May 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

Introducing 2 New Sites

OK, this is shameless self-promotion, but I thought I’d introduce 2 new sites that I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks that I currently have a lot of passion for (we’ll see how long that lasts!).

Money Watch

First up, there’s Money Watch: a Personal Finance Blog. I figured I work in the industry, and the market for a blog covering financial matters for twenty to thirty somethings in the U.K. is currently pretty open. I hope to bring together interesting articles and commentary on investments, mortgages, pensions etc. from a variety of sources.

At the moment the site is still part of the WV4 domain (at http://wv4.co.uk/money-watch), but if it is reasonably succesful and I decide to keep it running, I have registered another domain name (money-watch.co.uk) and will move it to it’s own hosting.

On a side note, I may also be “guest blogging” on another personal finance blog in the next few weeks, so that should provide me with some useful experience. Watch this space for more information.

What’s On?

Secondly, I’ve begun a local project to provide the definitive “What’s On?” for Wolverhampton - although there are a couple of sites already doing a similar thing, I reckoned I could do it better and utilise the web in a better way than the existing competition. I also think having a local angle will help me over some of the bigger sites that might provide similar information. At present I’m concentrating on music gigs, comedy and club nights at the main venues in town, but will be hoping to expand this to feature many other events at venues which do not usually get publicised.

I can already see that the amount of content needed to run such a site even for a relatively small city like Wolverhampton will take a fair bit of management, but we’ll start reasonably small and aim to grow gradually at a manageable rate.

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