Living the Internet Dream
6 months ago I wrote a post on my business partner Ray Johnson’s blog.
www.ray-johnson.co.uk/internet-marketing/whats-happened-to-ray-johnson
If you weren’t aware of this please read it first, and then come back here.
I wrote that blog post in good faith assuming everything in it to be true. Unfortunately it transpires that virtually nothing in there was correct. My apologies. The information in that blog post came from Ray Johnson.
July 10th 2008. The big day had arrived, I was finally leaving Britain. It’s a strange feeling when something you have been planning for a number of years, something which had seemed a bit of a pipe dream when we first considered it, actually becomes reality. We had left our house some 2 weeks earlier and stayed with my parents whilst we had a few loose ends to tie up. On of my biggest concerns was what would happen to my eBay business which was starting to pay real dividends now.
By the beginning of 2007 it was obvious to me that UK property market was about to come crashing down. I’m no economics expert, nor some kind of property guru – quite the opposite. However common sense told me that a UK average property price of £200,000 combined with an average wage of £22,000 spelled disaster. The historical ratio of average property price to average wages was 3.5. So the 2006 average salary of £22,000 should have equated to an average house price of £77,000! No-one in the media, in politics or the property business picked up on this. The good times were never going to stop….
It’s been a while since my last post. So many exciting, and not-so-exciting things have happened in the last 9 months but anyway, I have neglected this blog for far too long, but now I’m back again! Due to various things happening, which I’m going to detail below, I have either just not had the time, nor the material to write something on here. Over the next few days I’ll be going through everything in detail, which means that yes, I’m going to be posting here regularly again.
Something completely different today. The last few days I have written about my old business, and the factors that drove me out of it. In this short post I want to tell you a little bit more about myself, the things that interest me. It’s not really relevant to the rest of this site and what I am hoping to achieve with it, but for those who want a little light-hearted reading about who I am, read on!
Welcome to this site, I hope you enjoy your stay. The word ‘blog’ is a shortened version of ‘weblog’, or if you like, a diary. This site is going to be an online recorded diary of events in my life for the next few months. So who am I and why am I doing this and why should you care about yet another blog on the internet?