How To Make A Living Selling Websites – 6 Figures Income !

I know I have not updated the blog for a while because I have been busy setting up my Engineering Consulting firm. But I promise I will be giving you a big Red Packet or Bonus in a week or two time. I will be sharing with you how you can make your living selling websites online at Flippa!

Make sure you check back in a week time and I can assure you that it will be a good new year gift for anyone who download it! Most important it is FREE for my readers. Check out one of my sales last year:

So remember to check back the blog in a week time for the ebook !!

Focus is the Key to Success Online

I am going to cinema in an hour time, not with my wife but with my close friends this time, for mid night show. I am a cinema goer and it has become my weekly routine. Since my wife is now enjoying her holiday in Australia for 2 months, I therefore have to drag my friends along to the show.

I have decided to do a blog post before I leave my house to the cinema. I want to share with you my internet marketing experience.

I really can’t recall how I ended up in ‘make money online’. Make money online is a very fascinating phrase for many others who have no idea how people become millionaire selling online. It is also a very frustrating phrase for many others who have been trying to chase their online millionaire dreams because they just can’t get any fruitful results from their internet venture. Some blame that it is too competitive online. Of course there are some who just love to jump from Guru A to Guru Z and lose the momentum after that.

People who jump from one Guru to another or buy one product after another always think they know most of the things online but they just can’t make a dime online. I know how stressful and discourage it is after paying so much money to learn ‘how to make money online’ but ended up getting nowhere, because I was one of them before.

For me, the reason why I failed online is because I was trying to do too many things at one time. I tried to sell on eBay and Amazon, and I tried to do affiliate and email marketing and promote both digital and physical product. I then thought mastering SEO will make me ‘unbeatable’ online. But why I still not making any money online then? Yes, I have been too greedy in my learning curve. I tried to master everything but in fact I ended up being general and a mediocre in everything. Having said that, I have No regret at all because whatever I have learnt does help to build a solid foundation for my future success in online business.

I didn’t give up even though I don’t really make decent money online. I just keep trying out different things as usual and not until beginning of year 2008 that I realized I have to focus on one thing at a time. I then choose to start with the easy one, which is to sell on eBay. eBay is a big market and the traffic is there ready for you.  I do not have to do the marketing and eBay will send the customers to my listing 24/7.

It went off quite well and I finally started to see some REAL money coming in. And I know I have to explore further rather than sitting on eBay. As the product is selling well on eBay, I am sure it will also sell if I set up my own e-commerce site. With some keyword analysis and SEO (which I have learnt before), I managed to get my e-commerce sites up on the 1^st page of Google SERPs and enjoy the free traffics and good money daily!

There are many things, areas or niches that one can explore online. It is so wide that people always get greedy and want to dominate every single one of them. Therefore we always see people ‘swing’ from one niche to another even before they master or succeed in one. Focus and become specialist of that particular niche is the key to success online.

So the take away here is- be focus and claim the authority in your very own niche

Is Blogging the History? No If You Know How To Blend or Crash Your iPad

I have lots of friends who used to be very active in blogging before have shown sign of slowing down. The reason being is they are all becoming very active in Facebook. Facebook, Twitter, Linked, MySpace, and many other social networking sites have dominated a large parts of our daily life nowadays. It is much  easier to post a short sentence in Facebook or Twitter and get the whole world notice of that you are up to.  And another beauty of it is, you can post every minute if you want. You can’t create an original blog  post every minute right? So who cares about blogging anymore!! ?? The answer to you is Business. Business needs a blog for branding, promotion, search engine optimisation and sell.

If you own a business and want to create a blog,  unless you are a celebrity, it is probably much more effective for you to create a blog under your business name rather than your personal identity. And you can always integrate your business blog to your sales website.

So what is the point of having a blog for your business?

If you are a business man, you definitely like to get something back from the time  and money you spend in marketing. The same thing applied to your business blog; you want your blog to help to sell. But do not make your blog too serious and too corporate. No one will come back to a blog that talk like their bosses or middle-aged corporate speaking. Your aim is to have people returning to your blog on regular basis and subscribe to your blog. You can be a bit viral like Blendtec. Blentec is company that sell blender. And if you check out their blog, they use their blender to blend, crash, slice everything single thing they can find on earth, this including, the latest iPad, iPhone, diamond..etc. Watch their video clip from their blog and you will be amazed! The blender is selling like hot cake since they throw out this weekly blender video.- Will it Blend.

Or you can check out their viral video on YouTube too- What do you think of this. Only 1 week and it already has 5 mil view on youtube.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here is my tips for successful business blogging:

1. Who is your audience? – You must know who your targeted audiences are. By knowing who your audiences are, you should write in the tune and using the voice that suits and appeals to them. Example, if you own a  hotel and you have a blog attached to your hotel website. You cannot blog everyday about how good your hotel is or what facilities do you have and who are your new guests checking in today etc. Of course your potential guests would love to know what facilities your hotel has (in fact this can go to your hotel website itself), but they also interested to find out where they can do in town and where is the best place to go for local food. I am sure you have travelled to a lot of places yourself. So Ask yourself what do you want to find out most when you arrive in town that is totally stranger to you? You may want to know what are the interesting places in town, how to get there, any big events going on in town, what are the best local food and where can you find the laundry service, and where is the money changer..etc. So write something what your customers or your audiences are looking for in your blog and also touch on your hotel every now and then.

2. Give before you Take- Try to give your potential customers more than others. It is a competitive world out there. And everyone is expecting to get free information online these days. So you have to feed them with the info they are looking for and help them to solve their problem online. If your company is selling weight loss product, then your blog shall provide them solution on how to lose weight step by step, what to eat what not to eat, and what exercise to do… and then touch on your product which will accelerate the weight loss process. So trying to give more info to your customers and do not sell them directly- no hard selling in your blog.

3. Make friend with your potential customers- Trying to make friends and be very personal to every single one of your readers. This is what we call relationship marketing. Would you buy from a stranger? I bet you prefer to buy from someone you know or someone reputable like from eBay or Amazon. But if you are totally new to someone online, you shall take the opportunity  to build a relationship with your  potential customers. There are may e-commerce site run a pay per click campaign online. They will sit back and lure people to buy from them. Even though people do buy sometimes, but the customers tend to forget about them after the sale. So the best thing to do is to give something free to your customers in exchange for their email address. Then you can always email (at programmed intervals) them and build a trust between you and your potential customers. Ultimate aim of all these is to make one or even more sales to your customers. This is also why it is important to integrate email marketing to the blog.

4. Keep updating- You will have to keep your blog ‘alive’. Constant updating of your blog is vital as search engine like Google love new content. I am sure you ever come across blogs with the latest post updated few months ago or even years. An outdated blog is worse than no blog at all because this really give very bad impression to people who will think that you are not taking your business seriously. So how do you expect to sell them?

5. Profession domain name- Do not use free blogging host service like www.blogger.com. It is like using Yahoo for your business email address. It is just not professional. For example, if you own a domain like http://instantcashinbox.com, then you should use info@instantcashinbox.com (by the way this is my very own website). Do Not use Instantcashinbox@yahoo.com. This just looks very ugly! So same thing applied to your business blog. If you own ABC123.com, then your blog should be something like http://blogs.ABC123.com/. Do not use ABC123.blogger.com.

6. Social media and social bookmark- Always have your social networking account like Facebook, Twitter and social bookmark like Digg, Stumbl, Delicious etc on the blog. This will help the marketing of your product and also your blog.

Some of the good business blogs that I would recommend you are:

a. Zappos- Best Online Customer Service Shoe Shop by Tony http://blogs.zappos.com/

b. Word Tracker- SEO Tools http://www.wordtracker.com/blog

c. Capital Chronicle- Banking and Finance blog and business by itself http://www.capital-chronicle.com/

d. World biggest online bookstore, Amazon- Blog that promotes Books of course  http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A287JD9GH3ZKFY

e. And the last one is my very own blog http://addykho.com Feel free to disagree with me, lol – I am trying my best to give my readers all sort of online marketing, internet business or e-commerce and search engine optimisation info. Comments are welcomed!

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Traffic in the King. No Traffic No Sale No Money

We need traffic to our sites, be it your landing page or e-commerce site. There are many ways you can generate good traffics to your website that can be easily converted into sale. But there are also many ways you can WASTE your time trying to market your products:

1. Bloggers- There are many blogger communities online, i.e. IM Curtain, BloggerUnited, Blogged. It is a good way to introduce your blog to your fellow bloggers. But for marketing wise, it will take immense effort for you to participate in the blogger communities to get good and targeted traffics to your sites (I mean traffic that will buy from you). It is basically like throwing plenty of darts on to the dart board and hope that one will hit the bulleye.

2. Article Marketing- Article marketing used to be a big hit few years back. People submit their articles to article directories like EzineArticles.com or GoArticles.com and hoping other will pick up and being directed to your websites. Nowadays, article submission has turned into ‘China’. Why ‘China’? Because everyone just copy here and there. You can submit an article by modifying other people’s articles and call it yours! Try to search for make money online in EzineArticles.com and see what is flooding in. Another drawback of the article submission is that you are only allowed to add your links at the resource box at the bottom of the article. There are very few people who will go and click on the links unless they really like your write up. The conversion rate is very low. But article submission with your link to those high PR sites will help in your Google ranking, no doubt about that. A lot of people say Content is King. So why not spend more time to write a good content for your websites to please Google:)

3. Social Media (Your Post) – Social site like Facebook is meant to be for ‘Social’. People come here to look for friends, chat with friends and also for entertainment. It just doesn’t work if you are trying to sell something that your groups of friends are not interested in. However, there is no one stopping you from sharing your passion with your friends and family there.

4. Social Media (Adverts)- How many of you actually go and click on the ads that appear on facebook? People are interested in you, not the ads that appear on the social site.  People are here for fun. Not many people are here with their wallet ready in hand to BUY.

5. Direct Selling- There are many newbies trying to post everywhere like forums or comment on blog posts trying to sell their products. There is no relationship being built in between. Selling online needs trust. There is no different between selling online and offline. Don’t you think it is easier to sell to friends who trust you than to a strangers? Making money online is all about building trust and relationship.

6. SPAM- How many spam mail do you receive per day? Have you ever gone to your spam mail box and check out what and who is sending you those emails? Do you really go and click and buy from Spammer? Even Twitter has become very Spammy nowadays. People that add you may be someone who is trying to sell you something. Do not try to spam to sell. You may be banned from certain websites for life! If you get banned by Google from using its services like adsense or many others, your internet career will basically finished! Do not offend the King.

7. Stop Reading - Last but not least, do not read from one place to another. I realise there are many people who is trying to make money online spending a LOT of time reading about SEO, email marketing, social media, blogging, copy writing, ebay….etc. But they never take action! Don’t spend too much time online read and readi.. you must take action and doing something online. Or else you will end up like some lecturers teaching in the uni for their whole life, but without practical experience.

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