Thursday, 13th November 2008
The 4-Hour Workweek is one of the most important books I have read in my life. Some of the information in this book might not suit certain people, but it suits me very well because I am a free spirit and this book gives me a roadmap on how to achieve a free and easy lifestyle.
I have read the book 2 and a half times and I am in the process of completing the exercises in the book. I am in the process of completing Tim’s Ideal Lifestyle Costing worksheet. It really is quite amazing how cheap I can live my ideal lifestyle outside of my country. Tim helped me to get out of my old and outdated idea that I had to be rich before I could travel and live in multiple countries.
According to Mercer’s 2008 Cost of Living Survey, Singapore is ranked the 13th most expensive city in the world, ahead of New York City, which is ranked 22nd. I plan to move to Australia next year and before that, I am planning to schedule a “mini-retirement” to Thailand. …
Tagged As: 4-Hour Workweek, freelancers, Outsourcing, tim ferris
Thursday, 6th November 2008
I have been testing Popup Picker on my web sites. I tested peel away ads for one of my sites and it did not turn out very well for newsletter opt-ins. I think peel away ads are more suitable for special discount ads. I switched to pop over ad and my newsletter subscriptions doubled!
Subscribe to my newsletter to get the same script I used to double more newsletter subscriptions for free. Test it on your web site to see if it helps to increase the number of opt-ins.
Tagged As: newsletter, opt in, peel away ad, pop over, popup
Monday, 15th September 2008
Forget about the selling just 20% of your products that bring in 80% of your sales. Keep selling the other 80% of your products because they still can make a lot of money is what Chris Anderson is trying to tell you in his book, The Long Tail.
I should have read this book earlier. If you haven’t, please check out my review of The Long Tail to see what you have been missing.
Tagged As: Chris Anderson, Long Tail, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Monday, 15th September 2008
“The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More” has been out since 2006 and there is even a new revised version that was released some time this year. I should have read it earlier but I didn’t think I needed it 2 years ago.
The long tail approach to search engine optimization refers to the targeting of lower traffic and lower demand keyword phrases in larger numbers instead of trying to target higher traffic and high demand keyword phrases. High traffic and high demand keyword phrases are scarce while the lower traffic and lower demand keyword phrases are abundant.
Outside of the SEO context, the long tail refers to this:
Our culture and economy are increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of hits (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve, and moving toward a huge number of niches in the tail. In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly targeted goods and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare.
Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail, …
Tuesday, 18th September 2007
DealDotCom is like a discount web site for internet marketing related products. There is an internet marketing product on sale everyday and it lasts for only 24 hours. If you miss it, you won’t get another chance.
Product creators may submit their products to be sold on DealDotCom. The best thing about DealDotCom is their 2-tier affiliate program. According to their official documentation, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life.
Tagged As: dealdotcom, Internet Marketing
Saturday, 25th August 2007
I found a 50% discount for the popular screen recording software BB Flashback. The catch is you have to donate money to DonationCoder.com to be able to access the forum post with the discount code. There was no minimum donation policy when I joined but I am not sure if this will remain the same in the future.
I tested the BB Flashback discount coupon 3 days ago and as you can see it is still valid. The original price is $199. I consider this the best value for money screen recorder. If you can’t afford to buy Camtasia, BB Flashback is the next best thing available.
If you are on a tighter budget, you may want to consider getting BB Flashback Express. There are no editing features in this version and it lacks some other features of the normal version. At only $19.50 after the 50% discount coupon, this is a real bargain!
I won’t do a review of BB Flashback because Donation Coder has already reviewed most of the screen recorders available in the market today.
Tagged As: BB-Flashback, BB-Flashback-Express, Camtasia, Discount-Coupons, Donation-Coder, Screen-Recorder, screen-recording
Thursday, 16th August 2007
PayPerPost is a blogging advertising network. They pay you to write about advertisers who list their products or services in their directory. I am not 100% sure about the blog requirements but here’s what I know at the moment:
You can make money with PayPerPost in the following ways:
PayPerPost does …
Tagged As: Blogging, make-money-blogging, PayPerPost, PayPerPost-review
Tuesday, 21st November 2006
I was trying to move some domains out of RegisterFly. One of them was going to expire soon so I knew it would be too late to try to move out of RegisterFly. The other domain I had a long way to go before expiry. I have tried to ask RegisterFly’s support on how to find my domains’ EPP codes but they are not responding. I searched on Google.com for help and realised a lot of people are having the same problem right now.
I read a post in a forum that mentions you can enter a random number into NameCheap.com’s EPP code verification box and get your RegisterFly domains transferred without any problems. I tried that for 2 of my domains and I am still waiting for the whole thing to process. I am not sure if it is going to work. It seems like RegisterFly is having problems with their EPP code system.
Therefore, if you have domains that are going to expire at RegisterFly, it would be better if you extend your domain with them for another year and move out once that extension is confirmed. My domain transfers have been dragging on …
Tagged As: domain+renewal, domain+transfer, epp, registerfly, web+domain
Tuesday, 17th October 2006
I used to use RegisterFly a lot but not anymore. I like their cheap prices but their system sucks. I wonder why they could not create a better system. Their programmers must be mediocre!
In this blog entry, I will go through some dos and don’ts when using RegisterFly. Should you fail to apply some of these tips I mentioned, be prepared to spend a lot of your precious time fixing them. Time is money, if you do what I say, I guarantee you will spend less time getting their system to work.
1. Do not submit replies to your support tickets if RegisterFly has not replied
I learnt this the hard way. RegisterFly puts you in a queue when you submit your support request. Should you reply to your support request, you will put to a lower position in the queue. I don’t really understand how this works exactly but I think it is very stupid. Other support systems have an urgency criteria for you to select from something like critical to not so important issues. RegisterFly uses a “first come first served” queue system. They push you back to the back of the queue if you reply …
Tagged As: dns, domain+name, domain+registrar, domains, registerfly
Saturday, 7th October 2006
I have been rather quiet lately and I have been hesitant about posting new content to my blog. Why? Because most of the products I have been testing are crap and I have been through quite a bit of “hell” wasting my time and money on them. I was afraid my tone would not be too positive and it would affect the whole tone of my site with all these negative posts.
I reckon over 80% of the internet marketing products I bought over the last two and a half years are nonsense. That is why you see so many negative reviews on my blog. On one hand, I don’t want to write negative reviews about people’s products because I don’t really like to step on people’s toes. My friend told me if you keep on doing this, you won’t get many joint venture offers. On the other hand, some of these internet marketing products are so crappy I feel I must share my experience with you to add some balance to all the marketing hype (lies) out there.
The worst case scenario is I write a negative review about someone’s product and that person will never invite me to do joint …
Tagged As: Internet Marketing, registerfly, search-engine-optmization, seo
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