The recession, benefits, the safety net, and the learning curve

PasturesNew

bluey890 wrote: »

I am the guy he's sitting on.

How you spend your money and leisure time is none of our business.

bluey890

PasturesNew wrote: »

How you spend your money and leisure time is none of our business.

I'll start a blog.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

How you spend your money and leisure time is none of our business.

It could very well be very good business for someone with a lot of energy and a strong constitution.

PasturesNew

Really, none of you should be starting blogs ... I've just spent the last 4 days (still ongoing), wrestling with some new software, configuration, trying to send out thousands of emails, contacting my host as they weren't going fast enough, having my email send cancelled and being told I need to pay a LOT more, then negotiating a new SMTP service on another continent with the providers of the software at great expense (think I could have spent this money on a cruise, but instead I will use the money to email !!!!!! to people so they don't have to visit my website to read !!!!!!).... it can really get you down.

My volume requirement is to send out up to 250,000 scribblings of !!!!!! per month, direct to Inboxes and Junk mail folders across the country

dopester

fc123 wrote: »

I posted the Liz Jones Link a couple of pages back.
Unbelievably, she earns masses from wittering on about herself. Lir would know what a 43 acre farm costs in Exmoor (bought 2007 too). 2 million?

Popular articles she has written include ones where she confesses to spending 400k on clothing, where she admits to her eating disorder, when her cat died, the rescue dog, the date with the millionaire...it's never ending shallow, trivia...and I am addicted to it...so must others too.

Here's a link if you can bear to look DS. Liz Jones

I can't remember when she changed from being a Fashion Mag editor, got laid off and ended up with a column just writing about herself.

Firstly.. I shouldn't be posting in this thread.

Yes.. I googled "Liz Jones" last night, after glancing through this thread. I thought she might be the same woman who paid Garrington (Phil Whatshisname) about £50,000 in a home-finder fee, and revealing how shoddy the process was, how little they did for their fee, including a letter full of typos ect.. but that must be another journo-woman.

Yes. £400K on clothes. Doesn't surprise me that others like to read tales of wild excess and then regret. One reason I enjoyed this series of Property Snakes & Ladders so much. People like to read about others making mistakes, being outrageous, doing less-well than themselves, complaining when their complaint has no merit but individual responsibility, ect ect. One reason some readers might connect with Max's blog, and how it might develop over the months (not me).

As for the other things she writes about.. which people enjoy reading, and she gets well paid for, great, and if the same happens for Max and he turns his blog in to some wonder-following which sees him get lots of income/job - I'll be proven wrong, and everyone in the thread can cheer at my "narrow-minded" attitude.

What you posted about Liz Jones £400K spending matches the tale I read of her last night, on her sub-prime stuff.

In order to get a mortgage two years ago, I had to pay £10,000 to Savills Private Finance to secure it, and endure the life sentence of a higher rate of interest, which means I can only afford to pay the interest of my huge debt.

To build myself some sort of secure future, I then did what I was told by my financial adviser, and invested a huge sum each month in a portfolio of ethical businesses.

An investment that has so far meant I have lost 75% of what I paid in. Argh! I would have been better off stuffing my money under my Vi-Spring mattress.

But, hang on a minute. Is it fair that I (so many of us?) should be punished for wanting a roof over our heads and an alternative to a pension? I am fed up with homeowners taking the brunt. (Dopester says: houses are not pensions, BTL has risks, and you make you're own decisions on what debt you are prepared to borrow. Stop blaming others.

Yes, my London house made me £500,000 in 18 months, (!) but these 'profits', for normal people like you and me, are merely relative, unless we don't buy another house and merely move into a (privately owned, local authority financed) hostel. (she could STR and rents are falling for a very nice house.. but she chooses to describe the alternative as a grubby hostel)

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Really, none of you should be starting blogs ... I've just spent the last 4 days (still ongoing), wrestling with some new software, configuration, trying to send out thousands of emails, contacting my host as they weren't going fast enough, having my email send cancelled and being told I need to pay a LOT more, then negotiating a new SMTP service on another continent with the providers of the software at great expense (think I could have spent this money on a cruise, but instead I will use the money to email !!!!!! to people so they don't have to visit my website to read !!!!!!).... it can really get you down.

My volume requirement is to send out up to 250,000 scribblings of !!!!!! per month, direct to Inboxes and Junk mail folders across the country

Are you a pro spammer?
The video was good on the other site posted...haven't tried putting my name into it yet.

PasturesNew

"Yes, my London house made me £500,000 in 18 months, (!) but these 'profits', for normal people like you and me, are merely relative"

Relative to the fact that people "like me" are actually near the end of their working life and if I had every penny I had ever earned stacked up in front of me it would come to about half that ... yeah, relative. My heart really bleeds.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Are you a pro spammer?
The video was good on the other site posted...haven't tried putting my name into it yet.

I am not a pro spammer... all my "members" have genuinely double opted in to gain access to my content, that I spend hours gathering and posting just for them.

Honest.

And every email does contain a clear unsubscribe link, which does automatically unsubscribe them. And I don't pass their details on to anybody else, ever ... hell, until this weekend even I hadn't ever tried to email any of them ever before

My main site just happens to have a lot of genuine members.

fc123

dopester wrote: »

Firstly.. I shouldn't be posting in this thread.

Yes.. I googled "Liz Jones" last night, after glancing through this thread. I thought she might be the same woman who paid Garrington (Phil Whatshisname) about £50,000 in a home-finder fee, and revealing how shoddy the process was, how little they did for their fee, including a letter full of typos ect.. but that must be another journo-woman.

Yes. £400K on clothes. Doesn't surprise me that others like to read tales of wild excess and then regret. One reason I enjoyed this series of Property Snakes & Ladders so much. People like to read about others making mistakes, being outrageous, doing less-well than themselves, complaining when their complaint has no merit but individual responsibility, ect ect. One reason some readers might connect with Max's blog, and how it might develop over the months (not me).

As for the other things she writes about.. which people enjoy reading, and she gets well paid for, great, and if the same happens for Max and he turns his blog in to some wonder-following which sees him get lots of income/job - I'll be proven wrong, and everyone in the thread can cheer at my "narrow-minded" attitude.

What you posted about Liz Jones £400K spending matches the tale I read of her last night, on her sub-prime stuff.

I am never 100% if it's really Real or sort of a bit real.

She now seems to be leading up to a Credit Crunch episode in her life ...which could turn into a girly/London/Middle England thrifty living type book.

Her farm must cost a bomb..she has pet sheep for example but isn't a kidds theme park farm with paying visitors.

I think she did use a finder service for the farm..I am sure I read that once....could be her.

Have you seen PN's site/vid posted earlier (4 pages back?)...you'll love it;)

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am not a pro spammer... all my "members" have genuinely double opted in to gain access to my content, that I spend hours gathering and posting just for them.

Honest.

And every email does contain a clear unsubscribe link, which does automatically unsubscribe them. And I don't pass their details on to anybody else, ever ... hell, until this weekend even I hadn't ever tried to email any of them ever before

My main site just happens to have a lot of genuine members.

BTW Are you ready for 1st August launch?