Buy Me A Ferrari

Yup - I know, I’ve been really lazy lately and haven’t been posting half as much as I should be. This is changing as of now as I am not going to stop posting like I did lately.

At the moment I’m looking for a job and selling stuff I don’t need from the house - this is in an effort to purchase car insurance and get myself a car as I have a license and no car to drive at the moment.

I have a load of random stuff on eBay at the moment from children’s books to DVDs, there will also shortly be a load of computer parts going on as I need to have a clearout and generate as much money as possible.

If you’d like to have a look at what I’m currently selling and possibly even have a bid or two you can do so on eBay here.

So the sole purpose of this blog at the moment is to document my path to afford a car and insuring the car. I will get back to the Ferrari one day.

Any web designers willing to do me a cheap page?

If so, I want a one page website set up. If you can help drop me an email: me [at] daviddunn.co.uk and we can discuss this a bit more.

Where is Buy Me A Ferrari going now?

I will be continuing along the same lines as I was before but I want to make money now rather than in the long run as I need a car and insurance now.

I’ll still be talking about different things to make money on the internet etc. but I’ll also be talking about the ways in which I am making money and how close (or far away) I am to being able to afford a car/insurance.

Anyone got any quick ways of making money that I could use? Also, I need a web designer for another project idea if anyone is interested? Drop me an email.

All donations to the same PayPal email address are great and you will get a mention. Bidding on my auctions is great too.

Before now it has been pretty poor trying to track earnings as I’m registered on so many different websites offering PPC/affiliate/something along those lines.

I’m now going to list all of my current balances as of today so that I can effectively look back and see how much I have made during February.

This list contains some programs that I may not be running on either of my blogs (like AdSense) but I may use it for other projects throughout February so I’ll list the current balance anyway.

Here goes:

Google AdSense: $30.90
Rubicon Project: $8.16
ShoppingAds: $0.00
Text Link Ads: $0.00
Project Wonderful: $8.60
Kontera: $1.00
Private ads: $0.00
TTZ Media: $0.00

Think that’s about it at the moment really - anything else that I think about or remember will be added and I may create a page that lists all of the things that I am attempting to make money through.

As this post seems to have amazingly disappeared from my blog, here it is again. This is the stats for Buy Me A Ferrari during the month of January 2008. These statistics are basically from 18th January as this is when my first blog post was.

January has been half decent month for Buy Me A Ferrari and brought a fair amount of traffic - not that I was expecting a great deal due to us being pretty new.

Here are the stats in a little more details via Google Analytics:

Total visits: 1,151
Average visits per day: 82.21
Most popular day: Sunday 20th January (240 visits)

Total page views: 1,969
Most popular day: Sunday 20th January (443 page views)

Top 5 browsers:

1. Firefox (1,040 visits)
2. Internet Explorer (84 visits)
3. Opera (13 visits)
4. Safari (7 visits)
5. Mozilla (3 visits)

Top 5 countries:

1. United States (668 visits)
2. United Kingdom (179 visits)
3. Canada (82 visits)
4. Australia (30 visits)
5. Netherlands (13 visits)

Top 5 traffic sources:

1. StumbleUpon (819 visits)
2. Direct (110 visits)
3. Entrecard (106 visits)
4. FerrariDave (20 visits)
5. Sitehoppin (14 visits)

Top 5 Search Engine Keywords:

1. buy me a ferrari
2. buying ferrari
3. buymeaferrari
4. ferrari forum uk
5. how much money do you need make to buy ferrari

Top 5 posts:

1. Home (432 views)
2. StumbleUpon (420 views)
3. Ideas For Domain Names (316 views)
4. How I Am Going To Make Money (213 views)
5. Change In Advertising Prices (149 views)

Can’t really say whether or not these stats are great or not as I don’t have any previous statistics to compare with. However, they seem really good at the moment and are only set to improve. Will be good to compare with by the end of February.

As most of you will be aware, I passed my driving test on Thursday 31st January 2008 (last Thursday) and since then I’ve been looking at the price of a car and insurance.

Now, the price of the car isn’t the problem I can pick up a car for anything from £300 upwards so affording that isn’t going to be a problem.

However, when I go to do a car insurance quote (with me being 17) the price is colossal. For what’s meant to be one of the cheapest cars to insure, an ‘N’ reg Vauxhall Corsa, we’re talking £2100 at the cheapest insurer.

So… looks like I am going to have to pay SEVEN times the amount that the car is worth for insurance alone.

I personally think that’s ridiculous, yes, fair enough, my age group might be one of the highest for accidents etc. but it doesn’t mean that all of us drive around like complete idiots.

I might even be tempted to start a new website named “Buy Me Car Insurance” haha!!

So this is just a plea for help really - I’m posting this on both FerrariDave and Buy Me A Ferrari to try and get some help:

Anyone got any ideas as to decent ways to lower the premium I’ll have to pay?

Any cheaper cars that I could buy to lower the premium?

Anyone like to donate an odd quid from their PayPal account would be great (anything at all from 50p upwards would be great - or even $1 if you are in the States): you can do so by sending it to: me@daviddunn.co.uk (not that I am expecting anyone to but it would be great if you did).

I’ll even give your site a mention or do a blog review if you are kind enough to donate.

This is the second of two posts detailing my site statistics for January 2008.

January has been a really good month for FerrariDave and brought a fair amount of traffic.

Here are the stats in a little more details via Google Analytics:

Total visits: 9,633   |   Increase of 2989
Average visits per day: 310.74   |   Increase of 96.42
Most popular day: Wednesday 2nd January (2,221 visits)

Total page views: 17,101   |   Increase of 4670
Most popular day: Wednesday 2nd January (4,151 page views)

Top 5 browsers:

1. Firefox (8,791 visits)
2. Internet Explorer (748 visits)
3. Safari (34 visits)
4. Mozilla (28 visits)
5. Opera (27 visits)

Top 5 countries:

1. United States (6,236 visits)
2. United Kingdom (1,102 visits)
3. Canada (626 visits)
4. Australia (216 visits)
5. Germany (121 visits)

Top 5 traffic sources:

1. StumbleUpon (7,408 visits)
2. Direct (807 visits)
3. Entrecard (588 visits)
4. Google (110 visits)
5. Sitehoppin (53 visits)

Top 5 Search Engine Keywords:

1. ferraridave.com
2. libra library
3. entrecard
4. libra+library
5. dave dunn

Top 5 posts:

1. New Year’s Resolutions Over Time (6,495 views)
2. Home (1,855 views)
3. Beer Brothers (1,777 views)
4. Smoking In The Rain (966 views)
5. Wedding Anniversary (863 views)

Top 5 posts from January:

1. Smoking In The Rain (1,287 views)
2. Windows Live Writer (1,224 views)
3. Wedding Anniversary (1,223 views)
4. Blog Anywhere - Handwritten Post (1,047 views)
5. Happy New Year (726 views)

Pretty happy with these stats as all of the main traffic statistics are an increase and quite a substantial increase at that. I’d love to see all of these statistics double by the end of next month.

Before I start with this post, I must apologies for the infrequency that I have posted on both this blog and FerrariDave - this will be restored, I’ve just been busy and had important stuff going on that I had to dedicate my time to.

Now, back to the title of this post.. Yesterday I sat my driving test at the Gateshead test centre. I’m happy to say that I passed (in the snow) on my first test attempt.

I passed with a total of 4 minor faults which I’m pretty pleased with considering my nerves on the day!!

Never felt so nervous in all my life to be honest… once I got going though I started to settle down a bit and I was pretty calm (although a bit of a dry mouth throughout haha).

So all I need to do now is concentrate on purchasing a car and being able to afford the whopping insurance premium that comes with being a 17 year old student!

Normal posting will now resume on both of my blogs now that everything is pretty much sorted, thanks for sticking here. I’m now off to end the Entrecard competition on FerrariDave.