Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Giveaways

Hi,

As promised, I have compiled those downloads that I got from subscribing to 2007 December Xmas giveaways.

These few are FREE reports or they allowed me to re-distribute them accordingly; ie no copyright and I am allow to give them away.

So hopefully, you will find them informative especially if you are new or still a novice to Internet Marketing.

Or re-visitng some of them may help you to improve your current position in IM.

One disclaimer here is that I am just sharing resources or information that I have and in no way should you think that I am endorsing any of the authors or their products or their contents.

I tried my best to sieve out those that I feel are not relevant or not useful, even if I am allowed to pass them on to you.

Naturally, the authors are also taking the opportunity to sell their expertise or products to you in their reports. Nothing is FREE in this world, really.

I did not subscribe to any of the 2008 Xmas Giveaways as there are just too much information and I have not even gone through all that I downloaded last year!

I am more focus now but was curious last Dec as I just started in IM.

So please click below to get your downlaods which are zipped into one file, about 2.5MB size.



So happy reading and wishing you a Merry Xmas again and a successful New Year in 2009 !


Dave

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Hi,

I like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year in your Internet Marketing business venture.








Dave







P.S. Yes, I promised to pass some FREE stuff that I downloaded from last year xmas giveaways... started working on it and then lost track of it after going on my short holiday and xmas preparation.....sigh! Hang in there, ok?

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Christmas JV Giveaways

Hi,

I have not be very productive this past week and distracted by other activities.

In fact, I am also taking about 5 days off in the coming week for a short break with my wife too.

Anyway, last Dec when I was quite new to Internet Marketing, I signed up with one or two IM Christmas Giveaways.

In case, you have not heard from them and not invited to participate..... let me fill you in.

If you are joining to get the freebies and there are a lot..... I still have not gone through all the downloads from last Dec....!

So do be weary but if you are selective and pick up what you want and then focus on a few of them, you may benefit from it.

So do not say I did not warn you about it....ha...ha...

This year, I was invited to contribute one of my products to a few giveaways. This is for FREE, of course. So why do it?

Well, this is to build up a list of potential customers.

What it means is that before you download your freebies, you need to submit your name and email to the contributor. After that, you are likely to be bombarded with more sale letters etc....

I remember I mentioned that I have been going thro some of my downloads a few weeks ago. After my break, I will try to compile a few and let you download them from me for FREE and no submission of your name and email to show my sincerity on the matter and not a sale trap...ha...ha...ha...

My Christmas gift to you..... how about it..!

So stay tune as I will tell you where to go for the download.

It should happened on the week of 22 Dec if not earlier.

Have a good Dec Christmas holidays yourself too.

Dave

Monday, December 1, 2008

Posting Articles To Article Directories

Hi,

Time flies when you are busy at work and I have been busy uploading my articles to the article directories to direct traffic to my eBook launch website.

Traffic has increased slightly but still no sale yet!

Will continue to push traffic and see how it goes.

I may want to try my hand at creating my own product in the new year 2009. The problem is that it may not be a niche product but more of a hobby that I have been enjoying all these years. I am quite passion about it so it may be easier to do it.

Well, hope you have a good week and weekend.

Looking forward to the festivities during Christmas period!

Stay tune as I am planning to give you a Christmas present later.....

Regards,

Dave

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Article Marketing - To Generate Traffic

Hi,

I have been busy writing articles to post on article directories to drive traffic to my site where I launch an eBook on How To Sell And Buy On eBay.

Well, let's see how much traffic I can generate and any sale conversion from them.

At the moment, not that promising ... I have to be honest with you.

But let's wait and see...

Dave

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Launched My Own eBook Product For Sale

Hi,

I just completed launching an eBook for sale yesterday after about 1 calendar week of work.

Just to share with you what I did... and this is one of the approaches to launch your own product for sale.

So how to create a new eBook product?

1. Either you write from scratch, something you know well or source for Private Label Rights (PLR) materials.

Of course, you should research whether you have found a niche topic to write.

In this case, I found that I have purchased some PLRs early this year and did not use it at all so I decided to make it into an eBook eventhough it is already a popular market niche. I just want to try out the approach.

So the PLRs are in WORD or text format and I have to edit it and do some formatting to make it more presentable. I also read and amend the contents, if necessary since I am familiar with the topic.

2. I then drafted a Sales Page or some may called it a Squeeze Page to market the eBook. This is the page you see when someone is trying to sell you a product.

Or copywriting is another term. I suggest you looked at a few of them on the Internet and then tried to learned their style of writing and formatting too.

You can use WORD to do a draft and then use a free tool like PageBreeze to generate the html codes. It will help if you know some basic html codes so that you can do some simple editing, if necessary.

3. Similarly, you will need to create a Payment page for the customer to use PayPal as a means of payment. You need to log onto PayPal and generate the 'Buy Now' button and copied the codes over to your Payment page.

Upon successful payment through Paypal, you must load the Download page.

4. Similarly, create a Download page for the customer to easily access the eBook on-line immediately after successful payment.

5. Upload your eBook and the 3 pages into your website or domain using ftp utility like Filezilla.

Then test the pages and make sure that the Sales Page, Payment and Download pages worked as expected.

6. Now then how do you get customers to come to your sales page?

I use US Free Ads to advertise my eBook and also another site that is based on this niche market.

I am monitoring the traffic and hope t get a few sales, at least..!

Basically, once you have mastered the setting up of the pages... you can replicate it for other new products that you can create.

If you are doing affiliate marketing ( ie. selling other people's products ), they are likely to provide you with the salespage and you need not have to create the other pages as it is all taken care of for you. Once a sale is successful, your commission will be paid to your Paypal account.

I hope the above is of help to you, otherwise send me a comment and I will try to help you with any queries on the matter.

You just have to adopt an approach and then tried it. If it fails, then analyse it and see if you can refine it or try another marketing approach ....

You can CLICK HERE to see my sales page, and click on the 'Buy Now' button to go to my Payment page. Stop there unless you want to buy my eBook. Upon successful payment, it will direct you to the Download page. You should understand this whole process.

So Stay Focus, Plan and Do It...!

Good luck!

Dave

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Site Traffic Statistics

Hi,

I have been reviewing my traffic statistics of all my sites to see which sites have the heaviest traffic and also to tie them to my recent earnings.

Why?

So that I spend my time wisely on what to do :

- On those popular and profitable sites, I will look into what is attracting the income and can I do more to increase it.

- Do something to those sites that are not profitable.

- Just leave those that have no traffic and no potential at all. Move on to build new sites for another market niche.

I have been enhancing my few sites and they do bring in additional or new income.

Yes, you need to do some analysis and, hopefully, you get things right and traffic + $$ will come in.

If you do not have cPanel to monitor your traffic then go and install StatCounter into your blogger site, it is FREE.

So check it out at StatCounter here, if you need it.

Here is a sample of the summary but you can get graphs too.



Better still, I get an email report weekly and monthly to monitor the movements.

So Stay Focus, Plan & Do It...!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Affiliate Marketing - Earnings

Hi,

I thought I should also give you some indication of my earnings from Affiliate Marketing to-date.
Adsense is growing slowly and I have shared some info with you in my earlier postings so Iwill not touch on it here. In my opinion, Adsense is small income and I am now focusing on selling Affiliate products or Affiliate Marketing as the commissions are much bigger.

One commission can be as much or more than one month's Adsense income.

However, there are a few gurus who specialized Adsense and claim to be making good income from it. You can check that out, if this is your interest.




I only made one sale in Oct......sigh!

Either I chose the wrong affiliate product or not doing the promotion correctly....?








Ideally, it should look like this; a snapshot I took from one of the more successful Affiliate Marketer.




This is my target....!







I have also just created an eBook for sale and strategizing how to sell it.....

Consulting or discussing with my buddy as he has done slightly better than me in this area of business, Affiliate Marketing.

Stay Focus, Plan & Do It..!

Dave

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Traffic in October

Hi,

Another month has passed and this is my traffic statistics :


Well, my unique visitors is only 764 compared to 925 in the previous month....sigh!

As you can see, I have been putting in more efforts in the last 3 months but still plenty of room for improvements.

Again, this figures are considered very low compared to those 'gurus' or established Internet Marketers.

So I still have a long way to go.......!

Importantly, use these figures as a guide to reflect on what you have been doing and how you can improve on them.

So hang in there if you are in the same boat as I am or if you are doing better, I am happy for you too.

Take care!

Dave

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Atomic Blogging Special Offer !

Hi,

If you missed my earlier posting on the above offer, check this out and ACT NOW!

I bought it early this year and I would recommend it to you if you are new to blogging.

I now have 8 blogs and 6 of them are generating some income for me.

Watch the video and hopefully, it will help you decide NOW rather than later, in order to take advantage of his discount given during a short period only.






Happy Blogging...!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Become A Squidoo Lensmaster

Hi,

You may want to try out Squidoo which is similar to Blogger, and it is FREE!

Squidoo is a single page that you can write about a specific topic of interest, just like a blog too...

It is quite simple as you are guided as to what you can put in; eg. text, video, etc... It is a bit more restricted compared to Blogger but you may feel that it is guided step by step so cannot go wrong.

But how do we make money...?

Well, there are 2 ways of making money with Squidoo:

1. Splitting of income - when visitors come into your lens and click on a link leading to them to buy a product or Google Adsense, income will be generated similar to your blogging.

However, Squidoo will split this income as follows : 5% goes to charity, 50% foes to you, the lensmaster, and 45% goes to Squidoo.

2. Link it to Affiliate Product - you can use Squidoo as another avenue to direct traffic to your affiliate website or any sites that you are earning money.

The second method was taught to me by the author of the Micro Niche FInder tool when I bought it. He actually teaches you how to make $ using his tool so that you can benefit from the purchase of his tool.

Anyway, check out Squidoo here as it may suits you and it is not that difficult to use.

I have created 2 lenses and started to make some money already and also giving part of it to charity at the same time, so why not have a go at it.

Focus, Plan & Do It..!

Dave

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Be A Member of Forums or Communities To Drive Traffic

Hi,

Besides putting videos on your site, you can also join related forums or communities and participate in their discussions etc....

But it really helps if you are genuinely interested in the topics or areas of interest...

It is also very time consuming as you have to log into the forums and try to say something sensible and not always pushing your website or product. Otherwise, you may be told off or to leave the forum or community.

I am a member of a few communities that I have some interest so it is more tolerable and I get lots of emails daily. At times, I just browse through them or delete them without reading them.

However, I did get some useful info and learned a thing or two from the members as they are genuinely willing to share their info and experiences in those areas.

I do get lucky and on a few occassions, I could also share what I know and direct them to my sites. But I am sincere about it so it helps else you may look like a saleman or a hypocrite..!

In fact, I think one of my sites suddenly got very heavy traffic and it is the 2nd highest Adsense income source now, very much to my surprise!

So if you could find a relevant forum or community to join, you may want to try out this approach.

Good luck!

Dave

Friday, October 24, 2008

Video Helps To Drive Traffic

Hi,

Recently, I decided to make a video for one of my sites on a niche area and I believe this video has helped drive quite a lot of traffic to my site.

If you are not familiar with video or You Tube, please go there to have a look. You can practically find almost anything there.

I was surprised that my teenage son and his friends are learning how to play guitar from You Tube.

Just a quick guide on how to cut and paste the You Tube video on your site.

I will assume that you have registered with You Tube and uploaded your video so here is how you copied the embedded code , as shown below, and then paste it into your site.




This a sample of a video that I retrieved to illustrate on what I have been talking about.


Below is the final result after I have pasted the embedded code into this posting.





A tip for you :

It is very easy to make a video today as you can do it with a digital camera that has a video function and you can easily transfer the video from the media used in the digital camera, eg SD Card, and upload it to You Tube through your PC.

You do not need to buy an expensive videocam.

I am using my son's digital camera that cost us a few hundred dollars only.

Have fun and stay focus, plan it and do it!

Dave

Sunday, October 19, 2008

How To Get RICH Working From Home!

Hi,

I came across this report or eBook which gives you 3 business models on working from home.

The 3 business models are :

* eBay

* Affiliate Marketing

* Selling Your Own Product

I am sure you want some guidance on these business models, right?

There are 5 bonuses that come with this eBook; 3 audio or MP3 and 2 additional reports. The audios cover topics like Affiliate Marketing, Driving Traffic and Copywriting.The reports cover Affiliate Marketing and Sales Copy.

Besides, this wealth of information to help you start working from home only cost USD9.97 ONLY!

Isn't it value for money?

I bought it a few days ago and I have already read all the reports; a total of about 169 pages. I listened to the audio by downloading them into my MP3 player and listend to them on the go.

Affiliate Marketing report covers topics like Web 2.0 resources and website strategy. The Sales Copy report is a great guide on how to write a sales copy or letter. The audios also complement them very well with additional information.I learned so much from them as there are quite a lot of details given there.

Don't you want these information too?

If you are thinking of get some income from working at home or even part-time in the evening after work, this report or eBook will give you a good overview of what it involves.

Don't you want a headstart?

If you are like me, a novice in Internet Marketing or Business, you will get more tips on how to further your business and get more traffic and income.

Don't you want to improve your internet business performance?

Click here NOW to get get your copy - How To Get Rich Working From Home!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Atomic Blogging Special Offer !

Hi,

I just received the email below from the Author of Atomic Blogging and he is offering a further discount of $10 so it is a good opportuity for you to grab a copy of it.

I believe the contents will be of great help to you in your IM initiatives.

I bought early this year and still referring to it today.

So click here NOW - Atomic Blogging!

Below is the original email I received :

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Hey Dave,

Has been a while since I drop you a message.

I been reading the news lately and I know many of you guys in the USA are real affected by housing and money.

And I know if you just have this blogging guide of mine called "Atomic Blogging" it would change your life as thousands did from using my proven system.

Here's What Others Got To Say About The Guide ==========================================

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Now I am integrating more offers into the blog to monetize it and testing methods of improving my subscriber base. Thanks Alvin!"

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For a limited number of copies only. I will be releasing my guide for only US$37 that's $10 additional off the original price .


Once I have hit 100 copies I would be removing the page!

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So click here NOW - Atomic Blogging!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Web Hosting Options

Hi,

My friend asked me to review another web hosting company before we both sign up for Hosgator to migrate our sites.

Apparently, it could be more user friendly and may give better value for money.

I have also done a second back-up of my sql database and Wordpress files, succesfully this time! I can share this info with you once I have successful migrated my site. I actually did a simple guide for my friend to follow. Since I am more IT literate and have more time to explore, I am taking the lead in this proejct of ours.

At the same time, I have been busy reviewing my 7 sites or blogs and enhancing the layouts. Hopefully, it will get me more Adsense and Affiliate incomes; this is like revamping or redecorating your physical store but at much lesser or no cost other than your time spent on it. Of course, I also need to study my traffic patterns and see what can be done.

Also, browsing through a lot of downloaded reports etc that I got over the past year. See if I have missed out anything.....sometimes, I may get a useful tip and I will try it out. I am thinking of compiling those FREE reports etc and see if I can share them with you. Saving you some time of going through what I have been over the initial months into IM; eg subscribe to a lot of sites or 'gurus' and gettting their reports but eventually, there is no freebies as they want to sale you their products or mentoring services...ha...ha....ha...

I stop subscribing to them now and better spend my time to market my own IM business instead; eg I wrote an article and published it to the article directories yesterday to generate traffic for my new site or blog.

BTW, my friend emailed me that he just got another affiliate sale recently....! Good for him and it means I better catch up with him....ha...ha.... We keep each other updated to motivate each other... so some sort of friendly competition and we also share some tips that we believe are working for us. Though it may work for his site and not mine as we are dealing with different niche areas.

So remember to Stay Focus, Plan and DO IT...!

Have a great day too!

Dave

Saturday, October 11, 2008

A $8 Lesson For You !

Hi,

If you are new to IM, you may want to consider investing $8 to make this purchase and learned form him some techniques; eg. his sale page, landing page, payment going through Paypal, etc.....

I have bought something from Roth when I first started and I think you need to spend some money as part of your learning process. Anything below $10 is reasonable if you believe you can get something out of it.

Below is his sale pitch ...

"Here I am just days before my 28th birthday and the only thing I really want is to leave you with a few nuggets of information that helped take me from an $8.50 per hour cook to someone that 8-figure celebrity-name marketers email either with kudos and congratulations or for critiques and feedback ... and someone who is charging $199/hour for his time (big jump from $8.50!)."

For a mere $8, I believe you should check it out and see how he does it and learn from him.

So click below now!

From $8.50/hr cook to $199/hr internet expert... he's celebrating his birthday with a LIFETSYLE sale... only $8 (comes with a $800 Money Back Guarantee!)

Regards,

Dave

Friday, October 10, 2008

Niche Product or Keywords

Hi,
I have been spending a lot of time researching for niche products and keywords lately and I feel that I have bought the right tool to help me compare to my previous approaches of going to use the searches natively and then do your own computation or anlaysis.

I also bought a cheap tool that did not work but I ask for a refund and got it immediately. I even suspected that it could be a scam. The reason being that it was so cheap and when I complained that it did not work, the seller just said that other buyers did not have my problem and did not offer any technical support. I suppose people like them may be hoping that since the purchase price is quite small or his claim that it works for others, the buyer will not pursue the matter further....?

So do be careful as there is not such thing as good and cheap..!

But at the end of the day , it is still a tool to help you and not a miracle finder for niche products to make money for you. You still have to spend time to do your research and then make some decision on whether you want to have a go at what you have researched.

Here is a screen print of the tool and to share with you the features that I find useful :



I key in what I want to search for and it will return a list of the related or relevant results with some statistics on the no. of searches and also a colour indicator, as shown on the extreme right, to help you gauge whether there is competition or a good choice to work on.

There is a guide to teach you on how to use these results generated and also videos on how to use the results you have chosen and how to put them into the Internet; eg using US Free Ads.

You can also download or extract the results into an Excel spreadsheet and work on it further, as shown below.




I was given 2 licences or key to activate the software. When I did some recovery on my notebook back to factory default, I used the 2nd key. I wrote to the software owner or seller about my situation , they activated my 1st key for use again.

So in my opinion, I feel this is a good tool and I am happy with it todate. In fact, in one of the expensive programmes being sold, this tool is given FREE and the company sent all the current buyers an email to explain his business collaboration and not that we have been conned.

So what are you waiting for...?

Check out this tool - the Micro Niche Finder NOW!

Dave

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Backing Up My Blog Content

Hi,

I believe I have mentioned that I have renewed my domain name and looking into moving my website to another web hosting server, and also shared with you the minimum operating cost to maintain a paid website.

So I have tried backing up my blog content and was not so successful during the first try. However, I shared the same procedure with my friend and he did it successfully. I must find some time to re-do the back-up this week.

This is the first step and subsequently, I have to upload it to the new web hosting server which I think could be more complicated...?

At the same time, I am also looking to set up another new site for another niche product using the tool I bought. And also review my Affiliate Marketing initiatives.

I have some distractions the past week so not focusing so well on my plan..ha...ha...ha

Remember my motto ..... Stay Focus, Plan & Do It...!

Take care!

Dave

Friday, October 3, 2008

Google Adsense PIN

Hi,

I just received a mail from Google to activate my payment process by entering a pin in my Adsense account.

This is to enable Google to send me my payment for the earnings from my Adsense.

I am sure looking forward to my first cheque payment from them.....

So my friends, income from Google Adsense is a simple and proven IM business model.

However, it is not a guarantee source of income as you need to blog and attract visitors into your sites and hopefully, you have something to offer and they will also click on your published Google Ads.

Sorry, no free lunch here....

BUT it definitely works as my first Adsense income started coming in the first few months of my blogging. Then you need to work harder to grow your income...

It is like putting a seed into the soil, water it daily and then a plant emerges from it. Whether it will grow tall and strong will depends on the effort you have put in maintaining the plant, Hopefully, it will eventually bear you some fruits and either many fruits or one big fruit...!

Have a good weekend!

Dave

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Traffic Generation - Another High in Sept

Hi,

Much to my surprise, my traffic for the month of Sept hit a record for my website.

So what did I do?

* I did a posting to my website daily except for a few days in the month

* I submit one article to the 10 Article Directories but not all of them publish it though

* One site emailed me to exchange link and his site is more established than mine so it is to my advantage

* I am more particular on the topic I am writing or posting to my website; ie not just general info but info to solve people problem or address their concerns

However, I just lost my Page Rank of 2 on my website though...???

One thing for sure, is that the more time and effort you put into your website or blog, I believe you will get better results.




I was targetting to hit 1,000 unique visitors in Spet but only got 925 which is the highest count to-date.

I am working towards hitting 1,000 but I am worried that I may lost my visitors during the coming migration of my site to a new web hosting server if I screwed up during the transition.

So how are you doing in your blogging?

Stay Focus, Plan & Do It ....

Dave

Friday, September 26, 2008

High Traffic Generated in September

Hi,

I was checking my traffic statistics in the cPanel and is quite surprised by the consistent high traffic generated for September.

It definite breaks my record to-date and I will share with you more details after the end of this month.

I have also been taping my friend's brain on how he managed to earn 10 times my income in IM..... ha..ha..ha...

I am now trying out backing-up my SQL database to migrate to a new web hosting server.

I hope you are also making good progress at your end.

Take care!

Dave

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Minimum Operating Cost for A Web Site

Hi,

One year passed by, and I need to renew my domain name and also transfer my web hosting to another one as I have been given the first year free web hosting by the IM Workshop company. So the minimum operating cost to maintain a paid web hosting site should be as follows :

* Domain name USD 10 per year
* Web Host USD 8 per mth

So the total is at least USD ( 10 + 8 x 12 ) = USD106 a year

Of course, if you use Blogger and it is FREE then no cost at all but I have a paid hosted site and 6 sites on Blogger too.

The Gurus will recommend a paid web hosted site using WordPress as it is more flexible and more plugins, etc........

Though I am making income from both types of sites, I am still reluctant to sink in too much cost unless I have a good niche product to sell so I have been experimenting a lot using Blogger FREE site instead and there are limitations.

So if you are new to IM, I hope the above give you some ideas on the operating cost which is still so much cheaper than a physical shop business as the rental and physical goods will be a huge capital to handle.

I have already renewed my domain name and also going to use Hostgator as it is highly recommended. I am using namesecure for registering my domain name so you may want to check it out too as I have no problem with them to-date.

I am now looking into how to back up my databases or files etc for transfer from the old to new web hosting server.

Of course, you can do Affiliate Marketing without a web site so your operating cost could be ZERO if you choose to start on this business model first.

But I think it could be tougher and logically, it is just too good to be true that you need not even come out with some small capital to make money....???

Take care!

Dave

Saturday, September 20, 2008

My 1st Anniversary in Internet Marketing Business

Hi,

24 Sept last year, my friend & I started our first IM workshop and subscribed to our first domain name during the session. Time flies and we met yesterday to celebrate our 1st anniversary in our Internet Marketing business.

While we attended the same workshop together, we have our own ideas and approaches. Though initially, he suggested that we be partners and consolidate our resources to start an IM business but I was not interested as I like to do it my way.....!

So where do we stand today?

Both of us choose different product to work on, naturally. He chose a product that he has no experience on but reckon that people would like it as it is helping them to make $$ but I chose a product that is more of a hobby ( that I am familiar with ).

Looking back, he has chosen a better product that appeals to the public or customers whereas I have chosen a popular but maybe too competitive product to sell.

Other than the paid website using WordPress with the same theme that we used in our IM workshop and using the same domain name for our respective product, I also build another 6 blogs using Blogger ( which is FREE! ) and tried other techniques in traffic generation, etc....

Comparing notes yesterday, I definitely have put in more efforts and did more as I have a bit more time than him to pursue our IM business and we both have made some $$ from Adsense and Affiliate Marketing.

However, he did better in both areas as he has a more saleable or attractive product that the public wants. His earnings is 10 times more than mine...!!!

SO the conclusion from this experience is that choosing the right niche product is very important even if you are not familiar with it.

I have researched on how to choose a niche product and there are a few tools out there to look at trends, searches in Google, Yahoo, etc..... Also, read some reports by IM gurus.

There is no hard and fast rule and it is still a gut feel or taking your chances and a fair bit of luck, in my opinion.

However, after buying the Micro Niche Finder software tool, I find it more helpful and traffic generation is easier too as I am more conscious of the keyword to use, etc....

So my plan of action for the coming months is to search for a few niche products using what I have learned from a report and with the niche finder tool, I aim to generate higher earnings by targetting the right customer segment or market out there.

Adsense earnings sholuld continue with continuous postings to my sites by maintaining a constant or increasing traffic to my current sites.

So Stay Focus, Plan & Do It...!

Dave

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Affiliate Marketing - Another IM Business Model

Hi,

I am now quite comfortable with what I have done with Adsense to earn some income so I am now moving on or rather focusing on another IM business model.

This is known as Affiliate Marketing, where you are basically like a saleman and get commission for recommending a product or service and earning a commission from it.

The commission can be as high as 70% so one sale can easily exceed your Adsense earning, based on my experience so far.

You do not need to own a product or service.

In fact, you can go into Affiliate Marketing without a blog or a website too!

But you, definitely, need to join an Affiliate like ClickBank which claims to be the Internet's largest digital marketplace, where thousands of the web's most popular products are sold every day.

Register yourself with ClickBank as it is free and start searching the marketplace for products to sell.

So how do you sell the product without a blog or website?

Well, register yourself with US Free Ads and then post an advertisement on your product.

Use US FREE Classifieds to buy, sell or advertise anything!

It is Free but then I upgraded it to a membership of US$10 a year to gain more flexibility. But you can try it out on the Free membership first. ( I think the video from Micro Niche Finder will show you how to do it if I remember it correctly. )

There are 2 sources of income now from Adsense and Affiliate Marketing; these are the 2 very common IM business models.

I am going to focus on this in the coming months.

So have a go at it too....... good luck!

Dav

Sunday, September 14, 2008

A Day's Adsense Earning

Hi,

I like to share with you one of my day's Adsense earning.

I could not sleep so I woke up very early last Sat morning around 5.30am ( I usually sleep in later during the weekends ).

I started to review my 7 blogs and did some enhancements to them. Then I spent the day with my family as usual and did little IM work....ha...ha....

I checked my statistics and earnings this Sun evening and I am delighted to see some Adsense earnings from a blog that I have just enhanced.

In short, the model of blogging with Adsense that I have shared with you earlier on, works!

But you should have multiple blogs so that the earnings will be multiplied.

This is only one source of income so you also need to work on other models of IM like Affiliate Marketing.


In Adsense, you can also set up separate channels to monitor where the income is coming; like which blog has generated the earning as can be seen in the image above.

Part of your work will be to monitor the status of your IM business and do some analysis and then plan you next move or actions to improve your business or traffic or conversion to sales.

I am motivated by the above earnings though to some of you, it may be too small or not worth your effort......right? If you feel so then I think you should not be in IM as you have to start with small income and then work on multiplying it.

Hard work.....? Yes, but it helps if you enjoy what you are doing and believe in it.

Stay Focus, Plan and Do It.....!

Regards,

Dave

Thursday, September 11, 2008

How To Identify A Niche Product ?

Hi,

I am back from my short holiday but recovering from a mild flu and it is no fun to be sick!

Ok, so how do we identify a Niche Product ?

Your friends or instructor would have told you to do searches in Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc..... to look at the trends and the no. of searches, etc...... Then copy the results into an Excel spreadsheet and do some computation to determine if this is a niche product.

I tried the approaches and I was getting nowhere so I started to look for a one-stop solution and came across a niche finder software, called Micro Niche Finder.

After having gone through all the techniques on IM like building blogs, driving traffic, etc..... I finally come to the conclusion that you must be working in the right niche market else no point.

A good example is the efforts put in between my friend & I. My friend has earned more than me to-date. We just compared it in our emails today!

When we shared with each other what we have done to-date, I have put in more effort and my blog looks better than his and more content too. I even have to advise him to make some improvement as it was such a glaring mistake.

So why is he having more sale than I?

We come to the conclusion that his product is more niche than mine and I agree. I have chosen a product that I have passion for whereas he has chosen a product that the people wants and the product was even new to him!

Got it?

So identifying a niche product or market and then try it out as there is also no guarantee. If it does not work, choose another one and try again, again, again and again....

Even if you got a right product, you have to contiue to look for more niche products to work on as it does not end there.

Coming back to the problem of how to identify a niche product or market, I feel I needed help and I am happy to have found this niche finder software, Micro Niche Finder.

After I bought it, I tried out the selected product and true enough..... traffic was easily attracted to that blog as it is a problem that the people are looking for an answer.

So you can then choose to use a few IM business model to make sales; eg write PLR for sale or/and affiliate marketing on this product, etc.....

However, please bear in mind that you still have to do a lot of hard work based on what you have learned, all those techniqes that I mentioned in my earlier postings.

Nothing fall out from the sky.

Example. If you are told that XYZ is a hot item but if you do not know how to rent and run a shop, it could be a bit late or very tough to start learning now. That is why you are unlikely to make $$ in the first few months or even a year as you have to learn the business too.

Well, I have learned the basics of IM business models and have tried them out and I am ready to go to the next step and use the niche finder software to help me push my earnings to the next level!

By the way, you can view a set of FREE videos on how to use the Micro Niche Finder software before you proceed to buy it. That was what I did.

The videos also shows you 5 ways of making profits with the niche finder software, so check it out.

Stay Focus, Plan and Do It..!

David

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

You Need A Niche Product or Market

Hi,

My friend who attended the same IM workshop with me last year and also earning a bit more than me in his Adsense, visited me yesterday afternoon.

We have a chat and compared notes on what we have been doing and how to increase our earnings, of course.

In the process of showing him all my blogs and my efforts in Affiliate Marketing, Adsense, etc.... we both realized that I have done much more than him but somehow his IM income is more than mine!

While luck may be an element in it, I come to the conclusion that his product is more niche and so have more sale conversion event though his traffic is less than mine too..!

So what does it mean?

Well, I am going away for the weekend and will return next week fresh in my mind with a new strategy to work on......

No excuses but my Dad is visiting me and has been staying with me for a week now, and I have been taking him out daily. Sso what I have been doing is just to keep up with my posting and monitoring the traffic generated, which was the highest to-date ( read my earlier posting ).

So got to pack for my short holiday now.... flying off tomorrow morning!

Take care!

Dave

Monday, September 1, 2008

Highest Traffic Generated

Hi,

I am excited to share the following results with you.

I have the highest no. of Unique Visitors for the month of August.

So what did I do?

I planned to do a posting everyday and only missed 2 days only. Last week, I was reviewing the Atomic Blogging guidebook and submitted some articles to the 2 directories that was mentioned inside the book.

Therefore, my conclusion is that making regular and frequent postings definitely helps the spiders or search engines to notice my blog. Also, Article Marketing is found to work well for me but you need to submit to the right directories. Of the 2 directories, only one generated traffic base on the article statistics.

So here are 2 great tips for you to work on.......



So the challenge is to sustain and improve the number of unique visitors and frankly, my numbers are still considered small. But my earnings are trickling in so I need to work on it further and be patient.

Seriously, grab your copy of Atomic Blogging and Adsense Secrets guidebooks as I think they helped me a lot.

So Stay Focus, Plan and Do It..!

Dave

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Earn Adsense Income From Your Blog

Hi,

As I was recovering the files from my PC virus attack ( read my earlier post if you miss it), I came across these screen shots of my Adsense earnings.

I think I should share it with you else you may think I am one of the many who just learn from theory and talk a lot but have not taken any actions.....ha...ha...ha...



I was getting $0.62 from Adsense for Content and $0.07 for Adsense for Search, a total of $0.69 ! Looks quite miserable but it is a start after a few months of blogging without paying much attention to Adsense.


Months later, there was some movements as I focus on Adsense and follow some of the tips given in the Adsense guide I purchased.


I have increased my earnings to a total of $7.03 ! Not too bad as I did not have to really put in effort to market it and it is on auto-pilot.

For some of you out there, you may think that this is not worth your effort .....? Well, you have to work on it further to increase the earnings then! Nothing is free or just fall out from no where!

All you need to do is just follow these steps :

1. Select a topic or theme for your blog
2. Post your articles; own articles or from Article Directories
3. Apply for Adsense account, if none yet
4. Post the Adsense code on your site
5. Continue to generate traffic by posting articles
6. Continue to generate traffic by submiting your own articles to Article Directories
7. Move your Adsense code around your site if you did not purchase the Adsense Guide I recommended, by trial and error, to select the effective placement site
8. Check your Adsense account for earnings periodically; like alternate days or weekly

Repeat the above for another blog.

So if you can earn $10 on Adsense for one blog then create multiple blogs on different topics; eg $10 x 10 blogs = $100

Not too difficult but there is no guarantee , of course!

So I believe this is one Internet Marketing model that works......Believe me, this is no bullshit!

If you still have not taken any action yet on blogging and still evaluating on it or trying to put up a good business case on the returns, you are missing the opportunities awaiting you .....

You have to start and there is always a learning curve ......

I was lucky to have started get some adsense income as early as last Dec though it was very small... It has to start somewhere!

In fact, I am very encouraged by my Dad who asked me today on how I am doing in my IM business venture. I told him that the earnings are coming in small and slow but I am working on it.

He said small is better than nothing... !

Good luck as you do need some too.

Dave

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Reading Emails Can Be Unproductive !

Hi,

I thought I should share with you this simple unproductive habit of ours which we may not noticed.

I spend at least 1/2 hour reading emails daily and this mean it will also eat into my Internet Marketing time.... I should be working on it and generating traffic and income instead..right?

I used to almost read emails every hour in the office until I told myself to only read them 4 times a day; eg start of work in the morning, before and after lunch, and finally at the end of the day.

Then when I reach home, I log on to my PC and read my personal emails from friends, family and Internet Marketing subscriptions.....

The trick or tip is to prioritise your emails and choose to read what are important to you and worth your time as you are likely to have 1 to 2 hours in the evening only. Please do not forget to spend time with you love ones at home; be it your parents, spouse or kids!

I used to subscribe to quite a few IM subscriptions and I now filter them to Junk mail or moved to a folder for future reference.

What do I mean?

Some subscriptions or most of them can be unsubscribed so please do so after you realise that you do not need it. For the others that I cannot control, I set them to be blocked and auto-move to Junk mail.

But the unfortunate thing is that I dare not auto-delete the junk mail folder as there are times I have valid emails that were filtered wrongly by the system or Outlook software. So I still browse thro' it fairly fast as it could be an average of 50+ junk emails a day!

Now for those emails still in the Inbox, after reading those from family and friends, I will only read those subscriptions emails that are relevant to the IM project that I am working on and move the rest to a folder for later reading ( or when I am working on that topic or area of interest ).

Am I making sense to you?

Anyway, just mind your time as when you sign up for a lot of freebies from the Internet Marketers, they have you on their email lists and they will bombard you with emails and promote their products to you. Some can be genuine stuff that you are interested so you may still have to sieve thro' them.

But you know what?

I hate those emails that attract my attention by saying it is valid for 24 hours only or only a few copies left etc..... After some time, I realize that it is just a sale tactic to get you excited and force you to jump into it ......

So beware of how you spend your precious time and reading emails can really be very unproductive.....

I am still facing this challenge though I believe I have improved a lot since last Dec...

Stay Focus, Plan and Do It..!

Dave

Monday, August 25, 2008

Article Marketing

Hi,

I believe that Article Marketing is a very effective tool to generate traffic to your website.

Earlier, I spoke about going to Article Directories to extract articles to post into your blog if you cannot write your own postings or need the volume or content to populate your site.

So Article Marketing is the reverse of it......

What do I mean?

Now you write articles and publish them into directories for people to pick them up and post them into their blogs.

How it works is that you have your author biodata or info at the end of the article and you actually lead them to your blogs or sites.

It is not that difficult to write articles especially if it is of interest to you otherwise the trick or tip I was given is to read other articles or books and then re-write them in your own words.

To-date, I have written 8 articles and published them in 10 article directories. Initially, they do drive up the traffic and I monitor the statistics closely but not so much now. THe reason being that I am trying another method now but it does not mean that I have stopped writing article for a specific topic if I need to.

Once you start writing one article and publish it to 10 directories, you will get the hang of it and just repeat the process.

I can write a draft of a topic within 1/2 hour and then take a break and return to review and finlaize it within the next hour or the following day. If you are concerned about spelling or sentence strucutre, write your article in Word and turn on the spelling check, etc.....

I just found out that it can also lead to another marketing technique which I will share with you later. I am now working on it .....

Do not worry about your bad English and not knowing the how to write as the people reading it are just normal people like us and your teachers, lecturers etc.....

Try it out as I believe this is an important tool that you should use to generate your traffic to your site and also lead you to another marketing technique.

Good luck!

Dav

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Traffic Generation

Hi,

I have been busy recovering my notebook to working condition over the past few days and still watching the Olympics too....

Anyway, back to my IM Journey again!

I spent the initial months just building up my website and did not pay much attention to income generation etc.....

What do I mean?

Well, after setting up the foundation of the website ( ie registering a name and domain, etc...), I spent almost every other day if not daily just extracting Ezines articels and posting them into my website.

I could be posting as many as 10 articles at one time as I believe that I need to build up my site with content else no one would visit it.

CONTENT is KING !

Because I choose a product that I was interested, I actually read all the articles and learned a lot in the process too. Otherwise, it would have been very boring and tedious as I could be doing this for an hour or two late into the night.

It was only in March, after 4 months of building my contents, that I started to seriously looking into how to get traffic into my website.

It was then that I refer to Atomic Blogging and the very expensive IM programme that I bought in Dec for guidance. Some of the techniques were Article Marketing, social networking, registering my website,....

If you are using WordPress in a paid host server environment, you should be using Cpanel to monitor the traffic else you can use a free statistic tracker like StatCounter, refer to the right column where I have Unique Visitor figures shown. You can also request for a weekly and monthly report sent to you through email.

The challenge is really to get lots of traffic and then hope for conversion to some sale or Adsense income. Monitoring the traffic statistics is exciting and can be stressful too...!

Then you may want to finetune your website here and there and see if it helps in the traffic generation.


Here are my statistics for one site and I have the highest figure in Mar and I tried to push it the following months but it did not happened. I took 2 weeks off for an overseas holiday in Jun though I still managed to do some postings as we are doing business on the Internet so it is 7x24 and anywhere anytime as long as you have access to the Internet. But I lost some momentum though!

I am now starting to push again and trying some new techniques too...... and reviewing what I have been doing all these months.... This is one of the reasons I am writing this blog as I am also appraising my efforts as I recollect what I have been working all the past months.

So my friend, I hope you have found the information I have been sharing with you useful and I am planning and working on my next move to generate more income.

Take care!

Dave

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Backup Your Work !

Hi,

My notebook was attacked by a spyware or malware this morning and I was so confident that I have all the necesary software to trap and remove it.

BUT I was wrong as my notebook is showing me a blue screen after logon and after some quick initial attempts to recover it, it is still dead ......Sigh.....

So my dear friends, please do your back-ups regularly especially your work files and importantly, please keep a hardcopy of all the registrations, logon Id and Passwords; eg Paypal, blog sites, etc....

Also, make sure you have the basic anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc to protect your notebook though it could still be a bit unlucky that the malware or spyware comes to attack your notebook unless you surf a lot in the Internet.

In case, you think that it is going to cost you a lot, there are a lot of free and proven software that are for home use only but not for commercial use; Adware, Avast, AVG, etc....

If you have another desktop PC or notebook then at least, you have another back-up equipment.

I immediately setup my email account so that I can communicate with the outside world and also use it to update my postings; referring to my hardcopy of logon ID and Passwords!

I am now writing this on my desktop PC while I slowly figure out how to best recover my notebook and not do anything rash....!

Worst case, I will have to reformat the harddisk and re-install all the softwares and backup files but I will lose all my emails as I do not have an off-site backup copy for this.

So please remember to protect your PC and make regular back-ups.

Regards

Dave

Friday, August 15, 2008

Adsense Guide Book

Hi,

In Mar 08, I started to look into Adsense seriously and realiszed that there was some small income coming in since Dec 07 and I hardly did anything or put in effort into it.

So I decided to explore this opportunity further.

And I found this manual on Adsense and decide to buy it since it was within my budget. I am glad to say that it is very informative and help me to fine tune the Adsense on my blogs and since then the earnings have improved.

There are 3 Parts in the guidebook and it is worth the money spent as it has 228 pages of rich information and a lot of areas in Adsense that I am not aware of and unlikely to get it through just surfing the Internet or reading borrowed books from the community libraries.

The updated version of this best selling book is called AdSense Secrets 4.0 .

I am still referring to it now and then and, recently, shared some info with my friend who has an unusual surge in his Adsense earnings and wanted to push more for it.

It is usually sold at $97.00 or it is claimed that the contents are worth more than that. But I managed to get it for less than $10.00 only.

The author has completely revised and extended AdSense Secrets 4.0 for 2008 to include all the latest AdSense cash-sucking strategies and techniques that allow him to continue earning over $500/day in passive AdSense income!

For a limited time, he was offering AdSense Secrets v4.0 for just $9.95!

Now you know why I said it is within my budget and and 228 pages of helpful information for that sum of monies.... I grabbed it before he withdrew the offer.

I cannot guarantee that his offer is still available but why don't you check it out at this link
Adsense Secrets NOW!

Good luck, go and pick up a copy of AdSense Secrets 4.0 right NOW and I hope it is still priced at this amazing bargain of $9.95.

You'll be able to instantly download your copy and begin implementing the same strategies and techniques that could generate incredible passive income!

This is really one of the best Internet Marketing resources that I have bought to-date.

Good luck and take care!

Dave

P/S In fact, I have been spending some time over the passt few days to review my Adsense postings to catch up with my friend's sudden surge in Adsense earnings. We have some sort of friendly competition here....

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Your Blog - Virtual Shop

Hi,

So are you distracted by the ongoing Olympics?

Well, let me remind you that your blog is actually your virtual shop so you still need to manage it and not take too long a break.....!

The good part of this business is that you do not need to go down to your shop physically to open it and man it. You can do it from the comfort of your home or even in public places where Internet is accessible and this virtual shop of yours is running 7 days a week and 24 hours a day ( ie 7 x 24 )!

There is a newspaper article reporting on what they call Blogshops. Enterprising teenagers are setting up blogshops to sell almost anything, new world of doing business online. Blogshops are easy to run, cheap and fun so most teens are turning online enterpreneurs.....

The paper reported that 40% of the blogspots surveyed are runned by teens. About 40% spent 4-10 hours a week maintaining their sites. Over 30% pour more than 20 hours a week into their businesses.

So what are their products?

They sell everything from 2nd hand clothes to customized shoes and handmade jewellery.

Blogshops are easy to set up and cost next to nothing, unlike eBay shop or a retail website which come with web-hosting fees and complex credit card transactions.

Their reported income ranges from $100 to $200 per month with a few getting close to a $1K.

So my dear friend, blogging does make money but it does help that you are interested in it and familiar with the Internet and social networking, which today teenagers are born into such facilities.

Ok, coming back to your blog or virtual shop.

I just spent hours in front of the TV over the past few days or evenings to revamp my virtual shops.

What do I mean?

If you are new, you should have at least 10 postings and continue to make postings to your blog every other day if not daily. This is almost equivalent to stocking up your physical shop. Or rather some gurus will say Content is the key to you success.

Yes, I totally agree that your blog must have content else why would a visitor drop by.

Eg. If your blog is on designer shoes then you must have content that will interest your visitors to come into your virtual shop. Next, if you have a product or service to sell, hopefully, you can convert the visit to a sale. If no such offer, then you will have to resort to Affiliate Marketing; ie to sell other people's product and make commission. Other than this, I strongly believe that you must also put Adsense into your blog; ie advertisements by Google and if the visitor click on it, you can also get some commission.

I actually spent my initial 2-3 months learning and slowly building up my blog and make posting almost daily and build it up to about 100 postings before I focus on traffic generation, SEO and Adsense income.

Why?

This is equivalent to setting up your shop; acquire your shop space, renovate it, get stocks in, etc.... before opening the shop officially.

I will share with you another of my Adsense resource that has helped me earned some income.

I have mentioned Atomic Blogging in my earlier post so if you have missed it, go and have a look as it should help you as it has for me.

Back to maintianing my other blogs and watching the Olympic again.....hee...heee After all, once in 4 years only!

Take care!

Dave

Monday, August 11, 2008

Writing Posts for Your Blog - Ezine Article Directory

Hi,

One of the basic things to do is to write often or make postings to your blog every other day or daily when you first start your blog.

Why?

This is to attract the search engines or spiders like Google, Yahoo, etc....
They like to see that your blog is active and they will monitor your blog activities or updates or postings. This will help to generate traffic to your blog.

Ok, I think you will also face the same problem as I did.

How to write so much on a niche product or market?

Well, let me share with you a little secret now. Go to article directories like eZines to pick up articles related to your product. Copy and paste them into your blog but must not alter them and make sure you copy the writer bio box at the end which normally link to their blog or site or a sale page.

So it works both ways, you get free articles to help you look good in your blog and at the same time, you may be helping to generate traffic to their sites. It is a situation of you scratch my back and I will scratch yours.

One of the most popular article directory is http://ezinearticles.com/

Of course, you can also be writing articles to attract traffic to your site too. I will talk about it later.

So work on your blog and try this method of populating your blog regularly.

I was just talking to my friend who has a sudden surge in his Adsense earnings.The reasons are that he started a new blog on a niche market and he also put in efforts to make frequent postings into this new blog. He was asking me how to set up channels in Adsense to monitor which blog is generating his earnings.

In case, you are still a bit lost on what is this Adsense about. Look at the right column and find the heading Ads by Google. This is the advertisements generated by Google after you have opened an account with them and get their html codes to paste into your blog. Once you get it, it is not difficult and just do it once and then maybe move them a bit , if necessary.

Ok, hope I have shared with you more information to help you proceed further with your blogging.

I think I need to slack a bit on this blog as I better channel more efforts into maintaining my other blogs and sites to catch up with my earnings. My dear friend has given me some motivation and I feel challenge to catch up on my earnings or do better than him...ha..ha...ha...

Also, I am distracted by watching the Olympic games 'live' ....

Must do some planning and manage my time better.

Stay Focus and Plan my IM tasks to coincide with the Olympic games!

( A few records have been broken in the swimming events and these are only achievable through sheer hard work and training. So similarly, if you do not work hard and smart too in your Internet Marketing business, do not expect earnings to come in automatically... )

Ta-ta..

Dave

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Some Help For Your Blogging - Atomic Blogging

Hi,

I hope you are doing well with your blogging.

Well, if still struggling and not sure where to start..... and need further assistance.... here are some advices for you to consider.

You can either buy or borrow some books on Blogging from your nearest community library. Borrow first and then if you really like a specific book that you think you want to keep long-term for reference then buy it.

Most books are a bit wordy and if you are really a newbie or novice, you may struggle reading it and then trying to put them into actions.

Though I attended a workshop that was very hands-on and got my blog working during the workshop, I did looked for books on blogging on Blogger or Wordpress ( using a paid blogging facility ).

Why?

This is to re-confirm that I am blogging correctly and have not overlooked anything or features that I should be taking advantage of. As such, besides browsing at books for additional information, I came across a helpful eBook on blogging by a proven and down-to-earth guru. I bought his manual and implemented a few tips and I got my traffic moving up and I have been working hard to keep growing my traffic.

Here is a snapshot of one of my sites traffic statistics by Cpanel :





I have my blogs and site up and and running in Dec 2007 but was distracted by Xmas and New Year holidays. So in Mar 08, I reviewed my progress and made some plans to push my IM business harder.

I needed to re-comfirm that my blogs are heading in the right directions so I found and bought Atomic Blogging. I implemented a few tips and my traffic doubled from Feb to Mar as shown above.

It was very encouraging and I was extremely excited and I also noticed that my Adsense earnings were also coming in. In fact, Adsense income was trickling in Dec 07 but it became evident in Mar 08.

So Atomic Blogging has been a good investment and so much cheaper that the IM programme I bought in Dec 07.

Atomic Blogging was written in a tutorial format and easy to understand and follow, for beginners like me.

Atomic Blogging covers the following topics ;

- Powerful Tips on Dos & Donts on Blogging

- Getting Started with Blogging

- Building your Business with Market & Keyword Research

- Setting Up a Profitable Blog to Generate Cash Online

- Optimizing your Blog to Perform

- Powerful Tips on Blogging

- Monetizing your Blog

- Getting Traffic and Really Lots of It

- Leveraging on Web 2.0 & Social Networks

- Advanced Traffic Tips & Bonus Chapters





This is definitely a better Buy than the one I got in Dec 07, if you have read my earlier posting and it is so much cheaper and effective.


Well, review on your blogging progress and then think about what I have shared with you above.

Stay Focus, Have a Plan and Just Do It!

( BTW, I am writing this posting while watching the Olympic Ladies Volleyball match on TV. It was a great opening ceremony last night especially the lighting up of the torch in the last segment. )

Goodnite & take care!

Dave

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Uploading Photos into your Blog

Hi,

As you have read my blog so far, there are lots of words and no pictures so it could be a bit boring ....

So depending on the product you are marketing, you must learn to upload photos which is pretty simple once you have got it.

So do try it out...

Here are a few photos that I copied from the Olympic official website in case some of you missed the opening last night, just as an example. ( Of course, be wary of copyrights issue and not upload other people published photos. )






The lighting of the torch was quite a fantastic stunt indeed !

The little boy with Yao Ming, was one of the many earthquake victims rescued from the Sichuan disaster...

Friday, August 8, 2008

Have You Blogged or Watching Olympics on TV?

Hi,

I am watching the Olympic Opening ceremony 'Live' on TV now....!

Well, so have you managed to start your first blog?

If not, today is a good day as it is 08 - 08 - 08; an auspicious day!

I received an email from one of the many gurus and he was mentioning that he received quite a bit of feedback from people complaining that they are not making money from Internet Marketing after buying numerous IM product and services. So he asked them for their websites to have a look and guess what were the replies..?

They do not have a website done yet..!!!

So all the learning and money spent on IM product and services are wasted if you do not take action...!!!

Blogging or maintaining a paid website on a hosting server is a basic tool if you want to be an Internet Marketer.

I hope I have given you a kick in the butt to get you going....ha...ha...

But if you still think you need help but have not managed to attend a workshop to jump start your journey or it is a bit too costly for you then I will share another tip with you tomorrow as it is getting late after watching the Olympic opening ceremony.... past mid-night for me and my dear wife is calling me to bed....!!

So catch you tomorrow!

Be ready to start your journey if you are still pondering or lost at the moment...

BTW, the lighting up the Olympic torch at the end was fantastic... I will upload it into this blog if you missed it. This is also another skill you should learned too for your blogging.

Nite!

Dave

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Adsense Earnings

Hi,

My friend just emailed me that he got a sudden surge in his Adsense earnings recently.

I asked him what he has been doing lately to his sites or blogs.

Guess what?

Instead of making one posting a week, he has been doing it 3 times a week.
He also created another blog on another potential niche area.

So hard work does pay after all..!

Though we attended the same workshop, we have taken different routes as Internet Marketers in our own area of comfort.

Though the earnings are still small but they are slowly coming in as we continue to try new methods and keep on improving our business models.

To-date, I have already shared with you one business model; ie writing PLR articles for sale in Warrior Special Offer Forum. Please read my earlier posting on this subject.

Stay tune.... as I will also share with you the other IM business models that I have tried.

Good-night!

Dave

Start Blogging Now!

Hi,

I strongly suggest that you should start blogging now, whether it is for fun or out of curiosity or serious Internet Marketing purposes.

I actually started blogging about 4 years ago and it was more to try it out and I was using it to post some updates on the family so that my brother and sister families, who are living overseas, can be informed of our well being and activities.

Of course, I did not touch on very personal or sensitive matters of the family and also not comments on politics or religion etc .....

I was not using Blogger but chose another free blogging facility. I was not aware of the Adsense mechanism but notice that the Ads by Google changed based on the postings I was making. I was just writing and uploading photos for the past 2-3 years until I attended the IM workshop and switched to Blogger.

BTW, I found out that my siblings were not looking at my blog regularly but I have a following from a handful of friends instead. Basically, I talked a lot on my growing son and my 2 dogs. Also, on the EPL matches then. I have friends emailing me that I have not updated my blog regularly and they missed reading it....ha...ha....

Okay, enough of my personal experience but I hope I have created some interest in you to start blogging.

If you are totally new to blogging, here is my advice or guideline to start you off.

If you are reading this blog, you already have access to Internet. You need to register and create the following to start blogging :

1. Create a Gmail email ID ( if you do not have one yet ) at
2. Register into Blogger at http://www.blogger.com/home
3. Start writing your posts

Try out the features or functions in Blogger; eg upload digital images.

What to blog or write?

Well, think of one of your hobbies like gardening, reading, movies, etc.... but write about the same subject so that you can use this blog to apply for Adsense account later.

That is all you need to do a simple blog but this is the basic tool that you must know if you want to be an Internet Marketer.

I hope I have got you to start blogging....!

Have fun and happy blogging!

Dave

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Internet Marketing Resources

Hi,

What do I mean by Internet Marketing Resources?

Well, if you search the Internet, a lot of related Internet Marketing information will be thrown at you; eg. services like mentoring you, IM tool and products, etc...

Through the workshop, I was introduced to a few sites and registered for a JV Giveaways. All you need to do is to register yourself and as it was in Dec 2007, it was named Christmas Giveaways. You will be given access to a website to download a lot of PLR articles, software, Free reports, etc....

Basically, the Internet Marketers participating in this JV Giveaway, are giving you something and enlisting you into their subscriber lists.

Get it?

You get something Free and in return they want you to submit your name and email address to them. Subsequently, they will email you to promote their other products.

If you are a newbie or novice and searching for the magic bullet to making money in IM, you are sure to get suck into it....Ha..ha...

Do not get me wrong, I am not saying it is wrong or bad but just sharing with you what I went through and preparing you for it.

You must try to be selective on what are the freebies you want and not spend your whole day registering and downloading all the stuff they offered. Yes, they all look attractive as it is FREE!

I think I have downloaded so much that I still have not look at all of them today.

And I was invited to participate in the recent Easter Giveaway too but I have nothing to offer as I still have no unique or own product to sell so no free report to advertise my product. I also stayed away from getting into it and spend my time browsing through all the giveaways.

Remember, stay focus on what you are doing and just do it!

Example. If you are working on Article Marketing then research and look into this area and not be distracted by SEO techniques, etc either in the giveaway or sale emails that you are receiving.

Do not get astray by all these freebies!

I believe that most of these giveaways are old stuff and the free reports are just marketing tools to get you interested or for cross-selling purposes. The target audience is really new Internet Marketers.

Maybe it is still good for you to go into one of them and be aware of it but remember to stay focus and take it as a learning experience.

After the December giveaway, I have to filter all the emails into junk emails or just moved selected ones into a special folder that I may one day want to look at else will be deleted.

Get what I am trying to say?

You only have limited hours to devote yourself to being an Internet Marketer, whether you are part-time or full-time so you must use the time wisely.

I also made a small investment in purchasing an Internet Marketing programme from one of the top IM gurus. I remembered that he was highly recommended during the workshop and there was a USD100 discount... some good sale gimmick that caught me off guard, looking back...ha...ha...!

Also, I was given a trial period to be part of their club etc.... but I lost track of it and was debitted for a few months until I queried and then terminated my membership. So do be careful as it may not be cheap! If you have your product set up and your site running by then, it may be worthwhile for you to be a member and get some advice or consultation etc....

The materials I received were impressive; a box containing 2 manuals in nice solid binders and a set of CDs too. To be honest, I tried to go through them but only 1/2 of the first manual and then went back to maintaining my sites and focusing on specific areas that I am exploring. I am now using them as reference instead but also seldom used...ha..ha....

So was it a bad investment?

Well, I am sure that there is a lot of information but then I cannot afford to be reading the manuals and viewing the CDs as I have to be hands-on too. If you have a budget and can afford it, then it is reasonable as you do need some assurance that what you are doing is in the right direction. So decide on what you want to buy to guide you and then use it accordingly.

You definitely need to resist from buying too much Internet Marketing resources as their sale page or sale letter is very seductive and you feel like buying everything eventhough they have a 100% refund policy.

Nothing to lose if there is a 100% refund policy or guarantee, right?

But if you ended up with so many resources and information to digest, you are likely to be lost and then forgot where you bought this from, and you may also feel guilty that it is your own fault and not the seller fault so not right to ask for refund..?

So in conclusion, there are many Internet Marketing resources out there so do be selective and stay focus on your journey.

Good luck and take care!

The Warrior Forum - Special Offers

Hi,

During the workshop, we were introoduced to The Warrior Forum.

So what is this forum?

There are lots of information on Internet Marketing and you can practically spend the whole day going through them.

But what I want to share with you is what I learned from an actual hand-ons exercise we did and the result was that my group really earned some money which we did not expect initially.

We were told to write 5 articles each and sell them on the Warrior Special Offers Forum with Private Label Rights (PLR). For those that could not write, they could consider outsourcing them after selecting a topic.

Honestly, not many students in the workshop took it seriously except me and another team member and I led the whole exercise. I learned a lot as I have to write the sales page, landing page, etc.... and learned some basic html codes. I went through the whole process of setting up the sales page to downloading the articles upon payment through Paypal mechanism. This exercise gave me the confidence and it actually laid the foundation for my subsequent work that I need to put up.

Not only did I learned a lot and mastered some coding and techniques, we actually made some profit too! This came as a surprise as we did not expect the articles that we wrote may be of value but I think we chose the right topic and the articles were really originally written based on our thoughts.

Let me share with you this great feeling of seeing some money coming in. After posting our sales page, I got a few emails that payment have been made to my account from purchases made in the Warrior Special Offers Forum . It was so exciting to see such emails and I cried for joy as we never expect to make any sale but took it as a learning process. Even my wife and son were happy and excited by this episode.

The best part of it is that it is fully automated; while you are sleeping, people can go into the forum and make purchases and you just received an email from Paypal that the money have been received. Even the downloading of the articles in softcopy is automated, provided you know how to do it else you will have to manually send it to them based on the Paypal payment notice.


It also proved that this is a working business model if you can write articles and sell them but you must still choose the right topic or niche market for it.

You can check out this website to see to have a look at how to go into this business model, if you think you have a flair for writing articles or think that you can make money from it :



http://www.flamillion.com/

I bought something from Rosie and she has been keeping me in her subscriber's list. In fact, just buying a set of PLR from her, I also learned the process of placing an order, making payment thro' Paypal and downloading the softcopy of the product purchased. I also set up my own virtual shop based on her site too.

Well, here is a potential Internet Marketing business model that you can tap on. It may not suit everyone though.

Why?

I was encouraged by this exercise and we really saw some money ( we split the profit before the workshop ended as the there is a period for the sale in the forum ). So I tried writing articles again in January 2008, 2 months later.

Sad to say that I did not make any profit this round. I have to paid USD20 to put up my articles for sale but only managed to make 2 sales only.

So does it mean that this business model is no good?

No, I chose the wrong topic to write my articles. I may try it again when I have found a niche market or topic that I think the people would buy.

Look at what Roise has written and it is quite varied. Also,she has set up a virtual shop and not rely on the The Warrior Specil Offers Forum alone.

So do check out The Warrior Forum - Special Offers as there are a lot of information available there but remember to remain focus; ie go in and read the relevant topic that you are working on and not get lost into the mass of information there.


One last piece of advice for you, I do not recommend outsourcing your writing of the articles until you have experience in this business model and also know who to look for else you may be paying a lot and getting 'shit' work.



Good luck!



Dave

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Internet Marketer Workshop

Hi,

So what did we learn in the Internet Marketer workshop that was held in one weekday evening and one full day on Saturday?

There were about 10 sessions, I think.

We covered the following topics :

- Domain name
- Web Hosting
- Blogger
- Wordpress
- Adsense
- Adwords
- Private Label Rights (PLR)
- Ezine articles
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Traffic generation techniques
- Affiliate Marketing
- ClickBank, Commission Junction, etc...
- .......

I am just giving you a idea of the coverage but some are just talk about only whereas some were actually hands-on and if you worked on it during and after the workshop, you could actually see the outcome of your efforts ( ie. outcome refers to something tangible or visible that you have created on the Internet and not immediate income).

Importantly, if you followed closely to the workshop and did your homework like me, there would be some reasonable outcome. I actually was very prpepared for the workshop by thinking of what product or industry that I would want to explore and I used it during the workshop.

As a result, the blog and website have been maintained till today and I have built it up to 500+ postings and have a Page Rank of 2 by Google, which is pretty good but being in a very competitive industry, I am making very little money from it!

During the workshop, so many business models or approaches were introduced and one could get lost and stuck. Some started to feel the heat and complained that so much work required and no guarantee to see the money coming in.

Yes, this is just like any other business out there and there is no magic bullet!

So you must stay focus and learn as much as you can and then just work hard on it. If I may borrow Nike slogan, Just Do It!

And once you have done it, it does not seems so difficult. What you do not know, it is always difficult.

I strongly suggest that you choose a product or market that you are familiar with to start your first blog or website and take it as a learning period before you embark on a more income generating niche. It would make the journey more bearable.

I started on a market that I am interested in or have some experience and now looking for a more income inclined niche or what the potential customers out there want.

As suggested by my instructor, I should be promoting what the public want and not what I like or enjoy doing; eg if there is a market or great interest in Wii gaming then I should work on it even if I am not into in such gaming.

So food for thought?

You may be trained to set up a blog or website and have some knowledge in SEO etc.... but what is your niche product or market?

Regards,

Dave

Monday, August 4, 2008

How to Jump Start in Becoming An Internet Marketer

Hi,

So if you are still interested in becoming an Internet Marketer, how to best go about it instead of trial and error?

You can read about it from books or the Internet, or get a friend who is willing to hold your hand ( honestly, hard to come by such friends as they are too busy! ), or pay for a professional mentor to start you off , or attend a workshop to cut down the learning curve.

Just reading from books or doing research from the Internet is tough as you will get so much info that you are likely to end up in a confusion.

Not many friends who are already into Internet or Affiliate Marketing, will have the time to guide you but they can talk about it and leave you hanging in the clouds instead. This is a reality!

There are so many Internet Marketing gurus and you are lost to who should be your mentor ( and it is likely to be not cheap too..... or there are conditions attached to it...... there are such offers if you look hard enough and happen to be in the same vicinity of the guru; eg. one of the many cities in US or Canada).

Unless you have been in this business for sometime and you realised that you need some professional help to just steer you on the right track, I think this is a good option but not for a novice or beginner. You may not be able to keep up with their pace unless you have a reasonable background of IT and Internet Marketing jargon.

So I think the best option is to shop for a workshop for Interneting Marketing and have hands-on to learn the trade. My friend and I attended such a workshop which cost us a few thousand dollars and the basic item required is a notebook with wireless connection to a router.

Why a workshop will give you a head start?

If you choose the appropriate workshop similar to the one I attended, I was taught the basic of Internet Marketing processes and tools required; eg buy a domain name and subscribe to a server host service, register for Paypal, etc..... I was actually creating a blog or website and starting a business during the workshop. It is real and not trial basis. You can see results of you posting and traffic etc......

At the end of the workshop, I decided to continue building up my website and have made 500+ postings and my site has a Page Rank of 2 by Google!

Exciting isn't it?

But since I have chosen a very competitive industry or market, I have made very little money to-date! I have been using this site to try out the various business models that I have learned during the workshop and on my own after that.

If I can find a niche product or market, I can easily repeat the processes that I have done so far and the money may just roll in.....

Honestly, I am still trying out different approaches and looking for one that will meet my targetted income; my realistic goal set!

I must also share with you that if you are not serious and have no time to follow-up what you have learned in the workshop, you will not gain from it and will feel frustrated.

I was alaways fired up after the workshop and would work on my website and tried out the process or method taught during the workshop. I would somehow find that hour or more to work on it and many a times; it could mean working on it from 11pm to 1am..!

You need to be that fire up or 'hungry' for it else you will be complaining that it is not easy and does not work, etc...... , asking the instructor when will the $$ come in if I did this and that....!

A classmate in my group in the workshop, commented that the workshop really taught him exactly what to do compared to a seminar where they talk a lot of theory and impressive results in terms of income generated by the methodologies used in the market.

Unfortunately, he was also one of the many in the workshop that did not have the time to work on the homework given or the website that we each have created. In fact, the last I heard of him is that he has given up on Internet Marketing as it requires too much hard work and he has explored other avenues like trading on the stock market. He boasted that he made a few hundred dollars already but to me it is too high risk and the stake is not in my comfort zone.

On a positive note, a friend confided in me that he made USD200 monthly after working on his affiliate marketing for 2 years on a part-time basis. And he is now trying to increase his earnings using Adwords. But he never shared how he did it etc.... and just let me guessing about it. This conversation happened just after I have signed up for my Internet Marketing workshop and he was not aware of it then.

I hope I have given you some good advice on how to get a head start in becoming an Internet Marketer.