I'm Back
My apologies for my absence around here, I had limited access to the internet for a while due to moving house - one of the problems of working from home!
This free time gave me time to think about my plans for 2008, and I now have a nice list of ideas to start working on.
What are your plans for the new year? I'm sure there are a few readers of this blog who are still to make their first money online. How about making a new year's resolution to start?
Comment by ash — December 28, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
A salary of 50,000rmb per month by May '08.
I reckon I can do it.
Comment by Paul — December 28, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
What does that equate to in GBP Ash?
Comment by Dave J — December 28, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
I've not been around much either - new job and *very* busy.
As things settle down and I get a bit more time I'll continue to help the better half build her web business plus leverage off this to push a couple of adsense sites even harder. I'm making around $1000 per month and I reckon I can push another 50% at least. For the web business, we will continue to concentrate on the ecommerce stuff (this has gone really well in the last year particularly since we moved away from oscommerce to a more robust cart) and also "niche" professional stuff (doctors, dentists etc) that continues to pay well. Advertising on a couple of sites will also get another nudge.
We are also experimenting with a couple of new CMS which will help broaden our product offer where required.
Looking forward to another busy year…
Dave J
Comment by burt — December 29, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
Nice one Ash. Paul, I think it's about £3.5k.
Dave, are you still using jShop? Is the source open for development?
Oli, I haven't yet made any business resolutions except to work less and earn more
Comment by Dave J — December 29, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
Hello Gary,
Yes - still using JShop. It's not an open source cart but we run under the developers licence (£800) which allows multiple roll-outs at no extra charge as long as your punter stays with you. If they move on they fork out £200 for a single user licence but this hasn't happened so far.
Mark is still doing custom dev for us when we need it but the base cart is quite well specced so this is infrequent. There's a demo on the JShop site if you need to take a look - template is not pretty but that's no issue. Standards compliant too. Forum is quite active and lots of helpful punters on there but you need a licence to get to the useful bits unfortunately.
Couple of recent ones here:
http://www.wilsonspharmacyonline.co.uk/ (just finishing the template)
http://www.akomaskincare.co.uk/ (recent upgrade so still some old templating)
The wysiwyg editor is useful for the punters but given that they tend to copy and paste out of "Word", you still get some horrible code incorporated unfortunately! Only so much you can do about that….
Dave J