Sunday, November 13, 2005

Off Topic - Content Site...Can Anyone Help?

In between everything else, I'm also working on a new content site. The site will be database driven, offering users the ability to tap in their postcode and it will return the nearest 5 pubs (for example). This part is all set up, coded and working.

As part of this, I want to offer a premium rate SMS "find your nearest" service so that users can send a text containing a keyword to a shortcode. The nearest pub (or whatever) will be automatically returned based on their location via a premium rate (say £1) text message.

Now, here's the problem...finding a company that offer this service for a reasonable price! iTagg offer this service but want close to £2k per year for it. They only other company I've found is called waymobile, but they have not responded to my e-mail :S

Does anybody know of another company that can offer this type of setup at a more reasonable rate? Thanks!

I've Been Poisoned!

Unfortunately I've had food poisoning this week :( I was going to use the time off work as an opportunity to build more sites but it knocked me sideways more than I thought and I ended up spending most of the last 3 days in bed drinking water and eating dry toast!

Fortunately it seems to have passed now and I've spent some of today preparing keyword lists ready for another spate of building. I've got 10 good new lists ready to build sites from which will take me up to 40 sites :)

On the earnings side of things, I've already broken the $200 mark for November, so things are still looking good. The usual end of week update will be posted on Monday...