Archive for the ‘spare time’ tag
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How to Successfully Promote a Non-Business Blog?
I am thinking about starting up a blog with a proper domain name (e.g. www.myblog.com rather than www.myblog.wordpress.com) and its own web server.
I’m also stuck with Niche ideas? I don’t want to sell anything and bear in mind I work full-time, this blog is merely a hobby to pass my spare time 
I’ve looked on Google but everything can be so vague like ‘write about your hobbies’. I don’t really want to write a blog about writing a blog 
ideas are welcomed!
All the ‘how to promote your blog’ guides I have come across have all been related to web stores or businesses, or something that makes money. Does anyone know how you’d promote?
I have less than 100 friends on Facebook/Twitter (as they are all family/good friends, not ‘networking’ people) and have discovered from experience that asking them to share links and retweet links never works; if I am lucky I’ll have one person do it, but that’s it.
Any other suggestions? I know about meta tagging and adding to search engines, but how do I really drive traffic in?
Thanks
How do I make my own website?
I have decided that I would like to make my own website based around music reviews. I would be doing this more for myself in my own spare time as opposed as a business venture. Knowing someone else is benefiting from my reviews would be a nice addition, however. The only problem is: I have no idea about web hosting, domain names or running a website. I would say my computer ‘literacy’ is above average, however I haven’t really explored the aspect in question. I just want to have a nice website with a decent name etc. Also, this probably wont come up for a while, if at all, if the website has reasonable success I would like to be able to add download links for amazon and/or itunes on specific songs and albums, any idea if this is openly available from the two companies? (as in I am providing them with business and they are improving my website so no money changes hands?)
Any help would really be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Setting up various online businesses in the UK?
I currently have a full-time job and am also registered as self-employed which allows me to sell online services (web design & hosting) in my spare time.
I’m looking into pursuing several other online ventures in different areas but have no idea how this should be achieved.
Would it be possible to setup a single limited company, and then trade under various different names for my different businesses?
