Finally – I don’t have to squint reading my OWN posts!

 All things said, it’s been quite a while since I updated my blog, and I thought it would be appropriate, considering that we’re literally relaunching the new Internet Marketing Academy. Yep, it’s the Jumpstart Program on steriods! If you want to be notified about this, you can check out www.InternetMarketingSingapore.com/jumpstart and leave your contact details there. There’s plenty for people to learn, but I am worried about the repercussions. I know some people won’t be too happy that I’ve got to start weeding out the serious people from the real ones, and you’ll realize that we have already started to have the premium stuff on our Platinum Forums.

You can’t see it because the forums are meant only for members of the IMA. I’ll be having some exclusive content there for IMA members to learn from. That will be the key difference in the following months to come. Membership to the platinum forums is either via invitation, or paid subscription only. The joining fee is now $39.97 monthly, with one audio clip and one video presentation monthly, focusing on the things that are on the top of your minds.

Anyhow, up against the wall now with plenty of projects, including a pending product launch I’m supposed to do with a batch of graduates from the Jumpstart program (yes, it’s a new feature in the program), and my fortnightly affiliate training program for all attendees of the Internet Money Secrets program in Singapore.

I’m going to extend this to Malaysia very soon, and hope to catch everyone in a quarterly meeting there. What can I say – it’s a powerful way to meet good people.

Eyes bugging out… unfortunately, I’ve been procrastinating exercising these last two weeks.. standard excuse is “work”. Sheesh. I’m going to have to get myself a neck transplant (after working on my books) if I don’t go for a good run tomorrow.

Oh… and the Internet Money Secrets preview is on in the evening later. If you’re able, pop by.

Is this the truth? Well, I want you to follow the logic here. If you want to learn to use HTML, it will probably set you back anything between 2 weeks (if you’re really that good) to 3 months (that’s what happened for me). Waste of time? You decide!

In the end I opted to use a simple content management system: a blog.

It got my web presence, and it got me going. Most people will use a blogger.com blog. That’s fine. It’s free, and simple to use. But I know that the power of the Wordpress blog is far better, instead of just a static page.

Still, that doesn’t mean that you can avoid doing static pages. Here’s a good tool you can use that is 100% downloadable:

It’s a free HTML editor, for those of you who can’t afford to get MS Frontpage.

You will obviously also need an FTP program.

This is to transfer files from your laptop to your server.

You will definitely need your webhost, which can also install Wordpress instantly.

Finally, you will need to get an autoresponder software.

These are essential tools of the trade and will serve you for a long time to come.

If you are getting these, chances are you will still need to get yourself some hands on guidance. Get them at my Jumpstart Workshop.

I’m actually in KL right now, and one of the things I have discovered is that people are overloaded with a serious problem: choices. What’s worse, is that because there are too many choices (ebooks, software, courses) they can’t make up their mind. Are you in their shoes? Do you receive countless, endless emails about some kind of offer or other that you don’t understand?

After finishing my seminar yesterday, someone actually came up to me and asked if I knew how to burn a DVD. Geez. Frankly, I don’t really know! As a person who needs to do a lot of value adding, I can’t know everything. I started to surf the web about how to burn DVDs, and a TON of software about DVD burning and DVD conversion came up. I was, well, stuck at my laptop for the next 2 hours digesting the information. Couldn’t there be a better way of doing it?

According to Chris Anderson’s book “The Long Tail” (which you should read EVEN IF you have information overload) choice is going to be the biggest thing to contend with. As a marketer, you must know how to deal with this. And the best part of it is that you have no choice! People take to the choices they have and buy ONLY from people they are familiar with. You are familiar with 100 internet marketing products, but the ONE person whom you communicate with online who refers you will be the one whom you are going to buy from. What in the world does this mean? It effectively means you have to build a strong sense of credibility in the eyes of the consumer.

In fact, I got excited about this and decided to post a short podcast about this as a podcast (you can find it in the post below) You can download it (I didn’t have my super-duper mic, so the recording is less than perfect, so bear with me).

Where my DVD was concerned, if only I had someone to ask and get answers, I wouldn’t be in this fix! So I had to test one software after another until I found one that worked for me, which was a waste of time. I hope that in your journey in Internet Marketing, you will always find credible coaches and mentors who can lead you on your way!

In this respect, you have to find a learning team. Why a learning team? With a group, you can share your experiences and tap each other to digest a huge amount of information quickly. You get to teach each other. However, everyone must remain committed to the cause and continue to do what they are supposed to do.

Of course, you can also work with me to earn some experience by attending my hands-on workshop:

=> http://internetmarketingsingapore.com/jumpstart

New intake, and interesting revamp. Join in because I have limited spaces to only 40, and will run the course even if I have 20 people.

Once again, if you are from overseas, drop me a mail and I will see if there is sufficient demand for an online version.

Is this a sign of the times?

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Well, it’s all about traffic and generating a huge amount of traffic is no longer a problem I think I’ll deal with this in another Gold Club webconference. If you are interested in generating traffic of this magnitude, drop me a comment inside and I’ll consider running a session if there are people interested in this.

Tell your friends about this!

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A lot of the strategies we cover in Wealth Academy includes stock investing in the USA (covered by my business partner Adam Khoo), as well as business strategies and marketing methodologies that I teach. Learning is happening from real-life experience in this workshop itself. Anyone interested to pre-register for next year’s program, call up my office to find out more! 62740105.

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Woah – I just sent a note to the list of friends I have — and suddenly I have a blog which has generated numerous comments (…tears…). Hey – I thought there was nobody visiting this blog!!!

Anyhow, just to let you know, I’m probably going to launch a small learning club online soon, but I’m going to get to the details of it only after my Internet Money Secrets program. This could save you time, and loads of money, while helping me cover basic and recurring expenses. So… let me go think about this, and I’ll have maybe a fortnightly thing to teach basic concepts. Remember, it can’t really be ‘hands-on’ in this way (which is obviously more valuable and therefore costs more), but it would give a much stronger understanding of the more complicated things on the internet.

Thanks once again everyone. Looks like the community is beginning to REALLY come forward.

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STEP #1 – Build a site.

If you want to build a site, it’s dead easy. You could probably do this in your sleep. Just remember to use a free resource if you don’t know how to do any HTML stuff. Oh, and even if you do, just check this resource out. It’s REALLY COOL – especially great help for people who are in the stone ages where the HTML and website coding is concerned. In any case, a blog should do just fine.

Come on – it’s not THAT hard to do. You can follow some of the videos here - best of all I made them for FREE. Took me a painful amount of time to structure it and render them, but this is supposed to be a community!

STEP #2 – Search relevant keywords

Remember to go to http://Inventory.Overture.com to get some keywords. If you are hard core, you would buy the keyword software that I use. It’s not cheap, mind you, but saves me the hassle of thinking. Lolz. Always remember to have a keyword that is NON COMPETITIVE. We talked about Results on Google and Searches on Overture in our previews. If you’ve missed it, I won’t be having many for long. Call 62740105 for the educational sessions or register at www.iMoneySecrets.com.

Step #3 – Generate Content

If you know how much effort went into this website, you’d know how much content to create. Essentially, you want targeted content for people to continue to visit your site. Simple thing to do when creating content is to partner up with a writer or pay a ghost writer at www.Elance.com to get your writing done. I’ve also heard a lot about www.Guru.com but I don’t use them… yet. Now… I’m talking about really solid content here, not just cut and paste stuff. If you don’t know where to get them, you can search the public domain as well as article directories. PLEASE do yourself a favor and modify the content so that search engines won’t count them as duplicates.

Step #4 – Search an affiliate network

I suggest you start off with niches available in www.ClickBank.com, www.CJ.com or even www.Amazon.com. Register with them, keep the passwords handy and start pasting some RELATED items in your website/blog.

Step #5 – Continue To Build Traffic

It’s laughable that people generate a site then expect in the next 2 hours to have an avalanche of money coming in. IT DOENS’T WORK THAT WAY. Invite people to visit the site. If your site is junk to them, FIND OUT WHY and improve. If you just dedicate around 10-15 minutes of your time to get people into your site and make the environment safe and friendly, people will come back again.

Step #6 - Get an autoresponder

Now, I’m not privvy to teach this, but when you get this autoresponder, you will learn from the videos that are there. It’s straightforward and after you’re used to it, you’ll be doing it like clockwork. Practice makes perfect.

Why you need this is simple. If you don’t use it, you will end up with passing visitors who won’t get a chance to know that you’ve updated your site. Also, relevant information will lead to you understanding what your visitor wants. Thus, you can send emails and send them to an affiliate link, thereby making commissions off of that.

If any of this sounds too tedious for you, I’ll walk you through the process in my webinar, which I intend to conduct sometime next week. To be informed, please register yourself in the comments box in this post, and I’ll send out a general invite to you, and the passcodes, etc. for my webconference room (which, by the way, I pay US$30 a month for… and if you want to help me recoup this cost without paying money, simply ask a friend to visit my site - that’s it!).

I know it might be difficult to visualize everything right now, but hey – this is as simple as it gets. Affiliate marketing is suitable for anyone, any age, any race, religion, interest group… you name it, as long as you have a way to communicate, you can make money from affiliate marketing.

Now – I’ve done a quick calculation here. I spent over US$25,000 in my first year in internet marketing. I spent US$40,000 this being my second year. Lol – and you are getting this for free.

Listen, I’ll challenge you very simply. If you get this done, I’ll list you on my site at www.SingaporeHallOfFame.com and recognize you as a profitable internet marketer and feature you in an interview so that you can get even more traffic to your site. My criteria? A solid site, a monthly (3 months sustained) of at least S$1000 in extra income from Affiliate Marketing. That’s it!

Not only will you get the recognition, I’ll know that you’re serious, then show you how to get to the $5,000 a month level. After all, no point convincing skeptics out there who don’t believe even a dollar can be made online.

Why am I doing this? Look – let’s be realistic. If I don’t have to spend all my time convincing you, then it’s simpler for me. I’d rather work more with you guys than with the people who are total skeptics. It takes less effort.

Hey – if you are interested in jumping ahead right away, you can let me coach you and guide you for the next year. Yep – 12 months regular consultation. Obviously, that will come at a price, but definitely more targeted.

If you’re interested in joining in, then you have to leave a comment below. I’m warning you, only those who are interested in taking that tuition and receiving a positive return on investment within the year should opt in.

If anyone is skeptical, I won’t blame you! Hehe… by the time skeptics come to WANT me as a coach, it’d probably be at least 5 times more expensive to have me as a consultant! ^_^

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