Monthly Archives: November 2007

Getting your first dollar

Not sure whether I wrote about this before but just to remind myself about this matter. It is the key for success in making money actually.

People always talk about getting extra money. Make BIG money but most of them who talked about it just didn’t make it. And they will continue to talk about it.

These people will talk about what is the best business to do now, high margin, low risk, mass market, profitable. The ‘smarter’ people then talk about how to penetrate the market, doing a viral marketing approach to get more money in very little time.

At the end, none of those “smart” people is making money. I think because they are too ‘smart’ to see the little yet so important thing; which is how you want to get your first dollar. Once you can do this, you have no problem making ‘extra’ money. That’s the small secret.

p/s: Am thinking to get my first dollar for my new project………..

[tags]business tips, making money, money online[/tags]

Affiliate commission from exabytes

Today just received my check from exabytes. Not much but still help me to pay the bills for this month. Here’s a photo I took with my compact digital cam. No need for a scanner anymore..

Exabytes is one from only a few Malaysia’s affiliate merchant who give a generous amount of affiliate commission. They give RM78 per hosting sale. The only difficult part is you need to accumulate the commission till it sum up to RM400 for you to get the check.

If you are interested to join and get some money, you can join the affiliate program for free. Go to exabytes website, click on “Reseller & Affiliates” on top and then click on “Affiliate program” on the left bar. Just sign up as usual and you will get the URL to promote.

The conversion rate (from my stats) so far is about 0.75% (from about 135 visitors you get 1 sale). Quite low but you can get higher conversion if you expose the ad to more targeted visitors.

I’m not going for affiliate commission that much lately. Give more attention to Google Adsense and my other potential online businesses. It is just like a bonus besides my other streams of income I receive every months.

Maybe you want to read this book titled “Multiple streams of income” by Robert G. Allen. You can get some idea how to do it better.

[tags]affiliate program, affiliate commission, affiliate check[/tags]

Receiving first Google Adsense income via Western Union

Yestereday only I had the chance to withdraw my Google Adsense income with Western Union at CIMB Bank. This is my first experience receiving money with Western Union.

The process is very simple. You have to prepare with this information
– Amount of money expected to receive
– Money Sender Name and address
– 10-digit MTCN (money transfer control number)
– Your IC or identity document
Just fill up WU receive money form (with all above details) and provide your IC. That’s it. Just like withdrawing money during old days with passbook at the counter.

One question asked before this was whether you can use your name without BIN/BINTI for Malaysian muslim. The answer is YES you can use your name without the BIN/BINTI. No issue. Same rule goes to name on check.

So with this new option, no more long waiting time to cash money for Adsense income. Previously need to wait for 1 and half month to get the cash (2 weeks to receive posted check and 3 weeks to clear the check. Phew)

The next thing to try is transfering paypal money to Visa card. Anybody has tried this?

[tags]adsense income, western union, adsense, make money online[/tags]