• Blogging
• Affiliate Marketing
• Social Traffic Generation

I get lots of feedback on general posts, but here’s a chance for you to pose questions and get answers in a future post.

To make things a little easier, here’re some of the foundation between each of the areas I cover, so you can better “get” me and pose a question which might best help you:

Blogging

I see blogging as the next generation of web publishing. It certainly beats the HTML I was bashing out on a text editor in 1997 when I was managing web portals.

The introduction of RSS and Social Networking/Bookmarking widgets means you can easily get a blog from the starting point to more than 10,000 uniques in less than 6 months after starting.

Someone might say, “Sure, I can do that in a single day by getting my post listed on Digg or one of the other big bookmarking sites”, but what I’m refering to is a consistent stream of traffic, as in a consistent 1,500-2,000 page views per day. Not 50,000 page views today, and 200 page views tomorrow.

The underlying philosophy here is that I am (and I hope you are) building a solid business. Although it’s based in the online world, and by definition virtual and intangible. The business I’m building here is as solid as any brick-and-mortar equivalent out there.

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Affiliate Marketing

My approach is different from many affiliates out there.

I adopt a customer-centric point of view, thinking about questions like “Why should I submit my email/zip code/buy this product/service”.

Value creation is a key here. And the law of fair trade applies.(well, somewhat).

If I spend $1 and get “value” worth $2, I’m certainly a happy camper.

If I spend $1 and get “value” worth $0.10, I’m going to be a very unhappy camper.

The specific mechanics of this will be covered in a product I’m currently developing.

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Social Traffic Generation

The fundamentals of traffic generation I subscribe to is based on “human relationships” more than search engine alogrithmns.

Coming from a social/organizational psychology background, it’s quite easy to see how relationships still form the basis of interaction on the Internet.

If I like you, I will visit your blog/website, leave comments, buy your products/service, do joint ventures with you.

But the virtual world being vastly different from the physical one, there is a huge difference in how you accomplish this goal to get people to ‘like’ you.

That’s where my whole social traffic generation system comes about.

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Now that I’ve laid out the foundation of the systems I practise, go ahead and list topics or questions you might have in the comments below.

Enjoy the broadcast and for those who like the notes, they’re located below:

Download audio file (WhoIsAndrewWee.com-friday-podcast1a.mp3)

Podcast Session Notes:

• What is podcasting?

It is a way of distributing audio content over the Internet.
Content is usually hosted on websites and blogs.

• Why’s podcasting useful?

Podcasting – personalizes the user experience.

A major advantage over text-based blogging: podcasting conveys intangible qualities:
Readers typically better able to get a glimpse of the blogger or website owner’s personality.

You get a sense of how does the person sounds…and make inferences about their personality, education, intelligence.

These snap decisions may or may not be correct, nonetheless, first impressions do count.

It’s generally said that we size up people we meet within the first 10 seconds of seeing them, based on how they’re dressed, how they sound.

• Podcasts help:

-Establish a closer link to your audience.
-Personalizes their experience.

Length: Vary in length. Can be up to an hour.
Although 3-5 minutes work well too.

• Traffic, Traffic, Traffic!

Additional advantage, useful for traffic generation: able to ping podcast-related ping servers like:

-Weblogs.com AudioRPC (weblogs.com)
–freshpodcasts.com
–ipodder.org

This concludes first episode of the WhoIsAndrewWee.com Friday podcast.

Feedback is welcome in the comments below.

Join us next week for another episode of the Friday podcast.

“You’re not updating your blog as regularly as you used to. Sometimes you skip entire days.

Are you giving up blogging?

What happened?

Please continue blogging, I enjoy your style and your (sic) explain things in a way I understand easily”

I appreciate getting emails, especially when concerned readers write in.

It is true that I am not blogging as regularly as I have been. I don’t see anything ending anytime soon.

The truth is I’ve been working on a very interesting project over the past month, which will culminate in an interesting session this weekend.

I’ve been hanging out with this dude:

That’s me on the left with Internet Marketing guru, Jo Han Mok

Jo Han’s one of the best minds around when it comes to product creation/development, copywriting and traffic generation and he has been in the Internet Marketing game for some time.

If you haven’t already checked out the Internet Millionaire Code, you’re missing out on a goldmine of information.

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But back to my blogging.

I’ve been developing new blogging and social traffic generation strategies and testing them out.

As you know, the new traffic generation strategy (which some call Traffic2.0 – although I personally dislike that term),can be brutally effective.

It goes way beyond the rudimentary “go to the most popular forums, insert a signature link, and post often”. If you’ve used that and have generated traffic in the hundreds of uniques, you’re already doing well.

What I’m talking about, is the ability to hypnotically attract hordes of qualified, laser-targeted traffic to your blog or website.

After showing a number of Internet Marketing inner circle members the results of my tests, the reactions I got ranged from amazement to pure disbelief and one even went to the extent of calling me a liar…till I showed him my web stats and he became a believer.

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Are you working hard?

Wouldn’t you prefer to work smart?

Internet Marketing is a long haul game, and if you’re not using strategies and tactics to help you get what you want…Internet Marketing will honestly become another job, which will have you enslaved to the Internet and your computer, instead of getting you what you want.

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I’ve been spending more time with my daughter, Bianca too.

Bianca Wee

It’s a great feeling to watch her growing day by day, and though she’s only 10 months, it just seems like yesterday when she was just a small baby that I cradled in my arms.

Just applying some of the strategies in the Internet Millionaire Code has given me the opportunity to triple my income in the last month AND spend more time with my family.

It’s ironic that many new Internet Marketers write me and complain that they sometimes work 14 or 16 hour days, but they’re not seeing returns from their marketing efforts.

If only they knew…

Which is why if you’re serious about moving ahead in the Internet Marketing game, and you are in Singapore this weekend, you owe it to yourself to check out the workshop small group consultation that Jo Han and I will be conducting.

We’ve kept the group really small and will be working individually with each of the participants on getting their sales pages (with consultation from Jo Han himself) optimized for maximum income generation, and I’ll provide some traffic generation strategies through new (and proven) traffic systems I’ve developed.

This is run as a small group personal consultation, geared specifically to your product or service, rather than a workshop where we’re actively teaching material. It’ll be the first and might be the only time we conduct it.
We’re aiming to close the registrations within the next 24 hours, so if you’re interested, you will need to drop me an email through the contact me link, including a contact number.