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About Andrew Wee

My name is Andrew Wee. I'm 32 years old, live in Singapore and am happily married with a 2 month old daughter. I've gone through a list of various occupations including: * journalist (for a business newspaper) * Internet content developer (for one of Asia's largest media group's Singapore Press Holdings) * trainer in entrepreneurship, business building, life skills * photographer/photojournalist * real estate agent * consultant * entrepreneur (I think that's enough for now...more later!) This is a personal space to express my goals, dreams and aspirations.

Friday Podcast – Growing Your Affiliate Program With Alice Seba

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Alice SebaCanada-based Alice Seba would seem an unlikely candidate for an internet marketer.

With a bachelor’s degree in History and Archaeology, and a mother of 3 (the youngest just turned 4 months a couple of days ago…), Alice stumbled into the world of internet marketing while looking for opportunities to work from home.

Her “Internet Marketing Sweetie” product was one of the first I bought coming into the industry a couple of years ago, and it was a pleasure to have Alice on the podcast series.

During the session, we talked about:

  • How she got started in internet marketing and affiliate marketing experience
  • Tips for internet marketing beginners and some of her strategies in taking care of 3 young kids AND running her own successful online businesses
  • Should you author/create your own product?
  • Tips for promoting your own affiliate program
  • The ONE networking tip that will help you succeed in internet marketing

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Friday Podcast: PPC Strategies With Andrew Payne

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andrew payneI met Andrew Payne on the CashTactics blog where he’s leading a PPC case study.

Andrew’s in stealth mode and hasn’t given many public talks yet, though he’s certainly an affiliate marketer to watch.

Starting his PPC campaigns in Oct 2007, he generated over $1,000 in commissions in 4 days and has continued using PPC in his marketing campaigns.

I got him in for a Friday Podcast session, where we talked about:

  • His start in internet marketing in the area of search engine optimization
  • How he made the switch to PPC and some of the tips he’s picked up along the way
  • An overview of the PPC case study
  • Tips to optimize your landing page
  • Key techniques you should use to maximize the success of new campaigns
  • How to keep yourself continually motivated and achieving your goals
  • Andrew’s preferred affiliate and CPA networks

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Paypal Account Phishing Scam Takes A New Twist

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You’re probably already familiar with the old phishing scams where someone has passed away/fled a third world country/discovered some long-forgotten funds and needs your “help” to wire the money. For just a small “administrative” fee, the person will share the $15 million amount with you.

Though this online fraud has been exposed some time ago, people are still falling for it.

The latest scam has an interesting twist.

Here’s an email I received:

Dear User,

We recently noticed that a transaction may have been made without your
knowledge or consent. We are currently investigating the following
transaction: 

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Details of Disputed Transaction
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Seller's name: Hagio-Host
Seller's email: yawvaar@gmail.com
Seller's transaction ID: 7YW39066PT6017814

Transaction date: Nov 25, 2008
Transaction amount: -$80.94 USD
Your transaction ID: 30L88064FF065545B
Case number: PP-587-442-704

To see the details of this case, log in to your PayPal account by following the link below and go to
the Resolution Center.

https://www.paypal[dot]com/login?secure=ssl32?caseid=7YW39066PT6017814?=disputeTRANSACTION

The seller has been asked to provide information about this transaction.
During this time the funds are not available in your account, but if the
unauthorized activity claim is decided in your favor, we will fully refund
you for the amount of the transaction.

Sincerely,

Account Review Department

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you
will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account
and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

BC:PP-587-442-704:R1:USD80.94:11/25/2008:30L88064FF065545B

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This looks pretty legitimate, however, checking on the hyperlinked address to “fix” this problem, it goes to “http://paypal.update-user-info[dot]com/index.htm”
Which is obviously intended to harvest your paypal login and password.

They probably won’t catch too many people with this trick, but still it pays to be careful.
Always check the originating domain and you’re unsure, go to the Paypal website and drop them an email.

Another Twitter Toy For Marketers: Twitter Grader and Twitter Elite

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Deep down most marketers are stats junkies at heart. Even though we realize that your Alexa ranking may not mean a whole lot, especially since a number of Facebook games and applications have muscled their way into the top 50,000, we still look at our Alexa rankings every now and then.

So with micro-blogging platform Twitter providing API (application programming interface) access to developers, it was only a matter of time before a slew of twitter “stats” and “analytics” services made their way onto the market.

Do they really mean anything?

Is it statistically significant?

There’s still a big question mark in that area.

What has happened though is that these services have turned out to be great linkbait, and they seem pretty viral too, with various twitter users announcing/bragging about their “Twitter Elite” status (even if you are the top Twitter dawg in your village of 500….)

The Twittersphere has been abuzz with various users announcing their “Twitter Elite” status.

twitter grader

Are you a member of the elite? Check out the twitter grader and find out.

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Evolution of a Blog: CashTactics.net

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ruckI first got to meet Ralph “Ruck” Ruckman (right) on the internet marketing forums more than a year ago. He got some attention as an active poster on the Rich Jerk forum, and for blog posts on his CashTactics blog, such as the one where he mentioned making more thant $159,000 from one of his sites. (From about 17 hours of work).

Since then, he’s published more posts related to PPC traffic generation and CPA affiliate marketing. If you’ll read some of his posts like his Questions and Answers post:

His reply to the question about what he should have known as an internet marketer starting out is frank and uncensored: “That 99% of marketers writing ebooks to sell to other marketers are nothing but forum slime who copy other people’s ideas and steal the glory to make a penny. Had I known that when I started I would not have wasted a shitload of money”

Instead, the foundation of how he determines what works and what doesn’t isn’t by reading an ebook, but by testing it out. And it’s not just posts about how he made big money either. In an update to his testing, he removed the entrecard and scratchback blog widgets because they weren’t performing.

One major lessons that internet marketers wanting to be successful from their efforts is to continually research, test, analyze new campaigns and products and services. “Failing” once does not put you out of the game.

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Friday Podcast: Social Media and Book Branding Tips From Warren Whitlock

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Warren WhitlockWarren Whitlock is one of the earliest online marketers having rubbed shoulders with the likes of Declann Dunn and strongly advocates the use of direct marketing principles when it comes to marketing your business on the internet.

A published bestselling author and entrepreneur, I invited Warren on the Friday Podcast where he shared:

  • How he got started in internet marketing
  • How he got involved in promotions and launches for new books
  • Why writing and having a book published helps your business
  • His tips for getting your best results from social media marketing

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