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Let’s Give This A Try

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

If you’re overwhelmed by piles of ‘how-to-increase-your-sales’ manuals, then what you’re going to read here is going to ease lots of your ‘reading’ burden. Why?

Because I’m going to walk you through some simple steps, and like magic, you can see your sales increase at the end of it. But maybe I’m getting ahead of myself here so let’s get real and let’s get started.

WARNING: The Steps start…now!

Here’s what Harvey Segal got.

5 chapters, 31 pages e-book, written in simple-to-understand, direct-to-the-point English with the title The Ultimate SuperTips.

Here’s what The Ultimate SuperTips can do for you

Provide you with concise Blueprint on how to sell any product or if you stretch the thing between your ears a bit, any service online which means… you don’t have to go through all the trials and errors of finding the right process. Just imagine the wasted time, effort and cash trying everything out to see if they work.

Bringing you that ‘personal coaching’ from a real expert. That’ll leave you with the feeling of confidence that you are following the right path from someone who’ve been there, done that. Not some average Joe who just got his domain name registered yesterday!

Spare you the extra cash. Why? Because you can get The Ultimate SuperTips for free. And that’s not the best thing of all because it also can…

Make you some extra cash. How’s that? Just by giving out a link (Yes, it’s as simple as that) to every soul you know, and if that soul got curious and decided to click the link to see where he or she ends up, and finally did the exact same thing like you do, you know that you just stumbled upon one of the simplest money making idea…ever.

So, here’s what you want to do next

Decide to weigh the opportunity presented by Harvey with an open mind.

Click on the link below (surprise yourself with where you’ll end up):
http://karungwang.com/recommends/UltimateSuperTips

Thank me later :)

SNAP! The steps end here.

What we’ve just did?

I’m pretty sure if you read up to here, you’ll develop some sort of ‘emotion’ about what I’ve shared with ya. It’s either you like it or you lost it.

Let me just share with you what actually happen…

There are 3 steps involve. Frank Kern is sharing these steps widely on the Net through his video. He said he learned it from John Carlton. And John is proudly sharing what Kern’s doing with his list (I’m on his list, if you must know).

What are these steps for?
They’re aiming at selling your piece – whatever it is.

What are the steps?
Step 1: Upfront, tell them what you’ve got.
Step 2: Then, tell what you’ve got could do for them.
Step 3: Tell them what you want them to do next.

But one question quickly flash across my mind after I saw Kern’s video, and my question is,”Will it work if I’m promoting other people products?”

And the rest, as they said is – research (hah!). Test. Experiment.

And I’m thanking you for being my subject.

Do you think this will work?

You tell me (I’ve walk you through the steps haven’t I?).

Changes That Might Help You Through This Trying Times.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Change for good

Dear Friend,

If you’re beginning to feel the ‘pinch’ of the current economic situation, a few changes to your ‘cost-tag’ habit might help ease the pain. Let me explain briefly here.

Things to be managed must first be measured.

You have money coming into your pocket.

You have money going out from it.

Consider your pocket as your main financial hub and you are the Accountant. You are accountable for every penny that goes in and comes out ALL the time. You must have some sort of check and balance system in place.

It does not have to be computer base. A pen and a piece of paper will do. The main thing is to record everything down.

Everything…

Record the item. Record how much is spent on it. And keep tab of it at a regular interval, say once a week.

Why this is important?

(more…)

Ironically

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Dear Friend,

Just finished reading a 25 pages ‘new report’ but IRONICALLY it was released last year - 2007.

It’s was written by someone who believe in making money by NOT working hard but by working smart. Ironically, it’s a well known fact that making money online is HARD work.

If it’s easy and even the laziest, uninformed, and newest soul who join an online business venture can make money straight away, I guess many off-line companies will be begging for workers.

Why work hard in ‘reality’ when you can laze around in Cyberworld and get paid handsomely?

It’s just ‘insane’ to continue with the job isn’t it?

irony

IRONICALLY, IT’S PLAIN INSANE TO LAZILY MAKE ONLINE

Plus, if you’re competing in Affiliate Marketing, that’s ‘double’ insane.

Call me a sceptic, prejudice, or what-may-you but I’ve live long enough to know this. And I’ve gone through some Good-times and Bad-times to stick by my conviction.

I said ‘conviction’ not belief which makes my statement a few notches higher than merely believing.

Maybe if I throw in a challenge right now to those who say,”You can be a lazy bump but you still can make money online!” many will come forth to prove that I’m wrong.

Or WILL they?

Ironically, World Wide Web is one of the place where you’ll be amply reward according to your HARD work.

Let’s take John Reese for example.

If you’ve been around online for quite some time, you’ll recognize John as one of those TRAFFIC maestro. In fact, in Gurudaq.com there are only a handful of names listed for their online web traffic expertise. One of them is John Reese.

The others include Michael Green.

So recently, John released his long awaited Traffic Secrets 2.0. Again, if you’ve been around long enough, the ‘2.0′ extension is a way of showing that this is ‘the latest version’.

And it’s using Web 2.0 strategies.

And do you also know that it took Reese more than a year to test and refine all the strategies for his Traffic Secrets 2.0? Just look at his eyes (in his free video) and you can straight away tell that,”Hey Reese, I think you can use some extra sleep!”

Now, if you think he just ‘laze around’ for the whole one year plus, I believe the eyes provide enough evidence to shove that thought through its thinker mouth to their back-side! (and what comes out from the back-side? ;)

If he’s lazy, I tell ya, it’ll took him another 3 more years before he can came out with the concept and by that time Web 2.0 might be obsolete…

BUT YOU CAN BE LAZY

Hmmm…that’s music to your ears isn’t it?

But not Online! NOT in the World Wide Web.

Online, you’ve got to be ‘un-lazy’ just to keep up. And be Super ‘un-lazy’ to get ahead.

Let’s take ’selecting niche’ for example.

You know it’s a Grandmother-grandfather story when it comes to selecting a niche before you even think of going Online, right?

And let’s say you’re lazy, so you decided to slap a free blog (cheap!), find a few free PLR articles or materials, and start posting, day-in, day-out. And you even see your dream car, dream house or dream partner while posting. Hmmm…how nice…

Snap!

Can you trully believe you’ll make a fortune just by doing this?

Come on…

The ‘real’ earner are making thousands of these free blogs and thousands of posting day-in, day-out! And that doesn’t include their time spends on traffic generating activities. Activity like ‘pinging’ hundreds of Ping services…

…while you still ‘dreaming’ making money lazily online!

Get a life friend.

Ironically, it’s not as simple as we ‘dream’ it to be.

Of course, I won’t be so cruel to say that it’s not possible at all to be lazy but still making substantial online income.

Of course it’s POSSIBLE

And that’s attract me to own and study this report.

Just beware of the truth that…

“You can be lazy after you remove the ‘un’ from ‘un-lazy’”

That’s all for our ironic chat. If you’re not that lazy, type a few words in the comment box so we can chat some more. Love to read from ya :)

My Most Regretable Thing So Far

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Dear Friend,

How is it going for ya? I hope everything’s cool.

I want to start this post with some ‘negative’ notes and I promise, by the end of this, it’ll turn positive.

You know, there’s a lot of regretable things that happen in my life. Some could easily be dealt with and forgotten but some had grave consequences. And I want to share one of my own with you here.

Hope you’re all ears.

It got to do with my Online venture. It got to do with this domain - karungwang.

You see, as time goes by, as my knowledge and skills accumulate over the years, I regret that I didn’t do my venture right from the beginning.

Heck! I didn’t set the fundation right BEFORE I begin.

After finish reading ‘Day 3′ of the Affiliate Masters Course by Dr. Ken Evoy, I realized that I didn’t set my venture.

Ditto when I read his Make Your Content Presell.

I could not remember what I was thinking back then but right now, I know it’s incorrect. It’s insufficient. And it’s plain regretable!

If I knew back then what I know now, there are possibilities that I’m more successful.

What’s the thing that I’m deeply regret?

Not doing my research thoroughly.

I focus mainly on how to monetize my venture which supposed to be the last item on the equation C–>T–> P –> M.

How I wish it was different back then…

So, I hope you learn from my wrongdoing and step up with the right foot forward.

Get you RESEARCH done and do it thoroughly.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU’VE DONE IT RIGHT?

I’ll keep the diagnosis plain and simple.

When you find yourself ‘not struggling’ to add content…

When you find yourself ’smoothly’ add another income stream…

When you find yourself ‘easily’ attract people to your site…

When you find yourself ‘not a bit worried’ about the latest software, tactics, or overnight success strategies…

…You’ve done it right!

I congratulate you if you can tick ‘positive’ check-mark next to the things that I just mentioned :)

I personally find it a struggle to add content and add new income stream.

I hope that doesn’t happen to you. Really.

WHAT’S THE BEST THING FOR ME TO DO?

If you’re in my shoes right now, what do you think would be the best way for me to handle this?

Is it best for me to flip this domain and start all over again?

Is it best for me to leave thing as they are and just move on?

Is it best for me to leave this whole thing entirely and do something else? Going offline maybe?

What do you think would be best for me?

I know, after consulting a few friends, most suggest I leave thing as they are and move on.

They said,”It’s no use crying over spilt milk.” I heard them. And I’m thinking hard about it.

History had also shown that many successful Webmasters had build more ‘fail’ websites before building a truly successful one.

I know about it.

And I’m thinking it hard.

Like Ken said,”It’s better to PREPARE than to REPAIR.” How blind I was back then…

Maybe ‘karungwang’ was meant for other market or other segment. My suspicion is maybe it was not meant for English speaking folks.

Clearly, my research back then was not thorough.

It’s time for a change.

And a BIG one too.

What do you think?

After The Keyword Research

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Dear Friend,

Let’s move along.

I assumed you’ve done your keyword research. And I assumed you’ve found a ‘nice’ search-result page ratio for your targeted niche. If you haven’t, why haven’t you? What’s holding you back?
No time?
Too much work?

research

If that’s the case, maybe you want to consider doing something else. I repeat what I’ve emphsized in the previous post - even though this is a part time thingy, just like a hobby, we need some action. We need to get up and flex some bones (at least the finger bones).

SO NOW…

Next thing on the list is finding contents.

There’s been a huge debate on duplicate content and its devastating effect especially if you want to rank high on the Search Engine like Google.

But let me assure you, based on the wonderful work of one dedicated soul whom I subscribed to his e-mail list to receive the current works and ideas that he’s working on, Search Engine STILL crawl your duplicate content source e.g. articles, and send traffic to it.

In fact, he even build a website and SOLELY fill it with duplicate contents. How’s that for a test?

Oh! I’m referring to the works of Johnathan Leger - originator of the 7 Dollar script. Ring a bell ;-)?

Why I’m mentioning this?

You need content on your site.

But you don’t need to create your own content if you don’t want to. You can choose to publish content of others or you simply get a free PLR source (which I intend to help you with later).

Once you get your content then you can monetize it with program such as Adsense.

NOTE: If you want to publish articles of others on your site or blog, make sure you include the authors ‘resource info’, usually located at the bottom of the article. I’ve written quite a few articles myself and submitted them to directories like Ezinearticles.com and GoArticles.com. Just go there, search my name using ’search’ function, choose ‘find author’, and walla! Feel free to post them on your blog (if it suits). just make sure the resource box is included.

So now, there’s little to worry about duplicate content.

What about PLR resources?

I’ll supply you with a bundle of them towards the end of this series. I’ll list down what will be included with it and you can download them all or subject of your choice. I’m still working on categorizing them to help you make a choice.

After all have been said and done…

DON’T COMMIT TO THIS FATAL MISTAKE

What is it?

“I’ve built it so they will come!”

There’s no such thing my friend. Yes you’ve built it but they won’t simply come. You need to ‘call them in’. And this is called ‘Traffic Generation’.

How you generate traffic to your site?

Good question. Tough to answer because there’s no simple, ‘work all the time’ ways. But there’s some doable, practical and maybe you’ll find it enjoyable strategies. They are:

  • Send ‘ping’ using ping services. Try PingOmatic, Feedshark or PingGoat (I personally used all 3).
  • Leave comment on other people blogs. Use your common sense. Leave ‘comment’ not Ads!
  • Join online community i.e. Forum. Just make sure you join a relevant one, not just for the sake of advertising.

I want to include Web 2.0 strategies like Social Bookmarking, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc. but to be honest, I’m still testing and learning the rope myself so I dare not suggest anything fo now. I do Squidoo though but that’s just for testing.

I’ve not made any conclusion yet.

If you already know how to use all these, by all means knock yourself out with them. So far, what works pretty well for me are Squidoo, forum and Digg.

That’s why I strongly suggest you start with Blogger.

Here’s some added advantage you instantly enjoy with Blogger:

  • It owns by Google so it gets indexed pretty fast
  • Plus it gets even faster when you put Adsense ads because Google needs to spider your site before displaying relevant ads

NOW CAN YOU RELAX?

Almost.

To make sure your site gets better Search Engine ranking and gets lots of traffic through organic search (don’t trouble yourself with all these jargons), make sure you site gets frequent update.

Post frequently - daily for the first 7 days, 3 days once after that, and every week after a month or so.

If you’re superlazy, post when you got something to say (like what I’m doing right now ;)

Give it some times, and positively with your groundwork, you’ll soon see the result.

For now, don’t try to beat the system, find shortcut or use fast-lane strategies because you either get confused or you’ll burn out.

Worst, if you have to start everything all over again (I knew how it feels. Been there, done that :(

For now, keep your chin up and be on the look out for my PLR resource.

I plan to make it utterly attractive for all of you :)

Walking Down The Part Time Income Alley

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Dear friend,

By now I believe you’ve download, read and finished reading the free report: Blogging for Profit.

If you have, you’re very rare my friend because I’m willing to bet my bottom dollars that from 100 persons who downloaded, less than 20 will read the report. From 20 who read, less than 3 finished it!

But I’ll take my chance here…

Remember I’ve made a promise to WALK you through a proven success formula?

Of course I still remember. And without further ado, let’s get started.

What Is Required From You?

Now, realized that we’re on a journey - a process, and not a one time event so, we need to bring along some tools and provision i.e. we need to prepare.

Maybe some of us think that,”This is for part-time. Why the preparation?”

I’ll answer that in a moment.

“You make it sounds like there’s work involve, and it sounds boring already!”

Really? Well, I’ll look at this from the positive angle - there would be less people walking through the same alley! And that’s good news. I can walk without dodging too many body and brushing too many shoulders…

Here’s the grand reason why we need to prepare:
“It’s easy to prepare than to REPAIR!”

I borrowed that from one of the BEST Online Marketers alive today. I agree wholeheartedly with his statements.

Even you’re doing this part-time, if you set everything up right the first time, ONCE is enough. That one time will keep paying you evrytime. You would like that to happen wouldn’t ya? So prepare.

These are what required from you:

  • Mental preparation
  • Online tools
  • Offline tools

Let’s look at each of these in turn.

Psyching Yourself Up.

Basically what it means is having a different mindset.

Always ’see’ in your mind eyes that you’re going to enjoy doing this…part-time.

‘See’ that you’re getting somewhere with this…part-time.

‘See’ that you’re getting better and better, and ejoy yourself more and more doing this…part-time.

Not hard at all to see isn’t it?

If you can see it, you can believe it. That’s the main point.

Plus…

You’ll face with roadblocks along the way. They comes in many forms and figures. The only fuel that will keep you going all the way is your mental endurance so that’s why I make this as your TOP most requirement.

Got it?

If you need a kick-start, I’ve gathered some of the best resources here.

Now, lets move on to the next item…

Your Online Toolbox

Want to start earning part-time oncome online? Obviously you’ll need online toolbox.

You wouldn’t be so insane building something online with offline building tools would ya?

So what’s in your toolbox?

I’ll line them up in descending order with item number one as the most important one.

  1. Keyword Suggestion Tools. You can get one for free here.
  2. More Keywords tools. Again, use a free tool here.
  3. An account at Blogger (as detailed in the free report - Blogging for Profit)
  4. An account with Adsense (also detailed in the report)

I walk you through the exact steps of using these tools after I’ve done with…

Your Off-line Tools.

The list is going to be very short.

If you’re reading this blog, it tells me that you already have the basic tools (if you’re in the office, make sure your Boss or ‘nosy’ colleagues didn’t see you’re doing this).

Just a few things to add on (easily acquired):

  • Calendar
  • Pen/pencils
  • Scrap papers
  • Printers

You’ll see how all these will become handy.

On to the exact steps…

The Most Important Steps

Before you start your new part-time income venture, this step I deem as the MOST important step. Do not go beyond this step until you get it done - your ‘keyword research’ step.

Why is it important?

In the online world, relevant content makes all the difference.

People go online searching for ‘relevant content’ - a solution to a problem that they’re having, a product to buy, a service to engage or a person to consult.

What people usually do is to open up the browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox, just to name 2), choose their favorite Search Engine, type in the ’search term’, and press ‘enter’ on the keyboard or click ’search’ on the browser menu.

The search engine in return will supply them with the ‘relevant’ info with TOP one being the most relevant.

Even if you’re going to do this part time, aiming to become the MOST relevant info for your chosen favorite pass-time subject is very much desirable.

So here’s how you’re going to do this:

  1. Open up your web browser.
  2. Go to your online toolbox no.1
  3. Type in your favorite pass-time subject (let say ‘football’ since I’m writing this during Euro)
  4. Carefully read through all the phrase people online are using to search for this words
  5. Pick at least 25 phrases that you find useful (Tips: avoid general terms like ‘football’) and preferably get lots of ’searches’ (the number to the right)
  6. Copy that to a piece of paper (like I told ya…offline tools, remember?)
  7. Go to your online toolbox no.2
  8. If you’re lazy (who’s not right?), just copy all the items from (6) above and click ‘get keywords ideas’
  9. Notice the variation of the phrases
  10. Copy those that ’strikes’ you the most

You see, when I walk you through this, you might be heard small voices in your head ‘complaining’ every step of the way.

It’s NORMAL and this is when you’re mental fortress is tested and I can instantly tells you whether you’re prepared for this or not ;-)

Now you need to ask yourself:

“Is this something desirable (based on the number of the searches done on it)?”

If you answered with a resounding ‘YES!’, do proceed. If not, go back and do the research until you can answer ‘yes’.

(to be continued…)

How To Start Earning Extra Income While Keeping Your Paycheck

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Dear Friend,

This post is a side-kick from yesterday’s post. I hope it’s still fresh in your head that choosing the ‘offensive’ attitude in the midst of current Malaysian economy is not only sensible but desirable.

And today, I’m going to help you get started with a SIMPLE part time, free time, leisure time and ‘to kill time’ activity which has become very popular and making a headline among Politicians and Businessman alike - BLOGGING!

It’s exactly like what you’re reading now. You can make yours ‘looks’ and ‘feels’ better of course.

Majalah PC, a local PC mag, in their Issue #127, July 2007 reported that Asia has the highest blog reader with Japan topping the chart with 74% active blog reader.

English is the bloggers’ language of choice:39% and Japanese came in second at 33%.

Bottom line: Blogging is one of the favorite pass-time and it can be profitable.

The question is,”HOW?”

That my Friend is exactly what I’m going to share with you BUT first…

Why BLOG?

Yeah, why blog? Why not e-mails? Websites? Podcast?

I can’t tell you the reasons of others but I personally like the simplicity of setting up a blog.

It gets even better for ‘part-timers’ or ‘leisure seekers’ like us because we can set it up for free!

Yup F-R-E-E…don’t have to pay a single red cent.

There are 2 favorite choices:

  1. Blogger. This is still ‘all time’ favorite (based on the response in one of my favorite forums) and many prefer Blogger platform due to its’ user friendly features and monetization channels (I’ll explain what this means later). Take a look at one of my blog here as an example.
  2. Wordpress. It’s a good choice if you’re into flashy design, almost complete content management system and more user control but the biggest drawback is in its limited monetization option. I have a blog set-up on this platform here.

Now, since we’re going to use blog as a way to earn extra income in our free-time, without having to leave our ‘beloved’ jobs (not just yet), obviously BLOGGER got my highest recommendation!

Why Blogger?

Here are my top picks:

  1. It’s own by Google. So? Google will index your blog ‘faster’, which means you can get your blog into the Search Result pages - pages that Google displays when you type in a search or querry - in a shorter period of time compared to a normal Search Engine URL submissions, which could easily take about 3 to 6 months therefore you get ’seen’ faster. Get it? Ok.
  2. It’s user friendly. If you’ve never build a blog before maybe this is something you can’t imagine but picture 2 houses. Both have a few doors leading to the toilet and that’s where you’re going. If that’s your first time in the house, and you really need to answer ‘nature’s’ call, which house would you prefer - the one that all the doors are like a maze and you have to guess before reaching the toilet or the house that with a single twist of the doorknob sends you straight to it? The choice is obvious right? And that’s what Blogger like to a beginner. It’s so much easier to post to Blogger.
  3. This is the killer part. You can choose multiple ways to monetize your blog. Monetizing your blog simply means ‘make money, make profit, create income from your blog’. This choice is SEVERELY limited for Wordpress.com (it’s a different story if you host it on your own domain but that’s the topic for some other day). Want to see what’ll happen if you try to actively monetize your Wordpress.com blog? Just go here and you see what I mean.

Remember that our aim is to create a way to enable us to earn extra income in our spare time, preferably a ‘no-cost,high-return’ method. Hmm…lets make it reasonably high. Not going to give you false hope here…

How to begin?

Phew! That will take more than a single blog post to cover. So, I tell you what my Friend, why don’t I make this ’simple’ and easy for all of us. Everything you need to know about setting up a Blogger account and properly monetize it is contained in this f.r.e.e report.

It’s yours to download whenever you please - Blogging For Profit (you can click the link or the report image)

blog for profit

Now, downloading this report is just the beginning. Reading it and applying its ideas and tips is the next logical step.

Where do we go from here?

There’s an undisputed, proven Online Success formula that we can follow and for the next few days, I’m going to help you to walk through this formula (watch the word ‘walk’ - it’s not simply tell).

Until then, keep your chin high and make use of those spare time to earn extra income while keeping your monthly paycheck. Not at all a bad idea don’t you think?

Nezrul