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Free Internet Marketing Course

Posted in » Blogging Tips, Marketing - by Ades

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Popular blogger Jeremy Schoemaker of shoemoney.com launched a new 12-week, free Internet Marketing Course. He is using aweber to send out weekly emails that contain PDF lessons. Here is the contents of this course:

1. Week 1 - The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing
2. Week 2 - Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products
3. Week 3 - Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches
4. Week 4 - Pay Per Click: How To Earn Cash With Each Click
5. Week 5 - SEO: How To Rank Higher And Increase Traffic
6. Week 6 - Site Creation: How To Build A Site With Zero Programming Knowledge
7. Week 7 - Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales
8. Week 8 - Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand
9. Week 9 - Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability
10. Week 10 - Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures
11. Week 11 - Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners
12. Week 12 - Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

I am not sure how he is going to make money from this project since it’s free, but probably through affiliate links and embedded advertisements. But it’s all good for the readers - free course from an acclaimed entrepreneur like Jeremy is expected to be good.

Website: www.shoemoneyx.com

Idea Realization is a Challenge

Posted in » Articles, Getting Things Done, Make Money - by Ades

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Regarding my previous post about making money with Windows 7, yes it’s true that many people are now wanting to seize the opportunity and hoping to make money out of it. But it’s equally true that very few people will actually act on their ideas. Out of all the people who want to create a website about Windows 7, most probably only 5-10% will act on their ideas. And probably even fewer people will actually follow through and finish their projects successfully.

So, most ideas will be left as they are - in the form of ideas only. Some people might act on their ideas and pick a good domain name and register it, but won’t have the will to follow through and setup a website. Some people might setup a website but the outcome (design or the content) might not be as good as it supposed to be in order to be successful. And yet, some people might launch a great website but fail in their SEO and online marketing just to find out that other less great websites had beaten them because of that… etc etc

So, my advice is - if you are confident that you can launch a decent website about Windows 7, do the proper SEO and market it online successfully then you better don’t give up on that idea of yours! Because I am sure you have a pretty good chance of succeeding in it!

How do I know it? For the same reasons that I have mentioned above - that most of the people will not act on their ideas and even if they act many of them will not follow through until the end. As for the ones who complete their projects - “no one is perfect” - I am sure you will find a way to beat them, be it in the quality of the content, design, SEO, marketing etc. There is always a way to beat the competitors.

So the challenge here is:

1. Acting on your idea.
2. Following through with it until the end (i.e don’t quit half way).
3. Do the necessary adjustments to outperform your competitors.

Sounds like a plan? Then let’s get busy with our new project!

Windows 7 - Time to Make Money

Posted in » Business Ideas, Make Money - by Ades

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Microsoft is releasing yet again new operating system Windows 7 sometime in October this year. That means there is a huge opportunity to make money for everyone especially for bloggers, since most of them are good in setting up websites, doing basic SEO and promoting it on the net.

So how would you make money around Windows 7? The possibilities are many. You could setup a tech forum for Windows 7, or make a wallpaper site, or tips & tricks site, or Windows 7 hacks site etc - all of which are very popular segments for previous versions of Windows OS; XP and Vista.

Tell me more…

The idea is simple, basically you are going to use first mover advantage and try to be the authority website in your niche, to make your site popular and high traffic. And then put up some ads (adsense etc) and enjoy the fruits. Or sell the site and get a huge pay for it. Read more »

GCube: Free Online Leave Application System

Posted in » Online Tools - by Ades

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GCube is a newly developed free online leave application and management system for SMEs. If the company that you work for is still using paper and making you run here and there to get your leave approved, then ask your boss to check this application out. It’s free, so has nothing to lose!

It’s locally developed web application by Malaysian startup called Green Cube Solutions Sdn Bhd. I had the privilege to work with the CEO of this startup Ganee Baharudin back in 2004 at one of the local IT companies.

Currently the system has two fully completed modules running, more modules are expected to be added in the future. If you use the sytem, do let them know about your experience and where you would like to see improvements. I am sure they would appreciate that.

Website: www.gcube.com.my

Long URL Please: un-shorten URLs to their original URLs

Posted in » Firefox - by Ades

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Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and that is true with URL shortening services too. There are times you just wish if you had an eye that can see through these short URLs and see the destination URLs. This is especially true when you are viewing suspicious blogs or websites with short URLs in them. Personally I avoid clicking any suspicious short URLs.

Short URL services were popularized by Twitter due to its limited characters in ‘tweets’.

Long URL Please

Fortunately, there is always a solution for a problem. Read more »

Cartoon: Piglet and Pooh

Posted in » Cartoons - by Ades

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This is what swine flu (h1n1) does to the friendship :)