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Over the course of the next few weeks I'll be doing an occasional series of posts on making the most of your dotmobi domain.
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas that they'd like to share please let me know!
The topics I intend to cover will include things like building a site, checking it, making money from it and any other topics that people suggest to me.
Several of our team will be up a the Irish Internet Association event in Killiney Castle this Thursday.
The conference, which we've been attending for the last 3 or 4 years, is always a good event and is a wonderful opportunity to "put faces to names", so why not drop by our stand in the exhibition area on Thursday afternoon?
You might even get a little "goodie" to make the trip worthwhile!
It looks like I'll be tied up all afternoon, as I'm chairing one of the break out sessions:
Can you make money out of Blogs and Podcasts
The panelists include:
As it's a breakout session nobody will be pontificating. It's an ideal opportunity to ask questions and get answers from experts in their field
See you there!
As one of the sponsors of the IIA conference we are able to offer our clients a reduced rate on the tickets.
Simply email events@iia.ie quoting "Blacknight rate" for details
One of the things that attracts people to the internet is possibly a hangover of the dotcom boom. People still believe that they can make their fortunes online without having to work hard.
While it may still be possible to make money online the days of not working hard, alas, are no more.
However that should not dissuade you!
We've mentioned selling custom tshirts via your website a couple of times in the past, as we partnered with SpreadShirt (watch this space for more partnership news!)
But what if you can't design?
There are plenty of other options open to you.
A couple of the more popular ones are Adsense and Text Link Ads.
Adsense is quite simple to use. All you need to do is sign up for an account and add some code to your website pages. When people click on the ads you earn money! Not that complicated, is it?
If you start using Adsense you'll soon find that there are thousands of websites and blogs dedicated to providing advice on how to make more money from it. There are even a couple of books on the subject!
Text Link Ads is slightly more complicated, but the rewards can be generous.
The basic concept is that text links ie. not graphic links, are valuable both in terms of traffic and seo, so you, as a website publisher, can make money from them.
The only downsides to TLA is that your site needs to be established and the system will not work with static HTML ie. you need to be using PHP, ASP or some other form of server-side scripting language to use the system.
If you're looking for tips and tricks on making money online you may want to check out the Irish Webmaster Forum, which is popular with Irish web professionals.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I went to Domain Fest in LA.
It was a truly amazing event and I would like to take this chance to give a word of thanks to all those involved. They did a truly amazing job!
Rather than try to outdo Ron Jackson I'd recommend you have a look at his overview of the conference.
I'm heading off to DomainFest in Los Angeles tomorrow morning.
For once we aren't sponsors or exhibiting!!
It will be a great opportunity for me to meet up with people who I've only ever dealt with over the phone or via email.
Of course it won't be all work, work, work!!
The conference doesn't start until Wednesday afternoon, with the actual sessions running properly from Thursday morning onwards.
The event organisers have got together a fantastic lineup, so I'm hoping to make the most of it.
Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) will be giving a talk at lunchtime on Thursday, while there will be plenty of other sessions with representatives from some of the big "movers and shakers" of the domain name industry.
I'm really looking forward to it!
Spreadshirt are offering all premium shop owners a really nice deal for the period of 13th December to 17th December:
"we want to surprise you and your customers with a little Christmas offer, and therefore have created a special coupon for you. It will be valid from the 13th to the 17th of December and will enable free shipping for all orders made in premium shops."
Every little helps!
In any case the code to give your clients is:
EGGNOG
In case you haven't already got a premium shop, then what are you waiting for?
If you sign up for a premium shop through us you will get all the advantages at zero cost for the first 6 months!!
See our previous post for details of this fantastic offer or simply click here to sign up immediately