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!

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Telling stories is one great way to attract readership for your blog or your web site. People somehow are fascinated by stories. When you have great stories to tell, tell them. You will be amazed when someone will just come up to you and tell you “Hey Donald, you have a great story” or “I like your story about…”. I think you should get my point of what I am trying to tell you.

Also, there are many case studies of stories improving sales conversion rates on a salesletter. My mentor tells his story on his salesletters too!  Try it, and you may be amazed to see your conversion rates shot up the roof in some cases!

Feel free to share your comments here. If you like what I am sharing, give me the Digg or StumbleUpon. If you do not know what I am talking about, time to engage me as your Personal Internet Marketing Trainer today!

If an online business or web site owner is seriously about what he is doing on the Internet, he should carefully take the following into consideration.

1. Own your domain name
Technically, a domain name is where people locate you on the Internet when they are looking for you. Marketing-wise, a domain name is your branding.

As you market and promote your Internet business or web site, you are branding yourself on the Internet. Think of the hugely successful web sites in the world such as Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, Ebay, MySpace, Youtube. They are all very well known, established brands on the Internet. If you are tempted to create your online presence using free resources such as free hosting, free email or free 3rd party services like blogger.com, I would suggest to you that you should not.

Domain name is cheap these days, you can register one for yourself for less than USD$10 per year all over the Internet. You can get a domain from godaddy.com, hostway.com, namesecure.com etc.

Branding is very important if you want to succeed online.

2. Paid Hosting
A lot of people took up the offer of free hosting from service providers like Yahoo Geocities, GoDaddy etc. In exchange, these service providers insert their own advertisements into your web site and often than not, they also impose very limited bandwidth on your web site. If you have slightly more visitors to your web site, you will realize that the traffic restrictions on your web site will start to kick in, and your visitors will have problems accessing your web sites. This is something that you do not want to see.

Web hosting is an extremely competitive industry globally. For consumers, these are good news for us because prices have been driven so low to less than USD$10 per month for a generously, huge amount of bandwidth, email accounts and bandwidth etc. Instead of paying thousands to buy, install, maintain a web server, you pay only few dollars a month for the professionals to take care of everything for you, including supporting and ensuring that your Internet business or web site stays up 24 hours a day!

In fact, these days, some web hosts even give you free advertising credits with search engines, free web site templates and other freebies when you sign up for an account with them. You can find one of the reliable and value for money web hosting company that I am using at:
http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting

3. Web Site Design
In the past, you have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a web site designer to create a web site for you. Today, anyone can create a very professional Internet business or web site in under one hour using free software that you can download on the Internet. And the best part is you do not have to be a technical person to design your own web site.

Take for example, an extremely popular, powerful and free open source software known as Wordpress. WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. You can download a copy of the software at http://wordpress.org.

Follow the instructions to downstall the software and you will be up within 5-15 minutes.

Wordpress is famous for its 5-minutes installation, hence it should not be too difficult for you to set it up, even if you are a newbie.

The default installation of WordPress comes with some default themes for you to choose from inside your Administration panel under Presentation menu. If you wish to look for more free Wordpress themes to be used on your new WordPress installation, you can go to http://themes.wordpress.net

Just download the free Wordpress theme that you want to use and upload them onto your FTP server under the WordPress theme directory. For details, please refer to the documentation that comes with your theme.

If you are fast, you can get your new site up within 30 minutes or less. If you want to get started even faster, easier, then you can use the web host which I am recommending at: http://www.donaldlim.com/go/webhosting

This web hosting company supports Fantastico on cPanel (the control panel for your hosting account) which allows you to install WordPress within a few clicks of your mouse.

However, if you prefer learning and designing a web page from scratch but do not have the budget of a few hundreds dollars to buy Dreamweaver or Frontpage, you can download this free open source web site builder software at freenvu.com

4. Paid Autoresponder
If you want to keep in constant contact with your mailing list or your web site visitors, you will need a way to keep in touch with them.

There are many ways to do so but one of the most effective and popular way is via email. You can collect email addresses from your visitors, and send your messages to them on a periodical basis, to keep them informed of new updates for your Internet business, or web sites.

You can make use of an autoresponder service to help you automate the process of handling subscription and un-subscription of email addresses from your mailing list, to schedule email messages to your list, to send email broadcast to your list via a mass emailing. The best part is you can also personalise your email messages to your recipients and track the deliverability and open-rate of your email messages through a centralized online system.

One of the most popular autoresponder services on the Internet can be found here:
http://www.donaldlim.com/go/autoresponder

5. Internet Traffic
There are countless ways of driving traffic to your web site. There are free ways or paid ways. There are time-tested and proven ways as well as new ways that are constantly popping up on the Internet, especially with the evolution of the Internet. There are also online or offline methods in which you can drive traffic to a web site.

Some popular ways to generate traffic will be via blogs, forum, social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, article marketing, video marketing, Pay-Per-Click advertising, TV ads, direct mailers and emails etc. (See my other blog posts on how to generate free traffic to a web site)

6. Traffic Monetization Systems
Now you have everything you need to be in an Internet business. However, the most critical component that you must have is the systems/mechanisms to convert your traffic, mailing list, site contents, expertise etc into money, into cash.

Without this, all the costs involved in getting your domain name, hosting, autoresponder, traffic etc are all losing you money. You need cash and you need enough of those cash to make yourself profits in order to sustain your Internet business and make yourself some good money online! The primary aim of being in business is to earn money, earn profits!

There are also many ways for you to monetize your Internet business depending on what you are doing for your Internet business. You may be selling something of your own, selling someone’s else product via affiliate marketing, building enough traffic and convert those traffic into cash using traffic monetization systems like Google AdSense, Bidvertiser, Kontera and Chitika etc. (See my other blog posts on more information about these traffic monetization systems)

His entire 3-1/2 hour presentation at Wealth Mastery is going to be available for download or streaming on the internet.

That means every word, every phrase, every profit- packed wealth generating tip that seminar attendees are paying nearly $5000 for will be on it.

But that’s not all…

Then he’s going to throw in a 116-page study guide with step-by-step instructions on how to build your own multi-million dollar business online.

This is the same ‘can’t miss’ process that took Stephen from watching blood spurt from a gunshot wound to becoming one of the most successful speakers and marketers in the world today.

You gotta hear this story…I’ve heard it a hundred times and it still blows me away.

Finally, to top it all off, Stephen is going to sit down and chat with you during a live, members-only teleseminar following the event.

So, you not only get a DVD video and a study guide, you get all your questions answered directly from the Super Hero’s mouth, so to speak.

Can you think of anything better to help take your first step on the road to wealth mastery than some one-on-one time with the guy who’s showing you exactly how to do it?

Yeah, me neither.

But here’s the part that still has me trying to scoop my jaw off the floor…

Stephen’s offering the whole exclusive footage– his 3-1/2 hour presentation, 116-page study guide, and one-on-one Q&A time, for less than 1/20th of the seminar price during this limited-time pre-sale.

It’s true–while a bunch of Aussies are taking out second mortgages to pay for their seminar fees, you’ll be well on your way to success, freedom, and wealth mastery…for a fraction of the price.

Look, I know the quality of Stephen’s stuff. They will blow you away!

And I know how he overdelivers. This is a guy who gives it to you straight–no punches pulled, no fluff, no chain-yanking. Just hard-hitting content that works. Every time.

So if you want the flavor of the month, do us both a favor and don’t click on the link below.

But if you want a plug-and-play system that’s guaranteed to build your business in record time and bring in massive profits with minimum effort, then you owe it to yourself to at least take a look.

Here is the 72 hours time-sensitive link:

Stephen Pierce at Wealth Mastery with Tony Robbins

For only $2.95, you will get 30 days to test-drive the exact same wealth-building system that Derek and his company have used to generate $60,000,000 in sales!

You will have 30 days to review their 800-page Internet Marketing “bible” and see first-hand all the valuable techniques that they have packed into the course!

This is a great chance to take advantage of this time-sensitive and limited trial!

WARNING: This $2.95 trial will only be available until July 10th, 2007! So you will need to grab it quickly if you want to try it out before it’s too late!

PS: As part of their offer, they are also giving people a 30-day trial membership in their exclusive Internet Entrepreneur Club. You will be able to exchange information and learn from 100s of experienced online entrepreneurs. Plus, you can ask all the questions you want - and get personalised advice from Derek’s team of Internet marketing experts within 24 hours or less!

PSS: This Is The Exact Blueprint A Stay-At-Home Mom With Two Small Kids Used To Go From Nowhere To More Than $300,000+ PER YEAR!

Don’t deprive yourself of an opportunity, just check out the web page over here, you got nothing to lose to review it! But you may potentially lose something else in your life by casting this aside. To your life’s success!

Yours Truly,

Donald Lim

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I hope you like it! Drop your comments here as usual!