Phil Benwell - Internet Student

This is one of the reasons I started to blog, I heard there was money in it. That along with the interest in web design and wanting to know and use all different sorts of CMS’s.

Anyway, there is money in blogging for anyone reading this thinking there isn’t. It can be done my the normal person. Can it earn me a full time income of £15,000 a year? Possible but not likely, that is sort of one of my goals. There would be a long time setting up, possibly a year setting up etc which could be done part time. I haven’t got to that stage yet but over the next 6 months will look to increase my scope in the blogospere and make more of an impact than I currently am doing.

So watch out for some make money online and blogging tips over the next couple of months.

Being from the UK currently buying something from the States is a great way to save a few pounds on such items as an iPod, laptop, TV’s or other electrical equipment. Even clothing is a great buy. The problem comes when you find a store with a great offer on something that would work out much more expensive back home or that you find something that simply isn’t available back here. I’ve had this problem many times when wanting to buy basketball and ice hockey memorabilia and team wear. The problem usually comes when these stores and suppliers don’t ship to the UK.

This problem is no more with the MyUS.com website. They offer you a personal US address to have the goods shipped to and then they will forward them to your address or any where in the world.

What a great service don’t you agree?

This works especially well for ebay.com purchases where sellers do not want to ship abroad, smaller online stores that don’t offer international shipping or even if you live in the US and want to send a gift abroad without the hassle of packaging up the item yourself and then taking it to the post office.

I’ll be looking into it a lot close as I start to plan my Christmas shopping in the coming months.

Well the Summer sure has flown. I noticed last night that it was almost dark when I got home from the gym so Winter must be just around the corner. This also means that at the end of the month I will be returning to Uni, the first semester looks like a pretty straight forward one. I was originally planning to take a day time module on Java programming but that fell through early in the Summer. I was also hoping to take a level 2 module in Web Design/Development but don’t have enough level 1 credits to qualify as yet. So its just down to 2 modules, running from the end of Sept to February time (12 weeks), these are:

Monday evening - Elements of Computing

Thursday evening - Photoshop

Both of these modules are over 24 weeks so actually run over semester 1 and 2. This is great for semester 1 as there will probably be less assignments involved, but as I have to pick up 2 more mandatory modules in semester 2 it could lead to a whole lot of assignments in the beginning of 2009.

I best make the most of my evenings as it wont be long until I lose two to Uni again.

As you have probably seen over the last few post on my blog, I have been looking at the different web design/internet marketing companies and what they offer. Today is no different. I am looking as one day I wish to set up as a freelancer and looking at what other companies do gives me a bit of an idea as to what services I should offer.

Today I came across Datadial a London based company who do the full lot. They design, develop, re-design, re-develop (probably) but what sets them apart from the rest of the crowd is that not only do they do Web Design and Web Development they also cover all aspects of the Internet Marketing side too. Whether that be Link Building, On Site Search Engine Optimisation, the upcoming Social Media Optimisation or even Reputation Management. They do it all.

The Internet Marketing services on offer really set them apart from the rest of the companies I have looked at, of course all web design companies, design and most now offer some sort of optimsation but over at Datadial they are covering not only the necessary but all aspects of online marketing to give you the very service you need.

I posted a topic just before the weekend asking what people were doing. I had this idea in my head that I would be watching some Battlestar Galactica, that however didn’t exactly go to plan.

It got to Sunday evening pretty quickly so decided to sit down and watch a couple of episodes. First I put the DVD into my Xbox 360 only to find that it didn’t play Region 1 DVDs. So I took the time to fish around behind the TV and plug in and set up the DVD player I rarely use. Again, same problem.

To cut a long story short I ended up sat in front of my laptop, I managed the first 40 minutes and the show looked great. It just made me realise that I need to get my entertainment system sort out, wired neatly and get the xbox and pc talking on the wireless network in the house. It would make things so much easier.

So who has the best Entertainment Set up?