Archive for March, 2009
The media intensive coverage of 27 year old Jade Goody’s illness and tragic death, has caused an upsurge in the UK of women asking to be screened for cervical cancer. This has been welcomed by cancer charities, as the proportion of women taking up the invitation for a test has been steadily falling for the [...]
March 26th, 2009 | Posted in Health and Fitness | 1 Comment
(1) Publish Articles
These should be between 500 and 1,000 words with links for visitors. The title is important it should grab the attention of surfers. Eye-catching titles often start with ‘How To….’, or ‘7 Secrets…’, or ’10 Mistakes….’ You need to submit your articles to as many places as possible, and because of varied design [...]
March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Marketing | 1 Comment
After a training run last night, a group of us were going through our stretching routines. The conversation turned to race mementoes.
Clare said that she keeps her race number and writes the finishing time on the back. I mentioned that I used to stick the finishing time onto the back of my medals. Jackie thought [...]
March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Running | No Comments
Are eBooks a waste of money?…….I’m asking this as a consumer who has loads of unread PDF files on my hard-drive. But I am also posing this question as a potential eBook author and publisher. Being a keen member of John Thornhill’s Masterclass I am looking forward to week 7 which I think is product development, [...]
March 15th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Marketing | 5 Comments
We have all entered our name on Google to see what happens. Just 4 or 5 years ago I was on the first page, due to my membership of Kenilworth Runners. They have had a web presence for around ten years now, so all the races I had run in was being picked up by Google. [...]
March 14th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Marketing | 2 Comments
Did you know that if all men lived long enough, they would eventually die of prostate cancer? As it is 25% of men over 40 are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 11% of men die of the disease. These are sobering statistics and the tragedy is that prostate cancer is recognised as being amongst the [...]
March 14th, 2009 | Posted in Health and Fitness | No Comments
This is my 6th post and I haven’t mentioned ‘Making Money on the Internet’ yet, so as this is my blog’s title I had better start. Actually I want to talk about Direct Mail…’what’s that got to do with the internet’? I can hear you ask. Well quite a lot because the Internet makes Direct [...]
March 12th, 2009 | Posted in Internet Marketing | 1 Comment
My first love – ah, I remember it as if it was yesterday. 1971, I was 17 years old and still learning the ways of the world. I marched into the Warwick Hotel and asked for a pint of Double Diamond. The TV adverts assured me that “it works wonders” and If I drank enough [...]
March 12th, 2009 | Posted in Beer | No Comments
When I was a kid my school held an annual cross-country race. That was my opportunity to mess about at the back and have a good laugh with my mates. In the fifth year, just before I was to leave for the world of work, I decided to actually run the race as hard as [...]
March 12th, 2009 | Posted in Running | No Comments
Today I enjoyed the advantage of having a secret super-power. Let me explain.
I have been a long distance runner for over 20 years now and have completed 17 marathons. This involves a lot of regular training. I average 5o miles per week , and when training for marathons this goes up to 100 miles ( [...]
March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Running | 2 Comments