Nickelmaniax | A new way of marketing

Did you know that there are a LOT of different types of internet marketing and the number is increasing each day? The method varies according to the creativity of the person doing it and for Keith Wellman & Gary Ambrose there are no limits.

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Editted: As of 26th April 2007, the price of this CD had been locked at $14.95. For those who still are wondering what is this product all about, go to nickelmaniax NOW!

The Don'ts of Gathering Traffic

A dear friend who was also a participant in one of the seminar I attended asked me yesterday regarding how to attract traffic to her shopping site. To her, whatever you do Kak Nur, just don't do these...
1. Buying e-mail list - no matter how cheap it seems $29.90 for 100,000 emails or whatever, don't buy it. Because...

• You'll be a spammer - strictly unacceptable in some countries
• The e-mails could be obsolete or several emails own by the same people

2. Advertise at free advertisement site, unless it is really an established one.
3. Buy traffic - because usually it is not a targetted traffic (i.e. targetted to those who are really searching for products such as what you're selling)

So, I hope some of these will help.

IM: Content | Blog & Sales Letter

Content is King...

...in driving traffic to your site. No matter what type of website you're building. Either it is a blog, a sales letter, a shopping site or whatever it is... CONTENT IS KING. Even if you know how to pull new visitors to your site through search engine optimisation, or using whatever backhand tactics, does that going to pull in the visitors for the second round? Remember, what you're looking for are quality visitors. Those who visited for the first time, who came back and eventually who will buy your products.

In order for you to make sure that your content can pull visitors to come back again and again, you have to make sure that you design your article in a way that will impress the reader with both the article, and more importantly, with you, the author. This is particularly true if you're building a blog. So, in my post today, I'm going to talk about blog/newsletter articles first. Mainly because shopping site are more dependent on designs rather than text. We'll focus on text for today.

So, how are you going to design a "Quality Article" ?

1. Make sure that you create a compelling headline - to grab your readers' attention.

- Make sure that the headline is targeted for the type of reader you want to attract, so you have to identify your target first. It has been proven that you only have a few seconds to grab your prospects attention, so you have to make sure that the headline SPEAKS TO THEM. Make sure your headline can answer this question from your reader - "What's in it for me?"

2. Give away enough basic information to help solve one piece of the reader's problem, but to keep back some information and leave at least one piece of their problem unsolved.

Build this technique into your articles. Make them informative, but leave the reader asking for more. This gives you an opportunity to offer them even more information via your resource box on your article.

Once they have followed the link in your resource box, make sure that you capture their name and email address, so that you can continue marketing to them once they have completed their initial visit to your site.

3. Built trust - follow up by email with additional information that they will find
interesting

4. Once you have completed your article, submit it to several article directories, and start building up your credibility as an author.

Hosting Your Web

OK, listen up! For those of you who had bought a domain name... now get your credit card ready again to BUY your hosting! Remember, no sacrifices, no gain!!

Now, a hosting account is basically like renting for your apartment. You don't own the house but the whole content, your furniture, TV, etc. are yours. Since you don’t have a server to host a website, so you have to rent that server space from a company. There are lots of different hosting companies on the web, some are free, some are cheap (about $9.95 per month) but have very limited features, and there are very expensive ones, right up to dedicated servers where you have a whole machine dedicated to running your site. These cost up to $200 a month or more.

If you are starting out, you definitely don’t need a dedicated server, but you shouldn’t go for the cheapest one either (since most of the time, the cheapest goes to the most basic package). One of the best host recommended for beginners is HostGator. More than just regular hosting, they actually give you an incredible number of tools for you to use, as well as a dedicated and easy to use control panel. With just their “Baby” hosting package, you can host an unlimited number of domains for only $9.95 per month. My advice would be to sign up with them straight
away. The great thing about them is that they don’t have a minimum contract so
you only pay monthly.

Your Own Domain

If you are going to try and make a living online, you are going to need a website right? But how are you going to get one? The first step you need to take is to register a Domain Name.

A domain name is what comes after the “http://www.” in any internet address. A domain can have lots of different extensions, such as “.com”, “.ws”, “.net”, “.org” and so on. When choosing your domain name, I would suggest trying to get one that ends in “.com”. After all, a lot of times people will not remember the extension and will just use “.com” as it is the most common one to use. So, if you had www.YourDomain.org, and someone else had www.YourDomain.com, there is a good chance that they could end up typing in the .com address and go to the other site rather than yours. This is NOT good!

If you can’t think of a domain to use just yet, try using your name! It is becoming more and more common place for online marketers to have their own site based on their name or a common username that they have been using for years over the internet (like my "thinktankertwo" - I bought a domain name called thinktankertwo.com last week). On this site they can have links to all their different sites. So even if someone doesn’t know a particular site of yours, but knows your name, they can go to www.YourName.com and read all about you and your products.
So where do you register a domain name? One of the cheapest places to register your domain is www.NameCheap.com and their domains start at about $8.88 per year, or even cheaper if you register them for a longer period of time. So go get yours today!

Busy as a Bee

Hi all!
I received an e-mail from Sabri (SaifulSham's Team) this morning. Quite a long one :D He gave me a name that I should look up to for copywriting job, so I dropped the guy a few lines. The offer sure is tempting but I'm so afraid that I won't have the time for it. Especially this month. Because a friend is getting engaged and that I have to prepare the hantaran (surprise! Apart from having fast fingers to type my articles away, I do have creative fingers afterall ;p) --> I was thinking of setting up an online shop for wedding favours or maybe services for weddings, but thinking of shipping all those bulky gifts scares me off ;)

Anyway that guy's name is Colbert Low. Syia (another SS Team's protege) got her $$ from doing works for this guy. So any newbie interested in copywriting, can just google this guy (you might not get his e-mail though, so I suggest you go to saudagar.com and subscribe to their e-zine to get this info).

DPForum: Up until now I've posted 18 posts.

Today I joined another forum The SSTeam's VIP Lounge. Posted a thread (on reputation) and I think I posted 3 posts there. There are very few people online (mainly coz there are very few protege and the list is building I hope), very few posts. I think the protege are too shy ;p Hopefully I can contributed more there later. But as I wrote just now. I'm going to be busy for another 3 weeks (probably needs to add another 3 weeks after that 'coz my brother's getting married).

Another Reason to Be Your Own Boss

As I've mentioned in several posts back, I'll be assigned to a new position. I received the employment letter late afternoon... guess what? The whole employment letter is so full of b******. I daresay that our old contract is much better than this one. Sigh... you see what happened if you work under a boss EVEN in a giant company such as mine.

So every single students out there, every single working person, start creating your own company! Let's do online businesses!! Forget about earning a fixed amount of money each month doing soooo many things and dealing with a lot of pressure. Let's start earning infinite amount of salary and only then the loadssss of work and pressure will be worthwhile.

By the way, I've posted yet another new gadget review to be approved and posted at IdealGadget. Let's wait for what Mr. Liew said tomorrow morning regarding my previous post :D At DigitalPoint Forum I've managed to post 16 posts altogether (lost count how many for today's posts), it's kinda fun actually and you REALLY get a whole lot of tips on how to do IM there. Oh, did I mentioned that I got ONE GREEN yesterday?? That green is for reputation and there are 15 points altogether. Only my second day after joining in, one green, 16 posts, 5 PMs. Looking good.

I guess the pressure of a lousy salary is pushing me to the limits of IM.

Internet Marketing: IM

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to explain the basic definition of Internet Marketing (IM) since some people REALLY has no idea what it is...

IM is not (just) about opening a store online and selling hard, real physical stuffs over the internet. It's about making $$$ online - LEGITIMATELY.

It's not any MLM program, or get-rich quickly schemes, etc. It's purely how creative you are in utilising the internet to gain money. Not only through pulling people's attention to visit your site and eventually buy your stuff/click your advertisement, but up on how to make $$ without ever needing any blog, website or even initial fundings.

There ARE a lot of ways for you to start earning your pennies on the net and here at ThinkTankerTwo_TheBlog, I'll give you some hints and tips on how to start. Best of all, these tips are FREE! Just make sure you subscribe to this blog (down there on the right) so that you won't miss out on any post of goodies I'm putting up here!

Hope to see you again in the next post! Have a great weekend!

P/s: To all SaifulSham's RBDDI seminar participants who are also joining the Fast Track course in building website, see you tomorrow at 9 am!!

Internet Marketing??

Ever heard of it? Basically it's about making money using your computer and internet connection. The reason I'm opening this article tonight is because.... I was so lucky because my boyfriend sponsored me to go to a seminar held by SaifulSham's Team this 24th February 2007 at Berjaya Time Square.

Will be here from 8:45 am to 5:00 pm on that Saturday

The seminar + website workshop is worth RM 547!!! WuhuuuuUUUuu!!! I'm such a lucky person to have such a great boyfriend! Thank you Mohd Hafiz Zainol Shokor!! God bless you with wealth (so that you can sponsor me again... heheheh)

I'll be in a seminar similar to this soon!! Can't wait!!

Among the moduls that will be presented are:

• Modul 1: "Cara Praktis Untuk Mengetahui Produk Apa Yang Sedang Dan Bakal Laris Di Pasaran" (Practical Ways to Know Which Products are the 'In' Thing)
  
• Modul 2: "Buat Duit Dengan Internet Tanpa Modal" (Making Money Online Without Any Initial Investment)
  
• Modul 3: "Kaedah Pemasaran Yang Menenggelamkan Persaingan" (Marketing Strategies to Eliminate Competitors)
  

May God bless me with a good health and awesome focus on that day to make the money worth everything it is! Thanks again to my dearest at heart.