Welcome to my blog

Blogging is a very new thing for me - but I believe it will benefit myself and others to share what I know ... and what I do

I own and run a couple of websites http://www.leabeven.com and http://www.store.uk.com/catalog/index.php

In my spare time I develop sites for other people. I like to share what I have learned about making money both on and offline .....so here is a start.


OFFLINE
One of my biggest experiences of loosing money has been in off plan property .... I reserved about 100 all over the UK in 2002 and had problems with them untill end of October 2005 when I finally gave the last few back to the bank. There is much more information about this on my website.

One of the best ways I found of making money was to actually buy normal property that someone needed to sell fast, buying it way below the real market value .... and put it on the market normally for a realistic price. I have made lots of money doing this.

ONLINE
Online my biggest loses was my main website housemouseuk, it had an investor base of around 4000 people on the forum, and around 20,000 in other databases. I lost the site when a server went down and an employee ran off with the backups - lesson with this one - HAVE YOUR OWN BACKUPS - dont ever trust anyone else.

My biggest / fastest cash earner online was an email I sent out to the 4000 investors - and I made 15k in one hit! This was for a property deal in portugal.

Well more to come ... in the mean time a few friends sites that you may find useful:

http://www.octane.uk.net - a web designer who helped me with some ideas to turn my site around

and http://www.wnsecurityshredding.co.uk a local company to me who shredded my documents when I had a company.