Archive for May, 2008

Promote Any Product Online

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I’ve told you about an easy start to earn some spare cash online yesterday and one of the promise of the program is you can use it to promote or sell any product online. Any product!

Now before I got too anxious to type about this, let us be clear on a few things.

First off, not everyone would want to sell or promote something online. In fact, many of us ’surf’ the Net because:

  • to check emails as it is one of the fastest and private form of communication (no one knows you’re sending them emails unless you told them or they check their Inbox, right?). Usually, we’re made to check emails (I’m talking from the point of view of a Sales Executive. I would rather face my customers than staring at computer screen).
  • to get the latest gossips. It saves thousands (if you think about it) compared to going overseas or a few bucks of on-the-shelf mag (it’s not like you’re keeping the mag anyway)
  • to research for info (applies mostly to undergrads, post-grads, heck! Even to the primary school pupils - can’t imagine what they have to go through now just to get passed primary school)
  • to catch up with the missed TV episodes (this applies to my wife only but I can’t resist to type it down ;)

Oh! What I’ve listed above applies mostly to MALAYSIANS. Maybe you can relate to that (if you’re not Malaysian)… So that makes the bulk of our web surfers.

Secondly, some of us already run some form of online business, e-commerce, Internet Marketing, etc. And majority prefer to do things in our local ‘flavor’. That includes accepting payments. Just do a quick visit to Lelong.com.my, a local auction site and you can see what I’m talking about.

Everybody loves cash and the second best cash option (right after face-to-face transaction) is transfer to account. After the transaction is verified, buyers get the goods. As simple as that. Our local customers like it this way and they like products that they can see, touch and smell i.e. physical products.

That means…

Digital products are not that popular.

I’m aware that most of my local folks are already familiar with online transaction. They know what Maybank2u is or any other banks for that matter, they know how to pay bills online, transfer money online, buy movie tickets online, buy plane tickets, prepaid phone top-up or whatnot and that’s maybe, how folks define online transaction and digital products.

Bottom line, digital products are not yet ‘Super’ popular

So this is another hurdle we need to jump over (the first being limited, targeted market).

What’s the option now?

I don’t know how effective the program when applies to selling physical products online. My bet is, it’ll deliver just the same results but that’s not conclusive. Bare in mind that you’ll be guided with some proven strategies on how to bring forward this program and make it known but with our local market condition, we need to improvise.

Now, I’m not trying to ridicule things because this stuff is made by some serious and intense Internet Marketers but allow me to put things into perspective here. Our local perspective that is.

Let’s suppose…

I have a digital product and this product will help you get more sales, generate more revenues and make more profit online with your current products portfolio.

I’m going to ‘oversimplified’ the whole process outlined in my digital product so the first thing I would do is to find out what problem will my product solved for you, blow that problem out of proportion (sell the pain) and show you how my digital product will straightened things out for you, in a cinch!

But what the odds are that:

  • you’ll use digital product to solve your ‘physical’ products woes?
  • you’ll source online for help to your off-line challenges?
  • you’ll solve it yourself than outsource it?

What are the odds? Highly? Unlikely? Maybe?

Phew! I’m glad you still here because my fingers are getting numb. Just a few more lines and that’s it…I’m outta here! Before I leave, I hope I’ve made it clear that the product I talked about yesterday IS NOT for every web surfers and not for every Mat or Minah who runs online business. The premise is still valid that it’ll help promote any product online but let’s just keep things in perspective for now.

It’ll help you promote your DIGITAL products online

And that keeps the ‘generalities’ ANY out of our way. Again, it’s not for any product. I can’t say that to physical product. Not yet anyway.

So, if you are Malaysian, selling something digital online, not limiting your cash-receiving channels only to interbank transfer, and have access to Paypal and Clickbank, I invite you to take a look at my previous rambling yesterday:

>>Read my ramblings here<<

An Easy Start

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

“When Paypal goes a bit easy on Malaysian last year and Clickbank opens its door to Malaysian this year, I’m about to share with fellow Malaysian web surfers an easy start to earn some spare cash”

And I daresay this is something that you’ll be enjoy doing and honest-to-goodness…it’s legal! I’ll get to that in a while but first…

Before I proceed any further, this is an opportunity for my fellow Malaysians who:

  • Like to surf the Web (I’ll prefer ‘hardcore’ but ‘occasionally’ is acceptable)
  • Have a Paypal account
  • And of course, Clickbank account
  • Think that the time spent surfing the net should amount to something, at least to cover the Streamyx bill :)

But if you find yourself not fall into any of the above category or anything in between, well, I wanna say,“Too bad!” but hey, just read on because you might learn something useful. Who knows… Now, that is out of the way so lets move on to…

What do you get out of this?

In short, guaranteed passive income. I can say this because I already got it. Done correctly (you’ll be guided to do it) you can see incoming flow of spare cash into your Paypal or Clickbank account consistently. It might not make you filthy rich overnight because as I told you, it’s spare cash. Heck, you can set-it and forget-it but I recommend doing otherwise.

Treat it as a hobby.

You spend some time with your hobby right? For some, they even spent BIG money on their hobby (like breading Arowana or RC Car) but one thing for sure…everyone looks forward to that time. Everyone enjoy their hobby and don’t mind doing more of it. Same goes with what I’m about to share with you.

What is this about?

I’ll tell you what this is not first. This is NOT:

  • MLM (I know some of you said,”I heard that before…” But really, it IS NOT!)
  • Online S.C.A.M
  • Get rich super fast
  • Chain letter
  • Or anything in between

This is totally FUN and enjoyable thing to do because it is base on the value of ‘giving away’. In fact, all you have to do during this entire program is to give away A thing, digitally of course, for F.R.E.E! It’s like those e-mails you received about artist A married to Dato’ B or who’s leaving PKR and join UMNO, etc. or some jokes to brighten up your friends day, and you happily forward it to as many souls as you know.

Really, it’s just that and it’s that simple. But I warned you - NO SPAMMING! There are better ways to share this, and you’ll be shown how when you’re on the inside.

And why am I telling you this?

Looking at more of my fellow Malaysians who finds themselves becoming more comfortable surfing the Net than the wave of Cherating beach, considering also the fact that Paypal:biggest third party payment processor fully owned by E-bay, had eased its grips on Malaysian to withdraw fund, and Clickbank:the biggest digital product store and affiliate-powered marketplace had opened its membership to Malaysian minus the previous signing-up hassle, I believe there’s no better time to get involved.

And for those who’s willing to get serious, the spare cash be used to buy extra packet of rice or put more ‘liter’ into your vehicles petrol tank (most working adults would welcome this. I know because I’m a driver too :)

This indeed will allow you an easy start.

And if you reach here and wondering…

What exactly I got to do?

The answer is SIMPLE and EASY. All you need to do is:

  • Click the link at the bottom of this page
  • Consider the opportunity with an open mind (seriously…mind only works when open)
  • Decide to take action
  • Enjoy (remember the jokes, gossips, news you’ve sent…)

That’s it!

Well, if this doesn’t allow you to start easily, I don’t know what does. So enjoy!

Oh! Here’s the link:

>>Click HERE To Continue<<

Pay Per Click Dilemma

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

If you’ve been using Pay Per Click (PPC) to generate traffic to your site, what I’m going to share with you here is probably something you’ve encountered in the past, something you’re facing now or something you might be facing in the future. And you got to decide nonetheless. I called it the ‘PPC dilemma’ and here’s what it’s all about…

When I first got my hand on PPC, all I had in mind was to use it as a promotional tool to promote an affiliate program. That’s where my interest lies and as I toil further down the line, a question was bugging me:

“Why not use it to promote your own product instead of product of others?”

Tell you what…that question makes a LOT of sense!

And the immediate payoff from that is you got to keep ALL the profit - minus the PPC campaign cost of course. But you keep all the profit. That’s the bottom line.

Now, if you think I’ll straight away jump and pause or delete my current PPC campaign, well heck! I wish I can do that but there’s another ‘bugging’ question:

“Would like to go through the hassle of customizing the offer, create a download page, thank you page, etc.?”

Hell NO! I would rather spend all those ‘customizing’ times to write and tweak my ads. But I know that’s just one way to look at it.

And that’s what I meant by PPC dilemma. It is a dilemma isn’t it?

This dilemma is like water - sea, pool, river, whatever and people get drowned in them not because they didn’t know how to swim BUT they stayed in the water too long. I got a feeling that I’m about to get drowned in this dilemma and I MUST not stay for too long.

(Just a silly question: How long is too long?)

I must DECIDE to get myself out of this. I must make it clear WHEN and WHY to use PPC - to promote an affiliate program OR to promote my own Resale Rights.

You know what, personally, one of the best way to help me makes my decision is to TEST. And that’s exactly what I’m doing now. Hope I can swim out of this ‘PPC dilemma water’ soon before I get drowned.

It Could Not Be More Personal Than This

Monday, May 19th, 2008

By the time I’m writing this, I’m sure the Whole World would have known the latest shocking statement that come out from Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad, the ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia. If you haven’t heard, at about 20 minutes to 1400 hours today or 0200 PM, Mahathir announced,”I’m quitting from UMNO!”

I admit that I’m almost shivering while typing this. I got mixed emotions to his statement. Part of me is anxious, disgusted and bored with Malaysia’s political scene today. Some of you might argue that,”Hey, you’re running an online business blog so skip all these political drama and stuff.” But I got news for you Brother.

Politics is very much related to business. And business is affected by politics.

Why?

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5 Years Ago

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

The year was 2003. The date was May 16th. The time: 2030 hours or 0830 P.M.

I was joined by my aunt, and a few ‘closest’ relatives making our way to Pekan, Pahang (the constituent of the current Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia). The weather was ‘ultra’ fine. The environment was ‘extra-ultra’ fine.

I parked my car right outside the house compound. Two other cars and one van were right behind me. I step out, fully dressed up for the occassion - my ‘nikah’ or taking the oath of marriage! Looking back, that was one of the scariest moment in my life. Scare the hell out of me…

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Am I Just The One Having This?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Maybe not…

Before I jump into the core of this message, allow me to paint the background.

Until today, I have yet to come across a really outstanding Resale Rights offer or Affiliate Program and products. ‘Really outstanding’ in my dictionary means the one that converts well thus pays well. It’s hard to find it these days. Agree?

So, can I assume that I’m not the ONLY one who face this challenge?

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Happy Mothers Day

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

May 11th…

Each and every year, people all over the world are remembering this day as one of the MOST important days but lets just say I did not need the whole world to remind me of it.

7 years ago, my beloved mom was diagnosed with colon cancer. For those who are ‘Anatomy or Biology or Pathology’ impaired, it’s a type of cancer that affected the large interstine (and don’t make me go beyond this description - I’m not writing a medical lecture here ;)

And she hang on for slightly over a month after that :(

I still remember that day. My neighbour was hosting a wedding ceremony for her daughter and my Dad was the honorable chef. Everything was seemed OK when suddenly someone called my dad home.

Even he was less than a hundred paces away, Dad was too late. Mom left him without saying good-bye…

For me, it’s even worse.

When I got the news, I headed back to Kuantan at a break-neck speed from Kota Bharu, Kelantan which normally took 6 hours. I managed to trim 2 hours from a normal time trip but I was also too late.

And that was 7 years ago.

Today, I’ve been married for 4 years and with my marriage, I had a ‘mother’ - my mother-in-law. And if there’s one thing I learned from my late mother’s passing that I deem as the most important is this:

‘Don’t wait for tomorrow for the things you can do today’

I wish I’ve done more for Mom. I knew I can and since I can’t rewind time and make up for the lost opportunity, I’ve decided to move on. I still have the other ‘Mom’.

For my wife, being a mother herself now has opened a new dimension for her in understanding what it means to be a mother.

“Happy Mothers Day”