/ product/ market combination that’s going to hit it right every time a...

Well after a couple of whining, moaning months, it’s about time for a positive, isn’t it?  It’s been a much better month and after feeling like things were on the improve, it was a joy to sit down at month’s end and actually do the numbers.&...

A time ago we were considering getting more serious about affiliate marketing.  We thought there might be a fast way to do it, and we had a go at purchasing a trading, profitable website. If you read our regular monthly analysis, you’ll be able to...

As you know, we’ve been doing this seriously for a few months now.  We have looked at the idea for a lot longer than that, and before we dived in, we’d started to look at some training. Like a bunch of other things, though, we started at it befo...