the richest man in atherstone

I've been keeping this website updated for the past 12 months or so as my own personal financial journal. I've been meaning to publish it on the Internet for a while now but, for various reasons, haven't got around to it.

The other day, I started looking into the viability of using Google Adsense as an income stream. It works by adding a bit of code to your website to display Google adverts. If they are clicked on by visitors, the website owner gets a cut of the payment that Google recieves from the advertisers. According to a lot of people in Internet-Land, they've made a fair bit of money from this.

I have lots of ideas for ad-driven websites but realised it would be quicker and easier to simply publish a website I already had. This way I could test the viability of the idea without spending weeks/months designing and writing content for a new website idea. It seems the trick to making a profitable Google Adsense website is by writing good content and providing useful information to the visitors.

This website was originally intended for my own personal record of my financial life since being inspired by the book 'The Richest Man in Babylon' by George S. Clason. I think that a lot of the posts and articles I have written would interesting to similar-minded people as well as giving ideas and inspiration for people to look after their own personal finances. Some of the posts may even be entertaining to some.

Therefore, I have decided to publish this website on the Internet for public viewing. The hardest part was coming up with a name. After brainstorming many ideas and discarding most, I chose TheRichestManInAtherstone.co.uk. I live close to the town of Atherstone and the website was inspired the book of a similar name.

I have bought the domain name and now intend to go through each of the posts to make sure they are publishable. This means removing all my curse-words and changing names to protect the innocent. I'll also add some extra details so that people that don't know me will understand what I'm talking about. I've set a launch date of 31 May 2006.

I hope that visitors will enjoy my writing and take away with them useful information. I'd also be grateful for any feedback on any of my posts. Hopefully, by doing this I can improve my writing as well!