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Google AdSense losing its effectiveness?! »

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 [...]

Case Study Of A Teenage Internet Millionaire - Ashley Qualls »

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 [...]

Microsoft buys into Facebook for $240m »

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 [...]

What The Army Taught Me About Internet Marketing »

Hi all, I am finally back from my 2+ weeks of in-camp training in the Army. Just in case you think that serving the army does not help me in anyway in my internet marketing ventures, then my answer may surprise some of you.
First of all, the army is a military organisation and in such [...]

Internet Business Success - Mindset »

My mentor Stephen Pierce mentioned about the importance of one’s mindset in doing Internet Marketing. I found it to be very true as most people gave up halfway before they can achieve anything worthwhile online.
I have learned one very important thing from Stephen, that is to focus, be persistent and patient.
If any one of you [...]

Branding lesson from Ewen Chia + my short term goal »

During the World Internet Summit 2007 in Singapore, Ewen Chia mentioned about himself shamelessly promoting himself on the Internet when he was doing Internet Marketing. This is something that I did not want to do for many years in the past. However, I decided to make a change today. If it is working well for [...]