what I say

In the recent years websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even school kids have created personal websites or blogs. Blogs seem to be getting more popular these days because of the ease of blog creation.

What you need to consider before creating a website, are things such the cost, maintenance, use, web host and more importantly the purpose of the website. You’ll need to ask questions like, what I do want the visitor to do when they’re on your website? Do you want to just provide the information about your business or do you want to them make a purchase, or maybe you’re looking for their contact details.

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The subject of Adsense has been my main focus lately. I’ve spent most of my spare time researching and reading about the subject. One of the most important thing with Adsense is finding the right niche, getting this right can make a huge make a difference in your adsense earnings.

Most people use adword research tool to find high paying keywords and then they build a site based on that. This concept used to work, that is before Google Smart Pricing was introduced. But now days even if you have a site based around the high paying keywords the chance of you getting below advertisers’ minimum CPC for those keywords is very high, at least in the very beginning. This can change if you have high traffic and/or high quality contents on your site. But if you want to start earning quickly you need to change your “tactic” slightly, instead of going after the high paying niches you want to go after the ones have between $1-$3 CPC and have high number of clicks per day, an good example would be Lacrosse. It has around 5000 clicks per day according to the adword research tool. Now all you have to do is get traffic to your site. There’s hundreds or thousands of niche like that out there, it’s extremely important to spend some time (maybe a day or two) researching the niche before doing any designs or codes.

The author of this book is asking for XXXX amount of money in return for 20% lifetime ownership of this book. I’ve never read any books in this genre before, after reading the sample chapter I was surprised that I actually found it to be a quite interesting read. One thing I know for sure is that he’s a good writer! So now, the business talk, the question I need to ask is that will this book sell? what’s the ratio of demand and quantity for this type of book at the moment? also, more importantly what’s the maximum I should fork out for that 20%? I think the way I can find out the answer to those questions is go and do some market research….

I don’t know why but I seem to have a good feeling about this book.

Sample Chapter is here

According to this guide 3 Letter .com and .net domain names pricing are going up by about 25% every month! What surprised me is that nnn.com($6700) is now worth more than lll.com($6400), wish I bought 10 of them back in 1997…

It’s almost impossible to find any lll.com or nnn.com today, even if you can find them they’ll be on the 10k mark. So instead of going after the “hot” cakes right now I thought I’d go find the ones that not so hot right now but will be “hot” in a few years from now.

I started looking at ones mixed with letters and numbers, for example - ty5.com. Depending on the combination they’re around $200 for .com and $40 for .net, which is a reasonable amount for investments like this. 4 lettter domains are also worth invest in, if it’s pronounceable it’s almost certain that it will worth more in the future.

The two places I normally go to find high value domains are forums like digitalpoint, NamePros and eBay.

Here’s the list of Godaddy coupons, last time I checked (today) they still valid….

OYH3 - $3 off / $6.95 any .COM (renewals too)

OYH1 - 10% off whatever

BTPS7 - 20% any order of $50 or more

BTPS4 - 10% off anything

OYH2 - $5 off a $30 purchase

chill1 - 10% off

chill2 - $5 off $30

chill3 - $6.95 .coms

hash1 - 10% off

hash2 - $5 off $30

hash3 - $6.95 .com registration

gdd1101c - 10% off any order of $40 or more

Every now and then I would spend some time looking for creative things to spark up my brain. I ran across a few fantastic sites but this one caught my eyes, it’s the one that worth bookmarking.

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2Hot Web Directory is a SEO friendly and human edited directory that gives you an easy way to bid on links. Our link directory displays links alphabetically, and lets you bid your way to the top of the list. With a starting bid of $1, you are guaranteed a spot in our directory!

Increase your bid to take a top position, and not only will your link list higher in the directory, but you could join our Top 5 Link Leaders on the homepage.

All links in our directory are guaranteed to be available online for at least 10+ years.

Benefits of Links
Links get results. Link popularity is one of the most important factors in search engine performance.

Increasing the number of links to your Web site can get your site listed higher in search engine results, bring more visitors to your site, increase your Google PageRank and improve your site’s overall strength.

Why Buy Links From Us?
This directory will be promoted heavily over the next coming months. We are planning to invest a 4 figure amount on marketing and advertising in the first half of next year!

We are now giving away 50 free $1 links in our directory, if you’re interested in this special one-time offer simply send us your website title, url, your prefered email address and the url that links back to our site.

If the page you link back to us has:
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PR1 - $10 link
PR2 - $20 link
PR3 - $30 link
and so on .

If you don’t know what Pagerank your site has, you can use this tool. This free offer will end as soon as we reach 50 links!

Email - info[at]2hotdirectory.com
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Free IQ is the place where you can find tons of video and audio tutorials on marketing, blogging, SEO, and more.. This site is like Youtube but aimed at a more specific area.

http://www.freeiq.com

The reason that most people prefer having a 9 till 5 job is because of the “steady and secure income”, they don’t like taking risk; that’s human nature, we always seek for security and ease, we want to do things the easy/common way,why? because it’s “comfortable”.

There’s nothing wrong with getting a 9 till 5 job, but don’t do it just for the money, do it for the knowledge that you would gain from it or do it for certain benefits you want get after, that way the time you invested on this job will be worth much more than the x amount per hour.

One thing I discovered is that most people “thinks” getting a job is the ONLY way to make money. It might be the most common way but certainly not the only way, nor it’s the best way to make money. We got this mis-believe from people around us - school teachers, parents, friends.. etc We’ve always been taught that way, ever since we stepped into the place called school - work hard, get good education so you can get a good job when you older. I used to think like that myself because no one, I mean not one person (from what I can remember) has told me another way of playing this game called life. I’m not going to get into new “blueprint” I discovered because I will have another post just on that.

I have some bad news for the people who thinks a 9 till 5 job is more secure than business owners: -

• Risk 1 - You would lose your job if the company is not making enough money to cover your wages
• Risk 2 - You could lose your job if the boss can find someone else that can do a better job than you.
• Risk 3 - You would most likely lose your job if you made a tiny mistake that resulted a huge lost in profit
• Risk 4 - You could lose your job if your boss sold the company to someone else and that person has different way of doing things. (depending on how adaptive you are)
• Risk 5 - Your circumstances, the condition of your health and other unexpected events can easily result losing your job.

I’m sure there’s more but you get the idea (if you think of one please let me know). I think the REAL disadvantage of doing the 9 till 5 job, for me at least, is the fact that you’re “limited” by the hours you can work in a day, and also your growth is (and will always be) depending on the company you work for. The sad thing is that you, as a employee, will have no control over these two things, which means the quality of your life, your family and your next generation are on the hands of someone else. Ok.. maybe I’ve exaggerated a bit, hope I’ve made my point here. The truth is that knowing I’m in control of my life is important to me, because that way even I failed I have no one else to blame but me. =]

book: Instant Startup Guide, A Supplement to Entrepreneur Magazine

Description: What’s the Big Idea? Getting an idea for your business: It’s not as hard as you think.

MANY PEOPLE think it’s “oh so mysterious” to start a business. As the editorial director of Entrepreneur magazine, I often hear “I can’t do it” or “I have no idea what to do.” Nonsense!

Most people are overwhelmed by the belief they have to start from scratch. They think “What can I do that no one has ever done before?” In other words, they think they have to reinvent the wheel.

But unless you are a technological genius, trying to reinvent the wheel is a big waste of time. If you are another Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, then this is the way to go. But for most people starting a business, they simply need to answer the question: “How can I do something better?” or “How can I do it differently from the other guy doing it over there?”

Links: Download | Official Website