Mammon

Socially useless

A recent story/scandal I keep being drawn back to is that of Grant Shapps, Tory party co-chairman, former housing minister and former (result!) web enrepreneur and marketing guru, aka Michael Green, now, vicariously, aka Sebastian Fox. I’m quite happy to acknowledge that making millions from his [wife’s] web businesses qualifies him/her as a successful entrepreneur. […]

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Light at the end of the tunnel

Asked whether he envisaged fees at his British papers such as … the Sun …, he replied: “We’re absolutely looking at that.“

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IHT – die happy

Time to mention the blogs IHT Solutions and Law and Death and Taxes who both post about the death of the nil-rate band discretionary trust. IHT Solutions: You could certainly call the government politically cynical but for once, one can be magnanimous and simply accept that the government have listened to the voices of “middle […]

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Adnonsense (3)

Google is in a bit of a bind. On the plus side it can be credited with: opening up access to the web with Google search, providing advertisers an effective channel for their web marketing through its AdWords scheme, and giving legitimate publishers, large and small, the opportunity to generate income from serving up those […]

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Adnonsense (2)

Kevin O’Keefe blogs sensibly that running Google ads is inappropriate on blogs marketing professional service or product, pointing out that at the very best you may earn only a few hundred dollars a month. If you’re a law firm or other professional service firm charging hundreds of dollars an hour for your time, do you […]

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Adnonsense

I’ve been running Google Adsense on Lawfinder for a few months now – mainly in the interests of research, though it does become seductive. I’ve also followed up on some of the research, blogs and forums about it. Here are my findings: The vast majority of Adsense accounts earn less than $50 per month and […]

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