Saturday, September 25, 2010

Update from London

Just spent a minute or so before I started writing this to think of a witty title... nothing came to mind so I went with the most straight forward description.  I am currently sitting on my friend's couch here in London.  I have been staying with her for a week, this morning she left to go on holiday for a week so I'm staying and house sitting for her until she gets back.  I've been in europe now for nearly 10 months, still exciting back quickly running out of money (just cracked open the credit card) and more frequently finding myself thinking of home.

One of the reasons I'm looking forward to getting home is to set in motion several business ideas.  I won't mention all of them here, never know who could be listening, but I shall discuss a few.
  • Adelaide Marketing Poker Game- had this idea just the other day.  A way to combine my interests; organising poker games, playing poker and marketing socialising and networking.
  • Company to manage my websites- set up a company owned by me that owns all of my website interests.  Should make it easier to do tax and provide possible benefits.  I can make some business cards as well :)
  • Trending topics blogs- I'm so glad I decided to keep my Adelaide Poker blog even though I'd stopped updating it.  I've now had a total of three advertising requests and made a few hundred dollars from it.  I'm saddened that I deleted my Australian Blackjack blog as I could've had similar requests had I kept it.  However an idea has emerged... what if I create blogs for a number of trending (up) subjects for the prospect of future gains if that topic becomes popular and people want to advertise.  It could take a couple of years so it would ultimatley be an investment in the future.
Heres a list of my blogs and what I'm doing with them:

6 Posts, last published on May 6, 2010 – Simply used as a testing ground for designs, themes, etc.  Still usable if I need it.
1 Post, last published on May 4, 2010 – Blog website for my parents gift business back home.  Hopefully I will do some more with this when I get back home.
2 Posts, last published on May 1, 2010 – I did quite a lot of research about slideshows for blogger and I wanted to make a blog to collect and display that information.  Like so many of my projects, my motivation went way down and it has been left unfinished.  I would like to get at least a basic form of the information up there.
3 Posts, last published on Apr 14, 2010 – Website for a internent marketing information and freeland website creation and internet marketing services.  Has a few posts, needs a lot of work.  Will continue it or reporpose the idea and content elsewhere at some stage, probably when I get home.
1 Post, last published on Apr 11, 2010 – Website I created for 'Le Castel,' a chateau accomodation business that I worked at for 2 months in Normandy, France.

23 Posts, last published on Jan 22, 2010 – I have already mentioned this website a few times.  Currently negotiating an advertising deal which may see it updated as soon as next week.  If not it should see some updates from time to time starting from when I return to Australia.
15 Posts, last published on Aug 27, 2009 – One of my first blogs to form a directory of other blogs and a community focused on exploring them.  It had some traction but wasn't really my cup of tea and requires a lot of work for very little return.  I don't intend to update it any more.
7 Posts, last published on Aug 26, 2009 – This blog.  I intend to keep it going and would like to update it more often.  Its a personal blog where I can post whatever I want and won't be looking at making money with it.
41 Posts, last published on Jan 21, 2007 – My personal poker and bonus whoring blog from when I was heavily interested in poker.  I don't intend to update it any more.