What do you want to know about Internet Marketing and Making Money Online?

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!

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!

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.

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!

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 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.

Penny, read this:

How I made S$103,789.85 in revenue from Affiliate Marketing in 2009