http://www.profitsguru.com/blog All about small business, home business, business ideas and making money! Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:53:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am proud to announce that Science Fantasy .co.uk has been added to the Profits Guru Media Network. Science fantasy novels are a fusion of science fiction and fantasy elements. Go to almost any mainstream bookshop and you will see shelf after shelf of science fantasy books for sale next ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2007/07/02/sciencefantasycouk-is-here/ I cant believe it but I finally got round to putting OriginalPoker.org up for sale at Sedo. I realy like this name an it will be hard to let it go. To me ‘the original poker organisation’ domain name, as I call it is just as brandable as the .com or the ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2007/05/20/originalpokerorg/ Linking strategies are still an important part of search engine optimization for the forseeable future. This great article from SEO Book, covers 101 link builiding strategies (actually the list is made up of 71 things to do and 30 things you must not do!) A highly recommended article from a great ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/08/20/how-to-build-links/ UK eBay store owners are angry. Planned changes to eBays search results will hit some store owners hard. While eBay justify these changes in terms of improving the customer experience on eBay, sellers now find that their goods will only be displayed if an item search brings up a small number ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/08/13/ebay-sellers-protest/ Wired News has an interesting article on commercial space travel that shows just how close the reality really is. Virgin Galactic are based in Spaceport America, in New Mexico and they could be the first of many space related businesses to move into the area which could possibly become the center ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/08/11/touronauts-a-step-closer/ Nigerian ‘entrepreneurs’ have been making a fortune scamming gullible internet users with their e-mail sob stories promising a share of nonexistent fortunes. Thousands of these 419 scam emails, named 419 scams after the section of the Nigerian penal code being broken, are sent out every day. These ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/08/06/419-scams-baiters-bite-back/ The success of social networking sites like MySpace and Hi5 shows that virtual communities are here to stay. However, while people are connecting through individual pages, photos, and blogs on these sites, there is something a little more interesting going on in the area of massively multiplayer role-playing games ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/08/05/virtual-entrepreneurs-in-virtual-communities/ Regular readers of Profits Guru Blog will know that I have mixed feelings about Dragon’s Den. However, the BBC are bringing back the series for a third time in August, 2006. I cover what Dragon’s Den is all about in a previous post, but in broad terms entrepreneurs get to ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/07/30/dragons-den-is-back/ This will be of interest to domain name speculators and people making money from domain names. In June ‘06, journalist Larry Seltzer wrote in eWeek, in an article called Bad Taste: Another Way ICANN Blew Domain Registration a searing condemnation of domain regulators ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/07/22/domain-names/ I always thought there was a way to make money using social networking websites such as Friendster, MySpace and Hi5. Well, according to this interesting article from CNN Money entrepreneurs are making money using MySpace to sell to the narrow but enthusiastic customer base attracted to the site. Many young small-business ... http://www.profitsguru.com/blog/2006/07/20/making-money-social-networking/