May 12 2008

A New Affiliate Marketing Paradigm

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Mass Traffic Formula–A Potential E-Commerce Gold Mine 

The primary concern of all affiliate marketers is how to increase website traffic as much as possible. Historically, there have been three main means to this end: 1) Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising through major search engines; 2) driving organic search engine traffic to one or more personal websites; and 3) launching extensive email campaigns to large lists of prospective customers.

A revolutionary new way of driving online traffic has now been added to this short list. Although most affiliate marketers are not yet aware of this option, it’s likely to become a method of choice in the near future because of the huge volume of cost-effective traffic it can generate. Another big advantage is that it does not even require having a website.

It basically entails driving traffic to specific affiliate offers through purchases of huge numbers of ad impressions from one or more online ad networks. These are placed on hundreds–or even thousands–of targeted websites in specific demographic “channels.” The potential number of impressions that can be served through these channels greatly exceeds what can be achieved through PPC or of any other form of online advertising. Just as with PPC, however, these ads must be carefully tested and tweaked in order to maximize return on investment.

The small number of online marketers who are pioneering this new marketing strategy have had outstanding success with it and have recently started unveiling it to others. They include Carlos and Lupe Garcia, Michael Jones and, most recently, MTN Partners, a corporate group of entrepreneurs who have given this new approach a formal name–Mass Traffic Formula.

By developing, and applying this innovative new form of marketing, they are creating an interface between many large online ad networks on the one hand and multiple affiliate and CPA networks on the other. Although these two large online business groups are highly complementary, they have had minimal commercial interchange in the past. The overall result of this innovation, therefore, is to open up a highly lucrative new arena of
e-commerce. In the words of Rich Schefren in his new Attention Age Doctrine 2, this new marketing paradigm has the potential to become “a gold rush to end all gold rushes. . .something that would make what happened in California back in the 1800’s look like a trickle.”

In keeping with this analogy, however, it’s important to recognize that this complex new strategy to increase website traffic–much like the original gold rush–is fraught with many perils and potential pitfalls. For a neophyte setting out as a lone prospector, the odds for financial disaster greatly exceed those of achieving financial success.

Anyone who wants to get a piece of the action in this potential new bonanza, then, is well-advised to seek the guidance of a veteran marketer who has the requisite experience and expertise and who has already demonstrated success in mining this new “mother lode.”

More information about this exciting new approach can be obtained from the author.

Cheap Web Traffic or Profitable Web Traffic 

Which Would You Prefer?

Eli Sadownick has just published a timely and highly informative Squidoo lens. It draws a crucial distinction between “cheap web traffic” and “profitable web traffic.” I encourage you to visit his lens at http://www.squidoo.com/masstraffic

New Link List 

Cheap Web Traffic
This is a link to the Squidoo lens on Cheap Web Traffic vs Profitable Web Traffic.

What Is Mass Website Traffic? 

Rick Jorgenson, a veteran online marketer and entrepreneur, provides a quick definition of, and introduction to, mass website traffic.

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Apr 12 2008

Make Extra Money On The Internet

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How To Earn $100 in 24 hours on the Internet

You can earn $100 in 24 hours on the Internet. There is no magic button. It takes work but you can do it. Earn means you have completed the work and the money is owed to you. With some of the companies included in this report as resources, payment is on a weekly or monthly basis. Many times, working with individuals, the payment will be made immediately upon completion of the work.

The 24 hours begins the minute you decide to take action.

You don’t need any upfront cash to get started, just your wits, a computer and an Internet connection. It’s a given you have the needed software for word processing, but if you don’t you can download Open Office.

Just to be clear, this report is not advising you to gather up all your unused books, videos, games, whatever, and sell them on Ebay. That is a way to generate cash, but no different than a garage sale, it’s just online.

This report is about earning the money from scratch.

There are a few basics you will need to have in place.

1, You probably already have a Paypal account, but if you don’t set one up. You can accept payment through Paypal for the most part, unless it’s a commission for an affiliate sale.

2, Set up an account at Craigslist. You will be using it for placing ads. There is no cost for the account, or for the ads.

3, Set up an account at Usfreeads. You will be using it for placing ads. There is no cost for the account, or for the ads.

All of this should take no more than an hour, so you’ve got 23 hours left.

If you are planning to sell a product, whether it’s your own, or someone else’s product and receive a commission, set up a blog, squidoo page, or hubpage. More about blogging and squidooing later.

Part Two of this report includes ways you can continue to earn $100 a day over the long term.

There is no guarantee that you will earn any money at all, that depends on you.

Part One: Earn $100 in 24 hours today

Make Money Writing

Ghostwriting articles

You have to have some writing talent to ghostwrite articles. You do need to be organized, able to research topics quickly, summarize the main points and write the article in a clear way, with correct spelling and grammar. The article length can range from 200 words to 1000 words or more. Payment is usually by the word. For beginners, a 500 word article can be sold for about $5.00. An accomplished ghostwriter can charge up to $30 for a 500 word article.

The client gives you the topic and any key words that must be included in the article. How long it takes to write the article is dependent upon how much you already know about the topic and how quickly you can find the materials you need to research the topic. It is possible, working at a steady pace, to write ten 400-500 word articles in one day. That’s $100 at $5 per article.

Both Digital Point and The Warrior Forum, Warrior Special Offers (WSOs) have threads where people offer their services for sale. You can post an offer at no cost on Digital Point but you have to have been a member and have 15 posts to your name in order to do so. Warrior Forum also requires that you have been a member for awhile and there is a fee to post a WSO. However, you can still earn money through these boards.

Join both of these groups. Scan the posts on the WSO thread and the Buy-Sell-Trade board at Digital Point. Offer your services to the people who are asking questions about the services currently offered, or who have said they’ve bought the service. Do this by the private message function on both boards, not by posting on the thread.

Place ads on Craigslist and Usfreeads offering your service.

Posting Your Way to Dollars.

Post on forums

It has been shown that people don’t want to post on forums unless there are already posts. New forum owners pay people to post comments, start threads, and respond to other threads in an effort to get some forum action going. As the forum grows, the level of posting increases until paid posts aren’t necessary.

Forum topics have a huge variety. There’s probably a forum for just about any subject. Usually a paid poster has to have at least some knowledge of the subject to post relevant comments. There can be a minimum word count for the posts. Posts of “I agree,” “Me too,” and “Thanks for the info,” are too short and don’t add anything to the discussion, so forum owners don’t want to pay for them. Posting on forums doesn’t pay a lot, perhaps as little as 10 posts for a dollar. Find the jobs on Internet marketing related websites like Digital Forum.

Post on blogs

You can be paid to post comments on blogs much the same way you can be paid to post on forums. Pretty much the same criteria applies, the posts can’t be too short and have to be relevant to the subject matter.

You can search for offers of 5 posts for a dollar. If each post takes a minute you would have to work a little over 8 hours to make $100.

Place ads on Craigslist and Usfreeads offering your service.

Writing Articles for Pay

There are sites that pay for content. Most of the sites require that you post your article first and wait for a buyer to come by to purchase your articles.

Associated Content buys the article from you. The pay is minimal from $3 to $5per 500 word article. However there are occasions where Associated Content has paid up to $50 per article. The articles can be submitted on an exclusive basis, meaning they aren’t and won’t be posted anywhere else, or nonexclusive, which means you’ve used the article elsewhere.

It takes a day or two for Associated Content to review the article and make the offer. You are not required to accept the offer and can withdraw the article. It takes another two days for the article to be published and then two or three days for Associated Content to make the payment to you.

Place ads on Craigslist and Usfreeads offering your service.

Websites that pay for articles:

Associated Content
Constant-Content
Helium
Lifetips
HowToDoThings
Shvoong
ArticleWarehouse
AuthorConnection

There are a number of sites you can post articles, tips, or essays to. You get paid a share of the earnings of the ads that show up with your article. The more popular your article, the more views, the more revenue you can earn.

Sites that share ad revenue with writers

www.flixya.com
www.daytipper.com
www.chacha.com
www.metacafe.com
www.vume.com
www.hubpages.com

Pay Per Sale, Affiliate Programs, and Commissions

You’re simply selling someone else’s product through your marketing efforts, whether it’s a blog or website, and you receive a sales commission when the sale is completed.

Most of these products are informational, either an ecourse, software, or ebook. Quite a few of the affiliate products pay more than a 50% commission. The smart product owners offer banners, buttons, sales copy, and even articles that you can use to promote with.

Clickbank is one of the most established programs. Commission Junction is another source. Both of these make the payments to the affiliates so you don’t have to worry whether the product owner will pay. PayDotCom is a program which uses Paypal as the payment method. The product owner makes the decision to pay the affiliates and has to authorize PayDotCom to do so.

Many products offer their own affiliate program independently. Look for one with a solid history of payment.

You can also become an affiliate of Amazon.com to sell books and consumer products such as jewelry, televisions, whatever. The percentage commission is much lower, but sometimes the retail price is high enough to make up for it.

The fastest way to make money selling affiliate products is to think about the forums, lists and discussion groups you already belong to. What are the questions being asked? Is there a problem that people need a solution for? What are the hot topics?

Set up an affiliate account at Clickbank.com. Go to their marketplace and search for products that will solve the problems, or are the answer to the questions being discussed.

Set up a blog or squidoo pages that relate to the affiliate programs.

Post a informative response and include your affiliate product in your response. A softer sell is to post a review of the product on your blog and then post a response to the list/discussion forum stating that you’ve reviewed the product and they can find out more on your blog. You can also set up a squidoo page and refer people to your squidoo page.

You will probably need to make 3 to 4 sales to earn $100 in commissions.

Develop Your Own Product

This is the way you can make real money on the Internet. The question is: Can you do it in 24 hours? It would be very difficult to research a niche or market, decide what need is hottest and that you have the knowledge for, write the report, write the ad copy or sales letter, set up a blog/website/squidoo page and then market the report. In the real world in real time, it’s not feasible.

What you can do while you’re working on the other ways to make $100 in 24 hours is jot down ideas you have that would the basis for a product. Then when you have the time you can start developing the product.

You can develop a short report, 2500 words or so, a long report, 2500 to 5000 words, or an ebook, 7500 words and up. You could also develop an ecourse that’s a combination of emails, an ebook, chats, and perhaps conference calls.

Get Paid to — Take Surveys, Receive Offers, Read Email

First rule don’t pay someone to find out information about the “Get Paid To” companies.

There are too many sites which falsely represent that you will be paid cash for taking surveys, referring visitors, or accepting offers. Some of these offers require a credit card. You sign up for a free month of XYZ movies, get paid $15 for accepting the offer and provide your credit card number. If you don’t cancel the offer your credit will be billed, and you can’t cancel immediately, or you won’t be paid. Usually you have to reach a minimum level of earnings to receive a check or deposit to your Paypal account. And the minimum level is nearly impossible to earn. Some of the surveys can be completed quickly and some take an hour or so to complete.

Most of the money is made through referring other people. It will be a huge challenge to earn $100 in 24 hours, so there aren’t any resources listed in this report.

Blog Your Way to Beaucoup Bucks.

Blogging is a website (don’t worry no website skills needed) that you update every day with posts about your chosen subject. Visitors can comment on your posts for others to see.

Using your blog as a billboard

There are several websites who will pay you to post product reviews on your website. They are paid by the company who owns the products. The products can range from consumer durable goods, consumable goods, or just about anything you can think of. The blog has to be approved by the company and has to remain up for a specified length of time. There usually has to be a qualifying statement that your post is a paid advertisement.

Using your blog as a review site

Another way to use your blog is to post product reviews of affiliate products. When someone buys the product you’re paid a commission. You can post reviews of books you’ve read that are available on amazon.com and link to the books as an affiliate.

Ads on your blog

If your blog has somewhat of a following in a certain niche and gets a reasonable amount of traffic, you can use pay per click (PPC) ads to generate some revenue. The more traffic to your blog, the higher the potential for click throughs, the more money you can earn. AdSense by Google is a very popular PPC company but there are others.

You can also use a blog to sell products as an affiliate.

Here are just a few of the free sites where you can quickly and easily set up your blog.:

Live Journal
Blogger
Wordpress.com

Pick a market niche you’re familiar with as the topic for your blog. Every day post on your blog. Of course that’s not all you need to do. You have to get people to your blog to read it and hopefully click on your paid ads, or on the products you’re promoting as an affiliate.

Most of the blog sites are searchable by keywords. Search on the same words you’ve used for your site to find other blogs. Then leave a comment on the relevant blogs and include your link to your own blog.

You can submit your blog’s url to search engines so if someone wants information on ‘how to raise guppies’ and that’s the subject of your blog, your blog shows up for visitors to find.

With a little bit of research and time you can become successful and increase your bank account with Online Marketing just by blogging.

Get paid to blog

bloggerwave.com
bloggingads.com
blogsvertise.com
blogburst.com
blogtoprofit.com
buyablogger.com
linkworth.com
loudlaunch.com
payperpost.com
payu2blog.com
reviewme.com
smorty.com
sponsoredreview.com

Submitting Links to Articles, Websites and Blogs to Social Networking Sites.

You can submit links to other people’s articles, etc. to the social networking sites. The pay isn’t terrific, usually no more than a couple of dollars per article. You’ll have to set up an account at each site. Below is a list to get you started. With a bit of research you can find quite a few more. Offer the service on Digital Point the same as you would offer to ghost write articles.

Setting up the accounts at the social networking sites will probably take a couple of hours. If each article takes 20 minutes to post at all the social networking sites andyou charge $4 for the service. You’d earn $12 an hour and would have to work a little over 10 hours to earn $100.

Download the free Roboform to make your job lot more easier.

You need your client to tell you the url of the article/website, title, brief description or first paragraph of the article, category, and tags or keywords.

Social Networking sites

Facebook.com
Blinklist.com
Stumbleupon.com
Ma.gnolia.com
Linkagogo.com
Wink.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Newsvine.com
Furl.net
Backflip.com
Spurl.net
Netvouz.com
Diigo.com
Rawsugar.com
Shadows.com
Del.icio.us
Bluedot.us

Part Two: $100 a day, over the long term.

The above suggestions really can earn you $100 in a 24 hour period if you work at it. The ways below take a little bit of time to get set up and get going but can earn you $100 a day in the long term.

When appropriate put ads on Craigslist and Usfreeads about your product or service you’re offering.

Squidoo Lenses

Think of squidoo as a place where you can get a free one page - but it can be a very long one page – website. When setting up a squidoo lens, you first need to do some research on key words. Trust me this is important.

So think about your squidoo lens and come up with 4 or 5 key word phrases. Pop them in Google and see what competition you’re up against. You can also go to Google’s adword keyword generator, https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, Use the tab keyword variations, enter your key words and then hit the “get more key words” tab underneath.

Pick out eight to ten key word phrases, these will be your tags. Now go to http://www.squidoo.com and get yourself a lens using your key word phrase as the name of the lens. Set up your bio in your bio module and link to your product or website in that module. Now write a 250 to 500 word essay using your key word phrase at least three times. The essay should be relevant to your product or niche. In the essay link to your product, affiliate product and/or to your website. You might want to use a teaser phrase to encourage people to click on the link.

Add a poll and an amazon module, then add another text module with links to your other products or affiliate products.

Add a google news feed module. Then another text module and finally end with a guestbook.

This may sound complicated but all the modules are clearly explained and it’s really a matter of point and click to populate your lens with interesting products.

You can earn money from your lens through the different modules and their products, such as books from amazon.com, from products that you’re an affiliate for and from your own products.

You can put up a lens for each one of your key word phrases and then link them together.

AdSense

Google through their Adsense program, offers paid advertising through the use of text linked ads placed on websites. These ads can also be placed on blogs. Advertisers hope to subvert visitors to click on the text ad and visit their own websites through these text linked ads. The advertisers pay Google for every visitor that clicks through. Google passes on some of the money to the owner of the websites where the click originated. This is know as PPC or pay per click. Savvy Internet marketers build websites on topics that have a high PPC with the sole purpose of earning money.

Some of these sites known as MFA or Made For AdSense contain little or no redeeming content. The website’s owner’s intent is to place high in the search engines for a niche key word phrase. Say “Natural Cures for Whatever.” People have a tendency to only look at the first page of results when searching. They click on the “Natural Cures for Whatever” site. When they arrive there is little information, so in an effort to leave the site quickly, they click on one of the text linked ads to navigate away.

A better philosophy is to make the site content rich to attract visitors and establish a level of trust. The visitor feels comfortable and when they’ve found the information they needed they are more likely to click on one of the text based ads.

How much money can you earn with AdSense? It depends on the topic of your website, your key word usage and your traffic. People look for all sorts of information on the Internet. Quite a bit of the time they’re looking for a solution to a problem or how-to-do something. If your website addresses those issues, the odds are it will make more money than a generic site.

You have to have a website already up and running before you apply for AdSense. They are accepting blogs for AdSense revenue as well. Once you get one blog or website approved you can add the AdSense to your other sites/blogs without additional approval.

Once you’re approved you have your choice of style and size of ad. You don’t have to do any of the coding. You do have to know how to incorporate the code on your website or blog. It’s not difficult. You can track how much money you’re making nearly in real time.

Use Forums and Discussion Groups

You can join forums and discussion groups that relate to your website/blog/squidoo page. Search discussion group sites like http://groups.yahoo.com and http://groups.google.com for groups that are relevant. You can also search for discussion groups by subject matter. Type in the search engines +discussion +groups +mothers +young +children, for example.

Another alternative is to find websites that relate to your website that have forums. There’s a huge forum for writers at AbsoluteWrite.com, for example. Many online publications on your topic will have forums as well.

Join these discussion groups. In your profile make sure you keep your signature short and sweet but do include a one sentence description of your site/blog/squidoo lens and a link.

When questions come up, or the conversation focuses on your topic, you can post a short answer and then mention there is an article or suggestion that would be helpful to the members at your site and give the link. Of course don’t spam the members or just post one or two word answers, like “thank you” or “I agree” just to post.

Social Networking Sites

Keep in mind the word networking is a verb, and that means action. Go to Myspace and set up a profile that reflects the product/website/affiliate product you want to sell. Keep the profile fun and interesting. You can also use the blog at Myspace to update your profile. You can add photos, videos from YouTube, and games. Then search for friends using your key words to find people interested in your product. Say you have a golf product, search for golfers. If you have a recipe book, search for people who like to cook. You can also join the forums at Myspace and look for friends that way.

The advantage of having friends is that you can then send bulletins to your friends that will automatically be posted at their Myspace profile and seen by all their friends. If you have 100 friends and they each have 100 friends, one of your bulletins can potentially be seen by 10,000 people.

Ryze is social networking that leans a little more toward business. Again set up your profile with your links, then look for groups to join. The groups should be relevant to your website or products. Most groups have active discussions going on. Answer questions, ask questions and contribute to the discussion.

There are lots of other social networking sites you can join. Every day spend a few minutes visiting each of your site’s network.

Niche Marketing

Niche marketing is a buzz word and it simply means marketing to a small niche rather than a broad market. For example: Your blog is about cures for sinus headaches, that’s very broad. A narrower niche would be natural cures for sinus headaches and an even narrower niche is natural herbal cures for sinus headaches. The logic is that there are fewer blogs/websites competing for the very narrow niche than the much broader topic. There will be fewer people searching for natural herbal cures for sinus headaches but more of them will be ready to buy a product or click on an AdSense ad.

BUM Marketing

Bum marketing is simply using articles you’ve written to drive traffic to a blog/website/squidoo page you’ve set up that sells an affiliate product, or your own product. . The article is submitted to article directories and includes a bio box that has a little bit about you and the link to your blog/website/squidoo page.

The tricks to BUM Markeing are very simple.

1. Use keywords in the title of your article and in the article itself so people searching for those keywords will find your article on the major search engines.

2. Make the article informative and interesting, but leave the readers wanting more.

3. Include a teaser in your bio box that entices the reader to click on the link to your website/blog.

4. Write enough articles using those keywords.

How much is enough? A rule of thumb is one article per day for the first month.

Article Directories

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.buzzle.com
http://www.articlesfactory.com
http://www.articlecity.com

I hope you’re successful with your Internet Marketing efforts. Just keep in mind it takes time to establish any kind of business. Don’t give up.

Article written by Gobar Olah

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Apr 10 2008

Published by admin under ideas

To those friends in Malaysia that needed a quick kit for blogging, this is a good source to refer. We can provide your own domain name and hosting account from http://www.nestbytes.com at good price. Tell us what you think of this package.

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Apr 06 2008

Virtual Smart Agent to Jump Start your biz

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So … what is Virtual Smart Agent and how can it benefit you?

This technology is so new … it almost looks like science fiction! VSA is the world’s FIRST stand-alone Virtual Sales Agent enables you to put an automated chat solution on your website WITHOUT having to pay someone else for the service…

But I didn’t stop there. I also made it BETTER than anything else out there, by making it possible for you to train your virtual agent, split-test the results, and even build your opt-in list on autopilot!

This technological masterpiece has already been PROVEN to boost sales by up

to 40%, and the marketers who manage to get their hands on it are going to

be at a huge competitive advantage.

Not only does it boost sales, but it can also build your list on autopilot,

and even increase your affiliate commissions.

It’s basically like having your own virtual “employee” that never sleeps. It

just keeps working for you and building your business 24/7 with no breaks.

You see, Dave Guindon, the product owner, is also an experienced online marketer as well as an advanced software developer. So he knows how to deliver quality products along with how to use the products to your advantage.

Not many product owners even attempt to over-deliver as much as Dave does!

Here is a short list of the powerful features this software provides:

  • Increase your website conversions up to 20-40% in a little as 2 weeks!
  • Dramatically reduce your shopping cart abandonment.
  • Instantly increase the value of each website visitor.
  • Improve your website visitor’s experience (builds trust and repeat business).
  • Increase your customer loyalty and overall satisfaction.
  • Quickly grow a highly responsive opt-in list of interested prospects.
  • Reduce labor costs.
  • Save time by reducing questions and support requests.
  • Up-sell or cross-sell similar and/or additional products to boost your revenue.
  • Find out WHY customers are leaving your site.
  • One installation works on ALL your websitesboost your entire business!
  • Builds your opt-in list on autopilot!
  • Auto follow-up emails to your web visitors after they leave your chats!
  • And a lot more …

Dave Guindon offers an unbelievable LIFETIME money back guarantee!

So you basically have nothing to lose … I didn’t! The software works great and I use it everyday.

Thanks for Reading,

Ghazali Jamil (CKO, NestBytes.com)

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Mar 29 2008

Why .Asia ?

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I’m certain all the recent hype surrounding .ASIA has hit you too. The question that first popped in my head, and probably yours too is - Is there actually as much potential in this new sponsored TLD? I’ll let the stats that I dug up do all the talking.

The Asian continent has an estimate of over half a billion Internet users, compared to 350 million in Europe and only 240 million in all of North America. Internet traffic from Asia has also outpaced all other markets. The stats suggest that, more visitors originate from Asia (38%) than from Europe (26%) or North America (18%). *

With over 60% of the world’s population and an Internet usage growth of over 350%, Asia is a region that is experiencing tremendous economic and technical growth. The .ASIA top-level domain provides value that complements local country-code domains and other generic domains. Drawing up an excellent analogy from the media industry, some of the most powerful global media channels, like CNN and BBC to name a few, have created regional channels focused exclusively towards catering only to the Asian audience. Each has its space and value. “.ASIA” endeavors to serve this niche regional audience and market. Niche market would however be an understatement considering the statistics mentioned above. Now calculate the colossal number of global and regional enterprises targeting the Asian market, it is clear that the .ASIA value will grow at an exponential pace.

The goal behind introducing .ASIA was to provide an alternative to the ‘.com’ extension for the millions of individuals and businesses in Asia. More than 130 economies and countries around the world participated in the .Asia Sunrise. Seeing the results of the .ASIA Sunrise phase, which concluded with a success rate of over 90% (which is 40% higher than previous Domain Registry launches), I could say they have more than achieved their intended goal. Also, based on registry information, the volume of registrations received during the Sunrise applications was more than double the level for all other gTLD Sunrises except for .INFO.

Now that the Landrush has began since 20th Feb), all our Reseller’s can start accepting applications for the available .Asia Domain Names. During the Landrush, anyone around the world can apply for any available .ASIA Domain. The Domains receiving more than one application during the Landrush will be auctioned between the applicants in an equitable process post the Landrush. Popular “keyword” domains, such as names consisting of common terms are expected to generate the most intense bidding.

Targeting an entire region like Asia often tends to be not only difficult, but also expensive due to stringent local presence requirements. So, A unified Asian TLD could potentially be an extremely valuable and cost effective tool for businesses that are looking at reaching the entire region via a single domain registration instead of registering domains in each individual Asian country.

*Source for Internet stats from internetworldstats.com (11th Feb. ‘08).
*Source on .ASIA domain registry stats from dotasia.org.

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Mar 26 2008

Dropshipping - The Renewed Approach to do business online

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When you’re wondering whether to buy a product, you want to know what others are saying about their experiences with that product. Worldwide Brands has more than a 98% Satisfaction Rate with their Members, which is a number that is almost unheard-of in the Online Information Industry.That’s because they’re an honest business, they do things right, and they treat each Member like he or she was their ONLY Member. You don’t have to take my word for that, though. Visit their homepage. On that page, you’ll find a sampling of Testimonials they’ve received. More than that, if you search the Internet, you’ll find that their reputation is absolutely sterling. They work very hard every day to keep it that way.

OK, you have tons of products to sell. Where to start? How to Start? My suggestion go to eBay. But, it will be worthwhile if you can find hot-item selling on eBay today and get it from one of your wholesaler list to start selling. No need to worry, you can get it here:


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Mar 19 2008

Four Different Ways To Make Money With A Domain Name

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Contrary to what many people think, there are many different ways to make money from a simple domain name. Many people can only picture one way, which is the most common of registering a domain name and then waiting to re-sell it at  high price to somebody.


To start with you can park your domain name with a parking service. Basically what happens with these services is that ads are placed on a page that browsers see when they visit your domain name. As the owner of the domain name, you will get a percentage of the advertising revenue generated from the clicks that the ads displayed on your domain name page will get.

The second method is an improvement over the first, where you can simply create your very own park page so that instead of earning a commission, you will be able to get 100 per cent of the revenue from the ads displayed. The catch is that this is true only theoretically but in reality parking services get a much higher traffic.

Third, you can develop a content rich mini-site. Usually these are the sort of sites that are filled with useful articles and contextual ads from Adsense. The revenue from Adsense can actually be quite substantial.

Yet another revenue generating idea for a domain name is to develop a full feature web site. There are plenty of ways to earn revenue from a web site including selling products and services. You can even be an affiliate for another existing online web site and earn generous affiliate commissions. There are in fact some online entrepreneurs who do not earn money from anything else but affiliate programs.

These are the four main ways you can use to start generating cash from your idle registered domains. You can even develop these existing ideas further.

Do you have other methods to share?

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Mar 16 2008

How to become Clickbank Super Affiliate in Malaysia

Published by admin under Promotion

Idea from Malaysian online entrepreneur: 

There are a lot of ways for us to do online business. One of the most popular way is by becoming Clickbank Super Affiliate and earn commission from sales of digital product like eBook. How? This is something that you can learn yourself if really into it. There are a lot of gurus out there who provides information how you can become one. Of course it’s not free. You have to buy that information from them. Sometime it is hard to identify which one is the best. Here I provide a very basic steps how you can become Clickbank Super Affiliate.

  

PROCESS

  1. Preparation to become a Clickbank Super Affiliate
    1. Go to Singapore, open a bank account - http://www.dbs.com.sg (Passport and I/C required, and SGD500 as deposit). Open a US currency account. You’ll get a bank card that you can withdraw in Malaysia.
    2. Register Virtual Office in Singapore - http://www.smartvirtualoffice.com.sg/  signup international account and tell the virtual office to bank any cheque into the DBS bank account.
    3. In Singapore goto any 7-Eleven and get a mobile number with roaming facilities.
    4. Signup for a Clickbank account. Use the virtual office address and the Singapore mobile number.
    5. Register a domain. www.nestbytes.com (godaddy provide domain masking), web hosting www.nestbytes.com to host website. For each product, create a path and register new domain to mask it.
  2. Choose product to promote (Skip to next step if selling own eBook).
    1. Observed the Gravity point. 100 and above can be sold. Then use Alexa ranking to check the product’s url to check how recent the product/website has been launched.
    2. Do a search in Google to check whether this product/website is popular. Watch for sign of overcrowded (tougher time to sell).
    3. Register as an affiliate for the choosen product/website
    4. Create a pre-sell web page based on the choose product and make sure to put the “HOP” link in your website and make sure to cloak the address.
  3. Write an eBook
    1. Think of a topic(s) that suit that season / month
    2. Check in Google Trends popularity of the topics. Then pick a topic that is most popular (remember to filter only for in Malaysia) - http://www.google.com/trends
    3. Check most searched keyword based on the topic selected in Adwords (remember to filter only for in Malaysia) - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2
    4. Goto http://clickbank.com and check popularity of the keyword. Observed the popularity based on the gravity point of the author.
    5. Research on your topic for idea on eBook. Mailing list, wiki, blog. Google it out.
    6. Write your ebook. Convert to PDF and include extra so call free gifts like another PDF or Videos.
    7. Register as a publisher in Clickbank and connect to Clickbank affiliate network (register your product/website in the marketplace)
    8. Create a pre-sell web page based on the choose product and make sure to put the “HOP” link in your website and make sure to cloak the address.
  4. Create Adwords marketing campaign
    1. Goto Adwords (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2) , based on the selected product/website above do a keyword search (use Estimated Avg. CPC, Estimated Ad Position column). This is budget advertising cost based on the CPC.
    2. Create Adwords account http://adwords.google.com/select/Login .
    3. Create “keyword-targeted” marketing campaign Make sure select Malaysia as target location. Set daily budget of RM10 per day. Make sure to point the ad to your pre-sell website.
  5. Setup business
    1. Register company.
    2. Setup Maybank current account for customer to bank in directly into account
    3. Setup paypal account to receive money online. Goto http://www.malaysiapal.com/ for additional info.
  6. Market your product/website to get traffic (tips)
    1. Create a newsletter for visitors of website. Publish option to subscribe in email so when someone forward the email, they can subscribe too.
    2. Email Viral Marketing through jokes, powerpoint slides, stories, news. Get email address list from your own email and friends.
    3. Create simple Youtube videos and promote your website
    4. Join Yahoo/MSN/Google groups and start ditributing emails to promote your pre-sell website.
    5. Create popular blog participate in other people blog and promo your pre-sell website.
    6. Join high traffic forum and promo your website.
    7. Offer free goodies in http://www.freeautobot.com to get mailing list.
    8. Myspace / Friendster friend finder. http://massbots.com
    9. Use SEO technique. http://www.seobook.com in your pre-sell website.

Cost

  1. Open Singapore bank account – SGD500 (x 2.29 for RM) = RM1160 (refundable)
  2. Setup Singapore virtual office – SGD350 – deposit & 1 year fee (x 2.29 for RM) = RM80
  3. Register domain at godaddy. - USD20 (x 3.36 for RM) = RM67.20
  4. Register web hosting at emerge (shared email and web hosting) - Free setup fees + RM50 (1 additional domain pointing)
  5. Register Adwords campaign – RM20 (activation fees. Later they will charged based on usage)
  6. Register partnership company – RM60 (for 2 shareholders)
  7. Open Maybank current account – RM4000 (refundable)

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Mar 08 2008

Free tools to find your Niche Market

Published by admin under Freebies

OK, if you have decided to be serious about making you online business a success, we need to do a better job picking niches - for your domain name or business target. The following free service that can help you to pick niches/keywords, before you decide to get the paid one with much more features to assist.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
http://pulse.ebay.com/
http://data.terapeak.com/?query=keyword
http://www.goodkeywords.com/

Post us a comment what do you think of these tools? How useful it is for your research?

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Mar 03 2008

From lelong.com.my to getting .Asia domain for yourself

Published by admin under Promotion

.Asia banner

Why .Asia?

I’m certain all the recent hype surrounding .ASIA has hit you too. The question that first popped in my head, and probably yours too is - Is there actually as much potential in this new sponsored TLD? I’ll let the stats that I dug up do all the talking.

The Asian continent has an estimate of over half a billion Internet users, compared to 350 million in Europe and only 240 million in all of North America. Internet traffic from Asia has also outpaced all other markets. The stats suggest that, more visitors originate from Asia (38%) than from Europe (26%) or North America (18%). *

With over 60% of the world’s population and an Internet usage growth of over 350%, Asia is a region that is experiencing tremendous economic and technical growth. The .ASIA top-level domain provides value that complements local country-code domains and other generic domains. Drawing up an excellent analogy from the media industry, some of the most powerful global media channels, like CNN and BBC to name a few, have created regional channels focused exclusively towards catering only to the Asian audience. Each has its space and value. “.ASIA” endeavors to serve this niche regional audience and market. Niche market would however be an understatement considering the statistics mentioned above. Now calculate the colossal number of global and regional enterprises targeting the Asian market, it is clear that the .ASIA value will grow at an exponential pace.

The goal behind introducing .ASIA was to provide an alternative to the ‘.com’ extension for the millions of individuals and businesses in Asia. More than 130 economies and countries around the world participated in the .Asia Sunrise. Seeing the results of the .ASIA Sunrise phase, which concluded with a success rate of over 90% (which is 40% higher than previous Domain Registry launches), I could say they have more than achieved their intended goal. Also, based on registry information, the volume of registrations received during the Sunrise applications was more than double the level for all other gTLD Sunrises except for .INFO.

Now that the Landrush has began since 20th Feb, NestBytes.com starts accepting applications for the available .Asia Domain Names. During the Landrush, anyone around the world can apply for any available .ASIA Domain. The Domains receiving more than one application during the Landrush will be auctioned between the applicants in an equitable process post the Landrush. Popular “keyword” domains, such as names consisting of common terms are expected to generate the most intense bidding.

Targeting an entire region like Asia often tends to be not only difficult, but also expensive due to stringent local presence requirements. So, A unified Asian TLD could potentially be an extremely valuable and cost effective tool for businesses that are looking at reaching the entire region via a single domain registration instead of registering domains in each individual Asian country.

*Source for Internet stats from internetworldstats.com (11th Feb. ‘08).
*Source on .ASIA domain registry stats from dotasia.org.

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