Doug’s Mouthpiece – Droug.co.uk

First Daily Deals Summit Europe

If you wish to know what is happening in Europe then this is the first event

http://ddsummiteurope.co.uk/agenda/

There are a pile of “Industry Experts” including:

Peter Briffett – MD, LivingSocial UK
Saurav Chopra – CEO, HuddleBuy
Stefan Glaenzer – Investor in numerous online ventures
Gerard Doyle – CEO DiscountVouchers.co.uk
Fabian Heilemann – CEO of Dailydeal.de which sold recently to Google for 115$ Mill.
Kevin Wray – Nimble Commerce
David Hirschman – StreetFight

Regards

Doug

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Off again

Not posted for ages, but in case any still reads it:):) And even cares:):)

I’m off to play else where again,so just an update of what has happened:

1. The carrentals.co.uk business has not had me involved for almost 3 years now and the guys and girls keep growing it, over 150,000 rentals this year and they are slowly launching round the globe. Well done to everyone.
2. Comparecarrentals.com.au which is simply a Australian car hire comparator is still growing…was a slow start but looks like the guys have cracked it. Over the past 6 months I have stepped back and they are off on their own.
3. DiscountVouchers.co.uk is still growing at a stupid pace, just under 6 million members, 150,000 visitors per day on a good day. Not a lot I could do any more as I am rubbish with a business when it gets real. Well done to all involved and I will see you now and then when I pop into London and we go for lunch. Good luck with the “interesting” things ahead. I’d love to be involved but as you all know I would just be a pain as the business moves to being “real”.

So what next?

Well I am setting up Potential.co.uk, a sort of online incubator as I believe the UK just does not seem keen on startups…not in comparison to California anyway. So I have bought some domains/sites that I thought were interesting to play with and talked to some of my ex staff who were good people and slowly the wheels are coming into motion. The initial idea being to play with ideas for these domains and also invest in some more interesting concepts. As normal just to have some fun and also to feel like I am helping the people I like.

So initial domains thrown in the pot are:

• asap.co.uk   -   finance and utilities comparison
• catwalk.co.uk   – fashion
• electric.co.uk   –   energy comparison
• emigrate.co.uk
• fad.co.uk
• greenpreferenceservice.com   –   stopping junk direct mail
• iq.co.uk   -   serious iq tests
• iqtest.org.uk   -   iq test for fun
• motormart.co.uk   –   car sales
• package-holidays.com   -   package holidays comparator
• recycle.co.uk   -   recycling goods
• secretdeals.co.uk   –   daily deals for unique products
• unlovedmobiles.co.uk   –   recycling mobile phones comparator

These we had but will probably park unless someone has an idea:)

gadget insurance…..

• allcreditcards.co.uk
• allsavingsaccounts.co.uk
• bingoboutique.co.uk
• car-hire-insurance.co.uk
• cashback.me.uk   –   cashback
• cheaphotelbookings.com
• contents-insurance.co.uk
• departure.co.uk   –   cheap flights
• greatfriends.co.uk   –   dating
• greathotels.co.uk   –   hotel comparison
• moneyforgold.co.uk – money for gold
• plutonium.co.uk   -   insurance
• promotions.co.uk   –   competitions
• publicliability.org.uk   -   public liability
• qualitymobilephones.co.uk   –   mobile phone comparator
• repossessedproperty.org.uk
• secret-hotels.co.uk   -   lastminute secret hotels
• snow-boards.com
• topcurrentaccounts.co.uk
• wam.co.uk   –   payday loans
• xpoker.co.uk

• reselleraccounts.co.uk
• adultwebsitehosting.co.uk
• prepaidbroadband.co.uk

Also looking at stuff that is more disruptive in concepts, so not really web sites but things related to fb/mobile/toolbars/tools. Some we have started the builds, stuff that we think maybe useful and really have no means of making any cash but look interesting.

Just having a laugh Josh:):)

Doug

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Quotes by Steve Jobs

It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy – 1982

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone. – 1985

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 RIP

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Dodgy Bloody Hip

Looks like I need to sort my hip out after years of doing silly things on it, seems like I have an issue and need a nasty op,,,,ugh

This guy invented the op is doing it in September:

http://www.mcminncentre.co.uk/

Don’t watch if squeamish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9XOWoZCnBk&noredirect=1

Thanks to Vicky for helping me understand what my options were:

http://www.hipresurfacingsite.com

Don’t let your GP tell you that you should live with the pain for 10 years and then have a total hip replacement.

Doug

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Another bloody post…Panda and Google

Looks like the boys and girls at Searchmetrics have messed up:

This post that has gone everywhere on the web

http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2011/04/12/googles-panda-update-rolls-out-to-uk/

States that www.discountvouchers.co.uk has been wiped out by google, well its just not true and here is an image of our organic traffic from Google Analytics to show otherwise:

Seems like Searchmetrics, in a rush to get link love have made a PR disaster…..great links guys, but was it worth it? Makes me wonder what value there is in this data when it has so little effect on a sites traffic.

Anyway here are some independent ranking reports for the voucher sector:

And also the hitwise report

Seems like the guys ate TechWatch are a bit miffed too

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/15/searchmetrics-com-are-they-just-making-it-up/comment-page-1/

Doug

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Here is Santa

Santa

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Chris G, Chris Garrett is on TV

watch?v=6LlEWF6pswE

IF you have never met chris then this is a similar person

Chris G, Chris Garrett is on TV

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Carrentals.co.uk wins more prizes

We came runner up in the awards for the best meta search engine tonight at the Travelution Awards.

Skyscanner.net won it who do have a great product, so well done to them. But also a well done to everyone who has worked on www.carrentals.co.uk over the past year.

Doug

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Looking for people who want to make cash and laught lots

If you want to do something different then click away

I am serious

Doug

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Even I think that is good

CO2 Emissions in pictures

And what about this ranking just for the Fat SEO, Mr David Naylor

Sorry Dave, but you did mention it on your blog:)

All the best

doug

Doug

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