Time To Pick Up The Game

It’s been a while since I posted something on this site. I think it’s just high time that I revive this. Over the past few months, my internet marketing activities have dwindled significantly. One of the main reasons for this was that I lost my focus, and my results have not reflected a positive result. However, since the start of this year, I have promised to myself that I will lift my game up, and I will not be defeated by the lack of positive results in my internet marketing endeavours. I have learned a significant amount in internet marketing that I need to apply all the knowledge and create the right systems in place in order to have a sustainable internet marketing business. I know that this temporary lack of results is all part of the initial experience, and I’m confident that it will be temporary. For me (or anyone in the internet marketing business for that matter) to succeed, we need to have a great mindset and focus on our end goals and outcomes so we get the right results and make money from our endeavours.

One Important Video I’d Like To Share

Having mentioned about the mindset and motivation side of things, I would like to share this video with you which I think will help those of you who are struggling to keep the momentum with your internet marketing business. It’s a video of an interview with Bob Proctor and Lanny Morton. It has helped me understand so many things in my own personal development, and has indeed given me the right motivation to kick start my work in internet marketing.

I hope you will enjoy the video. If you are one of those that are struggling with your internet marketing, don’t be dismayed. Just keep at your focus, keep a good mindset and attitude, and it will all happen for you. I will be back again to post more lessons learned from internet marketing.

The internet is one huge place. There are so many things and so many products out there that you can find. These days, it’s hard not to think that if you have any need or looking for a solution, you will find it by “googling” it. The immense resources available on the internet can lead us to believe that all is lost when it comes to starting an online business, as chances are, many areas that most people can think about would already have so much competition.

Market Research

On the other hand, one of the great things about the internet is that because of its vastness, there are still areas that are not completely filled or saturated. Opportunities abound in terms of what can be captured on the internet. With thorough online market research, one can find a good area or niche that can be entered into. Performing online market research requires performing similar tasks as performing market research on an offline traditional business. It means doing the following:

• finding out how much volume of business happens for each industry or sector,
• finding out how much supply and competition there is in the market
• Trends in the industry (the hottest and latest, and the ones to stay clear of)
• finding out how much demand there is for a particular market/sector

There is a difference with an online market research, and it is to do with how these tasks are done for an online business. Normally on an offline business, market research is performed using things like focus group discussions, surveys, and statistical data analysis of government/industry information. With online market research, the trick is to find a niche using semantics or words that people search for. These are called keywords.

Finding Niche Keywords

There are many tools out there that allow you to research on keywords and how the supply and demand is for that particular search. These tools will tell you how many searches there are for a particular keyword, how many websites rank or use those keywords and what the value is in terms of being #1 for a keyword. Google has a keyword tool that will show you some basic information on performance of a keyword. The trick is to find a keyword that has a healthy amount of searches with not many competition. This will ensure that you can easily get to the top spot with your blogs or articles if you start getting into marketing a product.

Once you have found your keyword, you can then start thinking of looking at becoming an affiliate and sell products for other people. Becoming an affiliate is the easiest way to start making money once you find your niche. This is because it’s free to promote someone else’s products, and you don’t have to worry about creating your own website and building your product from scratch to get into a niche. Many wealthy affiliates start out using this process in order to be able to thrive in an otherwise competitive internet world.

I hope this has been a beneficial post for you.

To your many internet successes.

I’m really excited to put this post up, as thinking about this reminds me of my first experience of this event back in January this year. It’s probably the most exciting internet marketing event that you’ll find in Australia and the UK, and the content of the event is absolutely golden! I got a lot of great feedback about the event, and I myself have learned a heap load on the day itself. An event is being held this weekend in Brisbane, and one in Sydney on 16th and 17th of May, and I’m so excited to be part of the Sydney event.

Australia’s Leading Internet Marketing Event

The event is called Smart Online Profit Systems, and it’s conducted by 2 of Australia’s leading internet marketers, Shaun Stenning and Sean Rasmussen. Both of these guys are my mentors and have taught me a lot about internet marketing over the past year. I listened to their seminar, and each time, there is always something new that I pick up. The last event in January was packed, and since then, Sean and Shaun have conducted several internet marketing events around capital cities in Australia for the past 4 months. All of them have been massive successes, and people who have attended are so grateful for what they have learned, and the inspiration that Sean and Shaun have given to the audience to kickstart their online ventures.

Here’s what I have to say about the event:

And here’s what another event attendee had to say about the event:

Sean and Shaun Show

Both Sean and Shaun have learned internet marketing the hard way. Over the years, they have learned from their mistakes and their successes and have built on their internet marketing successes to become millionaires. Both Sean and Shaun came from humble backgrounds, and internet marketing has led them to live a wealthy and abundant lifestyle. The Smart Online Profit Systems internet marketing event will show you all that they’ve learned from their online marketing successes and the pitfalls that people should be wary about and stay away from.

Recession? What Recession?

Everyone has been taking about the recession these days, and worrying about their jobs and their income. The stock market is crashing, and the property market is going nowhere. The media is full of doom and gloom. People have even called this a depression. However, what people don’t realise is that people who make money online have not suffered from this recession! In fact, a lot of people have thrived and even increasing their incomes online by doing internet marketing! People still surf, and more and more people are buying things online and finding great online deals that are not to be found in the shops and shopping malls outside. So you see, the internet is one area that has not been affected by the recession, and is a great way for people to protect and even boost their incomes and earnings online. This internet marketing event will show you how.

Who does this Internet Marketing Event cater for?

This seminar cater for a wide range of audience, from someone who wants to start learning how to make money online, to someone who is already marketing products online and wants to learn techniques to better improve their earnings online. You don’t even have to be a computer whiz to get into internet marketing. As long as you know how to surf the internet and turn on your computer, that is all you ever need to get the most out of this internet marketing event. If you have products already online, Sean and Shaun will show you strategies to boost your sales even further. If you want to find out more, just click on this link.

Just to show you how much fun I had during the Smart Online Profit Systems internet marketing event, the team behind the event even had the energy to do this video after 2 full days of helping out and absorbing all the wonderful information on internet marketing. Watch this entertaining video (Note: we don’t expect the event attendees to do this, this is not part of the internet marketing event and just for your entertainment, so enjoy!):

I highly encourage you to check out this internet marketing event, and apart from Brisbane and Sydney, there will be one in Perth and in London happening in June, so check out the website: http://sopslive.com

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Welcome to another post of Internet Wealth Builder! This post will focus on the SEO concepts I’ve learned from the book “Year Of The Affiliate” , primarily on Keywords and keyword positioning for an SEO-friendly blogpost.

SEO-Friendly Content

When writing a blog or a web page, the first thing that you need to think about is the SEO side of things. The content has to be such that the search engine will be able to pick it up and display as high as possible in its search results. Here are some tips on how to SEO your content:

Choosing Keywords

Choose a specific Keyword for your blogpost or web page. This may be in a form of a phrase or a single word. This helps you with having a targeted focus for the search engines to pick up your website for a certain search. You can choose from having a broad keyword like for example health, fitness, wealth, business, or you can choose to use what is called as a longtail keyword, which in essence is a keyword that is drilled down from a broad keyword. Examples of a longtail keyword would be for fitness, you might instead drill down to a specific area in fitness like equipment, which could be a treadmill, and then drill down to the type and brand of treadmill – “Basic Nordic Treadmill”.

There are pros and cons with using a broad keyword and a longtail keyword. A broad keyword would enable you to target a much broader audience, hence, a wider and bigger market to spread your word. However, the competition may be very stiff, and this makes it difficult for you to get good rankings with the search engines, despite having done all the things you can do to search-engine optimise your site.

A longtail keyword, however, can limit your market to that specific phrase that you’re intending to use. It can be both a good thing and a bad thing, depending on how big a market is for a specific longtail keyword. If there is a huge demand for a longtail keyword, but not much competition, then chance are you will have a better ranking from the search engines.

Keyword Density

Ideally you’d like to have your keywords appear as many times as possible on your blog or your page so that the search engines would treat your page or blog with higher relevance. However, you have to be careful not to overdo this because search engines do filter out spam, and by having excessively used your keywords on your blog or page, you will raise the red flag with the search engines. They will consider your site “spammy” and you’d end up being discredited by the search engines.

The ideal recommended number for keyword density is 3% to 5%. Anything less than 3% is probably too few for the search engines to consider your blog or site for relevance on those keywords. More than 5% is spammy, as mentioned above. In case you don’t know how to calculate keyword density, it’s the number of times your keyword appears on your blog, divided by the total number of words on your blog or page.

Keyword in Titles and Headings

Ensure that you have your keyword on the title of your blog or page. This is important, as the search engines do consider the relevance based on the title of the blog or page. Ensure that you also use the Headings1 (H1) or Headings2 (H2) for your subject headings, and include the keywords there. This again will help the search engines determine its relevance.

Bolding and Italics of Keywords

An extra handy trick for SEO is to bold your keyword at least once and also italicise your keyword once. This will enable the search engines to further identify that the topic of discussion on your blog or page is pertaining to those keywords you have picked. One recommendation that I can give you is to try and set to bold a keyword in one paragraph, and italicise a keyword on another paragraph. That way, the search engines won’t think that you’re also being spammy.

Keywords in Image Description

Image description is something that people neglect to do in many cases, but is very handy in terms of helping with your SEO rankings. Simply put in your keywords as part of your image description, and this will help you with building relevance to your blogpost and page as well.

Meta Tags and Categories

If you’re blogging, ensure that you put in your keywords in the meta-tag and categories, as these also help in building relevance with the search engines. Some people may argue on this point as being outdated, but it doesn’t hurt to include your keywords to add an extra item that could still be used to build relevance to the search engines.

Internal Links

Ensure that you put in some internal links on your blog or page. Internal links mean that you put a link to one of your other pages or older blogposts onto the page or blog that you’re writing, as this will help with the search engine spiders to determine that your content is associated with an existing relevant and trusted content.

These topics are covered in much more depth in the book “Year Of The Affiliate“, but I hope this gives you an idea on what you can do to ensure that your blog gets noticed by the search engines, and would result to better readership and traffic.

Welcome to another post from Internet Wealth Builder.

I’m writing this post as a follow-on from my last post on Kurek Ashley. I did promise to put up the rest of the videos on Sean Rasmussen’s interview with Kurek Ashley, so I will post those at the bottom. But before that, I’d like to share something that I picked up from Kurek Ashley that I think is very much applicable to internet marketing.

Kurek Ashley Says …

“If you don’t evolve, you dissolve”. Kurek explains that everything in this universe is in constant motion. All matter (including us humans) are made of atoms, which at the very core has a tiny particle called a quark. The quark is a source of energy and therefore is in constant motion. In other words, whether we like it or not, we all transform as time goes on. This applies physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. We all age, and our bodies continue to develop through the years, from childhood to adulthood, all the way til we die and decompose. Kurek Ashley mentions that if for example we don’t exercise our bodies, we will still transform our bodies, but not in a very positive way. This leads to being fat, and thus destroys our bodies more quickly. However, if we choose to be fit and exercise, we transform our bodies in a positive way, and we prolong our lives by living healthy and for longer.

How does Kurek Ashley’s message apply to internet wealth builders? For starters, the internet is a fast evolving environment. If we don’t keep up with the latest trends and use it to our advantage to market products, we lose out on our competition, and we dissolve into oblivion. If we keep on observing the latest trends, learn the new ways to market a product and continually adapt our strategies, we will survive and evolve our internet marketing business to go further. If you don’t continually update your websites and ensure that your search rankings are still well placed, and you’re not checking on how much traffic you get out of your website, your website will eventually not be found by anyone else, and you will dissolve.

This is a great learning point I took from Kurek Ashley. Though the internet is a great way to make passive income, internet marketers still have to be proactive in making sure they are on top of their game, and that they continually seek new opportunities that come their way on the online space. I will now leave you with the rest of Kurek Ashley’s videos. Enjoy!

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Til the next post of Internet Wealth Builder!

Welcome to another post on Internet Wealth Builder!

As promised on my last post, I’d like to share more videos of Kurek Ashley, as he was interviewed by my mentor Sean Rasmussen. But before I get into that, I’d tell you more about what I’ve learned from Kurek Ashley during our session in Brisbane over the weekend.

Lessons from Kurek Ashley

Kurek Ashley

One of the things that Kurek Ashley taught us is that all conditions and circumstances are a result of thoughts. Thoughts turn into Actions and actions produce the Result. Everything in this world started from thoughts. Inventions, systems, art, and even our planet started with a thought. People put action into the thought, and through action, they are able to produce a result. We all have thoughts in our minds, but what most people fail at is taking action. Kurek mentioned that if we are to succeed, we must put our thoughts into action. In today’s world, only a minority of people are successful, and they’re the ones that have the power to change things in this world. How did these people, who are supposed to be a minority, end up being so powerful? It’s because they take action on their thoughts and achieve the results that they have in their minds!

Failure to Participate = Failure

In relation to this, Kurek Ashley mentioned this quote: “The Only Way to Fail in Life is the Failure to Participate”. This is so true, as average people end up sitting on their couches, watching TV the whole day and not bother with trying to be successful in life. Average people all think it’s too hard. If they had at least tried and participated, then at least they have a shot at achieving and becoming successful in life. Kurek also mentioned that it doesn’t matter if you fail, you can always try again until you achieve your goal. All successful people go through failures and losses. That is part and parcel of growing and the path to success.

Empowering  vs. Disempowering Thoughts

One other important lesson I learned from Kurek Ashley is that there are only 2 types of thoughts: empowering thoughts and disempowering thoughts. There is nothing in between! You are either having positive thoughts that empower you, or negative thoughts that disempower you. If you want to be successful, you need to have empowering thoughts. Kurek also mentioned that it takes power to have power, therefore power builds up on power and keeps getting stronger. If you want to have empowering thoughts, you have to get rid of the disempowering thoughts, weaken it, and replace it with empowering thoughts.

I believe mindset is very important in building a foundation for success, and this includes being successful at internet marketing. Kurek Ashley has definitely given me the right tools to apply for me to become a successful internet marketer. Now, I’ll leave you with 3 more videos of Kurek Ashley’s interview with Sean Rasmussen. Enjoy!

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Kurek Ashley ROCKS!

kurek ashley and me

Yesterday I made a post on Kurek Ashley, the man who has inspired me to reach my goals and dreams of becoming one of the best internet marketers around. I continued to read on his book “How Would Love Respond” last night and I’m all the more inspired to write about him. It might seem odd that I’m writing about Kurek Ashley here, who isn’t really into internet marketing, but I have found him through my internet marketing mentor, Sean Rasmussen, and he has taken me to new heights in terms of my vision and goals in internet marketing.

Today I received a note from my mentor Sean, that there is a “Kurek Ashley Challenge” of who gets to rank #1 or closest to #1 in Google for the term Kurek Ashley. I thought this will be a fantastic opportunity for me to have a go and try out, as this is a great learning exercise for SEO. And as Kurek Ashley would put it, “The only way to FAIL in life is the FAILURE to participate”. So here I am, participating in the challenge and applying what Kurek Ashley himself has taught me over the weekend. From my experience, I have ranked #1 in Google for my other blog Fabulous Journeys for the same term, so I reckon I should be able to get through this challenge fairly well. However, seeing that there will be some competition around, I’ll have to work harder to get to the top spot.

The one thing I would have wanted to do is to create a new blog that has Kurek Ashley on the domain name. This would definitely raise the significance for the search engines. I’m working on that and in the process of setting it up. In the mean time, I will test out how this page will fair with the Kurek Ashley keyword. I will definitely be doing some organic SEOs on this page, but would need assistance to those who are willing to help me achieve my goal of getting the highest ranking possible for Kurek Ashley. If you have been following this blog and would like to help me with the challenge, please send out a message to your friends in social media about my blog, twitter it using the tag #KurekAshley, bookmark it, or do whatever you can to help. Any help on your part will be greatly appreciated to get my rankings up!

I shall update you every now and then on how this SEO Challenge on Kurek Ashley goes, and I’m hoping for a great outcome! Just to show you how inspiring this man truly is, here’s a video of Kurek Ashley being interviewed by Sean:

More Kurek Ashley videos to come!

Til the next post from Internet Wealth Builder!

Welcome to another post of Internet Wealth Builder!

I just came back from Brisbane from a great weekend of internet marketing coaching with my mentor Sean Rasmussen, and I had such a buzz coming out of it. Though I’m always excited to learn new things and take on new challenges, the session I had on the weekend was more than just internet marketing. It was a combination of networking with a bunch of top internet marketers in Australia, as well as learning about how we can take our practices to the next level. But there was more offered to us at the coaching session. You see, my mentor Sean is a great friend of a very inspirational, ex-Hollywood actor who happens to be his mentor. Sean invited him to come along to our session, and tell us about how we can take our internet marketing to a higher level.

Sean Rasmussen, myself and Kurek Ashley

You may think that this guy has got something to do with a new internet marketing strategy. I’d have to tell you that it is more than that! In order for us to become the best internet marketers, we had to take a step outside of internet marketing and work on our mindset and our emotions to drive us to the next level up. We heard from one of the top peak performance coaches in the world, Kurek Ashley. Kurek has an amazing story to tell. He started out as a Hollywood actor who was doing well with his profession, working alongside the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris, until a tragedy happened and completely turned his life around. He went really low in his life, to the point that you would call absolute rock bottom, but he managed to pull himself back up, to become one of the top peak performance coaches in the world!

Kurek wrote a book titled How Would Love Respond which is a bestseller novel for self-improvement. I thoroughly enjoyed our session, where he taught us strategies that would bring wealth, abundance and success to any areas of our lives, and definitely how we can become successful internet marketers through improving our mindset and taking action. Reading his book is just awesome! It’s a very inspirational story that also teaches a lot about abundance, how you can become wealthy through your mind, the 3Ps of Power, and much more. I highly recommend picking up a copy of the book if you want to become successful, be it in internet marketing or other aspects of your life!

This is a slightly different post for Internet Wealth Builder, but something that I’d like to share to help you in your journey in internet marketing and in many aspects of your life. I hope you will find many successes with your internet marketing through inspirational people like Kurek Ashley.

Welcome to yet another exciting post for Internet Wealth Builder! This week, I will be focusing on blogging and how to go about it.

Blogging Your Passions

I mentioned in one of my previous post that there is a way for you to make money with blogging. This is making money without using relying on AdWords and advertising on your blogs. Blogs are a great way to generate traffic to your other sites, as long as you know how to do it. A great more detail is mentioned in the book “Year Of The Affiliate” by my mentor Sean Rasmussen.

The one big question that some newcomers to internet marketing have in their minds is, what do I blog about? I don’t know what to write about and to share to the rest of the world! All the more, what do I write about that would enable me to make money in the first place? First of all, when you start out in internet marketing, don’t worry about the money yet. The money will come once you have learned and established yourself. I learned this when I started out. I was chasing the money and trying to find what area is hot at the moment, even if I don’t have a single clue what it’s about. I realised that this was not the right approach, that I can never convince someone to buy something from me on an item that I don’t know about! Though making money is indeed the name of the game here, you need to set some basic things straight if you are to succeed in whatever you do.

First of all, you need to have a passion for something to be able for you to succeed. This goes with your blogs. Each and every one of us must have something that we are passionate about, be it music, cars, travel, our jobs, horses, or whatever you are interested in. There is no limit to what you can be passionate about, but just ensure that it is something tasteful and something that you think a lot of people in this world would be able to share with you. That way, you will be able to express yourself much better, and it will be much easier for you to talk about the subject and be very confident about it.

Building Trust Through Blogging

Blogging about a passion is also great in the sense that you are able to share to others what you know in the subject, and other people can learn from it. It is through this that people will find value, and this will eventually lead to a relationship-building process. If people find great value with what you are blogging, they are most likely going to follow your blog, and they will most likely be interested in the other things that you do. The other things may mean your other sites which would sell products (whether associated to your subject or not). These people who follow your blog would have a greater propensity to purchase from you because you would have built the trust with them, and hence they know that you are an honest person, someone that they can rely on.

This is one very important thing I learned from Sean’s book “Year Of The Affiliate“  when I first started out. Not only did my journey into the internet marketing world become so much more enjoyable, it brought out the best in me, which is my capacity to share to the world and inspire others with my thoughts and with my past experiences through my blog. I truly encourage you to seek out what it is that you’re passionate about in life and share it with the rest of the online world. That whole process will definitely lead you to building great relationships online, and will eventually lead to great sales and conversion rates.

I hope you enjoyed another great tip from Internet Wealth Builder!

To your many online successes!

My mentor, Sean Rasmussen, has recently teamed up with one of Australia’s (and arguably the world’s) top internet marketers, Shaun Stenning, to teach people about successful strategies to make money online. Sean and Shaun (or known as S1 and S2 to save from confusion) have been successful in generating massive income from internet marketing that they now run their own companies and work full-time as internet marketers. They both had to go through difficulty gathering all the information, and along the way, they have learned how to create an effective strategy to make money online.

They’ve come up with a seminar called Smart Online Profit Systems, which is designed to show people how easy it is to make money online without the huge investment. Plus, they teach people what to look out for and what to do to save them from all the mistakes these guys experienced before.

Smart Online Profit Systems ROCK!

I’ve been to the very first Smart Online Profit Systems event in Sydney as a volunteer, and I was blown away by what I learned! I’ve met a lot of people who have been amazed by the results that can be produced out of this system! Even if I’m already a student of Sean’s, I still continually get amazed by how much there is to profit from the internet, and the strategies they teach are not even that difficult at all! At the end of the first day of the seminar, we were challenged to do some of the strategies overnight to make money online by selling an e-book, and whoever gets the most sales will be rewarded. I did briefly work on the strategies that night, as I was already quite tired from volunteering, but still wanted to try it out. And guess what? I made a sale (and my first one at that)!  I was so amazed that I couldn’t believe how quick it all happened!

Shaun Stenning has now also become one of my mentors and is teaching me the techniques that he uses, and I have to say that this guy is such an inspiration! He has achieved what a lot of more mature adults have not achieved in their lifetime, and yet he is a very down-to-earth, easy going guy who wants to help people achieve great success in their lives. He has coached several guys already and have become very successful.

I’ve mainly been talking about affiliate marketing here on this blog, but there is more to learn from Shaun with regards to traffic trading and building databases of leads and auto-responder systems. I will be discussing them more as time goes on to share my knowledge with you. However, I highly recommend going to the Smart Online Profit Systems seminar, which should be going to Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. It is definitely worth it, and it will show you things that the rest of the world don’t teach you about making money on the internet!

I’ll leave you with a video from the very successful Perth event of Smart Online Profit Systems:

To your future Online successes!