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!

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!

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!

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!

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/

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