Dec 02
Ok its been awhile since I last posted on my blog. Reason? Believe it or not I’ve been getting carried away with Facebook. I never understood the hype surrounding all these social network sites but now I can’t seem to stop checking my Facebook newsfeed. I’ve been able to contact my long lost classmates, friends, colleagues, family members…you name it. Its truly amazing and now I see what all the hype is about. I’ve been bombarded with super pokes, hugs, hatching eggs, vampire bites and even vodka. Its good fun! Now to pull myself away and back into work.
Last night I attended the Live n Loud KL to watch Shaggy & Whitney Houston perform. Wow…I must say I was truly impressed. The stage setup and audio was excellent. Shaggy & Whitney gave excellent performances and well above what I expected. Great stuff! The energy that nite was amazing. I’ll definitely do it again. Today I also ordered a Blackberry Curve on eBay. Can’t wait till it gets here. I’ve been avoiding getting one cuz I figured I didn’t want to be checking emails 24/7 but then I realized that I had been missing important emails (mostly ones with PPC billing issues) that were costing me sales. Sorry Tim Ferris but the 4 hour work week will have to be put on the back burner for now.
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Oct 30
I’d just thought I’d share with you a little case study about my failed blog project. About 2 months ago I decided to give Adsense a try and creating a blog seemed to be most practical as I had setup a blog before and the learning curve would have been bearable as compared to full on SEO. I knew that all I needed to profit from Adsense was TRAFFIC. And lots of it! I didn’t want to pay for traffic so the logical choice would have to be SEO.
Based on the my prior experience with blogs I knew that as long as I had constantly updated content I’d get at least some traffic from the search engines. I wasn’t looking to make it profit big time but more to test out the idea and decide if it was a stream I wanted to pursue. I registered a domain name and installed Word Press on my server. I then plugged in content from various ezine directories and submitted the blog URL to various web directories. I worked on this at a constant pace and posted at least 2x articles a day. Within a month my site was indexed in the search engines and I was getting up to 700 visitors a day with about half of that being unique visitors. I had Adsense ads planted through out the blog and was making a good $3/day. Not bad for a months work..
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Oct 26
I’ve been having endless problems with my Dell Inspiron laptop ever since I bought it a couple of months ago. Somehow Microsoft Frontpage doesn’t play well Windows (this happens only on my Dell) and every other time I use Frontpage I’m hit with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. Everything I was working on went poof into a black hole and I had to start my web page designing from scratch. You can imagine my frustration. To top it all off my old Acer laptop decided to doom PC’s for ever and also started blue screening on me with a hardware malfunction error. Had hardware checked out and no problems there. Last thing I wanted to do was reformat my Acer so it was then that I decided to make the switch. The lovely new imacs didn’t make it difficult either.
Anyway…last week I decided to get myself a new 20inch imac. Headed down to Mid Valley and Bangsar Village looking for stock but alas there was a 2 week backlog. Did some calling around and EpiCenter in Pavilion had stock so I reserved it and bought it almost immediately. I brought it home, assembled it and spent the rest of the hours just admiring its beauty (yea yea corny i know). You must admit that it is one beautiful machine. Check out the pic of my new imac on my study table.
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Sep 18
Its amazing how many email offers I get a day. I’ve actually filtered out the irrelevant (irrelevant to me that is) emails and am now only subscribed to specific internet marketers who I and my business can relate to. Today I received an email from Stephen Pierce regarding a new blog widget called Blog Rush. This is what Stephen had to say :-
Cheryl,
Want to feel the rush?
…a rush of serious traffic with less effort
than most other traffic strategies?
How would you like to get that rush… FR/EE?
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Its a super interesting email isn’t it? Well I couldn’t help myself so I’ve installed the widget and you can see it right at the top in the right column. Let’s see if it lives up to the hype!
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Sep 17
I just got an email today about a new site that is launching anytime this week. Its a great concept I must say. The site is called DealDotCom and its a site where you sign up as a member for free and as a member you get up to 35% discounts on internet marketing courses and ebooks. Being the internet marketing course junkie that I am this will definitely come in handy! Am just not sure about the catalog of courses available but I guess I’ll have to wait till it launches.
Today I confirmed that my Adwords content network ads for one of my campaigns had stopped showing. I had all my search network keywords deactivated about 2 weeks ago. I suspect it was because of a bad QS on my landing page although the Adwords rep told me otherwise.
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