Internet Marketing Made Easy http://joshuayip.com Demystifying the Buzz Word - Internet Marketing - Showing you the Money too Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:02:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en I Made My First Affiliate Sale … By Accident http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/i-made-my-first-affiliate-sale-by-accident/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/i-made-my-first-affiliate-sale-by-accident/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:01:10 +0000 joshuayip advertisement programadvertising revenueearning moneyinterest groupsinternet marketingmarketingsimple steps sale credit adword products working clicks affiliate clickbank http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/i-made-my-first-affliate-sale-by-accident/
I have been working on affialiate marketing, not so much to blogging and adsense kind of combination for the last 2 months. I went around on the Internet searching for some free Google Adword credit and some Yahoo advertisement network credit. I found some coupon somewhere, but it was really semi working, I had to write to Google and Yahoo a few emails before they really credit the money to me. So I will not put that here because it’s not entirely a full working coupon.

After reading an ebook called Adword Arbitrage, I was inspired to get some affiliate products up as soon as possible. I went into ClickBank and randomly picked one two affiliate products from ClickBank. It seems to be a good deal as every sale I make , I could earn 50 dollars comission. I got myself a “hop” link. The products was on insurance and cars, and house from the USA. Something about state auction. I also signed up for the affiliate program by my web hosting company. They’ve got a pretty good commision level too. For every web hosting package I sell for them, they pay me USD 65, every reseller USD 40, and every Virtual Private Server, USD 80.

Now, I spent like 3 days or nights, searching for the right keywords for these items so that I could place Adword ads (which will translate into Adsense). The keyword being used however, was going to cost about USD 10 per click (example : web hosting) . I wasn’t sure what was going on my mind, but I surely didn’t weight the cost properly. After setting up the campaign, I let it start running.

Day 1 - I see that my Adsense was being served. But there was no clicks. I presume there would be no sale either.

Day 2- I had a few clicks. 10 dollars was no more. I was starting to worry because after this USD 50 is gone, they will start charging my credit card! Gosh….

Day 3- My Google Adword play money has only USD 25 left. I had impression, I had clicks, but I had no sale. ZERO CONVERSION…

I stopped the experiment and started thinking, what did I do wrong. The first thing would probably be being too greedy. Secondly I was aiming at all the popular and products which advertisers are willing to pay a lot for your clicks.

I give up… I told myself I would come back with a new strategy.

Today is the day of my come back. Because I was pleasently surprised again! USD 80 dollar in my email from my hosting company. Saying I made a SALE!!!! YAY!!! Wherever did that come from I don’t know. Maybe Google brought them to my affiliate link ? But whatever it is, let this be my wake up call, there is money to be made in Affliate Marketing and it is up to me to make it

Wish me luck!

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/i-made-my-first-affiliate-sale-by-accident/feed/ Money Grows on Websites http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/money-grows-on-websites/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/money-grows-on-websites/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:37:06 +0000 joshuayip google adsense seed water water plan grow elements sowed reflection http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/money-grows-on-websites/ 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.

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/09/02/money-grows-on-websites/feed/ Reflection From The Last 3 Months http://joshuayip.com/2007/06/01/reflection-from-the-last-3-months/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/06/01/reflection-from-the-last-3-months/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:24:51 +0000 joshuayip deploymentdomain nameinterest groupsinternet marketinglessons learnedniche learned continue avatar test click months lessons things http://joshuayip.com/2007/06/01/reflection-from-the-last-3-months/ 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.

Your Google Adsense code should be here, but you forgot to edit the plugins/adsense.php file and replace the code there with your own.

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

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/06/01/reflection-from-the-last-3-months/feed/ Make Money Off “How To Make Money” Ebook http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/15/make-money-off-how-to-make-money-ebook/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/15/make-money-off-how-to-make-money-ebook/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:47:23 +0000 joshuayip advertising revenuebull shitearning moneyjon fischermaking money on the internetnothing but the truthunethical ebook spending selling ebooks crusade years exposed make http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/15/make-money-off-how-to-make-money-ebook/ 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!
Your Google Adsense code should be here, but you forgot to edit the plugins/adsense.php file and replace the code there with your own.
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

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/15/make-money-off-how-to-make-money-ebook/feed/ Rich Shefren Strategic Profits - Creating Momentum http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/rich-shefren-strategic-profits-creating-momentum/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/rich-shefren-strategic-profits-creating-momentum/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:40:21 +0000 joshuayip internet marketerjoint venture shefren talk momentum creating program stephen pierce rich http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/rich-shefren-strategic-profits-creating-momentum/ 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.
Your Google Adsense code should be here, but you forgot to edit the plugins/adsense.php file and replace the code there with your own.

Rich Shefren

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.

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/rich-shefren-strategic-profits-creating-momentum/feed/ Stephen Pierce Webcast - For Your Internet Success http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/stephen-pierce-webcast-for-your-internet-success/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/stephen-pierce-webcast-for-your-internet-success/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:30:36 +0000 joshuayip making money on the internetprofoundstart a blog stephenpiercewebcast0603200 images joshuayip http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/11/stephen-pierce-webcast-for-your-internet-success/ I have been considering whether I should be attending a seminar by Stephen Pierce for sometime
and eventually I have decided to give it ago after hearing so many good things about from Rich Schefren. Well, I am a newbie in this, I look for introduction, I look for references.

Stephen Pierce For Your Internet Success

That is how I am starting out. So I am not sure about you, but this sounds good enough a recommendation. It so happen this is a WebCast that it was going to be taking place in the evening, so I said why not, it’s free! This webcast is by a local company whose website is www.srpl.net

I spend 45 minutes listening to how profound whatever Stephen said and find that I couldn’t agree more. I thought if he is going to market me something like a real course, I should probably sign up. That is my initial thought.

Well, eventually I changed my mind after listening to Rich Schefren…

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/07/stephen-pierce-webcast-for-your-internet-success/feed/ Made the leap to WordPress 2.1.2 http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/06/made-the-leap-to-wordpress-212/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/06/made-the-leap-to-wordpress-212/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:31:24 +0000 joshuayip anacondacpanel hostingdatabase backuphtaccesssimple stepssimple thoughtswordpress leap made features tested noteworthy categories opportunity settled http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/06/made-the-leap-to-wordpress-212/ I have finally made the leap to WordPress 2.1.2 . It seems to be quite stable and provided many new features which is noteworthy, such as auto-saving. I have taken the opportunity to add more categories, plugins, tested some themes and settled down to Anaconda from Angsuman who have Simple Thoughts

Overall the feeling is great to finally achieve this update. I have worked out a simpler strategy to update WordPress. Some may not agree, but it does take away the pain of waiting for the files to be deleted from the server

Here are my simple steps

  1. Renamed the “public_html” folder to “public_html_wpXXX” (where XXX is version) (Cpanel hosting only)
  2. Upload the wordpress zip file.
  3. Using File Manager, unzip the file. A directory called “wordpress” is created after unzip is complete
  4. Rename the “wordpress” folder to “public_html”
  5. Change the permission of this new “public_html”to 755 if your host have implemented some security feature in your hosting account (eg Zend)
  6. Using File Manager / FTP software, copy the file .htaccess wp-config.php from “public_htmlXXX” to “public_html”.
  7. Copy the whole “wp-content” from “public_htmlXXX” to “public_html”.
  8. Run your upgrade script. If you don’t remember, just go try login and you will be prompted for upgrade.
    Remember to DISABLE ALL PLUGIN AND download your database backup first before you attempt to do this.

Thumbs Up Enjoy!

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/03/06/made-the-leap-to-wordpress-212/feed/ Making My First Attempt http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/making-my-first-attempt/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/making-my-first-attempt/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:43:44 +0000 joshuayip advertisement programbloggercontextualearning moneygoogle adsensemaking money on the internetstart a blogwordpress adsense adsminded download themes advertisement theme contextual dosh http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/making-my-first-attempt/ As an Internet Marketeer, one has to learn the ins and outs of making money on the Internet. The current trend that we have, which everyone is crazy about is earning money through Google Adsense. Today, any five year old can start a blog. Free blogs are available at blogger.com, wordpress.com…etc. However, choosing a good platform (the different of blogging software -ie. WordPress, TypePad, MovableType) gives you an edge other the other. I choose WordPress. Simply because I am not familiar with the others. But primarily it is because I feel comfortable using it. The user experiences is superb.

As I get into Internet Marketing, I am now preparing my blog towards marketing. Marketing what you say ? By placing advertisement on my website, I am marketing something. Whatever is being advertised here will depend on what Google’s contextual advertisement program has decided (Adsense).

I found a blog post at Dosh dosh 16 Adsense ready themes, which I can just go to the WordPress control panel and click to select (after I have uploaded them using my FTP software). I am trying out AdsMinded.

It looks pretty decent. Just click on the Download link and unzip.
Upload the theme and the plugins activate it and we are ready to rock and roll. :)

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/making-my-first-attempt/feed/ Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.9 http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/upgraded-to-wp209/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/upgraded-to-wp209/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:04 +0000 joshuayip http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/upgraded-to-wp209/ I keep forgetting I am suppose to be blogging about Internet Marketing. However this is another post on upgrading WordPress to 2.0.9. Just in case if anyone is interested on what are the files changes from WordPress 2.0.7 to WordPress 2.0.9 this is the link to it

]]> http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/28/upgraded-to-wp209/feed/ Ella, You are Warned ! http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/27/ella-you-are-warned/ http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/27/ella-you-are-warned/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:19:27 +0000 joshuayip http://joshuayip.com/2007/02/27/ella-you-are-warned/ Do you have faint heart and stress syndrome? If yes, you might not want to upgrade to Ella yet. I have spent 6 hours trying to upgrade from WP 2.0.7 to Ella 2.1 (I got a little greedy and went ahead up to 2.1.1), but failed miserably.After more searching on the WordPress forum, I was surprised to see so many people having headaches after upgrade.Warning : Ella

A word of warning : If you have not the time,and you just want to focus on blogging and Internet Marketing, forget about upgrading for a while. You may not want those kind of headache to get in the way. I will just keep to WP2.0.7 for now, of course if you have a new installation, it’s worth trying out. Ella does auto saving which means you have lesser risk of losing your post should your browser chooses to crash on you when you are writing your post