Everybody's been asking "What's the most profitable product to sell online?", "Which product will make me the most money in the shortest amount of time?", but I see that nobody's been asking this question "What NOT to sell online?".

Today, I'll like to share with you an article by Derek Gehl, CEO of Internet Marketing Centre, on What NOT to sell online.

The following are 3 golden rules shared by Derek Gehl on what NOT to sell online:

Rule #1: Don't sell something people can easily buy at the local supermarket!

Or mall, or hardware store, or electronics shop, or sports store, etc. etc.

Why would people go online to buy something they can easily get on their regular weekly shopping trip?

Unless you can offer something truly unique -- such as a lower price or a hard-to-find product -- you'll find it tough to compete with the convenience and the lack of shipping costs those offline alternatives offer.


Rule #2: Don't sell a "time-sensitive" product!

If you try to sell something people need RIGHT AWAY, you're going to have a hard time convincing them to wait a few days for it to be shipped to them.

For example, if you do proper keyword research you'll see that thousands of people do searches every month on the keyword, "cure sore throat fast."

But here's the challenge: If someone wants to cure a sore throat fast, do you think they're going to wait for you to ship a herbal remedy? No! They're looking for immediate results. And once their cold has gone, their desire to buy any kind of cough remedy will vanish along with it.

Rule #3: Don't enter a market with a massive amount of competition!

If there's already a huge number of savvy marketers selling to your intended market, you should probably choose a different market.

Take world-famous online "shopping mall" Amazon.com, for example. They're one of the hugest online vendors out there. If you decide to start your own catalog site selling a general selection of books, or music, or DVDs, how will you ever be able to compete with an industry giant like Amazon?

Unless you figure out a way to offer a lower price (doubtful) or cater to a very specific niche Amazon hasn't yet tapped (difficult), you're going to have a hard time getting your business off the ground.

Nothing is impossible... but the more competitive a market, the more time and money it will cost for you to become successful.


Hope this article is useful to you as it is to me. Let me have your thoughts. :)

If you like to learn more about Internet Marketing, in particular, from Derek Gehl, you might want to consider one of his products called "Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business on the Internet" - this package is just like an encyclopaedia to Internet Marketing - it contains EVERYTHING you need to know to start making money on the Internet, like how to select your market, how to sell your products, different forms of advertising, how to create your salescopy that will boost sales (and bringing more money to your pocket), etc. To find out more, please click here.

To Your Success,
Jun Yuan Lim

The above picture was a "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo, taking in 1994 during the Sudan famine.

The picture depicted a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, which was located approximately a metre away.

Look at the vulture behind the child - it is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it.

This picture shocked the whole world.

No one knew what happened to the child in the end, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

3 months later, it was reported that Kevin Carter had committed suicide due to depression.

You Can Do Your Part TODAY To Help Feed These Famine Stricken Children

Internet Marketing guru Stephen Pierce has started a campaign called "For A Greater Cause" to feed these famine stricken hungry children.

All you need to do to help these hungry children today is to click here to go to Stephen's "For A Greater Cause" website, scroll all the way down and download a free success report. For every report you download, Stephen will donate a plate of food to a starving child on your behalf:



Stephen's "For A Greater Cause Website". All you need to do is to scroll all the way down till you see the following:



All you need to do to feed a starving child is to enter your name, email address and state from whom this donation is (You can either put your name or your friend's name). Stephen will donate a plate of food to a starving child on your behalf.


Take a look at this news report below (in TODAY newspaper, 30 May 2007), where Stephen Pierce donated a cheque of US$100,000.00 (1 Hundred Thousand) on behalf of International non-profit organisation "Feed The Children" to feed Asia's poor children:



I would like to strongly urge you to visit the "For A Greater Cause" site by clicking here now. Your effort will go a long way to helping a starving child.

I'll like to sincerely thank you for your time to read this blog post.

Yours Sincerely
Jun Yuan Lim

Have you been scratching your head wondering what terms like PPC, PPL, CTR, CPC, etc. means? I think all newbies will have the same problem (I encounter the same problem as well when I first started off with Internet Marketing).

I would like to share with you a site that contains a list of Internet Marketing terms, along with their meaning, arranged alphabetically. The following is a screenshot of the site:



To access the site, please click here.

If there are any Internet Marketing terms you are not sure of and you can't find in the web above, do let me know and I'll personally explain them to you.

Talk to you soon!

Yours Sincerely
Jun Yuan Lim

Today's post is specially useful if you are new in Internet Marketing - you do not know how to start, you do not know where to find products to sell, you do not know how to set up your website, etc. I have a solution for you today.

Ewen Chia, Singapore's very own millionaire Internet Marketer, has created a web called "Internet Business for Newbies" specially to help newbie Internet Marketers. Unlike other websites, where the site owners do nothing but sell you products consistently, most of the things in his new web are free.

Here's a screen capture of Ewen's "Internet Business for Newbies":



In his very first posting (titled "Hey! Even Newbies Can Be Successful!"), Ewen has included a video link, which you can download (its about 96mb), that teaches you how to create your own website, step-by-step. It's very comprehensive. I would say its a "must-watch" if you are serious about carving out your future in the Internet Marketing world.

What's the Link to Ewen's "Internet Business for Newbies"?

Click here (website will open up in a new Window) to go to Ewen's "Internet Business for Newbies" web. If you like to take down the actual address, here it is - http://www.think-rich-grow-rich.com/internetbusinessfornewbies.

That's all from me today. Continue to stay tuned, as I'll be sharing with you more about Internet Marketing in the next few days. :)

Meanwhile, if you have any questions, thoughts, opinions, complaints, compliments, please feel free to email me at ljunyuan@msn.com. I'll be most happy to answer any questions you may have.

Cheers!
Jun Yuan Lim

Managed to take sometime off to read through the whole "Google Cash Strikes Back" report, as well as watch the 2 videos in detail, and would like to share with you my review of "Google Cash Strikes Back".

Just a little overview - when Chris Carpenter released his "Google Cash" method in late 2003, it opened up a whole new way to making money on the Internet. Making money using the "Google Cash" method is relatively easy - all you need to do is to source for an affiliate program, get your affiliate link (you can get your affiliate link by applying as an affiliate with the merchant, and you'll receive an affiliate link where, whenever someone click on it and makes a purchase, you'll make a commission), put your affiliate link on search engines using Pay-Per-Click (PPC) (like Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN Search Engine, Miva, etc.). That's it! You'll start to see profits coming in no time! :) That's "Google Cash" method for you.

"Google Cash" method is a very easy method for affiliates (especially affiliates who are new to Internet Marketing), to profit in the shortest amount of time possible, and using the least amount of money.

However, as more and more affiliates are making use of "Google Cash" to generate income, it becomes tougher and tougher to profit using this method, as there are more and more competition, and prices of keywords are getting higher and higher.

Death of "Google Cash" Method?

It is the death of the "Google Cash" method? According to Chris, not quite. He has recently released a whole new method to profitting using the "Google Cash" method. This time - the whole "Google Cash" method is automated, using his new "Google Cash" programs called "Google Cash Detector" and "Google Cash Automator".

What these 2 programs does is that it will basically do all the research for you - it will identify the most profittable keywords, the most profittable campaigns in Google Adwords for a particular subject, the cost per click for your ad to be in the 1st or 3rd position, etc. You need not manually grab all these information - "Google Cash Detector" will grab all these information for you.

All you need to do next is to actually "copy" these profitable keywords, ads to "Google Adwords" and start your own campaign and start profitting. Here's the good news - even this step is also automated, using another program called "Google Cash Automator". Amazing, isn't it?

It's so simple that Chris decided to ask a 15 year old Mexican girl to test out his "Google Cash Detector" and "Google Cash Automator", and the result was, she made over US$1,000 within a month!

2 Videos

Within the member page, there are 2 videos that Chris has created specially for you. The first video (about 14 minutes), Chris demonstrated how to make use of the "Google Cash Detector" to search for profittable campaigns, keywords that are converting (into sales), how to import profittable keywords and ads into the "Google Cash Automator", etc.

The second video (about 19 minutes), Chris' Partner Steve demonstrated how to make use of the "Google Cash Detector" and "Google Cash Automator" in full detail.

My Thoughts

After reading the report and viewing the 2 videos, I can say that Chris certainly make things look really, really simple. Everything is automated - from research to setting up campaigns, etc. All you need to do is to wait for money to come in. If you ask me, I am not very certain whether this method WILL work for sure (it varies from person to person), but there's no harm trying it out (if the cost of setting up an account in "Google Cash Detective" and "Google Cash Automator" is reasonable enough).

Download "Google Cash Strikes Back"



To download your copy of "Google Cash Strikes Back" (if you have not already done so), click here.


That's all from me for now. Let me have your thoughts about Chris' "Google Cash Strikes Back".

Yours Sincerely,
Jun Yuan Lim

Here's a video from Chris Carpenter, the author of "Google Cash", on his new report - "Google Cash Strikes Back":



If you have yet to download the special "Google Cash Strikes Back" report, now's the time to do so. Besides getting your hands on this report, you'll also be getting 2 bonus videos from Chris Carpenter - for free (Even the report's for free). So, there's really nothing you can lose.

Click here to download your copy of "Google Cash Strikes Back" today. Let me have your comments after reading this report. :)

Cheers
Jun Yuan Lim

P.S.: This is a very limited time offer. I am not sure when Chris will be removing this from the server. So hurry, download this report now before it gets removed.

"Google Cash" - is this familar to you? Have you heard it somewhere? Do you know what is it exactly?

Seems like a lot of questions huh... Chris Carpenter, the author of "Google Cash", is going to personally answer all your questions... He is also going to reveal how a 15 year old Mexican girl (who barely speaks English), earned a whooping US$1,105 in her first month into Internet Marketing (I know US$1,105 may not be a big sum for many of us here, but to a 15 year old girl, it is alot of money).

Chris Carpenter has written a special report, including bonus 2 videos, specially for you - it's called "Google Cash Strikes Back". Its a 40-page report and let me tell you - its very informative. And the best part is - its FREE! (Yes, its 100% FREE!)



Click here now to download "Google Cash Strikes Back" and start profitting today! :)

Have a good weekend!

To your success,
Jun Yuan Lim

For those of you who have been reading my blog regularly, you would have read about this post where I introduced EmailCashPro, a program where you'll get paid for reading emails. Introduce your friends to sign up under you, and you'll also get a portion of their earnings as commission! Irregardless of which country you are from, this program is free to sign up and you can request for payment once your earning reaches $11.

On 22 April, EmailCashPro was featured in Singapore's leading newspaper - The Sunday Times. Following the article, EmailCashPro received over 2000 new membership applications. Click on the following article to read it in more detail:



Click here to sign up as a member of EmailCashPro today, if you have not already done so. (I've created a step-by-step illustration guide on how to read emails in EmailCashPro and get paid - Click here for it).

If you have any questions with regard to EmailCashPro, please let me know, and I'll do my best to help. :)

To Your Success
Jun Yuan

Have you read the article on Ewen Chia I've posted last week? Hope the article has inspired you - what I want to say again is this - if Ewen Chia can do it, so can you. I'll always be here to help you out in whichever way I can - by providing you with tonnes and tonnes of information which I think can benefit you. So if you have any comments or suggestions, or if there's something you like me to talk in more details about, please feel free to let me know.

Today, I have something really special for you from Ewen Chia - a 50 minute content-packed video that reveals the secret about Internet Marketing. It is filled with tonnes and tonnes of really useful content that you can apply in Internet Marketing. In this video, you'll learn:

- The Most Important Elements You Need To Run A Successful Internet Business...
- The Easiest & Fastest Internet Business Model To Start...
- Why Marketing Can Be Different In Niche Markets...
- How You Can Be An Expert In Any Market In A Matter Of Days...
- One Of The Most Crucial 'Rules" About Marketing You Can Learn...
- A Simple Way To Build Relationship With Your List Instantly...
- How To Write Responsive Emails To Your Subscribers Immediately...
- How To Provide Value & Create Money From Your List At The Same Time...
- And Much, Much More...

Here's the video... All you need to do to start watching the video is to click on the "Play" button (This video is quite huge, so it might take sometime to load, depending on your Internet connection. Please be patient. I can guarantee you its worth the wait):



I've really benefited from the 50-minute video. What about you? Let me have your thoughts.

Cheers
Jun Yuan