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Its a Friday here in Singapore and I'm Going Fishing!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Well not fishing exactly, gonna hop over to Universal Studios (Singapore) and check out the rides, maybe pop into the Marina Sands Casino along the way. Quick unwind after a week of slugging out there with Google and finally sit down to some needed R&R.

Random thoughts before I shut the computer down.

While Adwords can be mean (and they've been pretty mean to pretty much everyone recently), and almost everybody is jumping ship to making money with plentyoffish, myads, trafficvance, mediatraffic, leadimpact, adbrite etc, and all different types of advertising networks.

My advice is to stay with Adwords and go against the current because only shooting stars break the mould.

That means, if you're doing CPA with the networks such as C2M, or Azoogle, or MaxBounty, or Copeac… step back and source for new affiliate programs to market.

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A Different Kind Of Wealth!

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

A way to make money online is to go into product marketing. We're looking at ebay, alibaba, places where you can source for products then sell. Most of these products are manufactured in China, where the overhead and cost is low. Many good brands like the apple iphone are made in china also.

As a home business entreprenuer, you'll want to be sourcing products from the smaller local factories or from the whole sale centres. I have been in GuangZhou for 1 month already and will share 1st hand the pros and cons you can expect to find here in China.

Pros

1. Price – The cost is cheaper, and that leaves sufficient margin to be profitable in the profitable world of online product marketing.

Cons

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Thoughts On Whether To Buy Traffic or SEO…

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Buying Traffic is good because it offers a perfect litmus test before deciding whether or not to enter a market. With the right traffic souces, you can easily do about $10,000 per month online in your niche, then go into more permanent traffic sources such as blogging, or putting fresh new content on the net.

Another good thing about paid traffic is that you can localise your money spent. If you're only targeting customers in a country like Singapore, then producing content for an international audience might not even be necessary if enough paid sources of traffic are available at very cheap prices.

SEO stands for search engine optimization. Your content can be indexed by google, yahoo in many ways. Common ways are putting videos on youtube, starting a blog, or article submission. When you go by such a route, your product should be international because its more profitable that way. Traffic from all around the world will drop by your site and you want to be able to monetise your site to the max.

You would also want to go in SEO when your site isn't given a good QS by Adwords or Bing and you aren't sure how to optimise it further for a good QS. For those new to Adwords, this advertising platform is quite picky when it comes to displaying ads. So if your site isn't what they like from the start, its going to be difficult to fix it. If your business is something you berlieve in and is going to stay, then SEO is good to consider.

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3 Factors To Consider Before Building a List To Earn Money Online

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

You may have heard of the term list building and its usually associated with online wealth. The successful list builders have a good relationship with their subscribers and this list is often responsive to new offers available. For example, some lists that im subscribed to are new playstation 3 games where we can preorder for additional discounts when the dealer brings new titles in. 

Here're some of the customer lists you can look to build online.

1. The Mass Consumer lightning list that makes 6 figures a year

This kind of list is usually associated with products that earn you anywhere from usd18 to usd90. You will be wanting to build a list that purchases immediately after opting into your list.It can be a dating program, muscle building, male enhancement products, insurance. All consumer type products are workable here. This money can be made  quick and when you have a list building campaign that works, there isn't much to do afterward until something like the google slap comes along 3 months down the road, by then, you'd have earn a good amount of money online and ready to embark on a new product.

Such list are usually built with paid advertising such as pay per click marketing, media buys, ppv, display, banner advertising.

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Online Marketing Tips

Monday, December 28th, 2009

These are the kinda problems the higher then average earners will face. If you're doing $500 to $1000 a day, that's good, then there're some that do $5000 per day, even better then.

1. Accounts Get Banned – There's been a major clean up over at Google Adwords. The life time ban from using the google platform has affected MANY online marketers. It does not only affect those that run the google biz type of ads, those that run poor quality acai ads, funky rebills as an affiliate are also hit. For most affiliates that have lost their adwords account, getting back into the adwords game requires tons of new credit cards, and learning how to clear cookies from your computer. Not for the faint hearted.. 

But if you have a campaign with Adwords that's earning $1000 per day, its worthwhile to get back in to the game with the big G. If you're new to online marketing, try using MSN and Yahoo instead, get some exposure there before tackling the Google giant.

2. Campaigns Get Deleted – This happened to a friend. He was an overachiever and created 10,000 keywords in 1 day in a span of 12 hours. Along came an admin who deleted the entire campaign and banned the acccount.

3. Leads Get Shaved – This happens in the CPA marketing industry. The most one can do is write in to the network and trust they'll look out for your interest by crediting you with leads that were lost. Most of the time, you can expect a return of 1/3 of the actual sales that was lost.

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Wednesday's Network Payment Tip

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Here are a couple of ways to get paid from the networks, withdraw your cash from your local ATM and spend it on your daily needs. Let's have a look.

1. Paypal Masspay

Tip: This mode of payment will have your commissions paid to your paypal account. From your paypal account, you can withdraw your money to your banking account.

2. Check

A paper check is sent to your home, where you'll cash in your check and withdraw the cash from your ATM.

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PPC Bully Results-My Beta Test Tinkering In 6 Days…

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Hey everyone, PPC Bully beta test results are in. Get your skin in the game and expect to earn anywhere between $2000 to $12,000! Hit your personal income goal then reward yourself with a xbox 360 gaming console :)

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Google Adwords Quality Score Insights

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Imagine a new adwords advertiser with a keyword quality score of 7 after loading up a campaign while your ad has a similar keyword quality score of 7 as well.

If the advertiser's ad is new, his domain is new, Adwords will charge him $1.67.

If you have good adwords account history, you'll only need to pay just $0.43.

So if you' come across an advertiser that's supposedly paying for premium position for a premium keyword, don't assume he's paying $2.00 a click.

You and I as new comers wanting to advertise for that premium keyword may have to pay that amount. The current advertisor may already have sufficient good credit score built with adwords and only paying peanuts for a premium keyword, allowing profits of $15,000 – $30,000 every month.

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Thursday's Pay Per Click Marketing Tips

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Before we begin: If terms like negative matching, acronyms like PPC and long tail keywords sound alien, do set yourself up with this step-by-step course 1st >>

Lets dive in…

Question: How much should we set aside to see good profits in Affiliate Pay Per Click Marketing?

Rule of thumb, if you plan to bid on 1000 keywords, you will want to set aside a budget of around $1000 and 7 days to test and get data.

Having many keywords or even long tail keywords may seem profitable, however, the truth is long tail keywords can be1 hit wonders plus you'll be spending more money weeding out the non profitable long tail keywords.

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5 Step Affiliate Article Marketing Formula

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Objective: Identify a problem then identify a product that solves that problem.

1. To look for problems, visit these sites:

-Yahoo Answers
-Wiki Answers
-Forums where people hang out. Read what they're "unhappy" about.

2. Bear in mind what people need, then write an article with a problem solving approach.

The article must have a SEO headline. An SEO headline is usually the "problem phrase"
Think of what you want to sell. If you want to Anti Dustmite bed pillows, the article
could go like this.

—–Example—

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Ad Crafting In Pay Per Click Marketing..

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

A good Pay Per Click Marketing ad can give us quality instant traffic and immense Profits.

Google Adwords gives us  4 lines to make an impact on an audience going through the search engines. When crafting ads, the rule of thumb is that we want to include the keyword in the Adwords Ad.

This allows the Ad to be bolded which is supposed to capture the audiences attention.

However…

Issues arise when 9 other ads in the sponsored search do the same. When that happens, the method becomes diluted and this technique in fact works against you.

Here's an example for the keyword "Online Dating":

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Staying Safe As An Affiliate

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Affiliate networks terms and conditions vary from network to network. What is permissible on one network may not be allowed on another.

Some networks allow you to get away with minor repercussions, others will simply close your account.

The stricter Publisher terms include:

1. The Use of Non-Publisher Owned Web Properties/Sites/Pages to Promote Advertisers. Other than paid search, publishers may only promote advertisers on Web pages/sites/properties that they, themselves, own or operate. Publishers may not place affiliate links/tracking code, nor promote Web sites that contain affiliate links/tracking code, in or on third-party: forums, message boards, blog comment areas, classified advertisement services (such as CraigsList.org), etc., unless given permission from the third-party to do so.

Thoughts: Affiliates may fall victim to this clause. Some networks allow forum posting as a means of driving affiliate trafic, some don't. Take special care of this clause. It can lead to account closure.

2. Use of Trademarks, Service Marks, Copyrights, Brand Names, etc. Publishers may not use any advertiser trademarks, service marks, branded terms, URL, etc, in any promotional method, unless the rights-holder has given specific permission for publishers to do so.

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Google Slaps.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

tanja_gompf.jpgEver had a profitable PPC campaign that was suddenly slapped with $15 bids?

This could be Google's manual review team taking a look at your site and deciding its a thin affiliate site. Even though the site may be full of content, it can still risk a chance of getting slapped.

Here're some things you might want to take note off before building a PPC campaign, so you can avoid the same penalty.

- Google prefers the main information to be given freely. Try not to force folks to give you opt ins before giving out information. This is to prevent companies from collecting emails and leads that selling them for profit.

- A 1 page site with no "contact us", "links" to other sites in your niche. This is a thin affiliate site.

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Google Cash Detective Review

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Remember the days of copying your best friends tutorials in school and college and getting As and Bs, that's what Google Cash Detective helps you do.

At this very minute, there're millions of little direct linking campaigns going on all over the internet, and Google Cash Detective was made to uncover these campaigns.

By the way, 2 essential mentions about this tool before you decide to grab the Google Cash Detective discount from here.

-This tool does cost more then its competitors, but it helps to pay a little more for results and performance.

-GCD currently does not support Yahoo and MSN or the Adwords content network, but there're plans to expand the tool features to these areas after the initial launch. So if you're still keen to get in on the ground floor, lets take a look.

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Spytools For PPC Marketing

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

What are PPC spy tools?

These are basically tools that allow you to understand what keywords and ads others are bidding on so that you can make an informed decision whether or not a PPC campaign is profitable.

Are PPC spy tools worth investing in?

Most of the spy tools found in the market I don't use because while some take 30 days to give you results, others crawl keywords and ads that don't give you real time results. By the time you enter the market, the competitor may have left the PPC market for that keyword. In other words, you might be entering a market that is going to lose money. The keyword that we thought was a gold mine, no longer a good keyword.

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PPC Classroom 2.0 – FAQ

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

1. Do I need PPC Classroom to do well in PPC?

To learn PPC on your own requires investment. For the "1st trial and error" phase, you'll need to put down $2000, and test things out. Go through Adwords's guides and be sure to track what keywords don't lead to sales, as well as which negative keywords to include in your campaigns.

2. Is PPC Classroom 2.0 a scam?

PPC Classroom 2.0 is not a scam. Amit knows his work. The tricky part of PPC Classroom 2.0 comes with the Bidding via Cost/Conv. Reason for this is one needs to rely on a merchant to help you do this. Other then that, everything is in your control.

3. How long will it take for me to earn my 1st $1000 with PPC Classroom?

Its entirely up to how much interest you have in affiliate and pay per click marketing. $1000 with PPC isn't difficult. You might spend $500 to earn $1000, so your profit is $500.

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PPC Classroom – Live Coaching Bonus…

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Hey yo, PPC Classroom is opening its doors again to a new batch of students. This time I'm going to offer something extra special just for you. Anyone that clicks on this link, purchases then sends the receipt to "sherman dot choo at gmail.com" will receive 45mins live one-on-one coaching bonus (worth $797). I'll show you shortcuts to PPC, and some PPC tricks not featured in the course.

$7K++ PPC Classroom Salary *LIVE Coaching* Bonus

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Here's what you'll get:

  • Live PPC Tweaking Of A New Google Adwords Account That Makes You Money. You'll need to sign up a new Adwords account for this one.
  • My way of testing offers not the conventional PPC Classroom way. You'll see how I do direct linking totally different from PPC Classroom and skips pass the common direct linking method. More importantly it helps me test unsaturated affiliate markets within a day. Yup, I learnt this after being spanked by Google one time too many, and you get to learn this very secret tactic I spent $3,000 to discover.
  • Full 45 minute session where we'll converse live via MSN or Yahoo.
  • During this time, we'll work on an offer that I know will make you money as I tweak your PPC account .
  • Every student is a little different, so an offer picked by one student, will not be the same for the next. This ensures that everyone who grabs this PPC Coaching stands to earn. I thought of creating a bonus video of some sort, but in this case, instead of something generic that may not put money into your accout even after reading it, a live run thru of a real PPC campaign is way better.
  • We can work with Clickbank, CJ, Linkshare, Azoogle, Convert2Media, NeverBlue, Copeac, Primary Ads, Clickbooth any major network of your choice and get it stuffed with money, so you can cash in.
  • All information kept strictly confidential.

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Questions about Adwords…from Tracking 202 forum

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009


1. Should I have one massive keyword list and lots of ad variations to start and then group the keywords and ads to be more relevant?

Massive Keyword List: Yes, as massive as possible to discover "funky" keywords that others don't bid for. Fine tune this list over the period of 1 week to a month.

Group the Keywords: Yes, group them if possible, know however that sometimes, I just dump keywords together and group later.

Ad Variations: Not necessary. You probably read in books of how you need to have many ad variations to split test. Worrying about 1 exclamation mark or 1 question mark in your ad will cause you to end up getting into alot of nitty gritties before even making money. Ad variation is one of the last things you should worry about.

Sherman's Adwords Tip: Get the impressions 1st!

2. With bids that low I am assured to not be on the front page should I even worry about that?

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working on new PPC project!

Friday, February 6th, 2009

working on new PPC project!

working on new PPC project!

Friday, February 6th, 2009

working on new PPC project!