It isn’t all good news though as a number of companies don’t seem to be doing a very good job of providing a reliable broadband service. A good website for find the best deals and getting genuine user reviews is Think Broadband formerly ADSL Guide. Here you can pick your new provider with confidence. You may also be limited to the number of companies that operate in your area. LLU requires the provider to place their own equipment in your local exchange so it is taking time for them to get round the exchanges. Also they won’t put their equipment into exchanges that they don’t think will make them a profit. Another good website is Samknows this will tell you which LLU providers are available at your local exchange. Another benefit of LLU is that many companies are offering ADSL2+ which isn’t currently available from BT. This typically allows speeds of upto 24mb compared to the standard 8mb normal ADSL can achieve.

If you aready have a mobile with O2 or TV from Sky you can take advantage of special deals that they offer their customers. There are a number of other companies doing this too. With Sky if you local exchange has their equipment and you are already a Sky TV subscriber you can get free 2mb broadband, pay £5 for 8mb broadband or £10 for 16mb broadband. This is a great deal and most of the reviews of Sky’s LLU offering are pretty good. Lots of companies have similar cheap offers but be sure to check out the reviews on the sites above before committing. You should also make sure you are aware of any tie ins that may keep you with the same company for a year or longer.

In summary if you are paying more than £20 for upto 8mb broadband you can probably find a better deal elsewhere. With increased speed and a lower cost. You should check with your TV or mobile provider to see if they offer any deals and if they don’t you should consider moving to one that does.

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You don’t have to be an expert in a subject to start a website about it but if you are knowledgeable in a particular area this would obviously be a candidate. Just make sure it meets the other requirements too. If you pick a subject that you don’t know much about make sure there is somewhere you can research it before starting the website.

When you first start the site you have to make sure you can add a lot of relevant content, the quicker you can do this the more likely you are to start making money. You also need to start driving traffic to your site. Search engines are the easiest way of doing this. Getting a good ranking can be difficult though. You need to start getting some quality links to your site. This can be achieved by writing quality articles that other people will want to link to.

Once you have some some traffic you can start making money. The most common way of doing this is to display adverts on your site. Take a look at this ProBlogger article for a good list of some of the options. Don’t expect to make money straight away but stick at it and as your traffic builds you will start to make more. The key is to keep writing quality content to bring more and more visitors.

After your first site is starting to make money you can find yourself another niche and build another one. This should be easier due to the knowledge you have acquired from the first one. What is key though is to make sure you don’t forget your first site as the visitors will stop coming if you don’t keep adding content. You can keep building sites until you are at a level you feel comfortable with and have the time to keep them all updated.

An alternative route is to use a service such as “Build A Niche Store” (BANS) to help you build a site that makes money through the eBay affiliate system. There is an initial set-up cost but it does mean you can get lots of sites up and running quickly. You will still have to the work to get traffic though. I have seen a number of places recommending BANS but I haven’t used it myself. If you think it is right for you then make sure you research fully before parting with any money. If you have used it before then add a comment below with your opinions.

Remember the most important part of setting up a niche site is finding the right niche so spend a lot of time on this and choose carefully.

These sites are particularly useful for products where you know exactly what you are after and just want to find out the best place to get it from. They aren’t so good if you just know that you want a DVD player for example but not which one. When it comes to services they are very good as you just enter your relevant details, be if for a loan, mortgage, credit card or to change your gas or electricity supplier and it goes away and brings back the best deals. For changing Gas and Electricity suppliers in particular you can even earn some cash back on top of the savings you make.

These sites work like many others in that they often take a small percentage of the value of the sale if you make purchase from one of the merchants they recommend. This doesn’t effect you as you still pay the same price as if you had found it yourself. If you aren’t already using a comparison site you could be missing out, so start now!

The next site is Money Saving Expert which is run by Martin Lewis and is the ultimate resource for making the most of your money. You can find guides on various ways you can save money and the forum is full of personal experiences and tips on saving or making money.

If you are looking at buying a flight then you must take a look at SkyScanner which searches through all of the budget airlines to bring you the cheapest prices possible. If you are flexible on when and where you want to go you can get a list of the prices to different airports on different days. This allows you to pick out the best deal and it will then even take you to the airlines own site and fill in all the flight details so you are ready to purchase it. So next time you fancy a trip to Prague for a quick beer you know where to go!