The New Guy and the Pressure is Unbearable
Posted on June 4, 2007 by
Adie 
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Hello, my name is Adrian Cooke and I am the proud new owner of NetBusinessBlog.com. Thought you might be interested in hearing why I purchased this blog and what my plans are for it. First of all my background (I’ll be quick I promise) I have been online since 2002…seems light years away. Ever since then, I’ve loved how quick you can build a business online and make it a success for a relatively low budget, if you have the right desire and determination.
In that time I have started a tangible goods store MyMemory.co.uk selling digital memory products with a friend and opened an offline store. MyMemory went on to be a fast success hitting 300k turnover in its first year climbing to 3.5Mil in just two years! - I’m very proud to say I was a part of that, but now I am just a shareholder.
I purchased NetBusinessBlog.com because I decided to buy into an already successful brand/business than start one from scratch myself. I’m not sure why…but I can hit a brick wall sometimes when I start with an idea for a business this is when I came across Yaro Starak and reading one of his posts made me think…why not buy a website. If it fits your lifestyle and your interests do it!
I came across it with 4 hours to go at SitePoint and made a decision to bid, not really thinking twice about it. Later… me and Matt decided on a fair price and that was that.
So there we go, a tiny bit about me, hats off to Matt Coddington for starting a blog I always wanted to start and making it a success in such a short space of time. He really screwed me over at $50k though but I think it’s worth it? - I also think I’m going to find it hard to keep up the reader level, but that’s because it has such a great following (you guys reading this…you still are right?).
P.S. I look forward to making this blog more popular and I hope to hear some nice comments from you all. If any of you have purchased a business online before please give me your view point.
Thanks.
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Hi Adie, looking forward to read nice posts from you.
me too. And congrats on your new purchase
pretty impressive past history you have there with mymemory.
looking forward to reading your posts and how you succeeded in that.
Good luck with the website.
Hi Adrian,
It is nice to hear straight from you, you seems to very open in your communication which is a good thing.
I hope to see some good content based on your experience.
Good Luck
Vijay
Are you serious about that price you paid or was that a joke?
Actual price was 13k if I see correctly on sitepoint
50k was just a joke!
…or was it?
No worries about the blog Adrian, it’s still staying in my RSS reader. I think you’ll do a fine job, good luck ;)
Congrats on the purchase Adrian. I’ll stick around for awhile to see how things turn out. Though I must warn you - you’ve got some big shoes to fill ;)
awesome, i’ll be sticking around to see your new posts :)
Joke or publicity stunt? I think it’s the 2nd one!!! If not, then great job ;)
Looking forward to seeing some of your articles, best of luck w/ the site!
Congrats on your sale Matt and your purchase Adrian.
good luck man :)
I am a fairly new reader here, but I will stay subscribed.
I think it would be interesting to see the stats over the next month and how they change. I would guess there will be a quick drop off, then hopefully a slow climb back up.
Congrats on the purchase.
Nice to see a fellow Brit taking over :)
The blog will remain in my feedreader too Adie, just share your experiences with us, and give us some good advice.
…that is, assuming you’re a Brit because you started one of the best British online stores there is — silly assumption I admit!
I’ll still read, my friend. I completely understand why you made this move, and more power to you!
I know you’ll be very successful as you have a solid starting point with this blog.
Best of luck :)
I really hope that 50k was a joke. Maybe he meant 5k. If matt got 50k for this im hiring him to sell my next website.
Hell, if he got 50k I’ll pay you 25k to make a blog and publish on it for 6 months ;)
Congratulations on the purchase, looking forward to see what you do with the site
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Let’s see how good are you !
Congratulations Adrian on becoming the new owner. I look forward to reading your updates. At the same time, I’ll also miss Matts updates. Good luck to both of you.
Hello all,
Thanks for all of your kind comments, really appreciate it! I just started taking seredyn to calm my nerves…(joke)
Hey Armen, I am a fellow brit and proud of it. Setting up MyMemory was one of the highlights of my life so far. From day one, our main goal was to be Number One in the digital market and we feel we did that in just six short months. Shame I had to leave…but that’s another story.
I look forward to writing in this blog and keeping up the same quality you have become accustomed too.
Looking forward for great posts from you too pal!!
Cheers!!
Jason
I Blog at http://jsbi.blogspot.com
Thank you for the introduction Adie I look foward to hearing more posts from you.
Just found this blog from the listing over at Sitepoint. Congrats on the purchase and good initial posts. (Also congrats on buying this before I saw it otherwise I might of grabbed it ;))
Like you, I have been successful in the ecommerce industry and would be interested in speaking to you re writing a few articles for your readers.. perhaps you could do the same in return..
Anyway, welcome and good luck.
Josh.
Goodluck Adie on your venture…
Hello, Adie!
I have beed reading this blog since March, but this is my first comment.
Matt has been writting very quality content and I get many ideas what to write on my blog when I read this blog.
I hope you’ll keep this blog quality as possible.
Thanks, Bujes
Congrats on the purchase, looking forward to reading more of your posts! ;)
Good luck with the new blog, Adie. It’s nice to see another UK blogger on the scene!
Never purchased a business, sorry. Usually started one or three, I think!
Kenneth
[...] has been sold and the new guy has taken over. Congratulations and good luck [...]
Time to edit About page. Anyways, good luck.
humm looks like chinese model, they all look cute, however I know all the dark sides of this industry as I myself started with a dating site but need to close it later due to loss. Person featured in such ads are models as no actual person may want his/her image displayed for these ads.
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