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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better.

"Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge of search engine marketing and conversion to good use.

The final push was when I met some local business owners last week who had established websites that were making money..yet one had a site where every page had the same page title. Another had no idea that meta descriptions were a key sales tool - they had none.

Basic stuff.

I realized then that even though I spend my time in forums with other geeks and experts in online marketing there were plenty of people who just didn't have the time - or desire - to learn all this. But they did have the ability to hire someone to help them.

So, duh.. I bought a domain and threw a site up. It's at www.HelpYourSite.com and I'm going to focus first on local businesses in the San Fernando Valley and surrounding area. That way I can meet with them regularly, in person, and I think provide a better level of service.

Wish me luck!

My latest website is www.ResistAttack.com - a site dedicated to educating people about how to keep themselves and their families safe, and sell them the products to do it.

Obvious products like stun guns and pepper sprays, but also hidden surveillance cameras too - even dummy cameras. There are some related products too, like hand held metal detectors that are popular with security firms, police forces and prison authorities. We have sold quite a few of those already.

Open since June, there is a long way to go, but i'm patient and know what I'm doing so in a year or two it'll be another successful website closer to retirement :)

My two latest ideas for small niche ecommerce sites: www.resistattack.com and www.sharpenem.com were setup on the server last night. It'll be an interesting next step after the success of the other ecommerce sites we've started.

It won't be without risks though - Jerry said that one of the niches was going to be a lot of work after looking at the NicheWatch results. Time will tell!

hi, my name is jesse, i love to skate board and eat chocolate, and coockies "an" cream icecream.i like georgia bulldogs, and love to throw the football with my friends.

Tara and I have been going to the local Summit Racing (McDonough, GA) every Monday for their weekly show-n-shine just to park up and open the Wagon trunk and shamelessly promote a couple of our pedal cars - namely the red fire truck pedal car and the orange Champion fifties-style pedal car.

We're getting a great reaction from people who seem to globally love these and hate the plastic pedal cars you can buy in the toy stores. But no sales as yet. :(

Still, you get to see a little bump in the web traffic on Monday night & Tuesday, so people are at least looking. If you see us there, drop by and say hello. If we're not with the car, pick up a card and call us and we'll come running!

Yesterday Jasmine died at a traffic stop. Everytime we put it into Drive the engine would stall - but Reverse worked just fine. Conclusion?  The transmission is messed up internally and I'll need to find a local expert to fix it. That's not going to be easy or cheap I suspect.

In the meantime, I have a wagon with a crummy engine and great transmission and a convertible with a great engine and crummy transmission. Which one will win?

After a little bit of thought I'm going to sacrifice the convertible and swap its engine into the wagon. Tara will get a fun car to drive and the convertible will be off the road until.. well, further notice.

Reason being, I want to drive around the pedal cars to local events like Summit, HAMB & Grits and get the work out. I got the first one, a fire truck pedal car (shown here) yesterday.

For a variety of reasons this blog will be leaving the Royal Tiki site permanently in the next few days.

It will reopen on my personal website in March when that site is updated.

See you on the flip side...

You may not have heard of a donkey jacket in the states, but I've always loved them since having one as a teenager in England. A few years ago now!

Anyway, I got inspired by all the recent talk of car club jackets on the HAMB so I tracked down someone who imports them over here. I could only find one importer, and luckily he was only 45 minutes away in downtown Atlanta!

I just picked mine up early this morning (gotta love that 7am traffic) and thought some of you might be interested. It's thick wool with PVC on shoulders and top of back.

Best part? $65!!!

I was looking at my YouTube favorites this evening and found an old gem that I still love. Taken from the Nicolas Cage movie Gone in 60 Seconds - I think it was on the DVD under special features - you can find the music video here on YouTube.

Looking on iTunes came up empty though, and although Amazon lists it, it's out of stock.

Of course, Google is now completely overrun by spam-like sites that display the lyrics of songs so little joy to be found by searching for the name.

Does anyone know if it is available somewhere?