Some useful tips to make online for 2009!
This video is posted by Howie Schwartz,
one of the top internet marketer in US.
http://www.imleadership.com/ustream.html
Enjoy the video!
Cheers!
Bernard
www.Asia-Internet-Coach.com
This Blog is set up to discuss anything about Internet Marketing such as Email Marketing, Traffic Generation, Web Design, Affiliate program, Internet Tools, Web Hosting, Domain name any many more.
Some useful tips to make online for 2009!
This video is posted by Howie Schwartz,
one of the top internet marketer in US.
http://www.imleadership.com/ustream.html
Enjoy the video!
Cheers!
Bernard
www.Asia-Internet-Coach.com
Have you heard about Twitter?
Twitter is the fastest growing social media site. This site has million of members “twitting” 140 characters or less message every single day.
Some say that Twitter is like a cross between a blog and a chatroom.
Business Owner, Individual and organization is using Twitter to build relationships with customers, enhance their brand visibility and make more sales.
Many Popular celebrity likes of Britney Spears, Demi Moore, Lance Armstrong, Shaquille O'Neal, Coldplay, and MC Hammer now actively interact with fans via Twitter.
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I came across this story related to "Wealth", "Success" & "Love". It is full of wisdom and we can learn so much from it. Read the articles and you will understand what i means.
A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."
"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.
"No", she replied. "He's out."
"Then we cannot come in", they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened.
"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"
The woman went out and invited the men in"
"We do not go into a House together," they replied.
"Why is that?" she asked.
One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed. "How nice!!", he said. "Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth.. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"
His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"
Their daughter-in- law was listening from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"
"Let us heed our daughter-in- law's advice," said the husband to his wife.
"Go out and invite Love to be our guest."
The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."
Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"
The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!! !"
MY WISH FOR YOU...
-Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy.
-Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed confidence in your ability to work through it.
-Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength.
-Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.
I hope you will share with your friend as well.
Cheers!
Bernard

Facebook has been a hot acquisition target for years but the massively popular social networking site is now looking to pick up some of its own big name web properties. Apparently, the company tried to acquire Twitter for $500 million worth of stock five weeks ago but senior executives at both companies gave up on the idea at the beginning of Nov 2008.
The sticking point was of course price, with Twitter executives claiming that the $15 billion valuation of Facebook is inflated and taking the all stock offer would have would have actually given the deal a 150 million dollar price tag according to their calculations. Moreover, it seems there was a feeling among Twitter investors that the start-up should keep growing on its own and take a shot at figuring out its own revenue model.
This is my first articles for 2009, i would like to take this opportunity to wish all Chinese community
Happy Chinese New Year & Gong Xi Fa Chai!
Source: Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Cheers!
Bernard


I have a good opportunity to learn Forex from my good friend Choo Koon Lip. Also, i become one of his appointed exclusive “Chief Observer”. Forex is definitely another way to make money.
Cheers!
Bernard Hay
www.Asia-Internet-Coach.com
A) Introduction to Infopreneurship
* Why Infopreneurship?
* The Business Model That Works
* How to make millions selling information
* The various options
* The key is the person
B) Creating the Infopreneur's products : The BOOK
* Writing a BOOK? Becoming an Author.
* Why a book?
* Deciding to self-publish or not?
* The process of getting a book done
* Other products: CDs, Online materials, E books, Elearning content
C) Internet Marketing: The Infopreneurs' global channel:
* Selling information Online
* What are the possibilities? Websites, Contents and media.
* Choosing the platform
* How to get to be the top of the list in your areas of expertise
* Developing a online information strategy
D) Training: How to travel the world, stay in the best Hotel, share ideas and make money:
* How you can add value to other people sharing your experience, expertise and knowledge?
* Can you learn how to stand up and speak?
* What if I can’t present well?
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Blogs sway creators more than readers More than one-third of US female Internet users surveyed either contributed to or read blogs in March 2008, according to the BlogHer/Compass Partners' "2008 Social Media Study."
In the study, a full 29% of female blog readers said they had made a decision to buy a product based on information found in a blog post. Female blog publishers—defined as those who read, post and publish blogs at least once a week—were apparently even more influenced by blogs: 38% said they had decided to buy something after reading a blog post.
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Blog influence cuts both ways, however. Nearly three out of 10 female blog readers said they had decided not to buy something based on a blog post, as did 32% of female blog publishers.
For more information go toOur entire philosophy is based on the principle of testing EVERYTHING you do — and tracking the results.
It’s the only way to keep track of what you’re doing right with your online business, and what you need to improve.
For example, let’s say you want to make some changes to the layout of your web site. Obviously, you don’t want to make changes just for the heck of it. Any changes you make should be for one main purpose: to do a better job of converting visitors into customers.
But if you don’t test the new version vs. the old version, how will you know if the changes you make actually DO improve the performance of your website? And if you don’t track the results of your testing, how will you be able to know exactly which changes had the greatest effect?
Simply put, if you don’t test and track every single change you make to your site… every promotion you run… and every traffic generation strategy you try… you’re going to be shooting in the dark every time. And there’s absolutely no way of knowing what you’re going to hit.
So here’s my list of the top 5 things you absolutely MUST know about testing to keep your business on target.1. Only test ONE thing at a time
The most important thing to remember is this: KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Test one thing at a time. It’s the only way you’ll ever know exactly which change is causing which effect.
Let’s say you want to increase the number of opt-ins from your site. There are lots of different things you could test to make this happen.
You could try putting your opt-in form in a different location. You could change the wording of your opt-in offer. You could try offering a free gift instead of just a free newsletter.
But if you made all these changes at ONCE and your opt-in numbers began to skyrocket, how would you know which change was responsible? Besides, one of these changes could actually be having a negative impact — and you’d never even realize it!
If you have no way of knowing, then the next time you change your opt-in offer, you’re back to square one.
2. The MOST important numbers you need to know
You need to know TWO main numbers to keep on top of your website performance: the number of visitors you get and the number of sales you make in any given period. That way, you can figure out exactly how many visitors you need to attract to your site in order to make a sale.
Here’s how you do it:
Let’s say you got 300 visitors to your site in one day and you made 12 sales. Simply divide the number of visitors by the number of sales like this: 300/12 = 25.
For every 25 visitors you got that day, you made 1 sale. (Expressed as a percentage, this means your conversion rate was 4%, as 1/25 = 0.04)
If that conversion rate remains steady, then you can expect to make one sale for every 25 visitors. If you get 100 visitors, you’ll make 4 sales. If you get 1000 visitors, you should make 40 sales.
It’s a simple conversion — something everyone should know. It tells you EXACTLY how well your website is doing its job.
If that conversion rate drops for some reason, it could mean there’s a problem with your website — and you should do a thorough examination of it right away.
On the other hand, if it spikes, then you should try to figure out why more visitors are suddenly buying your products — so you can repeat this success!
3. Test the most important things FIRST
Don’t start off trying to track 30 things at once! Focus on your money makers first, as they’ll have the greatest impact on your business.
If your site sells more than one product, then you should be tracking the conversion rate for each product separately. Maybe your site is doing a great job at selling one product, but a lousy job at selling another. This is something you need to know, so you can figure out what’s going right in the first case and what’s going wrong in the second.
4. Think in terms of RATIOS as opposed to ABSOLUTES
Think in terms of percentages, not whole numbers.
Instead of thinking, "Hey, I made 25 sales last week!" — think, "Hey, I made 25 sales per 1000 visitors last week!"
Knowing you made 25 sales is nice — but it doesn’t tell you anything by itself.
If you know you made 25 sales per 1000 visitors, however, you know your conversion rate is 2.5%. (In other words, 2.5% of all your visitors last week bought something from you.) If it was a normal week, then going forward you can expect that 2.5% of all your customers will probably buy something.
This kind of knowledge is ESSENTIAL if you want to forecast how much revenue you’re going to make in any given time period. It also gives you a baseline number that you can refer back to when testing different elements of your web site in order to grow your income bigger.
For example: imagine if you changed the headline of your sales page this morning — and you ended up making 25 sales, just like you did yesterday. Does that mean that the change to your headline had no effect on your sales numbers?
Not necessarily.
Maybe you only got 100 visitors to your site today, instead of 1000. That means your conversion rate today is actually 25% — which is HUGE! That means 1 in every 4 people is taking action on your site. Wow. That must have been some headline you wrote.
(However, you really should find out why you only got 100 visitors to your site today. Once you bring that number back up to 1000, then if your conversion rate stays the same, you’ll be making 250 sales a day!)
5. Track your conversions by SOURCE
It’s not just enough to know what your conversion rate is. You’ve got to know where your best-converting visitors are coming from.
For example, are your most qualified visitors coming from pay-per-click ads you’re running through Yahoo Search Marketing? Or are they coming from your organic listing on Google — or maybe your affiliate network?
This is something you need to know! It’ll help you understand where your most lucrative stream of traffic is coming from — so you can focus your efforts there and work on growing those high-converting traffic numbers even bigger.
I’m interested in hearing how your testing is performing… please leave me a comment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Internet marketing expert Derek Gehl specializes in teaching real people how to successfully start, build, and grow their own profitable online businesses on small budgets. To get instant access to the step-by-step strategies, tools, and resources he's used to grow just $25 into over $60 Million in online sales, visit: http://www.marketingtips.com