Ever searched for reviews and recommendations for products and services and just been overwhelmed by the ton of information or confused by the contrary views? Have you not trusted a recommendation because you’ve suspected a vested interest? Or even looked and not found anything at all?
Well, we’ve tried to sum up recommendations from various sources and given our own views (as if we are about to buy), and we’ve posted about recommended products, services and destinations which have appeared in print (and are therefore unlikely to be found on the search engines). We do not have vested interests – the site is supported by affiliate advertising, but this does not influence our posts or source for recommendations.
Wherever possible, we give full credit to the original authors and provide links to the full articles, or the source publications.
The Daily Telegraph has published research by QS showing the top 10 MBA courses most favoured by employers, here. The London Business School comes second to INSEAD. The average student left The London Business School to go to a job with a salary of $112,000. Here is the full list:
The Post Office, in conjunction with Crystal Ski, has published a report on great ski resorts (here), based on the costs of lift passes, equipment hire, ski lessons, and meal and drinks. Great Ski-ing is only one aspect, though; great value is as important in this report to give an all round great ski experience.
In summary, the list of recommended great ski resorts is as follows, ordered best value to worst value, and showing the weekly average cost of the items listed above:
The Daily Telegraph’s Honest John recommends 10 cars he considers amongst the most comfortable available, here. Have a look at the videos below to see what others think of them. What do you think? Let us know!
These are THE top rated recommended restaurants in Britain – the best restaurants in Britain – as listed by the website Zagat (based on consumer restaurant reviews). Many of these are London restaurants, representing fine dining at its best in the capital, but there are other good restaurants elsewhere.
The Sunday Times (online subscription here for further details) published an article by Vincent Crump detailing the best 10 recommended romantic hide-away villages, taken from les-plus-beaux-villages-de-france.org .
Do you want to grow your following on Twitter significantly and quickly, either for business or pleasure (maybe want to challenge Ashton Kutcher’s 7.6 million followers?)? Are you looking for something which will leverage the incredible market power of Twitter to make money 24 hours a day?
Well, you’ll need an automated follower bot – one which makes it much easier to find and follow people with similar interests or locations as you (and thereby encourage people to follow you back, and click on your product affiliate links).
Probably the two market leading products are Tweetspinner and Tweetadder. Aaron Clancy, the SEO and Internet Marketing guru of Superior Online Marketing has done an in-depth comparison of these clever tools here, and it seems Tweetadder wins hands down on a number of fronts, including cost, clarity in use and the quality of the free trial, which can be obtained by clicking here (if you decide to buy, include coupon RON20 for a 20% discount).
We tried it and were amazed by how easy it was to set up for key tweet search words, and by the results – over 50 new quality followers in one day, with 20 new website hits! – and all that was while we were trying the free demo programme (which has full functionality up to 250 followers).
Despite the almost immediate success, we were very sceptical, so we set up a new Twitter id (very easy to do) specifically to promote Tweetadder through their affiliate programme (takes minutes) and began getting hits on the link within 15 mins – all for free!
Take a look at this video on how one affiliate made it work so easily:
It is NOT a scam; we rarely give our own views and recommendations, but we were so impressed with the potential of the Tweetadder tool to generate interest/income that we purchased a one off licence (no ongoing cost) for a very modest sum, and we are now using it to grow The Recommended Directory following as well as testing it on a longer term basis for affiliate income return!
Give it a try by clicking here (and remember to get 20% off with coupon RON20 if you decide to buy)- and possibly make your first $64 overnight for free too! (no credit card details required):
UPDATE: We made our first affiliate sale of Tweetadder, after one week, and earned the sum of $32! Not enough to retire on, but not bad for very little effort, and a fantastic return on investment, as well as the promise of huge potential! This was achieved through setting up 4 twitter profiles on auto ie no further intervention by us after first set up. We also achieved 953 new followers (with the settings on a very moderate level) and a MASSIVE 540% increase in hits to the website! By our reckoning it works, just as it says on the tin! Needless to say we’ll be continuing to use it, both for traffic generation and earning. Here’s the earnings proof (screenshot of our affiliate report – click to enlarge):
The Independent Newspaper published David Phelan’s recommended top new gadgets featured at the world’s biggest electronics exhibition, the IFA in Berlin. Here are 8 of them: (fuller details here)
