The Death of Network Marketing - by Mike Filsaime

Are you into network marketing? Is network marketing dying? How can you resurrect the network marketing industry? Is it possible to revive the network marketing industry? Read all about it in the latest FR.EE report from Mike Filsaime.

I got an email about Ellie Drake's and Mike Filsaime's Free Report called - "The Death of Network Marketing". I'm sold, where free reports are concerned, and so I went ahead and download the free report.

I must admit, that I thought it was some hyped up offer to get me to buy something...

...Turns out I was wrong. Way wrong.

This report really opened my eyes that Network Marketing may be dying.

When I read this, I immediately thought of sharing it on my blog by writing a short review. Almost anyone I know is into network marketing of one sort or another.

While I complete the second reading, why don't you download it and read it yourself. Nothing beats reading it firsthand.

You can get access to this free report now ..the death of network marketing

Tell me what you think about it!

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5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang

After a great headline, how do I get you to read more?

1. Ask a question. Create your curiosity.
2. Share a story, or a quote from a famous person.
3. Use words to captivate the mind's eye. 'Imagine' 'picture this','do you remember when'
4. Use analogy, metaphor or simile
5. Cite a shocking statistic relevant to the point of the post


And what about the closing of the blog post? Tie back to the opening.

Read more at 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang | Copyblogger

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Success University

I've just discovered a large learning university using internet as the medium of instruction. As a start you may want to visit the site to learn more. Will be posting snippets of the learnings in subsequent posts. Likes of Jay Abraham and Brian Tracy.

Success University

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The Art of Leaving Money Around

I stumbled upon this wonderful FREE ebook called " I Create Millions" by Christopher Westra. Believe me, it's worth your time to read through all 75 pages.

The free ebook has 34 specific money mastery methods to increase the flow of money. The full version has 87 mthods. The techniques described are life-changing concepts, those that I can relate to are :

1. The art of leaving money around - sending a powerful message to your subconscious mind that money is available, everywhere.

2. Buy the best for yourself - it puts you on the right mental attitude of faith, confidence, and power

3. Create money opportunities, not money emergencies - focus on the financial opportunities

4. Do what you love, the money will follow

5. Pay yourself first, before the bills, petrol, the food, the clothes... Keep 10% of your income and invest. Get the compounding interest to work for you.

6. Create some space for the New - clear the clutter in your mind, and creativity will instantly fill in

7. Create automatic money systems - by using the computer and the internet. It takes some work and some learning, but it is time well spent because it pays you over and over again.

and many more.

Best of all, the money mastery methods eBook is Free. No need to leave name or email to download the book I create millions.


P/s Confessions of a newbie:

Since the ebook is in PDF file format, I have to use a free hosting service, SendMeFile, to upload the ebook to this blog post. (Blogs do not allow PDF files to be uploaded, they only allow pictures and videos. Why, I don't know). I went to the FAQ section of blogger and found out about this method of uploading PDF to blogs.

Note when you click to download the book, there will be some pop-up adveristing (I've tested the download process myself). I apologise in advance if the ads are not to your liking, but this is a temporary move until I learn how to create my own webpage to host the gems I discover.

Happy reading. Do give feedback /comments on the book and my blog.

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Changing image- Internet Business

I have decided to make a change in the focus of my blog.

My blog title previously reads :


It now reads :


This idea of change came about after I reviewed my notes from the UYMG 2007 workshop. One of the speakers, Ken Shimitzu, aka The Storm, talked about Vision and Mission, and also about the biggest mistake made by eBusiness Owner:



I need to treat the e business as serious a business as my offline consultancy business. Anyone wants to hold me accountable for my results?

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UYMG 2007 Malaysia

A profound message presented by Stephen Pierce at the UYMG 2007 Malaysia.

Stephen Pierce and the team at Success Resources have have just concluded staging the internet marketing workshop "Unleash Your Marketing Genius, UYMG 2007" at Kuala Lumpur Convention centre in KL, Malaysia. The event was held over the weekend - Friday Sep 28 - Monday October 1, 2007. What a weekend it was!

If you didn't had the good fortune to attend this event, here is a rundown of what and who you missed listening to :

1. Mike Filsaime (of the butterfly Marketing fame)
2. Greg Cesar (Taking control of your marketing)
3. Dave Lakhani (Influence & Persuasion)
4. Chris Guerriero ("Instant Author")
5. Inanna Lawton ( Making profound changes at an Unconscious level)
6. Melissa Heweton ( Endless abundance)
7. Patric Chan ( Niche Marketing 2.0)
8. Ken Shimizu (Business Management)
9. Sandhan (Success Navigation System)
10.Jaz Lai (List Building)
11. Jason Tan (Blogging for Profit)

and of course, the star Stephen Pierce.

P/s, in order to become an "instant" success on the internet, become an instant author, or an instant marketing consultant, or an instant traffic generator, or earn your first USD1000 online, you will have to

1. DIY - take your own time to learn from the heap of information available. (slow results), or
2. invest in coaching and mentoring from the gurus and be prepared to invest in total approximately RM 80,000 for all the packages.

Take your pick. Your comments?

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List Building and Free gifts

Whether through sheer coincidence or a concerted effort, recently I notice several internet marketers offering a pack of products at "cheap price" or even for free. I think it started with the Send US to US (100 products, with many affiliates rallying behind them), then there is the Cody Moya' 200 Master Resell Rights Products (free download). Now there is the Edmund Loh's 41 August Awesome Fun Gifts (free download)

What a massive dose of information over 2 weeks!!

All this in the name of building a list.

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Malaysian bloggers - Demographic

This post acts as a compiler of facts about the demographic of Asian online netizens:

Bloggers Age :

56% are below 25 years

35% are aged betwen 25 and 35

9% are above 35

Bloggers Gender :

64% Female

36% Male

Top Blogging topics

Technology

Travel

Music

The above is extracted from a report in the Star, titiled most bloggers are women, about Findings published in Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report

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Malaysian Blog Advertising Agencies

Advertlets , Nuffnang

Malaysian bloggers now have another avenue to earn some pocket money for being in cyberspace.

2 new blog advertising community - Nuffnang and Advertlets, have actively started to recruit Malaysian bloggers to join their respective advertising community. However, I sense some sort of rivalry going on between them or is it a marketing thing? Read A wave of allegations have hit Nuffnang lately .

Advertisers are always on the lookout to reach a wider market for their products or services, and placing advertisements on websites is now gaining advertiser's attention. Blog readers and website visitors are prime target for advertisers as they spend a lot of time online sourcing for information and news.

So far, Google Adsense programme is the de-facto biggest advertising agency. How far will the 2 Malaysian companies go? Time will tell, or rather, blogger's acceptance and experience will tell.

Funny thing is, I must be amongst the last of the Malaysian bloggers (who wants to monetise their site, that is) to have heard of either of these 2 blog-advertising community. I am indeed the proverbial 'katak di bawah tempurung' or 'the ultimate ignoramus'. Both the communities were launched around March 2007 (coincidence? like minds thing alike? good feng shui? or insider snoop?)

An article in the Star dated May 29, 2007, titled Blogging and the Big Bugs caught my interest, and led me to signing up for both!

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UYMG Unleash Your Marketing Genius

UYMG 2007 Singapore, Stephen Pierce , Genius University ,
Stephen Pierce did it again! His UYMG 2007 in Singapore (March 23- 26 Friday to Monday) was worth every dollar I paid. To get an idea of the event, click on the video.




I car-pooled with a group of friends and drove from KL Malaysia to Singapore on Friday morning itself arriving in time for registration. After registration, it was straight to work. Exciting 4 days of money making ideas.

I am still digesting the many strategies that Stephen Pierce and his guest speakers have taught us. Most of the strategies are FREE, and which can be easily applied.

I have experienced an increase in my adsense income after applying one of his many strategies. More to come!

Some of the great takeaways from the UYMG event:

1. "Know your brain" - is the first of many games that we played; we learnt to identify our "colours" an dour personality - creative, activators, evaluators, or investigative.

2. 3 things to have to be successful in Internet marketing : Focus, consistence, and patience.

Do keep a lookout for my thoughts on :
1. PPC Pay per click
2. Blogging
3. Sales funnel
4. Publishing your own book
5. Forum marketing
6. E Bay

Till then

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Internet Marketing Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Internet Marketing

If you can provide solutions to these keywords, then you can successfully market any product on the internet:
1. Save (customer's) time
2. Save (customer's) money
3. Provide better solution (than the competitors)

Customers, including you and me, are always on the look-out for newer and better things. Look at how the telephone has evolved from the 'black, rotary phone' to the sleek mobile phone which most of us can't live without in this 21st century.

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Internet Marketing Bootcamp - graduation

Fabian Lim , Asia Internet Academy

February's come and almost gone. Just came back from attending the graduation ceremony of the Internet Marketing Bootcamp, which means that for the last 1 month (Jan 27-Feb 27, 2007) I had the opportunity to improve my financial coffer, but I didn't seize the opportunity to put into practise what was learned at the bootcamp.

Excuses: Too many distractions in February
1. Thaipusam (Feb 1)
2. Valentine (feb 14)
3. Chinese New year (Feb 18-19, up to 26 for me)

So come March, I should be marching forward, right?

Actually met and spoke to a few participants who made money after applying the learnings from the bootcamp. It's achievable.

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Do not try. Do or Do Not

Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Yoda


Very relevant to the previous post!

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Internet Marketing Bootcamp, Malaysia

Internet Marketing Bootcamp , Asia Internet Academy , Fabian Lim

No more excuses.

A search for the above keyword in Google generated some 9810 sites with the exact keywords in the title tags. [If you want to learn how to make that kind of search, leave your comments and I will reply]

No more excuses will also be my motto for this year.

I attended the 'first-ever'Internet Marketing Bootcamp, (Malaysian chapter) conducted by Fabian Lim during the weekend Jan 27-28, 2007. It's a hands-on / how-to type of training where evey participant had to bring their own laptop and follow Fabian in the practical exercises. We went from the very basic (cut/paste) to designing our own website within the 2 days. I've shorten my learning curves by many years!!

Some advice from Fabian

1. "FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS"
2. Don't be paralysed by Information overload. (How true!. I've written an earlier post about Information overload)
3. Master One strategy before moving onto another. (Hear, Hear. Don't get distracted)
4. Take Action. MASSIVE ACTION
5. Don't Give Up.

I also pick up another important point :

If you think you can make money from the internet in your underwear without working at it, then you're dead WRONG.

Like any offline business, the online business has to be nurtured (read: built and marketed to the targeted group) before you can make money on autopilot.

The next few days and months will (and should) see me working on my online projects.

P/S

There were 2 families amongst the group which started their children young into this business. There were 4 participants between the ages of 11 to 16, in this group. Way to go!

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Malaysian Blogger Sued

Jim Edwards , Jeff Ooi, NSTP, Malaysian Blogger sued,

Original, but controversial

One of the worst fears of any blogger is to be sued for the contents of one's writings. In this case 2 Malaysian bloggers, Jeff OOi and RockyBru, have been served defamation papers for, amongst others, blowing the whistle about an article which could be plagiarised. To read more about the defamation suits click NSTP gets injunction to remove blog postings and Defamation suit to test the limits of freedom of speech in cyberspace

I don't intend to add any comments that's not already said by many other people, online or offline, as the case which will be heard in the Malaysian courts in a few days time. We will let the lawyers present their clients' case.

The reason I am writing a post of it is to pen my thoughts on what I got out from the Jan 17, 2007 webinar "Next generation Mini sites secrets" where Jim Edwards, the mini-sites guru said, amongst others, blogs should be "original, but controversial". In his context, Jim Edwards mentioned that blogs can be used to :
1. build anticipation when launching a new product
2. write a review about an affiliate's products
3. get reciprocal links to a newsletter/site

He suggests writing some controversial contents (as compared to just facts) so that readers will be attracted to continue reading your post, and send more traffic your way.

I guess the claimant NSTP considered the posts made by the 2 bloggers as more than controversial because it may have affected their business in a way.

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3 column blogger template

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you would have have noticed that I've changed to the 3 column template format for this blog. A few days ago I stumbled upon Peter's blog Blogger Tips and Tricks who has great tips on blogging.

I followed the links to Blogcrowds forum where I registered and downloaded the template for this blog. Thanks to both of you.

I didn't face much problem in changing to the 3 column format, if you follow the advise that was given in Blogcrowds.

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Visit Malaysia Year 2007

Eye on Malaysia, Kodak digital camera , VMY 2007 , Visit Malaysia year
Just gave myself a belated birthday present. Bought a Kodak C533 Digital camera.

Yes, I'm quite late in catching up on the digital front.

Amongst the first few photos I took is this one on Eye on Malaysia, one of the attractions for Visit Malaysia year 2007. The huge ferris wheel was launched on Jan 6, and is opened to public on Jan 7. I didn't go on the big wheel, as there is a long queue waiting in line.

The wheel will be be opened until Dec 31, 2007. Plenty of time to visit again.

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Taiwan earthquake : update on cable repairs

Taiwan earthquake , Jaring, Straemyx ,

Limit use of the Internet.
It's still not back to pre-Dec 27, 2006 yet. Malaysians who got back to work on January 3, 2007, after a long weekend have been advised to limit the use of the internet. (Huh! Its' 1997 all over again for net users !) The head of Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) advises all Malaysians to cut back on
- non-vital communications like Skype, and other Voice-over-Internet ptotocal (VoiP) applications
- chat and instant messaging
- unnecessarily surfing the Internet

The reasons for the advise is that work is being done to repair the underground cables in Taiwan, and normal internet service is expected to be restored only in Mid January.

In the latest announcement from JARING, one of the Internet service provider in Malaysia, it is stated that :

Jaring services is now running at approximately 70% of the normal capacity. As optimisation is being done, we see continuous improvement by each day. Full recovery is expected by mid February.

...Ships have been dispatched to the affected site, and one ship actually encountered problem while attempting to repair a cable. The ship itself has to be repaired first – causing more delay to the restoration job.

To read the CEO's take on this issue, go to
Alternative Routes for Malaysian Internet

Round the Clock Works to Repair the Damaged Cables in Taiwan

There is no update announcement from Streamyx, the other Internet service provider, which I am using for my broadband services

I got cut off at least 4 times when I am writing this post. As a precaution, I saved the post in my notepad before clicking 'publish'. Is that what other bloggers are doing also?

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SMART, PURE and CLEAR goals for 2007

2007 , Goal setting , Steven Covey

Goal setting for 2007

I spent the first 24 hours of the new year formulating my personal and business goals for the new year. It's always good to start the new year on a high and positive note.

In order to set my financial goals, I have also worked out my personal expense budget for 2007 so that I determine the amount to save and invest. I am not in the millionaire category yet where money is not an issue (I wish I was!). In any case, if you don't believe in preparing a personal budget, please realise that even big corporations (and all Countries) have to plan and budget their expenditure; so budgeting is a necessary evil.

My small contribution for those who want to work on setting their goals (personal and business goals) for the new year.. Think SMART, PURE and CLEAR.

SMART Goals are those which are
SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACHIEVABLE, RESULT-ORIENTED and within a TIME FRAME

PURE Goals are those goals which are
POSITIVELY STATED, UNDERSTOOD, RELEVANT and ETHICAL

CLEAR Goals are those which are
CHALLENGING, LEGAL, ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND, APPROPRIATE and are RECORDED

What is my goal for 2007 for the internet business?
By end 2007, I should be able to generate a consistent monthly income equivalent to 4 times the monthly expenses, by working a few hours each day.

What do I have to DO to achieve the goal?
This means that I have to learn at much faster pace than now! As a start, I have signed up for a hands-on-coaching session in January which should speed up the learning curve. More about it after the session.

How do I know I am on the right track?
When I have earned my first US$100.00 from the internet!
And I shall celebrate by buying the latest 3G phone!


Want to share some SMS messages received for the New Year:

A new year
A new start
A new chapter
A new beginning

Forget the BAD
Cherish the GOOD
Wish you a happy new year 2007

I also liked this message from another friend:

A relaxed MIND
A healthy BODY
A heart full of LOVE
and a pocket full of $$$
These are my New year wishes to you and family

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Happy New Year 2007

It's 2 minutes past the hour of the New Year 2007. Just took some time off the celebrations to stamp the moment.

2 007

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