My webhost 1and1 are celebrating 20 years in the biz by giving free hosting for a year, which is nice.

Go for the Home package and pay nowt for a year. Terms and conditions apply, no doubt.

I thoroughly recommend them because:

• They’re the world’s biggest web host and ultra reliable
• You can have loads of domains on one cheapie account (I have 53)
• You get a free blog
• You can use a free push-button website builder to make your website
• You get a free (basic) newsletter tool
• You can have loads of email addresses (if you’re one of those people still running your business off your ISP’s email address or even worse, a hotmail address, this is reason alone to sign up).
• The control panel is pretty easy to use
• Other cool stuff including some sort of “Easy Shop”

Click the banner below to find out more.

If you already have a main website, there’s no reason not to get a domain for your latest side project and point it at a blog or simple website. Have a fish for domains below:

Barbara Sher coined the term “Scanner” back in 1994 and recently wrote the book “What do I do when I want to do everything?“. If you’d like to spend a week with her in Puglia, Italy book for her Scanner Retreat now. It’s September 26 to October 1.

I attended her retreat in Autumn 2006 and thoroughly recommend it as a great mix of workshop and holiday.

Read more about Barbara’s Scanners Retreat here.

Scanners Night regular Rosemary has written a lens on “Earning money when you have a Scanner personality”. Have a read.

Squidoo was created by marketing brainiac Seth Godin. If you’re feeling entrepreneurial, have a read of his blog. I love it.

I discovered this diagram on Wikipedia and found it fascinating. As a scanner, there’s something very satisfying for me to be able to quickly understand something that’s been foggy for a long time.

This diagram explains the relationship between terms like England, Great Britain, UK, and British Isles.

Did you know that the Isle of Man is outside the UK? Or that the Republic of Ireland is in the British Isles but not the British Islands? Am I the only person to care? Leave a comment and let me know!

This application is fun if a little broad brush-stroke outside of the US (e.g. going to Bali for a week paints the whole of Indonesia blue).

Suddenly I feel very under-travelled.

The Beginner’s Guide to Making Money from your Ideas

Click the link below to play the recording:

Play “The Beginner’s Guide to Making Money From Your Ideas”

Prefer to download the MP3?
Right-click and “Save As” the link above.

PS. Has this got you thinking about your own great ideas? If you want to find out how to make your own idea make money, click here for details of my Idea-to-Income Coaching Programme

Judith Morgan (our July Scanners Night Special Guest) runs a great membership site to do just this. It’s lonelyentrepreneur.com and if you’re one of the first 1000 joiners, you get to be a member for life for FREE.

Here’s what you get: Access coaching calls with Business Coach Judith Morgan, get coached live, ask your questions and get answers, update us with your progress, be held accountable, get pointers, audio classes, business plan guides, millionaire ideas, and wealth creation strategies. Network with other solo entrepreneurs; give and receive wisdom; become part of a Mastermind Team.

And all for free if you join right now. Why free? Because we want to reach a critical mass of 1000 people so that the site will have huge value to everyone who joins. There are currently nearly 800 members. At the current rate of signups, we should hit our target very soon. (So get in fast before we hit 1000 or you’ll have to pay to join!)

This is also a good way to contact other scanners.

Start getting expert advice and other people’s help to make your idea happen. Join now at:
www.lonelyentrepreneur.com

Go to awesomehighlighter.com, enter a website address, mark bits to highlight, then send a short link to it to other people. You’ll be doing a favour to scanners who won’t have to read the whole thing. You could also use this to keep your own highlights (install their toolbar to make it quicker).

Particularly handy if you want to show something on the web to somebody but it’s buried in the middle of a load of other stuff.

Have a look at this nifty page I’ve created with highlights to show what it does:
http://awurl.com/moogny139029

Ben does chores, makes calls, and does PC/website stuff for me at £5-£10 an hour. If you happen to be in North London, see his website (built by himself with a bit of help from me) at BlitzYourTodoList.com