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

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!

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!

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

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!

TalkStream is a web-based service whose objective is to help users add value to their marketing materials, and promote their products and services across the Internet, both easily and effectively.

It is a simple, yet powerful solution that lets you use streaming audio and video to improve your marketing efforts and increase sales.

Some of the TalkStream features that is available to users are follows:

• record audio and video by webcam, microphone or phone,
• upload your video files and presentations,
• publish them on your website instantly,
• design your own video player with a simple “skin wizard”,
• create playlists and recording sequences.

Users will be thrilled at how much control they can now have over publishing audio, video and podcasts on the Internet with TalkStream’s powerful, yet simple-to-use interface.

For example, you can have your customer calling you on your own unique toll-free number to record their feedback for your products/services.  This adds “social proof” to your website.

And you can also manage and publish your audio testimonials 24/7!

TalkStream is designed to be easy, quick and effective to use for both online beginners and professionals to add dynamic content to their sites.

Now you can finally let your emails and postcards talk to your customers. You can also add new streams to as many web sites as you wish.

If you want to win over your prospects/customers’ attention and boost your profits, go with TalkStream.

You can claim a 30-day free trial that is currently available here now.

Check it out! and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for free.

There is a video on http://www.google.com/goog411 that shows the users how to use it too.

If you need more information about it, Google also provides a FAQ section for its new 411 service at
http://mobile.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12594s

After which, you will be asked to merge your MyBlogLog account with your own Yahoo user ID.

I guess this new move will get Yahoo more users (most notably web site publishers such as bloggers) in their worldwide community, even though some of you may use your Yahoo ID just for logging into MyBlogLog. For users who use Yahoo accounts, I think this will be a welcoming change for them since they have one user ID less to remember…

For me, Google is still the number 1 Internet company in my heart. No one else comes close…

It is companies like Google who constantly innovates and provides the opportunities for average folks like you and me to stay at home to work, and not stick our lives in a 9-5 job forever…

One of my close business associate cum good friend Andrew Tan is bringing Joel Christopher, the Master ListBuilder, to Singapore in October!

And I just got an email from him announcing the hands-on event in October. So here I am, helping Andrew to spread the word for the event below:

If you want to start and build your own internet business FAST using a PROVEN time-tested, fool-proof, step-by-step system, then keep on reading…

It’s a simple, paint-by-numbers, short-cut, hands-on list & profit-building system to unleash the explosive profits hidden in your prospect & customer list even if you’re starting from scratch!

Discover how to build your internet business in just 3 days at Joel Christopher’s LIVE, Interactive, Hands-On MasterListBuilder FUN Shop in Singapore on October 5, 6, & 7, 2007.

And the best part is, after you get ALL of Joel Christopher’s best-kept secrets here!

And you can profit from them FOREVER!

You see, after attending, reviewing and speaking at hundreds seminars, superconferences and bootcamps in the last five and a half years…

And after talking to many people at these live events and in conference calls, Joel found out the 4 vital things for business success that are missing from many of these LIVE events:

# 1) Focused and Immediately-Usable Income-Producing Content

# 2) Live Interactive Hands-On Sessions

# 3) Organized Networking and Joint Ventures

# 4) Facilitated Mastermind Groups and Buddy Systems for Follow-up & Accountability

That’s why you’re invited to attend this event in Singapore on October 5, 6, & 7, 2007 called:
“MASTER LISTBUILDER LIVE, INTERACTIVE, HANDS-ON FUN SHOP”.

No, it’s NOT a big boring seminar.

No, it’s NOT a sell-a-rama superconference.

No, it’s NOT a business opportunity bootcamp.

No, it’s NOT a speaker ’sell-a-thon’ event where speakers don’t have enough time to teach you real, hands-on usable information you can immediately apply.

No, it’s NOT a boring lecture where all you do is sit, listen and take notes hoping you’ll do something about it on Monday morning when you get back home while the ‘Experts’ talk and talk.

YES, you will learn how to build your opt^in list and grow it fast!

YES, you will discover many ways to profit from your list and massage it for everything it’s worth!

Yes, it is a Live, Hands-on FUN SHOP where you do what needs to be done to build your list DURING the event and have a TON OF FUN doing it.

And YES, you will be personally mentored by Joel Christopher “THE MasterListBuilder” himself!

And for you to get more intimate personal attention, he’s limiting the attendees to ONLY 70 serious Internet Marketers…that’s it!

Hurry and reserve your spot NOW at this web page !

BTW, when you sign up BEFORE midnight of Friday, August 31st, 2007, you’ll receive a mountain of bonuses including a ONE FREE Ticket for your spouse, friend or partner.

Go ahead and sign up now here if learning to build a list fast from the master of list building interests you!

To Your Online Success,
Donald

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