Monday, November 17, 2008

Internet Marketing Is A Very Interesting Thing

Some beginners including myself do find it hard to get started on internet marketing which is to make your 1st dollar online because in general it is really difficult to focus on just 1 or 2 aspects of internet marketing like blogging or content marketing. According to most internet marketing experts, it is important to grasp the fundamentals of internet marketing before you actually decide to target a niche as the different concepts are actually inter-related which mean that doing blogging might include knowledge of search engine optimisation (SEO). Hey wait! what are all the jargons you are using?


Talking about search engine optimisation (SEO), let me share my own experience with you. In a nutshell, SEO is about getting the best rankings in search engines, thus driving the maximum traffic to your own sites. Without traffic, even the best designed site will fall to pieces. To be frank, when I first started my personal blog http://leoncreations.wordpress.com, I did not know that one had to optimise your site for search engines. Today, if you search for 'leoncreations' on google search engine, my personal blog will come up top even though I am not on a top level .com domain (ya I am on Wordpress, recommended for people starting their 1st blog). So what actually happen? I believe that SEO has a big part to play and that there are a few important things to take note if you want your site to rank high and to drive traffic to your sites. I will reveal these points and more when I get going doing research on SEO, see you in my next post!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

CHANGE

The victory of Barack Obama sums up a few important traits and beliefs in achieving financial freedom:

  1. Believe in yourself & that you can make CHANGE
  2. Have a good solid plan and take concrete steps by steps to achieve what you want
  3. Get support from others as well and learn to share and contribute back to those who have helped you along the way
Once again congrats to Barack Obama and hope that he can change United States Of America for the better and God Bless all of us!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How do I make money online? An introduction to Internet Marketing

A lot of people have been asking this million dollar question of how to make money online and I must say that there are many ways to do it. One of the most common way is to sell stuffs online, yes one can indeed sell anything online to make money.However, for those people who are serious and committed in doing it, there is actually 3 questions to ask yourself before you start.

  1. Ask yourself why? What is the motivation & drive behind? What are your desired goals?
  2. Now that you have your clear motivation & goal, how are you going to do it?
  3. With your plan & strategy, what are the actions you must take and how to deal with feedback?
Before I move on further, let me highlight the 3 most important reasons for making money online

  1. Low, minimal capital or starting cost (even students or people who don't earn much can start to make money)
  2. Automated ways or systems (you can make money anytime, anywhere with just a PC & internet connection)
  3. The world is your market (you can reach out to at least 1-2 billion internet users to maximise your profit)
Ok let me introduce to you a way I would recommend using to make money online - internet marketing. Many of you might have heard of this term while some not so I would simply put it that internet marketing is a way of reaching out to your customers. There are many ways to do internet marketing but for today I would just stop here for you people to digest and think through what I have just gone through.

Let me share a video titled '3 ways to make money online' by one of the internet marketing experts - Stephen Pierce for you to have a glimpse into the world of internet marketing and also to get you started.



Any feedbacks & comments are welcomed and I hope to share more about internet marketing in my next post, do stay tuned!