In this edition of the Friday Podcast, I reflect on what the “Internet Lifestyle” means, inspired by marketing whiz Yanik Silver’s new Internet Lifestyle blog and website.
Notes follow (click on “More”)
Three young Malaysian Internet Marketers are raising funds for air travel and accomodation to the US to attend an Internet Marketing seminar, to achieve this aim, they’ve put together an Internet Marketing product firesale.
(Left to Right: Vince Tan, Gobala, Melvin Ng)
Dubbed the “7 Day Super Firesale”, Malaysia-based Internet Marketers, Vince Tan, Melvin Ng and Gobala Krishnan have put together 100 products on topics ranging from product launches, blogging, traffic generation, product creation and product marketing.
If you’re a new Internet Marketer, you will find a number of these products can be very useful in helping you better understand some of the fundamentals of Internet Marketing. Granted, you can probably get most of this information from high authority blogs, forums, Wikipedia, Ask.com and Yahoo! Answers, but I think the value you’ll get is from having the information aggregated at one central location.
If you’ve been doing Internet Marketing for at least a year, and are generating a comfortable income from your efforts, you might Continue reading
An interesting discussion arose over at PPC Super Affiliate Amit Mehta’s blog: Is it easy to create content, which ultimately drives traffic and generates profits, at an attractive price?
Amit and I are in obvious agreement that niche sites can be very profitable. As Amit notes:
Yes, $1k-$2k/month is fairly typical for the amount of revenue that I generate from my content sites just free traffic. Small compared to what I make from PPC from these site, but it’s a great source of long term revenues & profits, especially if you continue to add content and get backlinks to your site.
That $1k-$2k/month can grow to $1k/day, I know one affiliate who have done this in 6 months by ranking high in Yahoo and MSN.
Certainly, niche sites can provide nice long tail income, especially if you’ve built a critical mass of niche sites.
Amit’s experience of talking to one super affiliate: I had a chance to speak with some other very successful super affiliates. I talked to one guy who was running 500 affiliate offers at one time, making $20-$50/day from each one. WOW!
Is fairly typical of a number of Super Affiliates I’ve worked together with.
But the one limiting factor, especially if you’re not already doing this regularly is:
How do you generate original and more importantly “sticky” content.
Tim notes in the comments to Amit’s post:
Thanks for addressing the issue of content creation. I’m curious to know where you are finding writers who work for $5 a page. Most of the eLance article writers I have seen who actually have a good command of English and write well charge a lot more than $5 a page. Maybe I’m not negotiating enough.
It would be great if you could share your “insider strategies†on quality content control and selecting the right people to outsource to. I’ve found some great people on eLance, but they’re not insanely cheap not do I want to insult them by nickel-and-diming them down to nothing. I think what Amit has said is that if you find someone good, expect to pay them well because they’re in pretty high demand.
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The reality is that you will get what you pay for. Proven quality costs.
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In this episode of the Friday Podcast, I address a perenial question from new Internet Marketers “I’m doing everything right – submitting articles, blogging, but I ain’t made a single dime! What gives?”
The “Stuck Newbie Internet Marketer” syndrome is more common than you might think and I go into some solutions and workthroughs if you find yourself in similar circumstances.
The podcast notes follow (click the “more” prompt)
If you develop themed niche sites (such as ones based on the Xbox360, Apple iPhone or Linkin Park), you’d realize the value of a web host which provides for hosting unlimited domain names.
At the same time, most reseller accounts will not provide much in the way of customer support.
But what if you could find shared hosting which provides support for unlimited domain names (a virtual rarity).
I think webhosting company BlueHost has upped the ante by offering both unlimited domain names and real time chat support for its hosting customers.
Added to that is the implementation of the options of turning on FastCGI recently, which allows PHP scripts to remain in the server’s memory, reducing the need to run the PHP interpreter each time the script is run.
While you may not want to find out the gory details, do note that Continue reading
Forget your preconceptions that online auction behemoth eBay is a place to sell quirky Pez dispensers and broken printers, I did a survey of the market potential of the site for Internet Marketers and you’d be pretty pleasantly surprised by my findings.
Rather than recycle subjective opinions from blogs and forums, I went to Nasdaq.com and pulled eBay’s financial stats.
San Jose-based eBay has certainly come a long way from its beginnings as a sole proprietorship in 1995.
In case you think it’s only holds sway as the dominant player in the auction space, think again. The addition of electronic payment provider PayPal and Internet telephony VOIP (voice over internet protocol) provider Skype, means that it is a force to be reckoned with in the e-payment and communications arena too.
The financials show that the 30% year-on-year growth to sales of $5.96 billion in sales last years and a $1.125 billion net profit, mean that it’s position as a digital exchange for products and services is pretty much cemented.
Especially when you look back and see two major initiatives in 2004:
These and more recent intiatives have helped build up eBay’s standing.
In a recent IDC (International Data Corp) report “The State of the Consumer Digital Marketplace (Mar 2007)”, the “most important Internet companies” were analyzed, and the listing included:
What turned the tide for me was hearing from eBay specialist Adam Ginsburg during Matt Bacak’s Marketing Madness in Atlanta.
Adam’s sold $20 million Continue reading