I know I have not been updating this blog for like - the past 2 weeks or so again. I sincerely apologise for that. I have been busy the past couple of weeks.

I have met up with lots of people who are interested in Internet Marketing recently, and I am really happy to see that more and more people are interested to make money online.

I have also received lots of questions regarding Internet Marketing and some some of them are as follows:

- "How much time do I have to put in everyday to make money on the Internet?"
- "How exactly can I make money on the Internet?" / "Is it really possible to make money online?"
- "What are the different ways to make money on the Internet?"
- "What products can I sell on the Internet?" / "I do not have any products - is it still possible for me to make money on the Internet?"
- "Everyone has been talking about Clickbank - how does Clickbank work (for someone who have no products to sell and also for someone with their own product)?"
- "How do I reach out to potential customers?"
- "How can I find out the areas that are in demand now (that I can make money from)?"
- "What is the difference between blogs and Squidoo, and how do they work?"
- "Can I make money on the Internet without spending a dime?"

These are just some of the questions I receive from people I've met and from fellow readers of my blog (there are more questions).

For the benefit of newbie Internet Marketers, I will be publishing an ebook to answer all questions that you have (and this ebook will be for - FREE! Yes! I'll be giving away this ebook at NO COST - specially for you).

Especially for newbie Internet Marketers, or those who are interested to start off in Internet Marketing but do not know how - let me know your concerns. I'll all of get them answered for you.


"So when will you be publishing this eBook?"

I'm still in the midst of compiling all questions to be answered (If you have a question about Internet Marketing, send them to me - Hurry!.

Once I'm done with collecting all the questions, I'll get them answered one-by-one in this ebook. As for the exact date when this eBook will be published, you'll have to check back my blog regularly for updates. :)


"I have a question - how can I send it to you?"

If you have a question, or a whole list of questions, simple send me via email at ljunyuan@msn.com and in the title of your email, put the word "Question". Not to worry - all emails will be kept private and confidential, and will only be read by me alone.

If you prefer to leave your questions under "Comments" in this blog - you're free to do so. Leave your name as anonymous if you prefer.

I'm looking forward to receiving questions from you. Keep them coming in! :)

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

For those of you who have decided / have already decided to create a web (either a blog or a website), the next question you'll probably ask is - "What sort of content should I create in my blog or website to maximize my earnings with Adsense?" or "How do I structure my web to maximize my earnings with Adsense"? I've got a video here from Joel Comm (the #1 Adsense Expert), that answers your questions about monetizing using Adsense - Enjoy the video:

I somehow can't seem to get this video up on my site - here's the link you can click on to view the video (Click here for the video)

For those of you who already have a blog / website that have lots of content, but have yet to place Adsense in it and start monetizing, its time to do so!

Any questions? Don't be shy - feel free to post it here and I'll be happy to answer them. :)

Have a great weekend!

To your success,
Jun Yuan Lim

There are lots of high-quality products available on the Internet on Internet Marketing today - tonnes and tonnes of new ebooks coming out everyday talking about things like having a good squeeze page, optimize your site for search engines, PLR (Private Label Rights) articles, etc. Not forgetting the tonnes of teleseminars, mp3s, videos that are also readily available online about these topics.

Surely you can't focus on everything. I can't focus on everything either. So which one to focus on?

I'll like to show you a short video from Joel Comm, who has answered this exact question coming from one of his subscribers - take a listen:



I totally agree with what Joel has said - pick one topic, and focus on one till you succeed. Previously, I also made the same mistake trying to grab as many thing as I can on all the topics on Internet Marketing, but failed miserably. Trust me on that. I failed BIG TIME! Now that I'm focusing on one topic at a time, I'm beginning to see some results - not great results as you think I would have achieved, but significant improvements. :)

Hope this video helps. Good luck!

To Your Success,
Jun Yuan Lim

What constitutes a good product sales page? Whether or not you have a product to sell, it is essential you know the elements of a good product sales page. Why do I say so? If you are an affiliate marketer, knowing the elements of a good sales page will help determine whether or not a particular product is worth your time promoting. If you have your own product to sell, creating a good sales page will help increase product conversions - resulting in more money going into your pocket! :)

I'll like to share with you today a 50-minute video from Ewen Chia as he talks about the elements of a good sales page. Click here to download the video.

Here's a summary of the video:

Header
If graphics is used for a header (optional), it should be:
- Professional (Graphics should look professional. Ewen recommended 2 sites for good web graphics - webgraphicscreator.com and minisitegraphics.com)
- Graphics should have your picture (to increase credibility and let people know they are dealing with a human being and not a robot)
- Main benefit of your product
- Your product URL

Headline
Headlines should be used to describe the ultimate benefit of the product you are selling - it should NOT focus on features. People are not interested in what features your product have, but how would it benefit them. It should answer the question of "What will my buyers get ultimately when they purchase my product".

The headline should be outstanding - it should get the attention of your potential customers. You can do so by using thicker fonts for your headlines (Ewen recommends using either Tahoma or Arial Black for headlines). You can also grab the attention of your potential customers by using bolding, highlighting, underlining, italics appropriately.

Sub Headline
Sub Headline (optional) is used to describe what your product does.

Body of Salescopy
- Include your photograph in your sales copy, and also, if possible, an audio as well. This can greatly improve your credibility and create branding. Having an audio will seem as if you are there physically talking to your potential customers. This is a great plus if you have it in your salescopy.

- Have as many sub headlines as possible in your sales copy - use them to help portray your product benefits. Use of sub-headlines also help in the ease of reading.

- Break up paragraphs into short sentences. Use single sentences to illustrate important points (use bolding, highlighting, italics to bring important points across if necessary).

- Ewen recommends using Arial size 12 for the words in the sales copy.

- Use of phrases such as "Information can be found in Page XX" to arose your potential customer's interest in buying the product.

- Have product purchase links midway through the page to allow people to click on it and go directly to the bottom of the sales page that allow them to purchase the product immediately. (Having such links will help improve product coversions)

Bullet Points
- Ewen recommends the use of bullet points. The more bullet points there are in a product sales copy, the easier it will be for a product to be sellable.

Testimonials
The purpose of having testimonials is to help bring across benefits and credibility. Benefits are treated as 3rd party endorsements and many people make purchases based on these 3rd party endorsements.

Each testimonial should have a full name of the person who gave the testimonial, his/her photograph (if possible) the country he/she is from, website (if any). DO NOT hyperlink the website address, as it will lead to people clicking on it and bringing them away from your product sales page (you wouldn't want that to happen).

One tip given by Ewen in his video is that a good product sales page should not have any hyperlinks other than the order link.

Money Back Guarantee
You should have a money back guaranteee so as to give people more confidence in buying your product. Also, you should make use of a "Money Back Guarantee" logo to make it more believable and tangible.

Use a different background color (use bright colors) for your "Money Back Guarantee" column so as to make it stand out.

Graphics of Your E-Book
By having a 3D picture of your e-book in your product sales page will make your product stand up, and to increase the tangibility of your product.

Order Form
Your ebook should appear in the order form to bring up the tangibility again.

You should have graphics to denote the different forms of payments acceptable (Credit Cards, Paypal, E-Gold, etc.)

Make your order form outstanding - make use of Johnson boxes.

Bonuses
Yes! People love bonuses - your bonuses should be placed above the final order button. Highlight the benefits of your bonuses. Let them know the value (monetary value) of each of your bonuses. Let them know the total value they are getting should they purchase your product.

Opt-Ins
One final thing Ewen highlighted is the use of opt-ins in your product sales page. He sited the fact that people usually do not buy when they first visit your product sales page. Therefore, if you do not have any way to capture your potential customers, you will not be able to follow up with them.

Ewen described 3 different types of opt-ins a product sales page could have - namely:

1. Having a separate name squeeze page before your product sales page to collect your prospective customers' name and email address. This means that before anyone can visit your product sales page, they will have to enter their first name and email address before they can proceed. (Thereafter, you can follow-up with them with 5 - 7 autoresponse messages telling them the benefits of your product).

2. Having a opt-in form within the product sales letter.

3. Having a pop-out pop-in page. A pop-out pop-in page is a pop-out that appears when you enter a product sales page that tells you to sign up for some free ebooks or e-course.


If you have the time, I'll like to strongly urge you to watch the video. It is very informative and it gives one a very clear idea on what a good sales copy must have. To download the video, please click here.

That's all from me today. If you have any comments, thoughts, opinions, please let me know.

Cheers!
Jun Yuan Lim

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

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

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