In my last post, I mentioned about how you can easily generate money from your web - be it a personal blog, or website.

If you like to create your blog, you can sign up for a free Blogger account at either Blogger or Wordpress (Signing up for a free blog account is very simple - all it takes is just 5 minutes of your time, and you're ready to go. If you need help in setting up a blog account, please let me know, and I'll step you through).

For those of you who want to create your website, and need a tool to start creating it, I have a free tool for you - it's called "My Free Website Builder", and you can download it here.

Valued at $197, this top notch web design software comes with the following features:

- Easy Step-by-Step Video Instructions for You to Follow & Create Your 1st Webpage.
- Over 100+ In-Built Website Templates for You to Choose from. You need NOT create your webpage design from scratch.
- Instant one-click website publishing (showcase your completed website to everybody on the Internet with a touch of a button).
- And Much More!

"My Free Website Builder" is 100% free! No registration or email required. And what's more - there's no expiry date to this software, and you can create unlimited websites using this super easy to use web design tool.

Click on the following link to get your copy of "My Free Website Builder" before they're gone:

==> http://www.think-rich-grow-rich.com/freewebbuilder

Let me know if you encounter any technical problems. I'll try to help.

Have a good week ahead. :)

To Your Success,
Jun Yuan

For those of you who do not have an idea of what Web 2.0 is, I've got 2 videos here which will give you a brief idea on what is Web 2.0 all about:

The first video below gives a very brief explanation on what Web 2.0 is, and how is it different from static websites:




The second video below (by Sean Wu, author of Tag and Ping), explains how social bookmarking websites (e.g. del.icio.us) works:




Questions? Please let me know. I'll get them answered in the shortest time possible.

To your success
Jun Yuan Lim

I love reading blogs - especially personal blogs. Whenever I'm free, I'll go "blog hunting" and read friends blogs or search around for interesting blogs.

One thing I've noticed when I visit blogs is that very few of them actually monetize their blogs - do you know something? Even if the blog you own is a personal blog, you too can make money from it. Let me give you an example - let's say your blog entry today is about a movie you've watched (for example - Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix). You comment on how good this movie is, the interesting scenes, etc. You can monetize that particular entry by having products relating to Harry Potter (such as Harry Potter books from Amazon.com, Harry Potter merchandise from ebay, so on and so forth) for sale. The way you can make money is this - whenever people click on these links and make a purchase, you'll get a commission. It's as simple as that!

Want to know other ways to monetize your blog? See the video below from Joel Comm, the Adsense expert (be sure to watch the video, because there's something for you FREE at the end of the video):



Hope the video and my post today will give you a good idea how to make money from your personal blog or website. It doesn't matter whether you are 18 or 80 - as long you have a website or personal blog up and running, you can start making some extra money for yourself today! (Caution: you can really make BIG money if you follow the steps Joel highlighted in the video above) :)

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop me an email at ljunyuan@msn.com or leave a comment in my blog. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

To your success,
Jun Yuan

If you have subscribed to Joel Comm or Michael Cheney's mailing list, you would probably have heard about this new product - "Site Stealer", where Sal (the product creator) teaches you how you can steal other people's products and make profits legally. Here's a screenshot of the product salespage (click on the screenshot to view the product sales page - it will open up in a new Window):

"Steal" here doesn't mean hacking into the product owner's site and take everything but rather, it means copying ideas (layout, wordings, etc) from profitable product sales pages, and using them for your own product sales page (plus some other tactics).

I got hold of the product and finished reading it and here's my review of the product - personally, I do not think this is suitable for absolute beginners (although it is mentioned in the product sales page somewhere it's suitable for beginners). If you are just starting off with Internet Marketing, you'll probably be lost in the jungle (or worse - totally giving up on Internet Marketing) after reading this book.

I think Sal's book is more suitable for those who have some experience in Internet Marketing - in particular those who have experience in affiliate marketing or those who have their own products to sell online (either via Clickbank, PayDotCom, etc. Sal gave a very clear explaination on how you can sell your products online. If you are planning to sell your products online, then this book will be very beneficial for you (Click here if you like to get a copy of Sal's Site Stealer).

Outstanding Points about Sal's Site Stealer - Sal gave a very clear and comprehensive explanation on what are "Private Label Rights", "Resell Rights", "Master Resell Rights", "Full Resell Rights" (from all the Internet Marketing books I've read, Sal's Site Stealer is the best when it comes to explanation of these terms. He has provided very good examples as well on these).

If you are a complete newbie, and would like to learn step-by-step about Internet Marketing, I would strongly recommend you to get Ewen Chia's Newbie Cash Machine instead - the reason is because Ewen, in this book, broke all the steps down step-by-step - from how you can research for your niche market, how you can find profitable products online, how you can sell them online and make money, and more (Click here to go to the product sales page of Ewen Chia's Newbie Cash Machine).

However, if you are intending to go into sell your own products online (eBook, audio, video, etc), then Sal's Site Stealer is a book you have to read (Click here to view the sales page of Sal's Site Stealer).

That's all from me for today. I hope you find my review useful. Any thoughts? I'd love to hear from you.

To Your Success,
Jun Yuan Lim

P.S. Please note that the above review is purely my own personal opinion. Thanks.

Today's post will be useful if you are using Google Adwords to advertise your products.

I'm sure you'll do some researching on the Google search engine before you start a campaign in Google Adwords to start advertising your products, right?

How do you do your research? Let me give you an example - Let's say I want to sell products related to "dog training", and I want to see how many advertisers have already advertised on the keyword "dog training", I would go to Google.com and type in the search term "dog training". What do I get? I'll see the following page:



Look at the sponsored listings - those on the right-hand side as well as those in the yellow-highlighted boxes on the left. The ads that appear are those that the advertisers choose to target the keyword "dog training", and they want their ads to appear in
Google Singapore.

So how can you see ads that are US-targetted? Very simple, to be able to see US-targetted ads, just append the words &gl=us to the end of the URL, and press enter. You'll see the following:



In the above screenshot, you'll see only US-targetted ads.

Let me repeat how you can append the words &gl=us in your URL:

Let's say the original URL is:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dog+training&btnG=Google+Search

To see US-targetted ads, all you need to do is to append the words &gl=us at the end of the url, like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dog+training&btnG=Google+Search&gl=us

And press "Enter" once you're done - it's that simple.

If you like to see ads that are targetted to Australia, change the word "us" to "au" instead ("au" is the country abbreviation for australia). For Canada, change the word to "ca", for Germany, change to "de", so on and so forth.

Hope you'll find this little tip useful in your research. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

Have a great weekend. :)

To your success,
Jun Yuan Lim

For those of you who are monetizing your web with Google Adsense, here's a video you'll like to watch, where Joel Comm, the Adsense expert, talks about the future of Google Adsense, and how this will affect you:



My thoughts? I could not have agreed more with what Joel has said. Content is king. The more content-rich website you have, the higher you'll be ranked on the Google search engine in the organic listings (organic listings are sites listed on the left-hand site in a Google search page. You need not pay a single cent to get to the number one spot). The higher you're ranked on the Google search engine, the easier it will be for people who are searching for information on a subject which you have a website about, to find and visit your website. With more people visiting your site, the chances of them clicking on your Google Adsense advertisements after reading your articles is much higher, and thereby bringing you cash - from Google Adsense. Simple, isn't it?

I also could not have agreed more with what Joel said about "picking a topic you are interested in". This cannot be more true - if you were to create a website on something you are passionate about, you'll find it easier to write articles on it, and, in return, money will come in from your content-based websites.

That's purely my personal opinion. What's yours? I'll like to hear from you. Drop me a message in my comment column and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Oh, one more thing - for those of you who have questions on any aspect of Internet Marketing (be it Google Adsense, Google Adwords, choosing the products to sell, etc.), feel free to let me know as well. I'll do whatever I can to help you out. :)

To your success,
Jun Yuan Lim

Lots of people attended this seminar held at Sheraton Towers on Thursday, 05 July 2007 - more than 200. I was pretty lucky to find myself a seat at the front row. :) Here's a photo of Ewen Chia presenting at the seminar:



Today, I'm going to do a brief summary of the seminar (for the benefit of those who could not make it). Ewen covered the basics of Internet Marketing - like why should we go into Internet Marketing and stuff (I've covered all these in great detail in my previous postings). It's all the same, so I shan't cover them again. He also covered a great deal on his "Instant Internet Business". Here's a model of Ewen's "Instant Internet Business":



I shall go into each of these in more detail:

Step 1: Market

The first step involves finding a market - if you do not have a market, you can't have a business. It's as simple as that. The way you pick your market is to find a topic that we have an affinity for - meaning, you can pick a market which you have interest in. Let's say you are interested in golf. You can delve into a market selling golf balls, golf clubs, how to improve golf swing, etc.

The reason why it is preferable you choose a market you have affinity for is because "you are the market". You will know first hand what people in your market want, what problems do they have and are trying to solve.

The secret to success is to focus on ONE (1) market (notice how I've capitalised and bolded the word "ONE") and become and expert in that market. Don't try do go into 1 market today, another market the next, so on and so forth. You'll never succeed.

Step 2: Present Offer

Without an offer, you can forget about making money in your business. Makes sense? :) After identifying the problems your affinity have, next you have to look for an offer which will solve their problem. It's very important here - you need to provide people with what they want.

If you identify that most people playing golf have problems in improving their swing, you can come out with ebooks, or even videos, to teach them how to improve their swing. Alternatively, you can search the Internet for solutions and present to them (of course you have to include your affiliate link so you'll get paid if they purchase the product you've introduced - that's affiiliate marketing).

You can look for products to sell as affiliate by either going to Google and type in " Affiliate Program". Let's say you want to go into the "Dog Training" market, and you want to look for affiliate programs relating to "Dog Training", simply go to Google and type in "Dog Training Affiliate Market" (omit the inverted commas). You'll see lots of sites relating to Dog Training Affiliate Market, which you've searched for.

Alternatively, you can sign up as an affiliate im Amazon (amazon.com - scroll all the way down, and click on the link "Join Associates" to sign up). Amazon will pay you 10% commission for every item you sell.

What's Next?

Now that you have identified your potential customers' problem, and offer to present to them, what's next?

In order to present your offer to your potential customers for maximum results and of course, money, you must:

- Have your own website to present your offer (you can monetize your website with Google Adsense to generate multiple streams of income, and also you can use your website to build your list of customers)
- Provide value to your visitors (you must convince them why should they buy the product that you're selling)

Step 3: Get Traffic To Your Website

After you have everything up, you need to drive traffic to your website. No point having everything up and realise there's nobody visiting your website.

You need not drive millions of people to your website - the key here is, you need to drive targetted, qualified traffic to your website. (No point driving people who are looking for information on how to improve golf swing to your site that's selling an ebook on how to train your dog in 3-days - they will not buy your ebook).

You can make use of Google Adwords, forums, Yahoo Answers, etc. to drive highly targetted, quality traffic to your website.


In conclusion, in order to succeed in Internet Marketing, you must:

1. Find a Profitable Market
2. Provide your potential customers with an offer (such as an ebook, audio, video)
3. Be able to drive highly targetted, quality traffic to your website (the key here is to go for quality of traffic, not quantity)


Hope you'll find the above useful. Let me have your thoughts.

Have a great weekend ahead. :)

To your success,
Jun Yuan Lim

Today's post is nothing about Internet Marketing - rather, I'm going to share with you some funny pictorial jokes that was sent to me by my girlfriend this afternoon. Enjoy :)


















Hope you've enjoyed the pictures. Talk to you soon...

Cheers,
Jun Yuan Lim

Rich Schefren, President of "Strategic Profits", and author of the very popular "Internet Manifesto" (I've posted a link to this report quite sometime back. If you did not download then, and you want to download it now, click here to download it) report has written a new report titled "The Attention Age Doctrine".



In this groundbreaking report, Rich is going to talk about what's needed now in order to be successful online. This is a very comprehensive report, with lots of illustrations accompanying his explanations (For your information, this report is 65-pages long).

Oh, I think I forgot to mention one thing - Rich's giving away this report for free. You need not purchase anything to download this report. All you need to do is to click here to go to Rich's website, key in your name and email address, and you'll receive instructions to download the report immediately.

Rich's limiting the number he gives away so if your interested you need to get over there right now.

Here's the website address once again:

==> http://www.strategicprofits.com/doctrine/

If you'll like to share with me your thoughts about this report after reading it, please feel free to do so. I'm looking forward to hear from you. :)

That's all for today. Take care, and have a nice week ahead.

Yours Sincerely
Jun Yuan Lim