Memoirs Of A Marketer : A Marketing Blog

Chapter-M by Gobala Krishnan Review

2006-07-23T01:26:00.000-07:00

Clickbank as some people describe it, goldmine of Internet. Unfortunately, not anyone can dig the gold as it not serve many countries. One of the country is Malaysia. This eBook Chapter-M by Gobala Krishnan is about how Malaysian can open Clickbank and Paypal account. I purchased this eBook, read it several times and this is my 2 cent! Honestly, even though I am also a Malaysian, I not really like this e-book.We are living in globalization world so we are more open now . Cronyism is ano-no and this information try to be as honest as possible. Chapter-M cost youUSD13. For me the information is so-so. .Here's why:

1.) You still need to pay. (unless in certain condition, you have relatives, family member or friends who living in country served by Clickbank). This is a service which charge you monthly but you need to pay either for 3 months , 6 months or a year as stated in the picture below:

I believe some Malaysian cannot afford this rate!The best thing is, I manage to get the same service from someone who I knew and manage to register with them. And I just pay USD5 per month. OK, this thing is solve. So I rush rush to register with Clickbank, with high hope to make money.. Cannot wasting more time anymore! Already spend money Easy Chair Millionaire so need to practice the knowledge I got from there...But..........

2.) There's another thing also you need to consider. As the picture below shows:

So I rush email to Gobala regarding to this matter Gobala Krishnan never answer my email which I sent to his support.

Since I buy from Mohd Fairuz website, where I've got cheaper price. I sent to Fairuz regarding to this matter ( 23/7/06) . See how it goes. I will update this blog as soon as I receive his
email.

Updated 28/7/06 : Mohd Fairuz has replied but not giving answer. Instead he asking me if the service also include phone number. So I replied tell him that I make an arrangement with my friend who stay in Singapore, to get the service for cheaper price. I also mentioned Gobala not replied my email. So in Fairuz's next email, he mentioned that Gobala should received a lot of email so that it takes time for him to reply. Gobala did reply yesterday and assure me that Malaysia Phone number can be used.

Conclution: It help, but the service that to subscribe in order to open clcikbank account is pricey.
Customer service is 2 out 5

My rating : 3/5

If you need to know more about the service that I used, just drop me an email to faizal.nordin "at" gmail.com

GDI Global Domain International New Review

2006-07-20T01:52:00.000-07:00

GDI here. There. Everywhere. People who want to make downlines all said GDI is good. GDI is stabile. Top company bla bla bla ..... Watever! You are all hypocrite! Supporting a company that only give you a measly 10% commission from your dowline..... which mean only usd1 only :-( And you pay $10 per month for cheap hosting with specifications far below good hosting company like Hostony and Startlogic?
And .ws domain? Hmmmm You can get a .ws domain for only usd7.99 for a year at Dynadot. Compare to usd120 per year at GDI. tHINK ABOUT IT.

Oh forget to tell you that now GDI has new rule. If anyone want to quit, they need to make a to call them! Well, for Americans, who care? But for non-Americans, to call to America is super money waster. Im now planning to quit but think twice since need to call. Oh, F#@!!!!

For anyone who think want to join GDI, think want to try. Forget it! Im still with GDI now and want to quit already... MLM is not the way to make money for some people. Now with the new policy, if somehow you want to quit coz you not make money there, you need to call them! So think twice.

Dont say I not warn u

Dropshipping and International

2006-06-24T00:08:00.000-07:00

I've mentioned before that Im gonna buy the dropshipping list. So as precaution, I sent an email to that guy who sell the ebook on is there any money back guarantee coz he not stated in his site. He responded there is a money back guarantee. I'm not buy the ebook yet, now I'm even more skeptical than ever after been foolishly scammed a lot! I did some research......

Dropshipping is great way to do business in ebay. You don't need inventory, buy items in bulk, and capital. You only pay for the wholesale price of the item only when you get order.

Sound great?

If you are from America, you are very, very lucky. Pray to God always as your country is undeniably rich. The market is big! For us who stay outside US, the international ebay seller, struggling to even searching for dropshippers who can accept international ebay seller. So you might wondering, why not sell in your own country? Well, to tell you truth, the market outside US is not so big, and is not easy to get some nice income. That is why everybody who do online biz mainly targeting US.

A 17 Years Old Earns 100 A Day

2006-06-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

I read in a forum where 17 years old boy claim he make $100 a day.. Wow he use Yahoo "type of adsense" on his websites and receive less 1000 impression a day... But still he seem unhappy with that... Dude! You do a lot better than I do! My earning is only 3 dollar a day sometimes zero, nada, kosong.. And I am 23, 6 years older than you! Sometimes Im tired with adsense!

A guy respond to his post in forum and claim his site receive more impression than the 17 year old boy, but receive much less income per day. Is adsense pays low to publisher?

The boy's websites is mainly install with script so less maintanance, one of that is a forum for teenager... Another one is sent free text messaging to anyone who live in America...Cool! Seem like sms.ac but much simpler....( Im looking forward to have my own script-driven website, and spend a lot of time for 2 days to search for scripts from hotscripts.com and Scripts.com. Now I have a lot of ideas, and short domain (I won't tell anyone for now, coz I'm not register the domain name yet).

Overture search for Myspace is more than 1 billion (Can you imagine the traffic?). Because of that, I will also include Myspace in my advertising campaign in near future.

Another strategy that I will implement is writing review on marketing ebook that I have a lot in my hard drive. Hopefully it will help me bring more traffic to my sites and this blog.

Forum Addict

2006-06-21T12:10:00.000-07:00

I decided to ge active updating this marketing blog and another one, uniqueweird.blogspot.com. I believe it can help me in my internet business in long run....

Since I get a lot of hits, then I decide to join a lot more forum.. one today is

http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/

My review of im4newbie.com forum, it is a great forum with a lot of helping hands. A marketing newbies should hang out at this forum often.

Other forum that I join:

Talk about buy/sell domains

http://www.namepros.com : The one I love most! Friendly people and I always get help I need from here.
http://www.dnp.in
http://www.ddboard.com/forum/

Travel Sites ( I use to promote EZlanguageschool.com and QuintanaRoo.info )

This site got number 1 placement on Google for Travel Forum keyword
aarvarktravel.net

I hope there is an active dropshipper forum coz the one I came across recently is like a ghost town!

Ezlanguageschool.com and making pennies

2006-06-21T10:16:00.000-07:00

Today no internet connection for hours but luckily, at 11.30 PM (grrr) the connection is up and running again.. fuh! This ISP (Shitmix!) is the most terrible but got no choice coz this is the cheapest... others are expensive! But the service suck coz Always no connection! And last month I have been billed for more than 300 bucks for evoice. I never use this shit so I made complain. But one of important person there email me and said I used the service! What the heck?! I never use it, you bitch! Even though evoice is uncluded in my service but to use it need password (which I also didnt know!). Just recently got call from Batu Pahat said that he received call from my number. When and who I know at Batu Pahat? I believe this is the work of people who work inside Shitmix!

Now at least ezlanguageschool.com receive 1000 impression a week and at least 1 click a day... very bad! How to survive if i just make pennies... Lucky I still work or else, I die starving! But the most effective way of non SEO advertising I guess is using forum... But still it is not enough! SEO is the most effective, most recommended way if want to make money with adsense! And that the most part of Internet Marketing that im very weak at.... After trying so hard change meta tag, put some word here, word there, countless time reading ebooks and junks, submit to directories, search engines, join linkmetro, link2u...... What u get is only backlinks and PR of MyPositiveMoney.com raise to 4... But PR means nothing if got too little of traffic.... even ezlanguageschool.com which PR 0 receive 9 times of traffic than MyPositiveMoney.

I have some ideas on mind... If I install script .... but what kind of script? I have an idea of photo rater website.... but there are so many of them already.... PR checker?... even more...!
I dont know... :-(

For my ebay, I think i want to purchase the dropship directory.. It said the directory is applicable to anyone wherever they live, USA, Philiphine, Malaysia, Japan.. Im very keen to start my biz on ebay.... since I made my first money online on ebay ( selling 3 letter domain fin.cc for about 50 bucks ).

I think I make a huge mistake by paying usd59 for a drop/deleted domain service... For a broke newbie like me it is still expensive and yet, it hard to get quality domain with good pagerank and backlinks... Initially, my attention is I want to get good domain woth good pr and sell them on ebay... But honestly it not that easy... Its true thousands of deleted domain available to be purchased or registered every day but most of them , almost 90 to 100% of them are garbage! I regret paying for that service but I can do anything as no refund is given once we paid...

So I buy the dropship directory today, the cost is 9.97 dollars. Hope it worth every penny.

Its been a long time......

2006-06-07T01:55:00.000-07:00

I neglected my marketing blog for so long. Here is the first post after months.

Yesterday

My adsense still not generate any money (This time I register with adsense again). But from the channel I can see traffic coming to one of my website www.mypositivemoney.com. Even I not promoting it.

I checked the site, after negelction for months since I get attracted on how fast I can make money on Ebay. Bids on my selling item , a domain name fin.cc is now 10 bids, even the highest bid is not so much, not even reached my reserved price. But I still make profit. Ok back to my negelcted site.

I'm shocked when seeing the site got PR4 . Still not believe myself, I conform the pr using this tool

The PR is valid! Then I checked the backlinks.... I come from Im4Newbies, two of my blog... uniqueweird.blogspot.com (which the pr also increase to 3!) and this blog (with pr of 2) . One of the link come from a PR4 site used-car-waranty.info . I guess that is where my PR4 come from.

I no Use Adsense anymore

2006-02-21T22:20:00.000-08:00

My adsense account had been terminated by Google for fraudulent click?! After I made about USD60 per day and they say it was fraud clicks?>.. I tired of this! Now Im using adbrites... Which is similar to Google but you can also sell ad space! Check out adbrite by clicking the banner below:

OK.. this is an update! I register back with adsense coz I guess it still the best ppc around.

Marketing for Adsense

2006-01-27T18:24:00.000-08:00

Oh! Hi and thank you for reading my marketing blog where I share with you the joy, the tears, the rage of my unstable internet business. Below is my first article on online marketing

So you want to built a successful website that receives thousand of real hits each month, what you should do? You want surefire online marketing techniques, right? Make extra money? Or Million of Dollars?

Now you finish building a nice website with all the affiliate ad everywhere (like what you see in this website too!), so the most important part is to drive people come to visit your web site. You cannot just leave your web site and praying hopefully it will get million of hits, every day! Traffic is not just set-and-forget it! It need effort at least a bit on your part if you are smart ( like the gurus say, 15 minutes a day) or 90 hours in a week! Usually a newbie find it hard to bring traffic to their site and ask the online marketing gurus to teach them, and get billed for the lesson. Ok, maybe you think it is ok to pay for valuable knowledge. But some of gurus only tell you the same old thing and yet the result is still lame. Have you ever heard

" Make USD20,000 for just 20 minute of your time?"
or how about
"Skyrocket your sales with this super easy online marketing techniques"

Believe me, I try them before and my site still receive low traffic! And blame the gurus for the useless online marketing techniques, email them for refund and not get any reply! Then I continue searching for the best online marketing methods that hopefully can be implemented by newbie and will bring massive traffic , wishing can earn extra money or tons of cash ( like all the gurus always say hah!) , quit your job and work at home. Be an internet marketing expert....give my parent a lot of money every month ...blablabla...hopefully...finally...happy ending story!
Believe me I also just a newbie starting this website last year and since then I have purchase a lot of marketing products, including, email list blasters ( a lot!), blog blaster, blog link generator, software that the creator said can instantly boost your site's traffic, software to built adsense website in seconds ( the creator of the software claim that you can make money 15 minutes from the purchase or to be exact after install and use and publish the site, or he will refund every single penny of your order if you not make money). I do make money, it is true, but only USD1.34. Yes, just USD1.34 on the first day.

But the small earning I get from adsense advertising make me believe, I can make possible money online. This adsense gives me hope...So I create a lot of adsense websites, learn what keywords pay most, copy-and-paste article with the suitable keywords ( you can review the list by clicking here). Initially I have 8 adsense websites with articles that have all the high paying targeted keyword. I promote them in many ways ( if you want to know, you can download my free e-book by clicking here). I learn from a guru that having your own viral marketing tool is important for online marketing success.

After I implement the methods from my own research, I see increase in my earning, USD10.27, 86% more than the first day. At first I feel so happy because it is first time I see my online earning increase! I guess, wow, I can make money with adsense, so quickly built more adsense sites with high paying keywords so that my earning will be double or quadruple.
Now my google adsense websites are ready to go...After several days, my earning still not good, it is not increase! Sometimes I earn even lower than USD10! Today I just learn a lesson, copy-and-paste articles from article directory to your website is a surefire method your adsense income will be very low! Even if your online marketing is soooo good, you cannot gain more from your google adsense ad because they are all cheap ads ( means that when someone click once on the ad, your earning is just maybe 0.02 cents per click! That's just too low!)
So you ask me... Why only cheap ad displayed on my site? I built the site with high paying keywords, you know?

How to increase your adsense ad quality so that each time someone click on the ad, you get USD5, or USD10 or USD20 per click? This is not possible, believe me. Google will place the high paying ad on your website if the content is original. So you must have original content. Google won't display their golden ads on the sites which is similar with hundreds other sites, in term of contents. It is just too obvious to google that the website is built with the purpose to make money from adsense ads. Of course you want to make money from google adsense, but copy-and-paste articles is not the way! Another reason is that, some company just bid for hundreds of quality clicks per day. Below is example from my simple research (you can do it too, I'll show you how later)

Keywords Avg. Position Clicks / Day Cost / Day Avg. CPC Status
google adsense 1.3 100.0 $354.23 $3.54 Active

online advertising 1.1 130.0 $814.67 $6.27 Active

malignant mesothelioma 1.2 12.0 $340.54 $28.38 Active

As you can see, for the keyword "google adsense", the company or web site who bid for the keyword only allow for 100 quality click per day. "malignant mesothelioma" , the expensive keyword, only 12 clicks a day! Even though this keyword pay $28.38 per click, but quality click is very improtant to the company who bid for "malignant mesothelioma". OK, maybe you will say that there are a few companies that bid for the keyword, but the fact is that their ads are still too little in term of number compare to million of websites! So Google determine which site will receive such quality ad, and the site is sure the site with originality.

To know which keyword pay you most, just log on to http://adwords.google.com . Pretend to register for adwords service. When come to keyword selection, type in the keywords you want to know how much the price per click. In the next page you will see the full review of each keyword.

Oh before I forget, check out this website www.copyscape.com. Type in your URL, click. From the result, if content in your site have another 10 websites with similarity content, chances are your website is not a google adsense favourite from displaying golden ads even you infused them with all the high paying keywords! Copyscape only show 10 results because 10 are already enough. If less than 10, means more $$$$$$.
So the bottom line is, original content + adsense + effective online marketing = Highly successful online income machine!

Today Still No Result!

2006-01-26T05:35:00.000-08:00

26/1/06

Oh I see.... Now I know that copy-and-paste is not the right way to make money with adsense. Google will never show the golden ads, which pay publisher $1 or more per click simply because of the content is not original. What a waste of time after spending a while building dozen of adsense website. So the lesson here is "be original!"

Now im still building my website.... feel free to check it out!
http://www.mypositivemoney.com

I also build a web page specially dedicate for top paying keywords, contain more than 6000 keywords

http://www.mypositivemoney.com/top_paying_keyword.htm