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If you are coming here for internet marketing or online marketing related contents, please check out my Internet Marketing Blog at Internetidiot.com.

Internetidiot.com is one of the earliest domains that I have ever registered besides donaldlim.com.

I will be posting my internet marketing tips, strategies and experience on a newly revamped Internet Money Making Blog aka Internetidiot.com

Thanks for all your support over these few years!

I will use donaldlim.com for my new branding in future.

Since after reading the best selling book “4 hour work week” by Timothy Ferris, I have managed to free up even more of my time. (To the extent of not knowing what to do at times when I have all the time in the world at my finger tips).

At T. Harv Eker’s events lately, he talked about getting clients to pay for results when they do business with you, if you are in a business. We need to create more value for our clients if we want to earn more money (or be rich if I want to use his own words). The more value or results you can produce for your clients, the richer you can be.

In view of what I have learned from these 2 great guys, I have decided to do something that I have never done before for any of my clients, other than my own Internet projects:

List building services… yes, you read it correctly, list building. And I am referring to targeted email list building, not some spammy safe-list (don’t you already know that they do not work), not the buying of some supposedly email databases (they are mostly illegally harvested email addresses that some companies tried to sell you and lied to you that they are obtained from some satellites, ya right!!)

To cut the whole story short: I can build a list of prospects for you online. Those that are giving you their email addresses to request for more information from you, and I am talking about targeted email prospects.

However, I can only take on one project at one time, for those who can afford it. And also, I can’t take on every project too because depending on what market you are in, some of them can be highly competitive and extremely time-consuming (so I cannot possibly take them on).

If you have a marketing budget of about USD$5000 to $10,000, we can discuss about it.

So, how do I build your list for you?

When it comes to online marketing, there are countless ways to market yourself, either to sell something or build a list. I am familiar with some of these (this is not an exhaustive list):

video marketing, forum marketing, blog marketing, social networking marketing, social bookmarking marketing, articles marketing etc

If you are interested, drop me an email at contact @ donaldlim.com

Google Trends is currently available in Singapore. According to CNET, Singapore is the 3rd country outside of the USA, after India, to have it. It allows one to check on the search trend based on location.You can find out more about Google Trends Singapore at http://www.google.com.sg/trends

I have used Google Trends in the past to locate where are most of my searches for my targeted market coming from. This allows me to know where my prospects are located so that I can do geographical based marketing. And it is working well for me!

I know it can help you too!

I have not been updating my blog very frequently the past few months because I have been working on a few other projects that will be responsible for making me more money online.

Writing a blog takes time and it may not be directly involved in producing more online income for me.

Nevertheless, I still want to use my blog to share with all of you whatever I have learned or experienced online whenever I can find time to write a post or two.

If you are eagerly waiting for me to post on my blog, and I have disappointed you, here are my apologies.

In any case, for those of you who have been blogging for quite a while and you think that you are not making any or enough money from your blog, you may want to change to a different online business model. And the best model that I can recommend will be Affiliate Marketing because this is the easiest way to start making your first dollar or hundred online. Many people always ask me how did I make my money online and my answer to them is always “Affiliate Marketing”.

For those who are keen to find out more about Affiliate Marketing, please check out AffiliateMarketingSingapore.com

I have actually done up this web site the past week and outlined a step by step plan for any one of you who are interested in Affiliate Marketing to start making some extra cash online.

I hope you like what I have created for you. Enjoy!

PS: My goal is to create 100 new Affiliate Marketers in Singapore!

Saw a video that you liked on Youtube.com and you want to download a copy for your own keeping? Check out this web site http://www.keepvid.com that let you do so for free and there is no need to install any special software or plug in on your own computer.

This site also allows you to download videos from many other popular web sites.

This is one of the easiest way to extract videos from other video sharing web sites!

Hope you like it!

Lately, for the last few months, I realised that my monthly AdSense revenue has dropped quite drastically. The drop can be as much as 500% or more for a month for the past 3-4 months. So I decided to check it out and do some analysis across my sites.

BTW, if you only know of Google AdSense as a monetization model, then you should continue to read this post.

Besides using AdSense on my network of sites, I am also monetizing a few of my sites with other traffic monetization models such as Kontera, Bidvertiser, Advertlets etc.

As I looked deeper into my revenue statistics among the few monetization models in place on my network of sites, I realised that many of the clicks are going from my AdSense into the other monetization models, particularly Kontera and Advertlets. One interesting thing to note is that I am having more clickthroughs on these programs than I got from AdSense itself.

For example, I am experiencing at least 200-500% more clickthroughs on Kontera than AdSense on a single day itself (for many days). However, take note that this higher CTR does not necessarily equate to higher revenue from Kontera in comparison to AdSense. The reason being the PPC for Kontera is generally lower than that of AdSense (can be really low for Kontera!). I am sure most of us can understand this since Google AdWords is so competitive these days in terms of keywords’ bid prices. Nevertheless, this is good news for AdSense publishers because they will be getting more $ per click.

If you ask me for justifications as to why this is happening, I only have the possible deductions below:

1. Many people are already used to seeing Google AdSense ads all over the place, and are starting to ignore them. And trust me, some people who are aware of publishers earning revenue from Google whenever they click on the Google ads, will not click on those ads.

2. Because of the different way Kontera is rendering their ads on a web page, many online visitors will be curious to click on those ads and see what comes up for them. Also, when you monetize with Kontera, your ads can be appearing all over the web pages based on advertisers’ keywords and your readers can be seeing Kontera’s ads on any part of a web page (this maximises visibility of the ads although sometimes it can be a little irritating). In comparison to AdSense, your visitors will only see the Google ads on those strategically-placed locations on a web page (which many visitors have learned to visually ‘ignore’).

I do not want to make this post too lengthy. So I will cut my story short and offer you one tip to immediately increase your profits online this month:

If you run a popular forum online, go and apply for Kontera now and monetise your forum(s) with Kontera. Once you are in and properly setup, you will be basically monetizing all your existing and new forum contents immediately, and the best part is: your contents will be created by your users and not you.

Kontera is free and easy to implement too. Just copy and paste a piece of code onto your web pages and you are ready to start another new stream of online revenue. BTW, Google AdSense and Kontera can run concurrently on the same web page without violating the Google T&Cs.

So, good luck and remember to subscribe to my newsletters, or RSS feed, or social bookmark my site if you love to see more updates from me!

Do you want USD$20 worth of PPC advertising credits from Bidvertiser for free? Say ‘YES!’ because there is no sign up fee, no registration fee required! Bidvertiser does not require any initial deposit from you which makes the USD$20 free for real when you sign up!

I have already applied for it quite some time back, made some sales and generated some email opt-ins for one of the products that I am marketing.

For one of my PPC campaigns, I generated 746,527 impressions, with 62 clicks to my site, spending a total of USD$6.95 from my free USD$20 credits, paying $ 0.11 per click. Not too bad for me considering I have not spent a single cent out of my own pocket!

I strongly recommend that you claim your free PPC coupons or credits from Bidvertiser while they are still available! You have absolutely nothing to lose!

If you are convinced, then look for the sign-up link  “ADVERTISE HERE!” directly below my Bidvertiser ads under “MY SPONSORS” section. Click on the words and sign up with Bidvertiser to claim your Pay-Per-Click credits!

Another real-life example of the Internet making a nobody to somebody online!

Ashley’s numbers are indeed impressive. A 17 years old high school dropout who has made more than $1 million online. Her earnings can be as much as $70K a month from a web site that she owns which attracts more than 7 millions monthly visitors and 60 millions page views!

Ashley’s 1st Google Adsense cheque was $2,790 and she has already rejected a $1.5 million buyout offer for her site WhateverLife.com, a free MySpace layouts web site.

Hope this can serve as an inspiration and motivation to my readers on what is possible with the Internet.

If you use MySpace.com, remember to grab some free MySpace stuff from Ashley Qualls!

http://www.doshdosh.com/case-study-of-teenage-millionaire-ashley-qualls/

Lately, I am getting several Facebook invitations every single day. It was so much fiercer than any of the other social networking sites such as Friendster, MySpace, Hi5 etc that sprung up in the past few years. There are many fun user applications that can be plugged into your Facebook profile to let you play with. While the fun can be really addicting to some users, it may be a sheer irritant to some when you see your Inbox flooded with many friendly and harmless invitations to get you involved with Facebook every single day. Are you already part of it?

In any case, this is another real case study of how someone can become a Billionaire within a short period of 2-5 years using the power and leverage of the Internet if you have and can execute a great idea well. Founders of Skype, YouTube and the likes, and now Facebook founder Mark should be laughing all the way to the bank!

Microsoft buys into Facebook for $240m

Microsoft has won one over Google and Yahoo, but at a price.

After being scooped by its rivals in past bidding contests, Microsoft has won a 1.6% stake in social network site Facebook for $240 million.

The deal, announced Wednesday, values the three-and-half-year-old company with $150 million revenue at $15 billion.

Under the terms agreed, Microsoft will become Facebook’s exclusive third party advertising channel outside the US. It already has the rights to sell banner ads in the US until 2011.

Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms & services division, said the deal was “a strong statement of our confidence in the long-term economics of this partnership.”

Facebook chief revenue office Owen Van Natta said the expanded relationship “will allow Facebook to continue to innovate and grow as a technology leader and major player in social computing.”

Across the blogs, the initial response was cautious and aimed at finding out more about the deal.

Reporting the conference call announcing the deal, Silicon Alley Insider noted that the two executives referred repeatedly to “certain aspects of the agreement that both parties have agreed not to disclose.”

The New York Times said the “astronomical valuation” was a sign Microsoft believed it couldn’t afford to lose out on the deal.

It also notes that Facebook’s founder, 23-year-old Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, is now worth $3 billion, while VC firm Accel Partners has turned its $12.7 million investment into $1.65 billion.

Forbes.com described the deal as a “huge boost” for Microsoft’s online ad business, while Jim Goldman at CNBC’s TechCheck said Microsoft had to be careful “it doesn’t do to Facebook what News did to MySpace”,  which was fill it with ads that drove users away.

News source:
Oct 25, 2007
By Robert Clark
telecomasia.net

MySpace has struck a deal with eBay-owned Skype that will enable users to make free internet phone calls.

Under the deal, which is set to go live in November, MySpace users will be able to access the service through the social networking website’s instant messaging function.

The new service, MySpaceIM with Skype, is likely to be a boon to both companies – there are 25 million installed users of MySpace’s IM platform, while Skype has 220 million global users.

MySpace users will also be able to link their profiles and photos or avatars to their accounts on Skype.

The MySpaceIM with Skype service will launch in 20 countries next month, while extra functionality linking to Skype accounts will be available in 25 countries.

I think this is great news to many of us, and definitely beneficial to both MySpace and Skype, in particular MySpace because the user base for Skype is so huge!