Hi.
Firstly let me introduce myself and give you a very brief
low down on me.
My name is Mike Hills, I live in a small village in West
Wales UK, called Rhos, I have been divorced twice (
yippee)
and a single parent for 18 years and loved 95% of it. I
started my own electrical appliance rental business when
my
youngest started school 14, years ago, and I have been on
the net since the days of the old 4800 modems ( I still
have
mine ). I have just become a granddad for the first time,
with a bouncing, smiley grandson who is now 3 months old,
and lives here with me. ( cuddles every morning )
My first venture on the internet was buying and trying to
sell domain names under the guise of www.uk-netname.co.uk.
However after buying some excellent names
All-Books.co.uk,
The-Digital-Centre.com, GlastonburyFestival2002.com,
AllHobbies.co.uk to name a few and not selling one of the
100 or so we bought. We gave up on that idea, or at least
put it on standby.
But that did lead us in to our second internet venture
www.Guide4.net
currently under patent application.
Guide4.net was meant to be a major web portal. This was
my
very first attempt of building a website. It consisted of
about 150 pages with links to about 2000 other websites
by
product, then location.
However as many more sites came on to the internet every
day, doing all the submissions by hand, and being a one
man
band, I was just getting further and further behind. So
at
last with a deep heart again I gave up, I still have
about
200 domains all starting with Guide4****** if anyone is
interested. The redundant test site is still there
although
many of the links no longer work.
From Guide4.net we started to notice all the make money
programs, and thought well lets give this a go and joined
SFI and Premiere Elite and started to promote them
through
our third site www.CashGalore.co.uk.
But alas reality struck
again, that old counter was sure spinning. But it was me
looking to see if someone else had been, and they hadn't.
So
like many other people we progressed on to our own FREE
Classified site and eZine.
Hence the birth of www.DailyClassifieds.co.uk
one of our
first subscribers was P Taylor and I remember having a
chat
at the time on whether the site was for real or not. Well
over the months Patricia was good enough to help me
through
the newbie stage ( although she may not have known it )
and
she became a frequent visitor to the Daily Classifieds
site,
to post her free Ads.
Our first issue of DailyClassifieds went out on the 8th
September 2000 and looking back contained nothing but an
Ad
for SFI and Premiere Elite plus a couple of other offers
from Amazon etc. You can view ALL the previous issues of
DailyClassifieds by visiting the site.
Well even with a couple of fantastic named sites such as
www.CashGalore.co.uk
and www.DailyClassifieds.co.uk
we still
were not getting the site visitors. Plan F then came into
being join all the promotional programs there are and
promote them under the name of www.eXtremeHits.co.uk
Now
we're Rockin. eXtremeHits was certainly bringing people
to
the site. But that was it, they were coming to the site
and
leaving.
Poor old SFI and Premiere Elite were doing nothing and
that's where I had started.
So we wanted subscribers for www.DailyClassifieds.co.uk
and
plenty of them. Then a little spark ignited in my
head and
a whole new program called www.10dollars20ads.com
was
thought of and put in to practice. The idea was an eZine
co-op, where you could purchase ads in any group of up to
20
eZines and a total subscriber base of over 20,000 in each
group for only $10 per group. Now every week we process
in
excess of 1,500,000 Ads for our customers, in little more
than 7 months the co-op has processed over 50 million
Ads.
With the success of www.10dollars20ads.com
and the contact
with eZine owners it generated. It was decided to start a
professionals SafeList where other eZine Owners and
serious
marketers could promote various programs and swap ideas.
It
was decided that the only way to stop the wasters abusing
the system was to charge a fee, high enough to stop the
wasters, but also low enough so that every serious
marketer
could join. www.OurSafeList.com
came to be.
Having gone further and further down that slippery slope,
and beginning to specialise in Marketing and Advertising,
we
were often asked that question that every eZine owner
gets
asked, " how do I promote my site? " Although
we always
pointed people in the direction of www.eXremeHits.co.uk
most
people wanted more, They wanted guaranteed potential
customers to their site. They were fed up with gambling
their hard earned money, They wanted Guaranteed results.
So after some negotiations with a guaranteed hits
company,
www.GuaranteedHits.co.uk
was formed. The idea was to
purchase in bulk Guaranteed Hits from a major company and
sell them on at a discount, although doing well this site
has not really produced the results expected. Again
looking
for more ways to allow people to promote their sites and
programs. we purchased the domain www.eZineAds.co.uk
Specialising in dare I say it Advertising in ezines and a
feeder page to all the other sites.
However we had not given up on the Guaranteed Hits
option,
and looking at various ways to improve on this theme. Our
next idea was to promote other peoples sites for them,
with
guaranteed results. Taking the gamble out of every form
of
advertising. Not just people having pop ups in front of
them
now what could we call it, Well we decided on
www.AdvertisingAnswers.co.uk
Only launched a few weeks ago
Advertising Answers has already been the answer for some
people, and from current feedback the site is working
well
for them.
But there was still something missing. We were still
having
to turn people away because their ads were not compatible
with the network marketing theme. Through our
www.10dollars20ads.com
site we were getting Ads from
religious communities. Now although everyone's money is
as
good as the next. We didn't feel these religious and
family
type ads would suit the subscriber base of the co-op
eZines.
However I got talking to one of these advertisers, and
said
I would try and sort out a similar program to
10dollars20ads.com but for the religious and family
community. Me and my big mouth. First of all I am not a
religious man, and I admit I have not ( until now )
visited
any religious sites on the internet, so the gauntlet was
down. How do I start an eZine co-op on a subject I know
little about.
My only option was to come clean, admit I was a non
believer, and ask the advertiser if they would be willing
to
help set up the site. In exchange I would allow them to
publish the Christian Classifieds eZine, in their own
right
but still part of the Daily Classifieds Group. I am
pleased
to say that the " Reverend Linda Richard "
jumped at the
chance and is now part of the team, dealing with all the
religious content, and publishing the Christian
Classifieds
eZine.
Although still under construction and hoping to launch on
the 1st September 2001, www.ChristianClassifieds.co.uk
already looks as though it will be a hit. From all
current
feedback the Christian Community is warming to the
thought
of putting MLM and get rich quick practices and
advertising
methods to work, promoting their own ideas, thoughts and
beliefs.
Anyway I wouldn't say I was an entrepreneur yet, But hey
we
are getting there,
I do feel very successful, I have a loving and warm
family,
managed to raise 2 children from the ages of 12 months
and 2
to full adult hood on my own, with one now a mother
herself.
All the bills are paid, some even on time, and just
occasionally I have a few spare bob in my pocket to spend
as
I wish.
Tell me who needs any more?
Mike Hills 24th September 2001
New episodes and up dates will continue
After the Photo's
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Some pictures of me
and my family
My daughter Sheneane and
me
My son ( uncle ) Kieron,
girlfriend Jade, and grandson
( Mother ) Sheneane and baby ( 1 day old )
My Grandson Now 3
months
Early November 2001
Having been dealing with eZines and eZine Co-op's for
a period of time. I indentified the need for good quality
Solo Advertising at an Affordable price.
With many Paid2read programs and eZines charging in
excess of $50 per 1000 e mails sent, I contacted The
owners from the www.10dollars20ads.com program
with the view of charging a mere $10 per 1000 e mails
sent.
The response was over whelming. Out of the eZines that
were elligible to take part in the new program over 30%
signed up even before all the details had been sorted
out. I gave them the choice of 2 domains www.SoloMailing.com
and www.1CentSoloAds.com
by only 2 votes www.SoloMailing.com
won the day. However I still use the other domain as a
feeder site.
January 2003
2002 was really a quiet year for the Daily Classifieds Group as we
were now becoming known. Mainly because Of a Planned trip to Australia
to meet some of my family, my Foster Brother whom I hadn't seen for 36
years. I was 8 when he left home. Plus I also managed to meet Friends
and Colleagues that I work with and have met on the internet.
After getting being back from my holiday 2 months I also suffered a
heart attack, and although I am functioning well now. I have only just
received my hospital referral for follow up medication etc. Still I feel
Good and there are a lot of people who's heart is worse off than mine.
Because of the heart attack Things had to change, and sites
that I was going to develop on my own after my holiday. I have
now decided to Partner and share the work load with others.
2 Sites that have been launched since my last Profile
update are. www.SeekMLM.com
and www.FreeAutoSurf.com
SeekMLM.com is a search engine specifically designed for
the internet marketer. All the prominent keywords are network
marketing related.
It's been 4 weeks since we launched SeekMLM and we
are already about the 226,000th most visited site on the
internet. You can get a FREE $25 Advertising account with
us. By Going to the site and clicking on the "
Advertisers Sign Up " button.
The Second site to be launched www.FreeAutoSurf.com
is as the name implies, a FREE to join Auto surf site. We are
giving away 750 FREE Credits if you join us now. And a Further
1000 Credits for every person you refer and 10% of the traffic
they generate. We offer a 2 : 1 ratio, but this can be
upgraded so that you earn 2 credits for every 1 site you
visit.
To sign up just visit the site and click on Sign Up.
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