Looking For A Place To Buy Or Sell Businesses?

Hey guys, sorry for the recent slow amount of updates, blame it all on my exams .

Anyway, I was introduced to BusinessRoute recently – It’s a website where you can buy sell and yes, even invests in business. Not any virtual business, but real brick and mortar businesses.

Currently BusinessRoute only has listings from England, Northen Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over many sectors, ranging from security to weddings and to agriculture. There are hundreds of listings on BusinessRoute, which means there is a higher chance you’ll get to see a business that actually attracts your attention and fits your purpose.

BusinessRoute is evidently a relatively popular site with around 500 users on it at any one time. As you can see, BusinessRoute has 2098 business listings on them which is quite impressive with 271 registered buyers.

To start off on your search for your perfect business, first you use the powerful search tools provided for you where you can customize the price range, the sector which the business is in and the location the business is located. Once you have gotten a list of business meeting your criteria, just click on them and you’ll get to see all the details of the business in question.

From a glance you can easily see how much a business is selling for, their years trading and their annual profit and turnover, ownership and whether they have audited accounts. Besides the summary BusinessRoute also provides a description of the business which would better acquaint you with the business in question. If you have been hooked with what you have saw, you can then contact the seller via BusinessRoute for more information or to start closing a deal.

Know nothing about the business you are interested in? Don’t be afraid as BusinessRoute does provide some good in depth articles on the whole area of buying and running a business.

So, if you guys ever want to buy a business, you know where there are business for sale .

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Plagiarism Is The Best Form Of Flattery – True?

EDIT: He has since taken down the post so you can’t view it anymore as noted by one of the comments. Here’s the Google Cache link.

Nowadays plagiarism and imitation is rampant everywhere, more so on the internet. Many bloggers blatantly plagiarize material from other blogs whether in part or in full and then republish them on their own blog as their own works with no credit given to the original blogger.

I recently found out that one a post of mine concerning the launch of Google Chrome had been plagiarized by some Singaporean called Nick who claims to have retired at the age of 25. The offending post is here and it was published on the 06-09-08 while my post here was published on the 04-09-08.

This was a screenshot of the offending post over at his blog.

A screenshot of the original post written by me on Drett.

Nick didn’t even bother to give me a linkback or mention which I feel is the very least a person can do if he wants to republish half your post completely unedited and call it his own work. After looking around his blog a little and just checking it with Copyscape, I found many of his so-called posts on his blog were just copied and pasted on.

This isn’t the first time a post of mine has been completely taken and republished elsewhere, but there is always a linkback to my site so even though I don’t like it, I don’t take action. This however was the first time that I found a post of mine being plagiarized in this manner. Things like this aren’t flattering, rather, they are more of annoyance for the original blogger. For all those of you who are reading this, please do not forget to provide a linkback or acknowledgement to the original blogger as that way he won’t feel like he has been plagiarized .

What do you think I should do about this? I haven’t contacted to him yet which I most likely will do after my end of years exams requesting that he either take my material down or link back to the original post .

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How The Google Cache Feature Saved Me A Lot Of Effort And Time

We all know how far reaching Google, we constantly use many of their services such as Gmail, Adsense, Adwords, Google Earth, Google Search and their just released Google Chrome web browser. What we don’t know is that Google offers so much more than just that, services that are really minor and often overlooked by many people. One such service or more accurately called as a feature of Google Search is it’s cache feature.

The cache feature displays a cached version of a website. Now, this feature alone can be useful in so many ways such as seeing how much a website has changed over a short period of time, loading webpages which are slow to load or are down and reading something the owner has just removed recently.

The Google Cache feature just saved me a lot of time and effort recently. I had deleted one of my posts which had taken quite an amount of time to write and I had no backups of it. I was quite devastated when it occurred to me that I shouldn’t have deleted it and now I had no way or time to rewrite it again.

Well, if it weren’t for me being a little enterprising and the usefulness of the Google Cache, that might have been the end of the story, a bad ending mind you. However, luckily I was quite creative and suddenly remembered about the Google Cache feature of Google Search. I typed in the URL of the post and was hoping that Google had managed to index the page (it was quite new) before I had deleted it. I needn’t have worried though, the posts had been indexed by Google and after just clicking the cached link and copying and pasting the content right back on my blog I had sorted out the dilemma I was previously in .

Learning point: Next time when you are in a fix, try to think creatively about how to solve the problem. And if you are blogger, now you know how to use Google Cache as a last resort to get back the content of your post .

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Sponsors Shout-Out For August 2008

I just want to take this time to shout-out about my sponsors for the month of August 2008 . Even though some of their advertisements will still run until sometime this month, I think it would be better if I could have a shout-out to my sponsors at the start of the month following the start of his sponsorship as it would be easier for me to keep track.

Sponsors For The Month Of August 2008:

• Online Money Buzz
• Chose It
• Michael Corrao
• No Techie
• Money Pro Forum
• Get Cash Today
• Christian Little

So these were all my sponsors for the month of August 2008, check out their sites if you have time.

Thank you sponsors for  your support and everything as I really do appreciate it . You guys motivated me to keep on blogging and also it feels nice to feel valued.

If you would like to sponsor or advertise on Drett, please check it out here for more information.

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Some Updates And News On My GetPaidTo’s (GPT’s)

I recently have been neglecting the whole GetPaidTo (GPT) industry and left the accounts which I had active in the hands of my younger brother who is supposedly helping the the work back home in Malaysia. The reason for this was because the boarding school here blocked GetPaidTo websites including PTC, PTR – basically all forms of GPT’s. Sure, there were ways to get around the school blocks but many of the GPT sites do not accept proxy members and actually delete accounts whenever they see 2 accounts having the same IP address. If I use a proxy, the chance of me having the same IP address is extremely high, so I figured it won’t be worth my time.

Anyway, here are some light and quick updates of what I can remember when I checked the accounts the last time I went back to Malaysia.

ThinkBux

I now have 4 referrals here, some of them which are even more active then me . I reached $5 which was the minimum payout last time, however I found out they increased the minimum payout to $10 and now only offer PayPal as a withdraw option if you are a premium member. If you aren’t a premium member like me, the only withdrawal option left is Alertpay. All this happened as the owner sold ThinkBux to another guy.

AugBux

This turned out to be quite the classic scam as this site is now not operational anymore. At first I though this site as quite promising as there were many many ads to click on, however now on looking back I’m pretty glad I did not invest any money or too much time on this PTC as it was a scam.

Better-Bux

When I went back to Malaysia I found out that Better-Bux had deleted my account. This was the 2nd time my account got deleted by Better-Bux and as usual, when I created a new account using the exact same details (this is allowed) all my stats were still there left untouched . I think it’s some sort of bug.

ClixNCash

I now have a couple of referrals in ClixNCash, however these referrals just aren’t clicking.

Cash-Hi

Same as ClixNCash, a couple of extremely inactive referrals.

CrewBux

This along with ThinkBux is one of those PTC sites that I feel has a lot of potential. I’m currently trying to focus more on this as even though I still do not have any referrals here, from what I have seen and heard is that is honest and does payout. Furthermore, the $0.01 per click is also relatively high.

Things I Learned From This Happenings:

So yeah, the whole GetPaidTo industry seems pretty nice at first as the concept of actually making money from just clicking seems very interesting and attracting, however upon closer look and after scrutinizing it rather carefully, I have to say that the GPT industry is quite volatile and I suggest that you do not invest too much money into these programs. I know of people who invest hundreds of dollars into such programs, but if these programs turns out to be a scam, that is it, your money is all gone. Even if the site is honest and paying you now, there is no guarantee that the site will not change hands into a dishonest person’s hands.

GPT’s are GPT’s, what you gain by earning free money even though in extremely small amounts is at the expense of stability and long term growth. That said, I still recommended GPT’s if you are keen on making money online and not sure whether that is possible as with GPT’s you can easily earn a couple of cents into your PayPal account in a day .

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