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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]

Offline marketing – car sticker

I found this advertised on Google Ads – car sticker service in Malaysia. You can now promote your websites/blog/business or whatever with this custom design car sticker.

You won’t have to order for minimum 1000 pieces when you only need just one! The price is reasonable for me.

You can check it out for yourself at
http://www.karbling.com (updated: this website is no longer available)

I’ve been waiting for this service in Malaysia since I bumped into this service on net few years ago. Will plan for offline marketing for some of my local net biz soon.

[tags]car sticker, offline marketing[/tags]

Domain price increase

Just got an email from namecheap.com to announce their new price tag for TLD domain names. So after this most probably all other domain name service providers will increase their price accordingly including Malaysia’s.

Here’s the new price for namecheap (effective from October 14, 2007 – yeahh 2nd raya day)

.com domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.net domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.org domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.info domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year
.biz domain renewals, transfers and new registrations: Old pricing $8.88, new pricing $9.29 per year

But I think this price still considered cheap compared to yesteryears when you need to buy a domain name for more than $10 per year.

Wish a Selamat Hari Raya. Maaf Zahir dan Batin to all Muslims around the globe..

Accidently deleted my blog!

Few days ago, I had accidently deleted this blog and all the database gone. When asking the web hosting support, they said that they only had one backup which is after the blog been deleted.

Almost gave up but still look around for any backups that I had and fortunately I got a fantastico auto backup during upgrade of wordpress version.
So the latest posting I manage to get is in June 2007. Not much I wrote since then anyway. So will start again updating this blog but not as active as before. Have commitment with other things.

Rahsia kejayaan Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong

Saya mendapat satu artikel akhbar tentang Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong yang terkenal dengan kejayaan membina empayar Genting. Berikut ada sedikit nasihat yang dikongsikan beliau untuk sesiapa yang ingin berjaya.

‘‘Tan Sri berpesan, untuk berjaya dalam hidup dan perniagaan, kita mesti merendah diri, bersopan santun dan menghormati orang lain, menepati masa atau tiba 10 minit lebih awal dari masa yang dijanjikan, jangan sesekali membatalkan temu janji, berdisiplin, bangun awal dan tidur lambat.
‘‘Sentiasa bawa kertas untuk merekod sebarang perkara yang datang dalam fikiran, mencatat segera sebarang idea yang datang, bertindak segera dan memberi reaksi tepat pada waktunya.
‘‘Selain itu, kita mesti percaya dan yakin pada diri, jika anda percayakan sesuatu, teruskan, jangan fikir negatif, dalam perniagaan – lakukan secara berperingkat walaupun perlahan – asalkan ia tindakan tepat, elakkan diri daripada bersikap tikam belakang dan jangan mencari musuh.
‘‘Jangan sesekali membuat helah kerana tidak ada jalan pintas untuk berjaya, kerja keras dan selalu berminat dengan apa yang dikerjakan, perlu tahu apa yang dilakukan dan sentiasa sedar diri, selalu ada kepercayaan kepada mereka yang berada di sekeliling dan yang terakhir, percaya kepada tuhan dan selalu minta keberkatan daripadanya,” kata beliau.

Saya belum tahu dari mana sumber ini dipetik. Akan update lagi untuk sumber asal artikel ini.

[tags]rahsia kejayaan, lim goh tong, genting, tips perniagaan[/tags]

Perubahan pada adsense policy.. lagi..

Banyak blog pengusaha adsense memperkatakan tentang  perubahan adsense policy baru-baru ni.

Satu yang paling menarik ialah publisher (pengusaha adsense/webmaster) boleh meletakkan maksimum 3 link unit format (sebelum ini satu sahaja). Sama ada ia bagus atau tidak bergantung kepada cara anda menggunakannya.

Mengikut pengalaman saya, link unit format agak kurang memberangsangkan. Kalau ada orang nak klik pun mungkin kerana tak tau nak klik mana atau tersalah klik (ingatkan navigation untuk website tersebut)

Satu lagi penekanan yang diberikan ialah kualiti untuk sesebuah page. Ia lebih kepada guideline yang disediakan untuk pengiklan Adwords. Anda boleh baca lanjut tentang page quality guidelines

Baca posting rasmi oleh google

[tags]adsense tips, adsense policy, panduan adsense, buat duit dengan adsense[/tags]

Buat duit dengan in-text advertising

Satu lagi sumber pendapatan dari PPC (pay per click) ialah dengan in-text ads. Ia sedikit berbeza dengan google adsense di mana ad diletakkan dalam satu form khusus.

In-text ad pula dipaparkan apabila pelawat meletakkan mouse pointer di atas link khas pada tulisan. Untuk demo iklan sila ke laman web kontera
Untuk mendaftar, laman web anda perlu mempunyai sekurang-kurangnya 250,000 page impressions per month dan kandungan web hendaklah dalam bahasa inggeris.

Saya telah menggunakan kontera beberapa minggu dan hasilnya agak menggalakkan tetapi dari segi CTR (click through rate) agak rendah berbanding dengan adsense. Walaubagaimanapun ia cukup baik sebagai alternatif kepada Adsense.

[tags]in-text ads, adsense, kontera, adsense alternative[/tags]

Ada sesiapa nak kerja dengan google?

Cakap saja nama google semua orang dah kenal pada hal google bukanlah enjin carian pertama yang wujud di internet. Yahoo, MSN, Altavista dan macam-macam lagi enjin carian yang ada di internet sebelum google.

Saya antara orang yang admire tentang cara google mendominasi internet, cara ia bekerja dan juga cara dia buat duit. Hehe..

Nak tengok macam mana orang bekerja dengan google. Boleh view clip ni..

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbf6T0uIk2A]

Apa pendapat anda?