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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