Marketing Online Secrets

The Shocking Truth of Domain Name Registration

Read this before you register your domain name.

Many internet marketers get their domain names from Go Daddy. There have been some controversies concerning Go Daddy. Some would recommend them without reservation, while there are some others that would warn you against getting your domain name from them.

None of them would tell you why you shouldn’t get your domain name from Go Daddy. Until I find out the shocking truth from this report.

The Resource Report is a free report given out by top internet marketer Mike Filsaime. In it, he revealed the online resources that he has been using for his successful internet business. He is well-known for using video marketing and his video resources are worth checking out. Mike Filsaime’s personal story on domain name is a sobering reminder of how easily you could lose lots of money and your business with one innocent incident. Gosh, this incident alone cost him $40,000 on lost sales and business!

Find out the shocking truth of domain name registration first hand from him. Look out also for his incredible one-time offer with plenty of great stuff.

My recommendation for domain name registration $1.99/1st yr. domains from Yahoo!

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Top 5 Problems of Internet Marketing Newbies

Being an internet marketing newbie is the toughest place to be. We are in the world’s most competitive market. So don’t despair if you don’t get there immediately. These are some common problems that we face everyday.

1) Traffic no enough.
This has to be the number 1 complaint of all newbies, I guess. When you have a new site, you want to be indexed by the major search engines. Then after you are indexed, you are still not happy because when you do a Google search, your site is found on page 194 for your main keyword, and you don’t get any organic traffic.

To get organic traffic, you need links from sites with some page-ranks. And that’s where all your hard work begins. You need to get busy submitting to article directories, site directories, social network, put up classified ads, post in forums, exchange links, buy links….you get the idea.

2) Content no enough.
Where do you find things to write about if you are not an expert in that field? That’s one thing. And supposedly you managed to find enough stuff to blog about everyday, how do you overtake those granddaddy sites that have been around for 5 years or longer, and have hundreds of indexed pages? You can try to ‘cheat’ by syndicating content, but seriously I don’t think that’s a long term strategy. Some say that it is a matter of finding out what your readers want to read and give it to them. Don’t be upset if you don’t know what they want, I’m trying to figure out that one too

3) Time no enough
Is it any wonder that time is not enough? Not only you have to update your blog with fresh content, you need to do all you can to drive traffics, look for products to sell, and even plan your business. Ever since i got on the internet marketing bandwagon, my newspapers have been piling high, the dust on my furniture are also getting thicker…as i have no time to clear them.

I have found these tools quite handy in saving my time to do everything. My favorite: Roboform. Be prepared to fill up tons of forms in this business. This little toolbar saves all my logon password securely and fills up forms automatically. You know how some silly website will force you to re-submit the entire form again if you miss out one entry? My little Roboform will come to the rescue will just a click of the button…

Another great tool is Brad Callen’s free article submitter. It listed out about 80 article directories in terms of page rank and Alexa ranking, and cut down my time in manually submitting articles. I like it that it keeps a record of what has been submitted all on one page, so that I can keep track of my submission. The free directory submittor does the same thing for directory submission to 350 directories.

4) Focus no enough.
In internet marketing, everyone is trying to sell everyone else something. Just Google for free stuff and I get an avalanche of free newsletters, ebooks, articles and software to download. Everyday, it is a tough job fending off the temptations to buy, buy, buy… And the more you are distracted by all these offers, the less time you have to get any work done.

5) Money no enough
Of course the last problem has to be the lack of money. Why are we here if we don’t need some? The paradox of internet marketing is that you need to spend before you can earn. I have not heard of any newbies that can start an online business without spending any money. For me, I always try to minimise my spending by using free resources if I can. But there are some basic necessities that you have to spend on, such as domain names, web-hosting, internet connection…That’s why you should keep your day job (no matter how boring it is) to fund your online business. The gurus will advise you to quit only after your online income match your day job pay.

I know its human nature to go for easy money, but be very wary of get-rich-quick scams. They will empty out your wallet before you can blink. How do I know whether it is a scam? I’ll usually just google for the product or its review and that should give me some idea.

Do you have your own unique solutions to these problems? Share them here.

Tags: Internet marketing, newbies, online business, problems

ReaL Internet Income Event Update

So did you go for Ewen Chia’s Real Internet Income Workshop on 1st - 2nd September in Singapore? I was there, and here’s a brief update for those who couldn’t make it.

The 2-days seminar was really power-packed. In person, Ewen Chia is a friendly, helpful and straight-forward guy. Throughout the seminar, he shared with us his valuable experiences in internet marketing. I am shocked and amazed by his multi-million business model, which is so incredibly simple that almost anybody can implement if they put in the commitment and effort. The beauty of simplicity!

Ewen Chia also shared freely his secrets on how to find a money-making market, how to find and create a product, how to drive traffic (paid and free methods) and more. He also featured the successful websites of his students that had adopted his models. I really appreciate that he elaborated only on those techniques that he had used and worked for him, rather than just a list of methods in general.

During the seminar, he would just randomly pluck an Adword ad, a website or an article, and show us how to improve on it ‘live’. He even showed us how to setup a 1-page website using a website builder in a few minutes, without going through any scary html.

It is encouraging to know that even though Ewen Chia is self-admittedly a technophobe(he told us that he only learned FTP 2 weeks ago!), he is wildly successful in the internet business. So if you know how to do FTP and more, you are probably more technically savvy than Ewen Chia!;-)

I am truly grateful that I had attended this seminar. I have learnt a lot from Ewen’s teaching and it has certainly shortened my learning curve. After attending his seminar, I am convinced that making money online is for real and extremely do-able, if one can just focus, and commit your time and resources to make it happen.

I am not sure when Ewen Chia will be conducting his next workshop, but if you are interested to learn more from him, I highly recommend one of his bestselling ebook Autopilot Profits.