Wow,i just found this free blog link exchange network,
BlogExplosion, which some may already be using.
After signing up free, you can a portion of traffic from people who sign up using your link.
That means if your affiliate’s blog gets 100 visitors, you will get a portion of an equivalent amount of traffic to your blog (between 5 and 15%).
It’s an interesting, no-cost way of building traffic.
If you’re like to check it out and sign up, you can visit it
here.
The last 24 hours was an eye-opening experience for me.
Truly.
I was surfing the Domain Social forum and wow, the scale at which some of these guys are doing domain parking and auctions, and going for big name advertising programs like IntelliText (min 500,000 impressions per month) really blows the mind.
In Asia, we have maybe 15,000 impressions and we’re pretty darn impressed already.
We see someone who’s got $20,000 in affiliate income and we think, wow…. won’t I like to be one of these guys?
Meanwhile, some of our US counterparts who are pulling in $50,000 might be considered average, while $200,000 might be above average.
It’s all a matter of your basis of comparison.
Do we aspire to the a big fish in the Southeast Asian pond, or a small fish in the big global pond with aspirations to eventually become one of the big fish.
Having a hope is the first step.
But then I’ve always believed that hope is for the hopeless.
We need something more than hope, we need an Internet Marketing eco-system to help build the community.
And at the same time, we can’t just rely on talent within our own borders like Jo Han Mok and Ewen Chia, Stuart Tan, Ryan Chua, Rachit Dayal and myself (heh…). We need to do tie-ups and alliances with our colleagues across the border like Jag Senghera, Gobala Krishnan (although he slags us for having no free wireless Internet. Akan datang ok!), Kidino and Zamri Nanyan.
Unless we are able to do more JVs and soon, it’s going to be tougher to break into the market.
Maybe it’s a matter of sharing our resources, after all the pie is big enough for all.
Yesterday was a mixed bag in terms of achieving my goals.
Got my real estate stuff done. working on 3 prospects.
At the same time, I came to the realization that the macro view is missing from my strategy.
Instead of going into piecemeal stategies, I need a holistic approach towards IM. Have a big base to work from and synergistic crosssells and upsells built into the equation.
Else getting IM income in small chunks will do nothing for me.
So the next 7 days till next Friday will be spent building up the IM base and going through the resources.
Will do further refinements to the UHP system too.
today’s P1 goals:
1) Finish going through Stuart’s Jumpstart to Profit Notes
2) Go through Insider Tips to Internet Profits (abt 100pgs).
Internet Marketers have a drive to make as much money as possible.
(if you’re planning to make as little money as possible, please hit control-w now)
While going through the various IM options available (adsense, affiliate sales, product creation, selling services), consider this:
- What do you want to achieve at the end of the day?
Over the past 2 months, I have dabbled in adsense, affiliate sales, product creation.
Everything looks interesting, and lucrative.
I have generated about US$200 to date.
And yesterday, a revelation stuck: Where is this all leading to?
Generating small residual income could be an interesting supplement to a regular income.
Who doesn’t want a couple of hundred bucks a month?
BUT to do it full time, requires a major paradigm shift.
You would already know that specialists are paid much more than generalists.
Surgeons are paid more than doctors in general practise, Internet Marketing SPECIALISTS will draw more than Internet Marketing GENERALISTS.
Many new Internet Marketers (myself included) get trapped into the idea that they can do everything.
We make ourselves into IM generalists, thinking it offers the best prospects.
Nothing could be more wrong.
Don’t get me wrong.
Everyone has to start out as a generalist.
And some choose to be career generalists.
But how fast you make it to the specialist track will determine how soon you fasttrack yourself to success.
Niche Specialists will dominate whatever segment they’re in.
The cost of being general will ensure you get a general income.
A general income also gives a linear income.
A specialist can expect to get a quantum return because demand will far outstrip supply if you position yourself right.
This will be covered in my UHP system once it’s ready.
It’s taken two months of time and effort to have had the IM generalist ‘learning experience’
It’s taken just two days of posting the UHP “Need to Succeed” thread to show me my next step.
The next week will be spent huddling in the trenches and formulating a new strategy.
I’ll be going into ‘thinker’ mode over the next 7 days and launching into ‘doer’ mode subsequently.
Expecting something interesting.
Mozilla just announced to their lists that Firefox 1.5.0.5 is out.
Can download from Mozilla.org.
Here’s the orig announcement:
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 1.5.0.5 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://www.getfirefox.com. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest release. This update is available immediately in 39 languages including German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, and more.
Most people are oriented towards being a thinker or a doer.
Thinkers tend to be better educated and having had the opportunity to go to a tertiary educational institution.
They tend to land white collar jobs and have relatively high starting salaries.
Doers while also possibly having a tertiary education, will tend to be adept in having hands-on skills and experience.
I am a thinker, a lot of my friends are thinkers.
We sit, we chat, we make plans to take over the business world.
And then we finish our round of drinks, break up and meet again the following week.
Rinse and repeat.
Doers on the other hand, tend to have action-oriented conversations. They talk about specifics of what they might do.
They might lack the overall ‘strategy’ for going about doing what they plan to do.
They may think one step ahead, maybe two or three.
But the ‘big picture’ may be a pie-in-the-sky concept for them.
After all, actions speak louder than words.
Thinkers have a larger chance of success at what they do, because they will have well-thought out plans, factoring in worst case scenarios, ROIs, ROEs and all sorts of mathematical functions.
Doers however, may not have a complete game plan, or even a game plan.
The venture may have a higher rate of failure.
But the weird thing is that successful entrepreneurs are more likely to be doers, rather than thinkers.
Why is that?
Besides the process, there’s also the what happens after the outcome is achieved (whether success or failure).
The thinkers are likely to do an analysis, reflection, extended periods of navel gazing, call it what you will.
Doers on the other hand, will dust off their knees, get up, say to themselves, ‘ok, let’s not do that again’
They attempt to succeed again. And again. And again. Until success comes.
In the final analysis, a thinker might have a 40% chance of success, and he may attempt to succeed once, maybe twice.
On the other hand, a doer may have a 15% chance of success, but he will try and try, and try, and try, and try, and try until he succeeds.
Would you choose to be a thinker? Or a doer?
