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Day 5 – there is no charge for awesomeness…

Phew, here comes day 5 in thirty day challenge.

With those micro niche keyword phrases, it’s time to look for articles content. Grab those contents, read it and generate our own contents using their ideas. Remember, do not copy others people copyright. Else you are treated as plagiarism.

Collect some articles from these big brothers online.

• Ezinearticles.com
• Goarticles.com
• Google blog search
• Technorati

Copies those articles down and transform it become our own content. Use the tactics of samurai to take them down.

Cool right?

The main focus is for day 5 is to write 5 to 10 articles. Each article consists of 300- 500 words. Keep these 5 articles, will be use for next lesson.

My two cents

In Internet, people are looking for information. So, writing articles to build content is a must to do in building a quality website. Basically, I don’t like to write articles but there is nothing I can do to skip this process.

People always mentioned…Content is King! Then how about Queen? Do you have any idea who is Queen?

Think again…

Drum roll please…

Content is King, relationship is Queen! (My personal concept)

Need to build a strong relationship with your customer, hence will have a solid and long life customer. It is easy to get new customers, but having a royalty customer is a tough challenge.

That’s the basic of business.

How about you? What do you think about business?

Here comes day 4 on thirty day challenge

I love thirty day challenge, it keeps following the schedule as sticky as possible. We can take a deep breath and short nap while doing the task on day 4.

Hello!

Please wake up, it’s just a short nap, okay?

The toughest parts in 30 day challenge fall in day 2 and day 3. These 2 days covered the most important factors to unleash some profitable micro niche keyword phrase.

The true story behind unlocking the profitable micro niche keyword phrase has just begun. Stay tuned!

Day 2 and 3 has just past. Here come the interesting part in Day 4…

Finding stuff to sell and test

With some of our micro niche keyword phrases, it is time to test the keyword phrase by study the market itself.

Where to look for product to test?

Just head over to amazon.com and clickbank.com, key in keyword phrases and hit “enter”

IMO, most probably we will get some results from amazon.com after key in those keyword phrases. If you type “3G iphone software”, then bunches of iphone products listing in amazon.com. Simple rite? (smile)

There are two places we can look for products to sell, amazon.com or clickbank.com. If you can’t get the products to test, then simple move to Google.com and insert keyword phrase as below to look for your niche products to sell & test.

“keyword phrase” + affiliates

“keyword phrase” + affiliate program

“keyword phrase” + associate program

Open you eyes and look for it…!

Join as an affiliates

Once we found the products for the niche, register as an affiliate member of amazon.com or clickbank.com

There is no charge for registering as an affiliate. (* affiliates get paid once the products have been sold to customer)

Writing a short ad copy (*ad = advertise)

At this stage, we need to write a short ad for our affiliate products. Let’s say the product is an ebook “learn to play piano like pro” in amazon.com, go over to the product description of this ebook, read the reviews, testimonials and so on.

Now time is writing a short ad copy. A good short ad copy is consists of 30 – 50 words. Remember, as in 30 day challenge requirement, it is between 30 – 50 words. No more that.

Generate affiliate links for amazon products

In 30 day challenge, we only need the simplest promotion tool for an affiliate, it is product link.

<a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012JCYPC?ie=UTF8&tag=jeremyblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0012JCYPC”>Apple iPod touch 8 GB</a>

Not recommend to use banner, image, widget and blah blah blah… (Keep those for future development, simple product link will do in 30 day challenge)

Save and edit the product’s image

Since the basic concept of 30 day challenge is not spending a single dime. Use Picnik to edit the product’s image. Yes, is PICNIK not PICNIC.

I repeat… is P…I…C…N…I…K…got it?

Picnik is free image editing software online. Take advantage on it.

If the size of product’s image is more than 150 x 150 pixel, upload the images to picnik and edit it to 150 x (any figure). Remember to check the proportions!

Conclusion for Day 4 activities:

1. Finding stuff to sell and test using amazon.com or cilckbank.com
2. Write a short ad copy for the product.
3. Create an affiliates link
4. Edit image using picnik

My own comments:

• There are literally a lot of affiliates program out there, don’t limit yourself to amazon or clickbank.
• Beside picnik, you can use other image editing software. I use Adobe Photoshop for image editing.

So, Day 4 in thirty day challenge is quite relaxed. The hardest part has past, now prepare for a smooth sailing…

The following day gonna be busy again… sign…

Here come day 3 of thirty day challenge

Today is about competition analysis using market samurai. There are literally two types of competition analysis can be used. Competition analysis using market samurai for samurai attack (YEE HAA) or traditional competition analysis.

Competition Analysis using market samurai

According to thirty day challenge, there are two basic criteria for finding a micro niche keyword.

SEOT >= 80 and SEOC <= 30,000 (Wait! I know you gonna ask me what is SEOT or SEOC)

SEOT = search engine optimization traffic;

SEOC = search engine optimization competition

There is a section in market samurai keyword analysis, which we can use the filter mode to meet our criteria above.

There is where I set the SEOT min = 80 and SEOC max = 30000.

Easy right? In actual SEO technique, there is more than that … (scary?)

After that I can start to analyse the keyword… pretty cool rite? (Actually this tool is damn good!)

In thirty day challenge, we only need to come out one micro niche keyword. Yes, only one. Nothing more than that.

Basically I’ve come out with few micro niche keywords in case some of the keywords are not profitable. This is for my future expansion. (like world of warcraft expansion )

Search Engine Optimization with market samurai

Ok, here come the cool part! I like this one.

Beside analyze those keywords in keyword research section. Now comes to SEO competition analysis.

This is going to be total comprehensive and complicated…!

Deep in our micro niche keyword on SEO competition… Bomb! Here comes the result… This is my first micro niche keyword and hopefully it will get to rank number 1 in Google.

I’m still in the mist of analyzing this data… So based on SEOT = 111 and SEOC = 10300, this is the results analyzed by market samurai.

There are two section in this SEO optimization…

Off page optimization: DA, PR, ALX, BLP, BLD, BLEG, DMZ & YAH

On page optimization: Title, URL, Desc, Head & CA

Wow, looks tough for a newbie to understand those terms right? But for veteran marketer, those are “chicky pie”…

So, will my keyword going to rank in Google number one spot?

Sorry, I don’t have the answer yet, will give you the answer once the keyword is ready to dance.

Here’s the task for Day 3 Thirty Day Challenge

1. Get your keyword to meet SEOT and SEOC criteria
2. Analyze keyword in SEO competition

My progress:

• I’ve found few micro niche keywords. One for 30Dc and others for standby (for future expansion.. Sorry, this is not games add on )
• Job done on Day 3.. take a rest.

There is no charge for awesomeness (thirty day challenge motto?)

It’s day 2 in thirty day challenge. Today, market samurai is introduced and this is another powerful profitable niche marketing tool to be available for all thirty day challenge members.

See, another freebies from thirty day challenge.

Market samurai still in BETA testing but it is still free for thirty day challenge members. I’ve started to use market samurai to do my keyword research. Not bad! If you want to try it, just head over to marketsamurai.com. But so far market samurai still has plenty of bugs to fix, that’s why it is still in beta stage.

Looking for microniche

In day 2, use your previous 10 ideas generated in day 1, and then start to look for the micro niche.

What is micro niche?

Ok, that’s interesting!

1) If you go to Google and type Golf, here’s the results:

“Results 1 - 10 of about 593,000,000 for golf“- There is a MARKET for golf

2) If you go to Google and type Golf Club, here’s the results:

“Results 1 - 10 of about 44,200,000 for golf club“- This is a MEGA NICHE

3) If you go to Google and type Cavity Backed Irons, here’s the results:

“Results 1 - 10 of about 361,000 for cavity backed irons” - This is a NICHE

4) If you go to Google and type Forged Cavity Backed Irons, here’s the results:

“Results 1 - 10 of about 49,500 for forged cavity backed irons” - This is a MICRO NICHE

Is forged cavity backed irons related to golf?

The answer is yes! But the search results of 49,500 still consider far from a micro niche. What we are looking for is below 30,000 search results according to thirty day challenge criteria.

Basically, what is the criteria for a micro niche?

As I know from thirty day challenge, the meet the criteria of micro niche “keyword”, we should be getting maximum 30,000 search results. This can be categorized as below:

• 1,000,000 +  (A MARKET)
• 100,000 - 1,000,000 (MEGA NICHE)
• 30,000 - 100,000 (NICHE)
• less than 30,000 (MICRO NICHE)

Basically we are looking for keywords with less than 30,000 search results in Google.

Here’s the task for Day 2 Thirty Day Challenge

1. Learn to use market samurai for keyword research.
2. If market samurai is not working for you, move to manual keyword research using google adwords.
3. See all the videos in Day 2 and tutorials for market samurai.
4. Put all 10 ideas in market samurai and study for keyword research.

My progress:

• explore keyword research using market samurai
• trying to master the technique of keyword research using market samurai
• It’s tough to keep up the pace in thirty day challenge. Have to keep on the momentum with my own team members and show our commitment.

Sorry folks! Time is running out, see you in thirty day challenge! 

There is no charge for awesomeness (By Ed Dale & Dan Raine)

The thirty day challenge has begun. Sorry for delaying the post for thirty day challenge. I should have post it after the Day 1 of thirty day challenge. Sorry folks

A Magnificent Symphony in Four Parts

As far as I’ve learned so far, the basic and most important steps towards creating your own products.

Today, smart marketers or entrepreneurs will spent total 95% in market research before they start to create their own products. Based on thirty day challenge, we will spent most of our valuable time in market research, then the rest will be traffic, conversion and product creation.

The magnificent symphony in four parts are:

1 - Market Research, Getting Ideas

This is where we get ideas, market research and so on. Without proper market research, it is absolutely wasting your time to create your own products.

2 - Traffic

Traffic I mean here is visitor visits your website. Without getting visitor to visit your online store or website, is just like open your store in the dessert. We need traffic to test the outcome of market research. If you have developed a new coffee recipe, at least has someone to taste the coffee before you going to sell to your customer.

3 - Conversion

This is one of the crucial part. Driving traffic thus convert those traffic into cash. For example if we have driven 1000 visitors to our website, but we still didn’t manage to make a single sale. This is like getting ZERO conversion. None of the visitors convert into customers. So, conversion is a very important technique to master in thirty day challenge.

4 - Product

After we’ve confirmed product “A” has the market that able to convert visitors into customers, then it’s time to create our own products. 95% will go for market research, traffic and conversion, the rest 5% will only go for product creation. The sequence is research first product later.

Thirty Day Challenge, Day 1 - Getting Ideas

The task for Day 1 thirty day challenge is getting ideas. Take out a piece of blank paper and start to write your ideas. There is no right or wrong. No prejudge or filtering at this stage. Just list out all those ideas that pops out from your mind.

Perhaps if you want to get more ideas by surfing, pay a visit to amazon.com

Yes, go to magazines section, click books - then click magazines & newspaper section. Write down those ideas in a piece of paper or note. No prejudge and filtering.

See, now we have plenty of ideas in market research

• dog fancy
• air & space
• gourment
• mental floss
• … and many more

Here’s the task for Day 1 Thirty Day Challenge

1. Get 5 - 10 ideas
2. Go to Google News and type your ideas in keyword and set Google Alert.
3. Take RSS feed to Google Reader

My progress:

1. Basically I’ve come out with 10 ideas.
2. Store those keywords in Google alert.
3. All 10 ideas do not have RSS feed, so there’s no need to save to my Google Reader.
4. Time taken: 1 day (including this blog posting)

How about you? Did you come out with some ideas?

Thirty Day Challenge almost begins!

I am so excited to join Thirty Day Challenge hosted by Ed Dale and Dan Raine. The official launching date of 2008 Thirty Day Challenge is on August 1st, 2008. Get ready for it! I AM READY!

Pre-season has started on 1st of June 2008.

What can I gain from thirty day challenge?

There is nothing I lose . Perhaps this is a great opportunity to learn how to make our first $10 dollar online. In this full 30 days, Ed and Dan will show us step by step, exactly how to start our Internet Business and generate our first income online without spending a dime.

Oh really? Can’t believe it.

It is 100% free to join Thirty Day Challenge

That’s pretty cool I love freebies BUT not everything dude.

If you still looking for ways to make money online or start your Internet Business, come over to thirty day challenge and meet few bunches of like-minded people around the world.

See you! I’ve personally team up with one of the group called SEO Team. I will be looking forward to work together inside the team and contribute my best to them.

I am pumped with excitement! Yeah!

What are you waiting for? Don’t think of the $10 in profit, think of the process of learning. It’s fun and full of excitement. See you there! Let’s go to Thirty Day Challenge…!

Are you still waiting the money to drop from the sky?

I’ve recently dropped one of my niche topic due to some unforeseen circumstances. That’s pretty sad to make this decision. To be true, I’m not really dropping the niche, just temporary put aside.

I’ve spent 2 days researching the niche and study some of the keywords, but at last I dropped the niche. One of the reason is, when I doing a study using Google trends, the search results suddenly drop to 0. 

Did you come across such situation before?

That is a tough decision to put aside the niche, but what can I do now is keep on moving forward. I will not feeling down because of this situation. What I can do now is…keep moving forward.

There are literally thousands of niche market out there, just do another research and start the ride again!

That is the tough part of success in online business. Many people tell you making money online is easy, some do tell you making money online is tough, which one do you believe?

Making money online is tough or easy?

In my experience, I always believe … not to say believe because I have faced a lot of difficulties trying to make money online. If you looking forward to make few dollars or hundred online, it may be easy.. but when we are talking about making hundreds or thousands consistently, keeping the traffic and maintain the profit is very tough and challenging.

Last time, I’ve managed to make some good money but my income suddenly drop for the last two months. There are a lot of “bumpers” along the route to success in online business.

But I still didn’t give up yet until I “breath the last thin air”…

If you think making BIG money online is as easy as 1-2-3, or as easy as mentioned by those guru out there.. then I urge you to give up to forget about your dream.

I’ve been in this industry for almost 2 years, but I feel like just started to learn …

There are too much technique to learn in online business.

I have one target, it is to learn, master and be specialize in “A SYSTEM OF SUCCESS”. I am still doing a lot of testing, trying, split testing … and a lot more… to come out a “system of success“. If  I able to  create this system ,  then I can apply to any niche marketing out there as easy as eating a chicken pie

My target is 3 - 6 months to create this “system of success”. Wish me good luck!

Do you have your own system of success?

Next post let’s talk more about dream… I like dream.. especially achievable one

Twitter is a another fun tool to share and exchanging ideas with your friends or family.

Actually it is not limit family and friends, you can talk to any person you like as long as he is using twitter

It is almost like another type of instant messenger, msn / yahoo / aim / QQ (China) or … for example in msn, when you want to talk to a group of friends, you need to add them in a chat room… invite them one by one… but with twitter, you don’t need it.

What you need to do is, just add your friends who has twitter account. For example, If I have a twitter account, you can click “follow” me to see what am I doing lately… confused? Let’s get twitter itself to explain in simple English. See Video below:

Did I clear your doubts? Twitter is just fun and yet another powerful tools in 2008 era.

Now, with the latest development on twitter, it has come down to Twitter Vision. There are 2 types of viewer. “CLASSIC” or “3D”

Recently someone just twit me about twitter vision. So I decided to share this out with you guys.

Do you know what is twitter vision?

Twittervision is a real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter. I tell you, this is pretty interesting. Get over to twittervision and take a look. In “3D mode”, you can see the day and night different in a globe.

If you see the 3D mode, a person named kiwofusi talking to someone via twitter, twittervision is pointing this guy from Japan. Is it great? Of course! You can see the day and night global effects. If you click the class mode, the twittervision mode will switch to 2D map like as below:

Wow. I love it man! So what are you waiting for? Go to twitter.com and register for an account. After registered, please add me to your twitter “gang” and follow me!

Lets move forward together and see what I’m doing daily. (Strictly no @#$%^& chat!)

My twitter ID: jeremynet

See you in twitter!

What others tools do you use beside twitter? … Let me guess messenger? QQ? Aim? Yahoo?

Classic alarm clock - Do you still using it?

How many of you still using classic alarm clock? Are you a classic clock lover?

Haha… Lets take a look of a picture of classic alarm clock below:

Its 2008 now, are you still using classic alarm clock? Press the snooze button? Sounds…”Ring~! Ring~!…?”

I’ve just stumble across a website from kukuklock.com, instead of using classic alarm clock, you can use this E-type clock called KUKUKLOCK…sounds like chicken “roar”

You can set the alarm ONLINE using this E-type KUKUKLOCK.

What’s your opinion? You can set the alarm online just like using the classic alarm clock and they can performed the same function as your classic alarm clock.

By using your mouse to click the “+” and “-” sign, you can adjust the hours and minutes to for your wake up time. Pretty simple right? After set, just click “SET ALARM”… oh! It’s kind of fun.

Before set the alarm, now come to the fun parts… There are four types of “ringtones” you can choose for wake up alarm..

• electronics sound
• classic clock
• cockerel
• slayer guitar

So, what do you think? Do you think it’s a great features? Play around with it.

But for me, I still be using my own small little digital clock.

Pretty cute right? Don’t play play with me.. its Made from USA

Do you still using classic alarm clock or same with mine? Little Clockie?

I just received a notification from my inbox to moderate a comment for:

“play poker, poket playing and blah blah blah…”

Filled with more than 50 same keywords for “poker”.

Then I go to moderate comment section and mark SPAM. I wonder this guy are using spam WP to spam his campaign. Take a look

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