I set up my twitter account sometime ago but I never really take the time to use it. Yesterday, I decided to give it a try and play around to see how can I benefit by using twitter.

Now, twitter is another social networking site and it can help your marketing campaign not only for internet marketers but also for offline business owner. All round, it is good for your business to reach out to your market.

If you are not using twitter, I suggest you get on board now or you are leaving a lot of money on the table. This is what happen to me just after one day. See the screen shot below. In less than 20 hours, I have 352 people following me! That will do good for your traffic and your opt ins.

I am going to play around with it for another week and see what happen and I will update the progress here. Meantime, you can download Twitter Profits here for free. It tells you how you can optimize your twitter account for more profits. Try it and share your finding with me.

This is the first Internet and Wealth Charity event help in Singapore. The speakers were Kishore M, Alvin Phang, Terence Tan and Declan Barnett, who flew all the way from Australia. They have been very nice and helpful throughout the event.

Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed was also at the event and it is an honor for all of us, the organizer and the speakers to have him at our event.

Some pictures taken during Success Charity Seminar which was held on 10th July 2010 at YCWA Fort Canning Lodge, Sophia Cooke Ballroom

Morning Registration

Senior Minister Of State, Zainul Abidin Rasheed Launching The Event

Thumbs Up From The Minister and Speakers

Terence Tan Not Missing Out The Opportunity For Picture Taking With The Minister

MC For The Event, Mr Naz

Kishore Impressing the Minister and the Participants

Alvin Phang Proves Blogging Can Be Profitable

Terance Tan...I Can't Hear You....

Declan Barnett Presents Dubli

Our Beneficiary Giving Token of Appreciation To SMS Zainul Abidin

Brian, The Mr Handsome But Shy...That's Why He Closed His Eyes

Zac Haris and Alvin Phang, Mr Cool Guy

Appreciate You Coming Mr Minister....And Thank You For Your Support

Thumbs Up!

Alvin Demonstating How To Shoot A Bazooka

Winner of the Live Challenge, She Walks Away With $815!

Eager To Learn...

Making money online can be a daunting task especially when you just started off. It will not do you any good if you are on your own trying by trial and error.

Well yeah you soon to find what works after a few months if you are lucky, but if you are not, it will demoralize your confidence.

To tell you the truth, it is not as easy when you are just starting off in this business. I call it a business because it is a real business that we are going into, just that it is done online instead of the normal brick and mortar business. So you have to really be serious and willing to put in your extra effort if you want to succeed.

Sometimes you just feel like everything is not working for you and this is very normal. You have to be realistic here. You can’t build your fortune overnight. There are process that you have to follow before you can actually make some money online.

When I started off, I was all eager to make my fortune online only to realize that it is not a walk in the park. There are many things and process that I need to understand but if you really put in all your effort and to model after some one who is already successful, there are very high chances that you will succeed.

One key to succeed online is to put in your very best and never give up.

I am doing some major renovation on my blog and I can tell you that it is not an easy thing to do if you are the kind of person that doesn’t even know how to upgrade your wordpress from version 2.5 to the latest version.

So if possible, try not to do any major renovation on your blog if you don’t have to – trust me on this one ok.

The first thing to do before your start to do some major renovation on your blog is to do a backup of your blog.  Well if you don’t know how to backup your blog, then at least try to remember how your blog looks like previously…hahah just kidding.

You can actually go to youtube and search for how to backup your wordpress blog and this one has help me quite a lot.

I hope I can get to complete the renovation soon. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

If you have been wandering what happen to my blog for the past months, that’s because I have been pretty tied up with some charity thing that I set up in January this year.

I setup a charity organization with some friends that share the same vision that is to help disabled kids and kids from disadvantage families with all their education needs.

I have to allocate all of my time to building up this charity and now that things have move on pretty well, I can be back to doing my normal work and that is making money on the internet.

Good thing for me that I have most of this business running on autopilot and I can just stop doing it for awhile (7 months) and still making some good income which is coming in on a bi weekly basis.

I will update soon about an internet marketing charity seminar that we just did just now. It’s a whole lots of fun with some friends like Kishore M, Alvin Phang, Declan Barnett and Terence Tan doing their bit for charity in this seminar.

Do check back for the post.

It must solve a problem

If it doesn’t fix, mend or alleviate a nagging pain, problem, condition, or situation—why would people want it, much less buy it? There must be a strong, recognizable, and somewhat measurable or appreciable benefit to owning and using your product.

2. It must have mass appeal

You may have invented the best mousetrap ever, but if only one in 10 million homes has a mouse problem, you’re not going to sell a heck of a lot of mousetraps. Sure, you can sell just a few at a high price, but a mousetrap priced at $50,000… how easy would that be to sell?

3. It must be unique

If it’s the first or only one of its kind, that’s a home run! If it’s not, then it should at least be different and beneficial in a way that that other products don’t offer. A rose by any other name is still a rose, but a rose that never loses its petals—now that would be unique.

4. It must offer instant gratification

If it’ll be of use only next spring, why buy it today? People don’t want to buy seeds. They want a fully grown tree, planted and providing shade now. We’re an impatient nation of consumers. We don’t want the fishing pole; we want the fish fresh, filleted, seasoned, and served.

5. It must be demonstrable

It’s a law of nature: Seeing is believing. Customers must see with their own eyes how easily, quickly, and effectively your product does what it does. Though people will often say they can’t trust their eyes—they always do.

I have been using Clickbank for the past 3 years and been making some pretty good income from selling my products through them.

They are the big boys in affiliate network system comparing to the rest (paydotcom, click2sell, plimus, regnow, shareit) and many of us who are in the online business will know or heard about clickbank.

After using them for so long, I am now getting more pissed than ever. They have a perfect system but one big setback about clickbank is that they never protect their sellers.

I mean, think about this for a second. A buyer buys your ebook and they know they can get a refund from clickbank. Most of them somehow already know about this – clickbank will refund your money after purchasing any product without any question asked. This is so ridiculous! Are they too busy making $300 million dollars that they forgotten to protect their seller? What a dumb system if you ask me.

I am losing my faith with clickbank and will try out other affiliate network system for all my new products.

I see that more and more marketers are also moving out from clickbank and it will just be a matter of time that they will lose a big percentage of this market share.

While getting to the top of search engines is one of our priorities, many tend to overlook the things they should avoid while implementing their SEO strategies.

Following are the 9 Biggest SEO Mistakes which Web Designers & Web Developers should avoid.

Splash Page

I’ve seen this mistake many times where people put up just a big banner image and a link “Click here to enter” on their homepage. The worst case — the “enter” link is embedded in the Flash object, which makes it impossible for the spiders to follow the link.

This is fine if you don’t care about what a search engine knows about your site; otherwise, you’re making a BIG mistake. Your homepage is probably your website’s highest ranking page and gets crawled frequently by web spiders. Your internal pages will not appear in the search engine index without the proper linking structure to internal pages for the spider to follow.

Your homepage should include (at minimum) target keywords and links to important pages.

Non-spiderable Flash Menus

Many designers make this mistake by using Flash menus such as those fade-in and animated menus. They might look cool to you but they can’t be seen by the search engines; and thus the links in the Flash menu will not be followed.

Image and Flash Content

Web spiders are like a text-based browser, they can’t read the text embedded in the graphic image or Flash. Most designers make this mistake by embedding the important content (such as target keywords) in Flash and image.

Overuse of Ajax

A lot of developers are trying to impress their visitor by implementing massive Ajax features (particularly for navigation purposes), but did you know that it is a big SEO mistake? Because, ajax content is loaded dynamically, so it is not spiderable or indexable by search engines.

Another disadvantage of Ajax — since the address URL doesn’t reload, your visitor can not send the current page to their friends.

Versioning of Theme Design

For some reason, some designers love to version their theme design into sub level folders (i.e. domain.com/v2, v3, v4) and redirect to the new folder. Constantly changing the main root location may cause you to lose backlink counts and ranking.

“Click Here” Link Anchor Text

You probably see this a lot where people use “Click here” or “Learn more” as the linking text. This is great if you want to be ranked high for “Click Here”. But, if you want to tell the search engine that your page is important for a topic, than use, that topic/keyword in your link anchor text. It’s much more descriptive (and relevant) to say “learn more about {keyword topic}”

Warning: Don’t use the EXACT same anchor text everywhere on your website. This can sometimes be seen as search engine spam too.

Common Title Tag Mistakes

Same or similar title text:
Every page on your site should have a unique <title> tag with the target keywords in it. Many developers make the mistake of having the same or similar title tags throughout the entire site. That’s like telling the search engine that EVERY page on your site refers to the same topic and one isn’t any more unique than the other.

One good example of bad Title Tag use would be the default WordPress theme. In case you didn’t know, the title tag of the default WordPress theme isn’t that useful: Site Name > Blog Archive > Post Title. Why isn’t this search engine friendly? Because, every single blog post will have the same text “Site Name > Blog Archive >” at the beginning of the Title Tag. If you really want to include the site name in the title tag, it should be at the end: Post Title | Site Name.

Exceeding the 65 character limit:
Many bloggers write very long post titles. So what? In search engine result pages, your title tag is used as the link heading. You have about 65 characters (including spaces) to get your message across or risk it getting cutoff.

Keyword stuffing the title:
Another common mistake people tend to make is overfilling the title tag with keywords. Saying the same thing 3 times doesn’t make you more relevant. Keyword stuffing in the Title Tag is looked at as search engine spam (not good). But it might be smart to repeat the same word in different ways:

“Photo Tips & Photography Techniques for Great Pictures” “Photo” and “Photography” are the same word repeated twice but in different ways because your audience might use either one when performing a search query.

Empty Image Alt Attribute

You should always describe your image in the alt attribute. The alt attribute is what describes your image to a blind web user. Guess what? Search engines can’t see images so your alt attribute is a factor in illustrating what your page is relevant for.

Hint: Properly describing your images can help your ranking in the image search results. For example, Google image search brings me hundreds of referrals everyday for the search terms “abstract” and “dj”.

Unfriendly URLs

Most blog or CMS platforms have a friendly URL feature built-in, however, not every blogger is taking advantage of this. Friendly URL’s are good for both your human audience and the search engines. The URL is also an important spot where your keywords should appear.

Example of Friendly URL: domain.com/page-title Example of Dynamic URL: domain.com/?p=12356

These things are the pillars of Search Engine Optimization and so to your web site’s success path.

There are many ways to get traffic to your website or blog. It is very important that you get constant flow of traffic to your website or blog.

Without traffic, your website or blog will just be collecting virtual dust. No one will know that your blog exist.

Below are some traditional ways of getting traffic

1 – Pay per click
2 – banner advertising
3 – link exchange
4 – search engine traffic
5 – directory listing
6 – article directory
7 – social media and networking

And the list goes on and on. But are that traffic targeted? Will that traffic brings you money?

Let’s just say that you have a website selling a product. Everyone knows that you need traffic to make sales on your product. The idea of going online is to make money. The answer is yes but will it be enough for you to sustain your business full time?

If you are looking for massive targeted traffic if you are selling a product, the best method is to get traffic from joint venture. This is the kind of traffic that can immediately boost sales. Why is this so?

Firstly, your joint venture partner will already have a list of subscribers. This is the best thing that any joint venture partners can provide you. When they start recommending your product to their list, you can expect a sudden increase in traffic and also sales.

This traffic is highly targeted provided your joint venture partners are having similar kind of product as you.

Try working on joint venture if you have not try it yet and we will continue later on how do you get joint venture partners.

….Sell them what they WANT.

One of the biggest mistakes that product creators make is creating products that they think people need.

The problem is, people don’t buy products that they need. They buy products that they want. And unless you understand this, you’re going to keep creating things that will continue to fail in the marketplace time and time again.

You can’t just create a product and put it out there thinking that this is what the people need. You have to first do your research to make sure that people actually want it.

Take sometime to absorb this and you will have a better idea the next time you create a product.