Category Archives: Internet Marketing

Tracking your advertising campaign

Result is important. If you don’t like your result, change your approach. You won’t get different result if you are doing the same thing again and again.

You need to track every single advertising campaign you run if possible. Advertising incurred cost. If your advertising cost is more than what you get out of it, then you are in lost. Stop the campaign and start with a new one. Until you found a good one. Let it runs and roceed to the next.

I’m in progress of developing a simple application that can track every click people made on my advertisement links. When they click it, how much each click cost me and from where the click is made. At the end of the day, I can view a comprehensive report where I can then summarize the profits made out of the campaign.

The other good thing on the website is I managed to get a four letter dot com domain name that will make my advertisement link shorter and friendlier. Shorter than tinyurl.com/zzzz.

Will update more on the link tracker application when it is completed. Maybe will make it as a limited free service to all.

You can get a free ad tracker at Click Audit.

How to earn $1000/month online

Ok let’s do some simple math here how to generate $1000/mo income from the internet.

The most popular income streams for many internet marketers are from affiliate and adsense revenue. You can set it based on your strength – whether on adsense or affiliate.

Let say you want

Affiliate => $600/mo ~ $20/day in average
Adsense => $400/mo ~ $15/day in average

Affiliate to get $20/day you must have

200 visitors per day
20 clicks out of 200 visit
2 purchase out of 20 clicks
each purchase you get $10

Adsense to get $15/day you must have

400 visitors per day
50 clicks out of 1000 impressions (about 5% click-through-rate CTR)
each click you get $0.3 (* you have to choose the right keyword to gain more)

What you can do to improve the figure:

  1. Get more traffic – with multiple source of traffic generation – Search Engine, PPC, safelist, autoresponder etc. Spend more on your advertising vehicles but always closely monitor your ROI.
  2. Get higher click through – Always test and tune your ad position, color, wording etc. to get more clicks and purchase
  3. Get more websites selling more products. Always add your website. Let say one website a month consistently

Sooner or later you will get your first $1000/month (which is almost RM4000). Keep on doing what works and stop doing what is not.

Of course to get the $1000/month is not as simple as the calculation above. But it can give you some ideas what it takes to get the amount of money.

How to know – people just looking around or want to buy?

Got this valuable tips to find what people are looking for or want to buy on the net

Use Overture keyword selector

If people search using 1-2 keywords, most probably they are just looking around such as they search for “computer parts”

If they want to buy something, they would more likely to search more specific keywords with 3 or more words like “cheap computer parts” or “discounted computer parts”

Also can use other affiliate or merchant programs to look for high-demand products such as at e-bay, amazon, book stores etc.

Classifieds Portal Projects

Have moved to first step by purchasing a domain for my next project named Classifieds Portal Project (CPP)

The domain name is www.iklan101.com

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Database structure is ready and programming phase in progress. Expected date to launch beta version is on 1 March 2006.

Will think on features that will differentiate the CPP with other classifieds website. And most important of all, will try to give this service free of charge. Maybe will charge a bit on other parts just like what I did at www.hartanah.net

Will update more on the progress soon.

Another easy way to drive massive traffic

Another easy way to drive massive traffic is by using safe list.

If you do not have the list, you always can pay for certain amount of money to send your email to hundreds even thousands of opt-in e-mail readers. This is not considered as spam since the list members agreed to receive e-mails from the list owner either in specific categories or in general.

Some of opt-in e-mail list providers:

  • onedollaremail.com
  • e-mailpaysu.com
  • paidmails.com

FFA classifieds website project

I’m now in progress of developing free for all classifieds website that will

– make it very easy to post ad. No registration required
– easily to search by keyword

– has search engine friendly feature

– ready to serve outside Malaysia market in the future

Target to launch end of this week (Feb 27, 2006). And will get lots of traffic from search engine within 2 months time. Will apply all my knowledge in SEO and PHP programming to optimize the ranking of the website.

The income will be generated by targeted-keyword ads publishing and popular affiliate programs.

Use PHP and MySQL as the back end technology.

What is the best autoresponder on the net?

I also not sure which are the best. 🙂 But I have a list of autoresponder that you can look at. The price, the features, the reliability and effectiveness.

What is autoresponder anyway?

It is an application to manage your subscription list, to submit sequential message automatically giving a specific period of time. For example you are selling a medicine online. You offer a special report on your medicine benefits etc to the user by let them subscribe to your newsletter.

All the messages you want to send has been set up in advanced. You have set up let say 4 messages with interval of 3 days of each message. The first message will be sent immediately after the user subscribe to your newsletter. After 3 days, the second one arrive at the subscriber inbox. And so on till the last message.

So what is the benefit?

People won’t buy from you on the first visit. So you can use autoresponder to build credibility and convince people on your services or products. You can follow up with them on their progress after reading your previous messages etc. This will increase subscribers confidence and will lead to a sale.

Here are some autoresponder for you to evaluate.
1. SendFree ($19.97) – As its name, it is free for you to use but with ads. Without ads need to upgrade. Have free trial for 30 days
2. GetResponse – ($17.95) You can have a limited feature of this autoresponder for free
3. EmailAce – ($8.95) Paid autoresponder. Promo as low as $2.95 for first 30 days.
4. Aweber ($19.95) – Paid autoresponder with monthly fee.

Try it and choose the one suit your needs. Happy marketing…

Updated:
more autoresponder

  • professionalautoresponder.com (free)
  • parabots.com