What do you want to know about Internet Marketing and Making Money Online?
Hi, Shun-Jian here.
So, I started this internet marketing blog because a lot of people know about the success I’ve enjoyed online and have approached me to ask different questions on internet marketing and making money online.
Instead of answering them one by one, I thought it would be a good idea to collect your questions as comments on this blog entry and answer them (in days to come) on this blog so that more people can benefit at the same time.
Now what I need you to do is to help me help you.
Please tell me by leaving a comment at the end of this blog entry:
“What do you want to know about Internet Marketing and Making Money Online?”
It would help tremendously if you can phrase your question(s) as specifically as possible because questions like “How do you make money online?“, for example, are too broad to be answered meaningfully.
So, what’re you waiting for?
This is a rare opportunity for you to ask me your most burning questions on internet marketing…
Seize it and fire away!
P.S. If you know anyone who’s struggling with internet marketing and can benefit from this, feel free to direct them here by sharing this blog post with them!
Tagged as: Internet Marketing Questions · Questions on Making Money Online
Shun Jian, Can you share who can we contact for set up a personal Blog for internet marketing .I like the conrald Blog format (presentation is neat)Do you know who and contact? set up for conrald Blog? How muct will it cost to set up such a Blog?
Win Chong, I’m holding a workshop this Sunday (5 Sept 2010)… Get back to me if you’re interested.
hi shunjian,
we met during the YOG fireworks. remember us?
please email me the details for this sept 5 workshop.
thanks in advance,
friend of locke.
Emailed =)
Hi Win Chong,
If you’re able to wait, I would be conducting mini-workshops in Oct/Nov this year on setting up your own personal blog.
Basically the steps to set up your personal blog include:
1) Getting your own domain name
2) Getting and paying for your own hosting.
3) Linking your domain name to your hosting account
4) Setting up wordpress on your own domain
5) Installing and activating themes and plugins
The oost for a domain name is around US$10/year and that for hosting is usually less than US$10/month.
For themes (which are basically design templates for your site), there are both free and paid ones available depending on your requirements and budget.
For your info, Conrad is actually using a wordpress theme for his website (which means it’s not a custom design that could cost a lot of money). In my opinion, that’s the best way to go for any beginner starting up.
You don’t want to spend too much money on the design of your site, but you do want to invest the necessary money on the essentials such as web hosting.
Hope that helps!
Nice post about setting up a blog.
~V~Mosso
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Shun-Jian
I would be interested to hear more about your successes online and the techniques that you use. Are you into affiliate marketing, or CPA?
I have recently started affiliate marketing and in particular article marketing so would be interested to hear any tips or techniques that you could share.
All the best
Tom
Hey Tom, you can read more about my online success here
I’m more into affiliate marketing rather than CPA and I make use of PPC, Email Marketing & Social Media Marketing together with blogging.
The principles of article marketing are similar to that for blogging. Obviously, you need great content. You need a killer headline. And most importantly, you need a strong call to action…
The purpose of article marketing is to drive traffic back to your sites. Ideally, you should link back to your squeeze page with your byline/author bio paragraph by making a compelling offer:
For eg… “Love what you read? Click here to sign up for my FREE internet marketing email course!”
You can offer a free ebook, a free email course and/or a free email newsletter subscription… Of course it must be relevant to the article that you’re sending to the article directories.
Standard SEO practices apply. Make sure you have your keywords in the title of your article as well as scattered throughout your entire article. Don’t spam though! Or you’ll be penalized.
A good density would be about 2%.
Hope that helps!
sound very interesting about your journey of earning money online.do you think it worth to spend lot of money on program which teach how to earn money online?
Zeesu, you need to be careful when investing in programs that teach you how to make money online. There are a lot of get-rich-quick schemes out there…
I’ve personally spent over $20,000 on seminars and courses for personal development as well as internet marketing. And definitely I got ripped off before… I just have to treat it as a lesson learned and move on.
One guideline is… If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I want to learn much about internet marketing
I hope to keep this short and sweet:
1. what is basic setup capital/cost to start such business? please advise on some figure to begin with.
2. how and where do you get products to sell?
3. how and where do you get customers to buy?
4. what is difference between hosting business and internet marketing?
thanks for your kind attention.
Yap
Hi Yap, the cost for starting an internet business is quite cheap.
You can
1) Get a domain name for about US$10/year
2) Get hosting for less than US$10/month (basic plan)
3) Get an autoresponder for less than US$20/month
That works out to be only about US$30/month or less than US$400 a year!
Advertising is optional… though I highly recommend it because you can get traffic fast and you can set your own budget for that (an amount you are comfortable with). I started with US$50 on google adwords.
For products, you can look through clickbank, commission junction and amazon. These are the biggest affiliate networks.
As for getting people to buy, you must first provide massive value. I detail how I do that in the following blog post:
How I made S$103,789.85 in revenue from Affiliate Marketing in 2009
Please read it thoroughly because I spent the time to write about all the steps you can model for your own success in internet marketing.
As for your last question… I don’t really get what you mean… feel free to elaborate. Thanks!
This is amazing making millions thru internet marketing. It is my goal now to earn much since I did not save for my retirement and now me and my husband are living alone. Our children are all married and living on their own. I’m in the insurance business as commissioned agent and income cant suffice needs. How do I start this thing. thanks
Esther, refer to my previous comment (the one above you) where I talk about how you need to get your own domain name and hosting first. Then read about my internet marketing journey… and what I had to go through.
Obviously I’m assuming you already have a niche in mind… a niche is like a market you want to get in, that you can build up your expertise in…
To find out more about niches, I suggest you opt-in and watch this video now
Come back and share what you’ve learned and ask more questions…
But you must do what I say first… no point asking and asking and not implementing… you only learn by doing…
Hi,
i want to know how to promote a product.iam still very new to internet maketing and i dont know how to go about it exactly.
Hi James, since you’re new to IM, I’d rather you focus on learning about affiliate marketing first. Don’t waste your time creating a product when you haven’t even learned how to sell one.
How to generate four figures consistenly online from your blog or website every single month instead of chum change.
Penny, read this:
How I made S$103,789.85 in revenue from Affiliate Marketing in 2009
Hi Shun Jian,
Is your online income mainly through blogging? Based on your personal experience and income earned, are you earning more through selling physical products on CJ?
Cheers
Javier
Javier, most of my income comes from affiliate sales of digital products/services… not physical products… I do make money from amazon etc but they pale in comparison to the amount I make from digital products/services
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Can you list out the method you have used to make money online through affiliate marketing? I read through ebooks but i dun really think they are very practical. Most of them are too good to believe or too simple that only scratch the surface. I already know how to get products from clickbank. I just want to know how to sell them. It’s great if you’re willing to share your valuable experience with me.
Dense, I gather that you’ve read through a number of ebooks and perhaps they have all been saying the same thing… (based on the same foundations)
And I understand that after reading them, you may feel that, hey I don’t want to read about this… I want to learn new and exciting strategies and tactics! That’s really normal… even I tend to do that… we are only humans… we are excited by new and exciting things….
However, you have to realize that unless you implement what you read and get the results, you’ll never know FOR SURE if it works for you… a lot of tactics/strategies/ideas discussed in the ebooks you’ve read may be simple… but you know what, it doesn’t matter if they are simple or not, what matters is if they work! And just reading and deciding in your mind, if they do work or not, instead of ACTUALLY TESTING THEM OUT won’t cut it.
Do yourself a favor. Re-read any one of your ebooks… TAKE JUST ONE TACTIC and IMPLEMENT IT… even if you think it’s silly, even if you think it won’t work… even if you think it’s simple… JUST DO IT… Then see what happens… The questions you’ll be asking after you’ve taken the most crucial step of implementing and getting feedback will be so much more different than the ones you ask by analyzing the tactics in your head and not actually trying them out.
Hi Shun Jian,
I really admire you internet marketing success especially your RichGrad.com blog.
For myself, I have managed so far to set up my own website (purchased a domain and web host) and simply got it to redirect to one of my affiliate URL links (Is it too simple? Or what else should I do with the domain? A blog?). I have also set up a landing page to build my list (in a subdirectory). The problem lies with traffic driving… I have almost no idea (even with all the resources and help I can find on the internet) on how to drive good, targeted traffic to my site. So far, all I have done is written a few articles on ezinearticles.com . And for some reason, they seem to be getting ultra low views (10>), which I believe is because I chose an extremely competitive niche. I also do not wish to spend money on PPC and ads first.
I have just started and I’d like advice from you.
You can contact me at darylimjz@gmail.com , and I’d like to hear from you.
Cheers
Daryl
Hi Daryl, thanks… it took a lot of hard work to build up my blog to where it is today =P
If you’re asking me whether having a domain that redirects to an affiliate link is enough, I would have to say no. I mean, I do have domains like that… but I have other domains “doing the work” supporting those “affiliated” domains.
First thing I would suggest is that you mask the domain instead of redirect. You just have to go to your domain registrar or your web host to do it (there’s an option to mask). Masking the domain works better than redirects because your prospects won’t be suspicious about where they are being led… imagine if I typed in google.com and suddenly I find myself at yahoo.com, I’ll be thinking to myself hey what the hell happened? (haha I added that for dramatic effect but you know what I mean)
Second thing I would suggest is you start a blog that supports this “affiliated” domain. That’s one of the ways you can drive quality traffic to your affiliate link/domain.
Third thing is I want to open your eyes to the fact that there’s no free lunch in the world – Do you know I only started experiencing success when I experimented with PPC? You may think that you don’t want to really spend money on making money… you want to use “free” methods. But is there really such a thing as “free”?
At the end of the day, we are either using TIME or MONEY to make money… Using time to make money doesn’t give us leverage and it’s just like working in a job… the real leverage comes from using MONEY to make MONEY… If you take a look at my facebook pictures, you would realize that I’m partying and traveling around the world almost ALL THE TIME. And the reason I can do that is because I’m leveraging on adwords / PPC, leveraging on autoresponders, leveraging on a system that I took time to build up ( which I explained in my article on how I made a 6 figure income online ) which now runs by itself and generates me passive income every month.
Am I saying that ezinearticles doesn’t work? No of course not… many people are experiencing tremendous success with traffic from ezinearticles! The only thing you might not know is… they don’t write just one or two articles…. they write 100′s and even 1000′s of articles which brings in a few visitors a day… Obviously when the number of visitors to your affiliate links increase, that also increases the likelihood of a sale (assuming that the product you’re promoting is good and has a reasonable to high conversion rate)
So what I am saying is you need to shift your mindset to not think of advertising/outsourcing (paying people to write articles for you) as an expense but as an investment. You need to manage your ROI very carefully and that takes a lot of testing and money that you’re prepared to lose (to do the testing)… but once you discover a product that converts (and a system that maximizes conversions – all the way from traffic generation -> squeeze page -> opt-ins -> follow-ups -< sales), you can milk it for all its worth… which is what I’m doing =)
Hi, may I know how you usually approach your targeted buyers?
You choose a product, build a blog, create auto responder, then drive massive traffic to the blog? Is it like that?
Dense, I actually decide on the niche first, rather than a particular product.
Reason being… what if something happens to the product? Eg. the merchant decides not to offer the product for sale anymore or decides to go direct (not offering it through a channel where affiliates can make commissions off it anymore)
Like I always said, it’s best if you find a niche you’re interested and passionate about… buy your domain name/s (either using your own name or keywords related to your topic or using a name where you can build up a brand), get a reliable web host, build a blog up on the topic filled with valuable content, set up your autoresponder + squeeze page and build a mailing list (by driving massive traffic to your blog and squeeze page), keep mailing your readers/subscribers content they’d love, build up your credibility and trust, find products that would fit your list and make recommendations to them why those products would help them… rinse and repeat
If you do it well enough, you don’t even have to worry about looking for great products to promote to your list because product owners will start emailing you regarding joint ventures and you can pick and choose the products that will appeal most to your list.
Of course, you need to take into consideration the profit potential of a niche first by looking at the number of different products in the particular niche and the demand (how many people are searching for information related to the niche etc). If you jump into a niche that has little potential of returning a positive ROI or no visible products to promote, then no amount of hard work will help!
Hi Shun Jian, its me again, and I want to thank you for your great advice earlier! I understand that PPC is profitable and the ROI generated from investing in it is great, but you see… I am only 15 years old, if you should know. I have no credit card and all I purchase online I have to get consent from my parents. And being parents, they are really skeptical people. I already had a hard time convincing them to allow me to get the domain and web host, and to tell them about PPC… They’ll immediately go ‘wah lao this is a scam is it? how come need so much money?’ And I won’t be surprised if they ban me totally from IM (they think I’m playing games when I use the PC for long hours).
However, I really have a passion in IM and I am serious about achieving success in it.
Thus I still want (or rather I need) to make use of free traffic generation techniques. So far I have identified two of the most plausible ways : Article marketing and video marketing.
I will see how it goes with these two techniques and I’ll share with you later what comes out of it.
Also, I would like to know how I can get an eCover for a report/ebook designed for free (Yes unfortunately, free). Would it be easy to design one with e.g Adobe Photoshop easily?
Thanks once again!
(P.S I have added you in facebook already but I can’t seem to talk to you on chat, you’re unresponsive. Hope I’ll be able to talk to you soon)
Hi Daryl, my comp (and sometimes fb if I forget to close the firefox tab) is on 24/7… Most of the time, I might be afk doing other things. So if you don’t get a response it’s normal hahaha… you’ll have better luck here… because I can respond when I’m free =)
Since you’re a student, I’m sure you know other students who you can barter with right? Find a peer who’s good at photoshop and either promise to treat him/her lunch for helping you to design the ebook cover or help him/her with something that you’re good at (and they need help with)… HOPEFULLY IT’S NOT THEIR HOMEWORK! haha…
To Daryl,
I see we have the same passion in IM.
You want to take the path of article marketing huh. If you’re a newbie, then perhaps you can email me. I’ve something sweet for you to boost your article marketing. Nothing special, just the basic thing which can be very important if you do not have experience before this.
Besides, I can tell you the way to get your eCover done for a fair price. My method is as cheap as the one suggested by Shun Jian: treat a meal, but it is done more professionally.
If you’re interested then email me k.
ddddnk@gmail.com
Haha, well, the problem is that I’m a really loner guy and I don’t have much friends. Even most of the people I know in school are lifeless people (I assume) and/or tech-lousy. Let alone good design… Anyway recently there’s a cheap promotional student price for Adobe CS5 at only S$119. Do you think it will be helpful?
To Dense,
Sure, I’ll contact you soon. Look forward to working with you.
Daryl… that’s dirt cheap!!! You better grab it fast… it’s definitely a great investment… haha how I wish I were a student again… If I started IM at your age, I should be a billionaire by now (think facebook founders)
I’m totally new to IM. Shun Jian, would you mind to tell me the steps to become so successful like you?
You said you took “massive action” in your blog post “How I made S$103,789.85 in revenue from Affiliate Marketing in 2009″ but it’s very vague. I don’t understand what do you meant by “massive action”, so would you mind to tell everyone what to do, steps by steps in order to be like you?
Thank you so much if you willing to share the steps so I can implement, modify it and earn massive income too.
Danny, I’m glad you already read How I made S$103,789.85 in revenue from Affiliate Marketing in 2009. You know what I want you to do? I want you to re-read it again and then TAKE ACTION based on the blueprint (This is the most important part – TAKING ACTION). Remember what I said… Ready, FIRE, aim… take action first then refine along the way.
What do I mean by massive action? I mean reading over 200 ebooks/books on internet marketing, copywriting, traffic generation, list building, blogging etc and IMPLEMENTING (***key step***) what they suggest (no matter how stupid the idea/s appear to you). You never know if something works until you test it out! I’m serious… Reading and analyzing it over and over in your mind doesn’t count as implementing… you need to just DO IT before you realize how well those particular techniques/tactics work in your own niche/the product you’re trying to promote.
What I mean by taking massive action is working hard on your goal(s) without being swayed by distractions… You see all the partying and traveling pics on my facebook and you may think to yourself… “Hey that guy is really enjoying himself… he makes internet marketing seem effortless!” Well let me tell you something… this is the RESULT of working hard initially to build up the system and passive income…
My point is… when you’re starting out, you got to work harder than you ever did in any job! The payoff will come… if you’re willing to put in all the hard work first… and it’s not going to be easy… there will be people telling you to go “get a real job”… there will be people laughing at you… “What? You trying to make money off the internet??? You really think it’s possible? Hahahaha…” there will be people who will scoff at you when you tell them you’re an internet marketer (because of the misconceptions they have about IM) and they will start asking you how much you earn etc.
I’ve been through that phase. I’ve had family members telling me to GIVE UP… My mom would come into my room everyday and scold me for “playing computer games” (when I was actually working on making a full-time income from the internet). She would threaten to disown me if I “continue on a self-destructive path” of not working (for others)… And I don’t blame her at all… In fact, I thank her for that… I used her nagging as FIRE to make internet marketing work for me. I understood that she was still influenced by the traditional mindset of “study hard, get a good job, work hard and the money will come” and I was already in a different mindset all together (1. My success is my own responsibility… 100% 2. I work hard towards my goals no matter the obstacles that may come my way 3. No one can put a limit on my income potential/capability except myself… and I’m not going back to a “normal JOB” where someone could limit how much I earn!)
So in essence, massive action means moving forward even if everyone and everything else is trying to hold you back. Massive action means you focus on your goals instead of your obstacles. Massive action means you implement what you read instead of justifying why it won’t work. Massive action means… Ready, Fire, (a)IM… You do first, then you refine… then you do again… and you refine…
To Massive Action!!!
P.S. By the way, in case you haven’t already realized, my domain name was derived from the “Ready, Fire, Aim” concept… I decided to drop the A in Aim to make it “Ready, Fire, IM” (IM standing for Internet Marketing) =P
Hi its me again.
Currently I am in a dilemma on what niche I should go into… I had always thought this was the easiest step in IM but I am proven wrong by myself. I have always been deciding on the IM niche itself, but decided not to because : 1. I have not even made a single cent online, what rights do I have to teach people how to? 2. It is extremely competitive. 3. It is way too general. In IM there’re hundreds of sub-niches such as traffic-driving, list-building, website-making etc.
I’m not even sure if these reasons are valid or not. Should I get into the IM niche? It is something I am quite familiar with compared to almost any other thing. On top of that, I like it.
An alternative would be NLP/Success/Attraction. Just like RichGrad.com. I have a strong interest in all that. However the problem is, I’m not fully confident. I have no NLP certification even though I know a fair bit about it and I’m afraid its not enough. I am indeed success-oriented myself and I would like to help people and I already do, but the topic is then again too vague. Success consists of a truckload of information. I’m sure you know what I mean.
As a 15 year-old, choosing a niche is something tough IMO. After living only 15 years of life… Only the above two mentioned niches are possible for me. I have no other interest besides those two (I do, but they are : Business and Physics. In which I have no idea what kind of market I can enter with these keywords)
Your advice has been great so far and I’d like to know your take on this… Thanks
Hi Daryl, okay… if you’re asking me whether you should go into the IM niche or the Personal Development niche… I would vote for the latter.
Like you said, you’ve not made a single cent from Internet Marketing yet… How can you show people how to make money from the internet?
For me personally, if you noticed… I started out in the Personal Development niche… I read up so much about Internet Marketing (so as to grow my personal development blog) in the initial days and yes, I did think of going into the IM niche before also… but I decided against it for the same reasons you spoke of… I told myself at that time… One day, I will go into the IM niche… when I become successful in Internet Marketing… but not at that time when I was still struggling to make it… else everything that I teach would be just theory I read from books!
Truth be told, even when I became successful in Internet Marketing, I was hesitant in entering this niche… That’s why as you can see… I started this internet marketing blog almost one year ago and only started becoming more active here NOW. One reason is because of the “bad publicity” surrounding people in the niche… This is caused by scammers and people who are trying to teach others to make money when they themselves have not made any!
However, I was encouraged by many people around me who know that I’m the real thing… who literally begged me to come out and teach this stuff… I’m sure you realized this – I did not start out by teaching others how to make money on the internet… I actually made money on the internet FIRST… lots of it… and then decided maybe, just maybe, I should come out and help others who are trying to figure this stuff out. There’s a freaking big difference!
Anyway, the good thing is… you can model my success. When I started in the personal development niche, I didn’t brand myself as an expert or a guru. I actually told everyone… Hey I’m just a normal guy who’s passionate about self-growth… I invested about $20,000 of money I didn’t yet have (credit card loans – yes it was really risky but I was at a point where I needed massive change and I took a big gamble that thankfully paid off) on self-help and internet marketing seminars and I just freely shared what I learned in those self-help seminars with people on my personal development blog. And I used what I learned in internet marketing seminars and through books on that subject to market my blog…
Whenever I went for a personal development seminar, I will network with people there and tell them about http://RichGrad.com (offline marketing – be flexible!!!) because I know they are part of the audience I want to attract. Anyway I already paid thousand’s of dollars on those seminars… why not make some friends from there and bring in some readers to my blog? (Entrepreneurship and marketing mindset – seizing opportunities)
You can start off that way too… be humble… Let everyone know you don’t know everything but you’re willing to learn… and you’re willing to share what you learn… people will respond to you kindly… but remember… no matter what, you’ll always have critics… those are the people who are jealous of your (potential) success… those are the people who try to discourage you and hold you back so you’ll be at the same level as them… In life, it’s like that… But having critics is actually a good thing… If you read the very first blog post on my personal development blog, you’ll realize there are people who actually left nasty comments!! But hey, at least there are people who care enough to give a damn about what I do! Haha… and I know there will always be people coming to my defense anyway…
As long as you are doing good… and you’re providing true value… you don’t have to worry about the critics… the internet has a magical self-correcting mechanism in place… you can’t make everyone love you but you can’t make everyone hate you as well… As long as you have an opinion and are not afraid to voice it out, you will have people who will agree with you and you have people who will disagree with you and you will have people who don’t give a damn either way. Like I always said… Focus on your goals… Not your obstacles!
Watch this video to get a better idea of what I’m talking about:
How you can begin to attract more opportunities into your life!
And sign up for my personal development newsletter if you haven’t already done so… It’s free and you get 101 powerful affirmations as well!
I know you’re a 15 year old kid and you’re probably not going to buy anything I promote (because you may not have the financial ability to do so yet) but it’s all right… I have subscribers who have never bought a single thing before… At the same time, I have subscribers who buy every single product I promote. I’m not in it just for the money… because if I were, I would have given up long ago (remember I didn’t make any money for the first 7 months of my internet marketing journey!)…. I want to help as many people as I can… In fact, a part of the reason why I started my personal development blog is because I want to touch as many lives as I can and I know that the internet makes this possible…
And that’s one more lesson I can pass on to you… Don’t do it just for the money… Do it because you genuinely want to help people (in whichever niche you choose)… The money will come as a natural consequence =)
It takes lot of work to get started to have a business online. I have been doing some free advertising. I am getting some trickling results. I am on page 2 on Google so far and i was on page 150 about a week ago. I just keep plugging at it.
Hi Shun Jian. At first I thought your blog was an empty ploy, using keywords to gather customers etc. However I stayed, and have found some nuggets in your information. I can understand the position Daryl’s in – Lack of Funds! I have just started a new blog, started for, but not exclusive to Over 50′s who cannot get new jobs in this bleak economic climate, and there’s a website under construction too. Rather than just try to push products, both are concentrating on the ‘physical’ side of starting up (even advising a pad and paper! LOL). I have had comments previously, all saying the same things: “Information Overload, Confusion, Where To Start, How Do I . . .?, What Is A … ? How much Will It Cost?, Does It Work?, etc., and I will be trying to help people get there house in order, while they take their first steps. There will be: Do’s, Don’t's and Do Later’s, plus tips to avoid wasting money. All info and services from the blog are, and will remain free, so I want people to be able to trust me, and my word. Although it’s totally new, you’re welcome to take a look. http://fortyplusnewincome.blogspot.com/ Suggestions welcome. My other blog concentrates on a similar topic for Mac Users, which does bring it’s own difficulties.
Although one of the quickest ways to make money is PPC or Adsense, it is also one of the most expensive ways to get results, and also lose money in the process. If budgets are limited, other ways must be found. What the ‘gurus’ don’t explain is that alternative methods are usually slower! Unless you know differently?
Hi Alan, first of all, I see that you’re experiencing some problems with blogger/blogspot. What I would suggest is to install your own wordpress blog on your own domain. I talked about that in my previous comments above so you might want to check it out.
As to your main concern, I did mention before as well… There’s no such thing as truly “free”. You either use your time (to do seo or manual marketing… Commenting on forums/blogs etc to drive traffic back to your own blogs) or you use your money (investing in ppc/adwords advertising). “Free” methods of driving traffic (Aka using your time) are usually very slow as you correctly pointed out. I only achieved my breakthrough when I invested in ppc with only US$50 (as you can see, you don’t have to put your whole life savings into adwords!). What I did was to reinvest my earnings back to ppc and this allowed me to generate over US$100,000… I believe it’s not that you don’t have the budget for ppc… It’s that you haven’t realized how powerful a leverage ppc is!
Hi again Shun Jian,
Seems like the comment replies are more organised now. Sweet
I have finally created my own product, its an eBook on the Law of Attraction. I am thinking of pricing it at only $7.
But now I need to know how to market it… I don’t wish to do the old school method – doing up a whole sales page with a BS filled sales letter on it and then tirelessly drive traffic to it.
I’m sure there’re other ways, like I have just submitted it to ClickBank for approval. Do you know any?
And I was wondering, since you’re in the Personal Development niche as well (and have very well succeeded on top of that), if you could help market my eBook? I’m not expecting it for free of course. Maybe you could quote me a price for a solo ad on RichGrad.com and see if I can afford it, or alternatively you can be my affiliate. (Well…)
If you’d like to see my eBook, I’ll gladly send a review copy to you.
Cheers,
Daryl
Daryl, WRT the comments… remember what I said… Do first… then fine tune later! =)
You can send me the eBook but no guarantees on anything… I’ll be interested to read it just to know what you have got to say about the topic… Remember what I told you about going in through the “student of the topic” approach instead of trying to be the expert. If you have not manifested anything using the law of attraction yet, please don’t say that you have… that’s not the way ya?
If you try to sell a $7 product on clickbank it’s not going to do well… You want to know a sure-fire way to promote your product? Give it away for free… I could sell “101 powerful affirmations” easily for $47 but I chose to give it away to build my list. You can take that approach if you want.
As for the sneaky JV approach (haha), know that I’m bombarded with offers to promote different products every single day and I can’t promote every single product out there… Only those I think is of a high quality for my list.
In any case, give yourself a pat on the back… you deserve it because you actually took action! And that’s the most important part… I can give you tons of advice but if you don’t act on them, nothing’s going to happen! Just take at least one tiny action a day towards your goal and in one month you would have been 30 steps closer to your goals…
Good luck and update me on your progress! =)
Thanks for the encouragement =)
Yes, I definitely have attracted things with the Law of Attraction. In fact, so many I can’t count. And even once, I attracted the ‘Law of Attraction’ with the ‘Law of Attraction’… Haha. An as you know, its always at work, right? How can somebody not attract something with it.
For convenience’s sake I’ll post the direct link up here, and also whoever stumbles on this blog can get it for free.
http://www.daryl-lim.com/lawofattraction/purchaseid-250895
If you’re okay with it, you can write a short review on it and I can use it as a proven testimonial. Thanks!
By the way, no opt-in is required also so don’t worry.
You should save the file as a pdf file… when I downloaded it, there’s no extension. So my laptop was asking me which program I want to open it with…
You can open the eBook directly by clicking on the link itself (instead of ‘saving target as’) and then navigate to the top left hand corner where there is a save button, during which you can save it directly to your hard drive as a .pdf file.
Btw I have a question to ask… I saw this line in a free eBook I downloaded :
(About PPC)
“After you have it setup, you only need about $10-15 in funds to start with the
PPC engines and then everything after that is virtually free. Free subscribers
after the initial $10-15 forever!!!”
I don’t really understand the statement. Is PPC a one-time payment and ‘free traffic forever after’?
Ok you have to check with the author of that eBook as to what he means ya?
Google adwords charges $5 to open an account. And you need to fund the account with at least $10 (excluding the $5 charge)… so the $15 part is correct. As to what the author means by “free subscribers forever” after that initial deposit… like I said, check with him directly.
You should find his email address somewhere in the ebook, the sales page/thank you page or just reply to him at the email address which he sent you the ebook.
P.S. I already spent more than $30,000 on adwords already…
Wow! Never thought it was so much… O.O
I think I got what the author means. He is referring to future AdWords investment as ‘free’ because the first ROI (from affiliate commissions) covers the e.g. $15 PPC expense already.
That is worth noting for me, because I never realised how much PPC can bring me. I’ll be into PPC soon…
That is assuming you can get a positive ROI with your first $10 (remember $5 of the $15 goes to google for opening the adwords account)… which is UNLIKELY! (though not impossible)
I started with US$50 and made a positive ROI… reinvested it and kept reinvesting it and that’s why I hit 6 figures…
Remember though that you may not get a positive ROI with your initial investment… It requires testing so if you want to get into PPC, be prepared to set aside a sum of money you can “lose”.
Okay… good tips
Btw do you reckon if services like ‘driving 10,000 traffic to your site’ for $5 is worth it? They are untargeted traffic which is the bad part.
There are many of these services people offer on Fiverr.
Are this worth the $5 for untargeted traffic?
Let’s put it this way… would you charge only $5 if you’re offering this service and it’s really THAT good? (You might if you wanted to build a list and are trying to over-deliver but as far as I can tell from the links you sent me – which I removed – it’s clearly not the case…)
I’ll stay away from untargeted traffic if I were you… complete waste of money.
P.S. You should have read the reviews on those pages before you contacted me. I just scanned through them and already there are comments there from buyers saying they did not get any responses (which basically answers the question you asked… if you’d bothered to read). My time is precious. Please choose your questions carefully! (Yes, it’s obvious I’m a little ticked off… Please respect my time… Thanks!)
hy Shun-Jian,
I was wondering; did u started selling other peoples products and getting affiliate commissions or did u started with your own product right away
kindest,
Christopher
Hi Christopher, good question…
I started off with affiliate marketing. And this would be the path I recommend internet marketing newbies to start off too.
With affiliate marketing, you can start off without a product of your own. You’re leveraging off the efforts of the product creator who spent quite a bit of time and money into bringing the product to market.
You don’t have to worry about customer support, refunds, logistics/delivery, payment issues because the product creator/merchant/vendor is supposed to handle all these.
All you have to be concerned with is driving high quality targeted traffic to the offers so you can maximize your conversions!
So if you were to ask me, I’d recommend you to start off with affiliate marketing instead of product creation. If you haven’t learned how to sell other people’s products (which is a skill), how can you be confident of selling your own?