Have you ever felt the urge to do something so strongly that you take extreme measures to get there? I DO! After struggling to juggle between day job and trying to build an income online I find that I am getting no where. So I QUIT! I quit my high paying job in a multinational company to work on my Internet empire.

It is a huge risk. But I don’t think it is a mistake. A JOB gets you no where. It helps your organization achieves it’s business objective but never your life objective. So if you have to live your life, live it NOW ane live today!

Did you know, if you have sowed a good seed, and water it for sometime, whatever that you plan will eventually grow? But did you also know, with the Internet, many other elements “water” the same seed for you. From my last blog on Reflection, the search engine has been bringing traffic to my experimental site.
Those who have found the site useful have added the website as a link on their page. What I have learned from this is

1. The name of your website matters
2. The content of your website will gain competitive advantage if its unique.
3. Exposure yourself passively, people will come
4. Wait for the magic from search engine.

From the last I blog, the site have grown another 15 dollars in Adsense advertising revenue, without any new articles added. Imagine if I were to put some money into fix deposit, how long will it take for you to get 15 dollars? I was pleasantly surprised by this.

This is one of those times where one sits down and think about what he has done and what he can do to make things better. I set out to be an Internet Marketer, I repeat, Internet Marketer. I have been reading and experimenting with many things. One of them is setting up a blog and writing good quality content.

For the past 6 months, around 40 articles was posted into this blog on a food introduction niche in my country. There were existing interest groups which quickly became curious about this blog. Here are my lessons learned:

1. Picking a good domain name which arouses curiousity / has an impression of a certain credibility will likely earn more clicks than not
2. Pick a cute avatar which you know you yourself is likely to click on to view what’s with the guy or gal behind it. My yellow bear avatar is what I mean
3. Monetize your blog instantly with ready adsense / monetized theme will cut your work. Always have a ready to go blog deployment setup
4. Test out your click through rate (CTR)
5. Never stop learning

It has became a MUST to continue to learn things in the area of Internet Marketing everyday. This determines how you will succeed in the shortest time.

With the above test an experiment, I have made USD 5.00 from adsense. But I have gained at least USD 5,000 of lessons learned from these simple experiments.

I will continue to blog and share with you my journey to success

One of the things that turn me off from marketing online or Internet Marketing a few years back was that I have found that people are mostly making money off selling ebooks on “How to Make Money”. I am not saying this kind of ebook is illegal or should be banned. But if one is selling it in order to get rich, he or she is not really being very ethical in communicating the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I suppose if you are looking at an ebook that teaches you “How to Make Money”, the first thing you would tend to assume is that the author is sharing his secrets!

Countless people have fallen into buying ebooks from authors like these who rakes from your hard earn money. What more could be more vicious is when they even offer you the resell rights to do the same.

This really pisses me off sometimes and it was that one reason which I find it unethical to be doing Internet Marketing.Of course I had the whole idea wrong. I didn’t know there were other type of affiliates other than ebook affiliates!!

However, recently I have found myself looking at the new facts again. Internet advertising spending has grossed to USD$16.8 million. I asked myself, if the Internet advertising revenue is so huge, so it means the E-commerce spending is much more than that! And NO… they can’t all be selling ebooks!!! I gather enough guts and went exploring this part of the cyberworld again – Internet Marketing.

For the first few months, I still had the same impression. But after joining some forums and getting to know some friends in the same business, I got to know more of Internet Marketing than I ever did in the last 4 years. ChiaYee has introduced me to Jon Fischer’s blog . Jon has been in Affiliate Marketing for the last 12 years and has been VERY successful. Raking off millions too…

I enjoyed his blog very much. He doesn’t bull shit you. He curses and swears , but all at the right things!!! Just last week he launched a CRUSADE to EXPOSE self proclaim gurus who Make Money Off “How To Make Money” Ebook . His first “guru” exposed is DuvetDollars

10 minutes after listening to Stephen Pierce, I was still reminiscing the last session. My Yahoo notified me of a new email. Boy it was from Rich Shefren, which is an email talking about creating momentum for your Internet Marketing business. Now I have been listening to some of the google videos, YouTube videos of Rich, whom I believe to be a successful Internet Marketer. However I am not too sure about this. I thought myself I will just try to get involved and see what’s the real ball game like.

The talk started such that it was like a follow up of the previous video. After 5 minutes my brain started to tell me something familiar. Yes, I have listened to this talk before. It sound too familiar… where have I listened to this before ???

A minute later I soon realized this presentation is EXACTLY the same as the one Stephen Pierce presented through the webcast 15 minute ago!!

Well, I do believe they are on some kind of joint venture to promote a certain program or course work. Needless to say the program is soon becoming like a franchaise program which they have sold only to few top “gurus” . I get a larger picture from this, but I don’t feel I want to go to their blogs and RANT. I felt pretty sorry for those guys who commented at their blog saying how CORRECT they are, never realizing they were reading from a script. I may the the ONLY person to have found this, probably by chance. But if you are a keen reader on my blog, you will of course get to know this.

I am not saying their program is no good, but I am just saying if one is trying to sell you something, I hope they have the decency to provide a good, real, honest, from their experience marketing talk, not a canned speech written by someone and only to be read by them.

I am very much a newbie in every area of Internet Marketing. Hence, learning from well established player is a must. I made a point to read the blogs / RSS I have subscribed through BlogLines and since Andrew Wee’s blog started with “A”, he gets me to read him first.

Something about outsourcing to some programmer, which cost him some lessons I guess. But when I scrolled further down, I was shocked to find a guy’s face there in the comment section. What’s this? Andrew Wee’s programmer cracked another joke?

Then I realized it was Glenn’s picture. A commenter. Sorry Glenn, but you are blocking my view there. I can’t see anything at the back. Thanks to that whatever you were trying to link to MyBlogLog