King of Clubs Enterprises

Well - I tried my best and failed miserably. The lesson is - Never try! That's a quote from the Simpsons and I pretty much know how he feels.

I got a response from BarclayCard, claiming that the fraudulent claim was a subscription I accepted from Dixons or Currys in Hemel Hempstead! I can't begin to explain how many things are wrong with that - but here are a few:

1. I live in Grimsby - don't even know where Hemel Hempstead is!
1a. I don't think I can even spell Hemel Hempstead.

2. I've not purchase anything from Currys or Dixons for at least 8 years.

3. I've not even purchased anything electrical in the last 6 months.
3a. That was a TV from Asda

4. If Currys or Dixons in Hemel Hempstead have a subscription to my Barclaycard, then why are they charging me in US$? Has this become the new UK currency when I was on the loo or something?

But BarclayCard don't seem to be willing or able to do anything about it! God Dammit!

And just to make things worse - today my mortgage paymetn bounced so I am very very down! Any donations to the "STOP ME GOING BANKRUPT" fund would be gratefully received!!

Firstly - if anybody clicked the link below to the web builders, you will have seen that it sactually links to my gaming site. How irritating is that? So if you did, please scroll down my gaiming site and use the "Get A Store" link. I did explain that web building never works for me, didn't I??

And this is the point, I have done no web building at all. Work has been piling up and I am so tired. Also, I am on the verge of financial collapse. I have had nothing back from any of my websites yet, apart from that initial $7. I am beginning to think that it's time to write the whole thing off! Especially as I have all sorts of Click Bank accounts etc. all over teh place and I have no idea how to pull them all together! Going to have to go through all of my e-mails and see if I can link them all into Paypal or something - find some way to have all paymetns going into one place - assuming I ever sell anything. I am a little down today!

Meanwhile, I intend to upload the new King Of Clubs Character today. Hopefully, his pic will be on before long and I can say I achieved something.

As a final throw of the die, I have added a new site - again using affiliates. This is a People Finder site - I don't really know how I can get paid for it, but according to the guy who set it up, I already have earnt $125. I don't actually know where this cash is though! It's in another of my Click Bank Accounts!

This is it - it's very bland:

www.kingofclubs.ws

I have heard nothing back about e-millionnaire yet; and now I have another $99 charged to my account. This isn't them; I don't know who it is at all! I will have to do a search tonight for the company on my bill. It may be something totally innocent!

Well, I did nothing on my website. Actually - that's not quite true. I designed a logo! Yay! Unfortunately, I am totally unartistic - so when I was finally happy with it (2 days!) I tried to put it in the website, which then looks so crummy. Ho Hum - back to the drawing board. Already I am booked up for this entire week with work though, so not likely to move it on much. Dammit!

Meanwhile, I recieved FIRST AFFILIATE CHEQUE! Woohoo!

Problem: It's in US $, and it's ony $7! So thats about £4 in "real money" and it costs a minimum of a fiver to convert teh cash. Hooray - net loss of a £1. I wrote to them and said "Don;t sned me cheques until they equal $500 at least, FFS!" so tehy are now going to pay through PayPal. Hooray - another problem solved.

Talking of problems, I am still being e-mailed everyday by e-millionnaire, asking for my details so thaey can "consider" a refund. I answered tellign them that they were far too late. I have filed official forms with BarclayCard for fraudulent use, and becasue I am anal like that - I kept all the e-mails, so have sent off a massive wodge of papers to back up my claim.

I shall keep you updated.

I have been very lax with my websites. This is my problem - I do not see sensible results within 20 seconds and write the whole thing off. I have to get a different mind-set. There's a council word: "mind-set"!

So I have really gone for it today. I have pushed for free search engine submission. I have read lots of gumph about it first, and I have seen all the warnings, so I went with a pretty secure sounding site, on the advise of the web-builder I used for my shops:

www.gaming.kingofclubsonline.co.uk
www.bookstore.kingofclubsonline.co.uk

I suppose I ought oto plug the site-builders too as they have done an excellent job! This is their direct link:

http://mywebstore.homestead.com/index131ra29.html

I still haven't created my umbrella www.kingofclubsonline.co.uk site, which still shows as under construction with a few scattered links. I intend to finish it off tonight - although I shouldn't make myself promises like that because I know how bizarrely wrong they all go!

Anyway - I went onto the advised search engine submission: Submit Express. I have to say it was remarkable easy. Put in the URL and my e-mail address and off it went, into Yahoo, Google etc. etc. etc.

There were a couple of glitches. Some of the submissions require a confirmation, but I immediately received an e-mail from them asking for me click the "OK" box if I had requested it. Sorted. One of these was called "Scour the Web" (I think!)and that gave me a few health warnings on my site; things about bots having problems following forwarding links in something called robot.txt This is something I am going to have to look at in detail when I get a spare 5 minutes as it lost me completely!

Alta-Vista and some other branch of Yahoo - not related to Yahoo websearch (don't ask - I don't know either!) - needed registration. Submit Express did provide a link to complete this, but I didn't really get chance to do that. I will go through that process tonight.

MSN has really impressed me! Again, Submit Express provided a confirmation link, and then MSN took over, sending out it's bots to trawl through my website and follow the links to build a set of data to use in the searches. This sounds good - they may all do that; I dont know - but as MSN have told me they do that, they get a gold star for impressing me. Although, to be fair, this is not difficult when it comes to websites!

I am still waiting for the Hi-Tech part of my website to go live, but I have seen an incerease in traffic. Unfortunately, not an increase in sales yet! That's still stuck at "Nearly One!"

IN the meantime, I have signed up for Google Ads. This comes in 2 parts. I am advertising the business site www.kingofclubsmall.com/fastcash any time somebody looks up business or home working etc. This is costing me about 70c per click, but is reaching a much wider audience than facebook, and I am assuming, much more discerning people as it hass only been clicked 5 times, so must be people who are actually interested in such things! I may go on and advertise the bookstore and gaming sites on Google soon.

Meanwhile, I ahave also sigened up for AdSense, which allows me to advertise other people on my own website on a pay per click basis - so, in theory, I could cover most of the cost of my own advertising by advertising other sites. The down side of this, of course, is that will have people clicking away from my products. Have to get the balance right, I think!

I;ve always wanted to use that word... Addendum.

I forgot to add - as well as my guaranteed 2500 hits, this company has also added another site to my ever-growing businesses.

www.kingofclubshitech.com

This specialises in electrical equipment. I shall let you knwo when it goes live!

So I have now seen my arse (That's a Grimsby phrase which means got really pissed off) with e-millionnaire. Have BarclayCard investigating them for fraud. DID NOT get a refund, but kept all of the "We're looking into it" e-mails, so hopefully, that will help.

Already, they are on a losing streak as they have charged my card under two different company names, so BarclayCard ared dead suspicious. We shall see.

Meanwhile, I have suspended my FaceBook advertising. Apparently, my brilliant plan to drop the price to 5c per click was not good - my advert was not even getting shown! So I raised it back to 40c per click with a $4 limit - which is only 10 clicks per day. How annoying is this - all these sods clicking my add and then notb buying anything? Anyway I was ranting about it - like you do - and my mate said to me - "but it's just like when you go into the book shop, read half of the books and then go out again without buying anything." which I suppose is true.

The reason I have suspended my advertising is I have just had a call from an advertising company in California. This is why I am discussing such things at 1 am UK time! They are offering me 2500 guranteed hits for 59c per hit. They wil advertise my site with a banner on a known high traffic site, bt here is the really good bit - they will only claim a "hit" if the person stays on my site for more than 25 seconds - which means they are likely to be a "real" visitor rather than somebody being click happy on ads!

I have found these people really helpful - they set up an internet business site for me and everything. If you wan tot get in touch with them, see if they can do similar things for you, then this is their number. It's a free-phone number too - so you don't even have to pay for the call!

USA - 888 230 7442
UK - 0808 234 1354
Australia - 1800 209 248

Please Quote Reference 85283

I also discovered another amazig website where you actually get paid to receive e-mails. It's not vast amounts, but it does actually work!

Click here for more info:
www.emailcashpro.com/?source=KingofClubs

I've had a really busy week - thais is why no posts, and I amm absolutely shattered.

I have a full time job in the day and at night I work in a pizza shop, so this is a reason I am trying to make a success with my website. I have to do something as I have been workign like this for 11 years now and nothing is any different. Financially, I am still "Just getting by" and it's not good enough any more. My ambition at the minute is to have a quiet Saturday night at hiome with Sky Movies!

So anyway, the bookstore is now up and running and I also invested in another affilite site to promote weight loss, healthy eating etc. It reviews programmes and then sells them. I like it because there is a choice and it also includes the down sides, so I feel it gives a non-biased view and allows a sensible choice by the consumer. See these sites here:

www.bookstore.kingofclubsonline.co.uk
www.kingofclubshealth.com

Meanwhile, I have now gone to my credit card company and reported a suspected fraudulent use. I told them not to take action at the minute, as e-millionnaire are STILL investigating. I have given e-millionnaire 2 days more, as there investigation seems to be sending me frequent e-mails asking for my details again. Very worrying!

Well, I have had my not-asked-for-subscription from e-millionnaire cancelled. Still waiting for news about the refund. Says they require all sorts of information like which e-mail address I used and which card etc. so I am going to have to dig out all my crap tonight. Just to add further annoyance, got my March bill this morning and bugger me - another £30 charge on there. Scamming bastards! The fight continues.

On the upside, I now have another site on the go. Over 800,000 games, consoles and accessories. I have great hopes for ths one:

www.gaming.kingofclubsonline.co.uk

Got a bookstore coming soon too!

Well! It's day 2 and things are moving forward slowly. I have placed some adverts on FaceBook and that has directed qutie a lot of traffic to my site on a pay per click basis. I intend to drop my charges though to see what effect it has. I am thinking that if I bid for something like 5c(US) per click rather than 48c I will get a lot more hits before my advertising budget is reached.

Anyway - talking of facebook advertising, I want to draw your attention to e-millionnaire. I followed a link through FaceBook to this webpage - which promised miracles. I only needed to pay about $3 (US) to cover P&P and they would post out some information for me to read. Well, that sounded like a good deal, so I signed up. Imagine my surprise when I find myself on some bizarre subscription costing me $167 (US) per month for absolutely fuck all! I have sent them an e-mail threatening to report them to my credit card company for fraud. They have immediately cancelled my subscription (to what???) and promised a full refund within 5 days. Let's see shall we!