mcdowall

Ive used your site a ton recently so hope I've helped!

I have seen the typical affiliate style 'how to make $100 a day on autopilot from adsense' e books around for a while and sold via click bank and the like. I take it yours are more mainstream?

Are you then saying that your sales channel is Amazon and selling PDF/kindle books. Any examples your willing to give of one of your titles?

Nice, now it's a lot more useful. How about listing held passports/visas as well.

Nice idea but why can't I view example teams before signing up? Something along the lines of Softfolio would entice me in more before leaving.

This doesn't surprise me, having 100+ USB's lying around with content does.

Congrats!

It does irritate me that the UK government bleat on about making business finance readily available then you end up face to face with the likes of Natwest!.

Reading articles about the startup program in Chile and the building of a tech hub in Portugal I do wonder what happened to the innovation in the UK business sector, if the Startup UK website was anything to go by it's gone.

I am surprised they managed to get the loan via the Small Firms Enterprise Loan Guarentee scheme. I don't know any web based business that has succeeded yet, most bank managers authorise the loan as the guarantor provided you have enough equity yet in experience lack little web experience and equity in a property.

I am citing from previous experience, when pitching a travel startup to a Natwest 'business' manager his response when I expressed a point about Expedia was.. "who are they?". Enough said.

We (Bournemotuth) were due to be getting Fibrecity, 100mb to the home but it looks like they switched on a few roads, dug up a whole lot more then tanked. There original big fanfare plan was to route the fibre through the sewer system rather than digging up the streets again...doesn't seem that panned out too well!

I'd be in for that

Unrelated, but pretty cool!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13248642

Shopify will save you a ton of time

FX rates aside (I can't ever remember the £ being so weak) my friend just got back and said that a 4 pack of yoghurts was as expensive as a steak!.

Great article, am definitely going to apply some of these concepts.

We needed to launch a product quickly the other week so created a new form with Google Checkout to process payments, I managed to turn this around in less than 30mins. For the week prior to moving to our Shopify site we processed just over £21k in transactions via Wufoo's form.

Congrats, a very satisfied bonafide customer.

Nice app and good design, however I have a problem with this and other startup projects I have seen in startup weekends that there is just not enough information before asking me to signup, where is the 'about' page?.

Also, call me ignorant but how does someone trademark a slogan over a weekend (footer) - "The Conference Calls You™ "

Thanks for the update, I did explain that to Kirsty in my mail. I know there are some folk over in the Convore chatroom in the same position, Convore's proved pretty useful today.

Wicked, thanks!

If that's your stencil in that pic, any idea of where I can get a hold of one, would be great for my notebook mockups

I would say so...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12909071

I find it outstanding that they have 5m users and only 5 support staff!. I would love to know how they manage that.

Someone at work actually tried to enter her card details!

http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national-deal/royalwedding/28...

I will re send, thanks for your help.

Its quite indicative of the audience here that on the top 10 browsers IE does not appear, whereas if I look at daily traffic for the health site I work on in my day job (older and significantly less techy demo) IE is the number 1, 2 and 3 browsers.

I don't want to be a hater but I can't say I've had the best service, I've sent 3 emails around my solution needs (one directly to Sheel from a comment he placed here on HN) but no response, from the looks of the other comments maybe mines a one off.

Amazon have no plans to do so in the near future either, their AWS Evangelist Matt Wood told me so last week at their London conference.

I wholly agree, certainly don't try to obtain a merchant account for an online travel agency, we were viewed alongside porn and gambling.

On a more recent note though I have been looking for a marketplace merchant solution, Braintree and Amazon flexible payment service are pretty much the only real solutions out there for my needs. Braintree requires I have a US registered company and a US office (I'm working on that part for the application) and Amazon has no plans to extend FPS to the UK (the answer coming direct from the horses mouth at the AWS conference I attended last week).

Is it any wonder with constraints and lack of VC funding in the UK that the country cannot garner growth and has lost it's ability to be a leading entreprenuerial force.

I think he pretty much has in his post already.

Feefighters, Recurly, Authorize.net, Amex

I am acutely aware of how well some people can do but I just didn't have the time to do more back linking / articles, so for me I was more than happy with the return.

About a year ago I built a number of micro niche sites aimed specifically at generating adwords income for high ppc terms. They weren't especially pretty but they were a good exercise and more than paid for themselves.

At the point I sold them (22 sites) they were generating about $190 a month in adsense revenue, all this from me buying 'keyword in domain' urls, having a relatively good eye for writing seo copy and building some inbound links.

I sold the lot on flippa for just over $1k, so I suppose it made me about ~$300/mo for a year. I know of some individuals who have over 1,000 domains running (across some of the most random niches you would just laugh at!) so I think it's a pretty decent passive business for them.

Worked for me with with full address - http://www.etc.com

I did have to play around a bit to avoid those errors however