April 30, 2006 By

Malaysia Paypal And Clickbank Problems Solved Forever

If you’ve been waiting for the past 2 weeks, thank you! I have received so many emails from Malaysians trying to get free information from me on how to:

  1. Register as a Clickbank affiliate or vendor
  2. Use and withdraw money from Paypal

Now you can get the information you need first hand from Chapter-M. Yes… as of today Chapter-M is officially launched to the Malaysian Internet marketing and Ebay community.

While I was developing Chapter-M, I got a challenge to prove that my methods were not against Clickbank’s terms and conditions. So I wrote to Clickbank, and they wrote back to me:

cb permission

See, most people got it wrong. It’s not that Clickbank won’t accept you if you’re a Malaysian. As you can see above, CB states that you can have a Clickbank account if you have two important things.

What is it? You’ll have to read Chapter-M to find out :)

While I was putting up the links, a few orders accidently slipped by! People have been coming to my website everyday trying to sneak in before the launch date and some of them succeeded:

cpm orders

5 sales in 3 hours, before I even officially launched Chapter-M!

The truth is out. I expect Chapter-M to be completely sold out before the middle of this month. After that you will not be able to get it anymore, except through my top resellers.

If you want to solve your Paypal and Clickbank problems once and for all with a proven, tested, guru-endorsed and 100% legal method, I suggest you click here to get Chapter-M now before the window opportunity is closed, forever.

UPDATE: Chapter-M has been discontinued.

If you’re from Malaysia and want to learn how to use PayPal, here’s the best place to get video tutorials: PayPal Malaysia

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing Malaysia
April 29, 2006 By

Cheaper Than Cheap Ebook Covers – An Honest Review

Reviewed: Cheapest Covers
Owner: Hafiz & Najmi
Website: CheapestCovers.com

Rating: Highly Recommended (4.7/5)

I was pretty shocked when I came across CheapestCovers.com, run by two guys from Malaysia, Hafiz Latib and Khairulnajmi Fikri Yusoff. Why was I shocked? Well these guys are designing ebook covers for $27 a pop. That’s why I’m calling this review “Cheaper Than Cheap Ebook Covers” because quite frankly I have never met anyone charging such a low price.

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Filed Under: Ebook Marketing, Product Reviews
April 29, 2006 By

All Search Engine Submission Software Are Bullshit

This especially goes out to anyone who just built their first website and wants to get it indexed by search engines. My advice: don’t buy ANY search engine submission software or service.

Search engine submissions is exaggerated bullshit. You don’t need a software that will submit to “1000 search engines and directories” because:

  1. There are only 3 major SE worth worrying about – Google, MSN and Yahoo. The rest are either just aggregators that derive their results from these engines, or they are too small to bother with.
  2. Search engines rather find you – Google prefers to find you “accidently” rather than have you throw your site at them every day. Careful, some SE submission may get your site banned by submitting it too often to the point that it’s considered spamming the search engines.

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Filed Under: Home Business, News and Updates, Search Engine SEO
April 26, 2006 By

Why Does Google Hold Your Adsense Earnings?

If you’re an Adsense publisher, you’ll know that you only get paid when your balance reaches $100.00. The question is, is that normal business sense or dirty tactics by Google?

Erick Schonfeld blogs about Nick Carr’s article that seems to blame Google for setting a $100 payout limit and implying that they use this pool of money to invest and get interest gains. Here’s an excerpt:

“He becomes another Google sharecropper, one of the thousands working the rocky soil of the AdSense plantation. And all the while Google gets to hold onto the poor sap’s meager earnings, using them for its own purposes. In many cases, I’m sure, the less-than-$100 balances never get collected, and Google gets to pocket them for good.”

My 2 1/2 Cents: I think these guys should start their own publisher program or affiliate program to see things from the other side instead of implying foul play. I set a $25 cut-off limit for my affiliates not because I don’t want to pay them, and I’m not using the money for investing either. It’s just common business sense. If I paid out checks for $2.00 I will be (1) attracting the wrong type of people (2) wasting my time (3) running a business risk in case of fraud

Come on guys, making more than $100 a month isn’t really that difficult. Instead of coming up with conspiracy theories you should spend time improving your Adsense income :)

Filed Under: Google Adsense
April 24, 2006 By

A Testimonial From a Satisfied Customer

I’m blushing after getting this unsolicited testimonial (which means I didn’t ask for it) from a customer for Internet Telephony Secrets:

Hi Bala,

It’s Margie again. What an AWESOME ebook! Sheesh I could kick myself for having sat on this soooo long. There is so much juicy, meaty info. And your writing was clear, informative–your enthusiasm just springs through.

I’ve got to reread and come up with a plan fast to market this prize product. You should be very proud. Thanks so much for sharing and giving me an opportunity to promote this. I think anyone who passes this up has his/her eyes closed.

-Margie Zambrana

Internet Telephony Secrets talks about using Skype as a marketing tool, instead of just for calling your girlfriend or parents from overseas. Some of the secrets I learned while working for Telekom Malaysia. The rest I learned from being a home-based business enrepreneur.

Which reminds me that this concept has so much potential, but I just got sidetracked with Chapter-M for a while. Next month I’ll be promoting it aggressively again.

[tags] skype, voip, internet telephony, ip telephony [/tags]

Filed Under: Home Business
April 23, 2006 By

Japan SEO System – Search Engine Optimization in Japanese?

Japan SEO System Just found this through a link on Kelvin Hui’s blog. Apparently, there’s an e-book on search engine optimization, written in Japanese, by Kobayoshi Masatoshi. The entire website is in Japanese, so don’t ask me what it’s about :)

But it does give you an idea: take any Internet marketing ebook, translate it into a foreign language and you have a hot product. The important factor is that the majority of the target market doesn’t speak or care about English.

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Asia, Search Engine SEO
April 23, 2006 By

Patric Chan Mega-Branding Strategy

Patric Chan, a quite well-known Internet marketer from Malaysia has a new mega-branding strategy. You’ll notice that all his blogs, emails, websites etc are now all centered around his “Chan Do” system.

You Chan Do It Branding involves standardizing all forms of communication to center around a specific name, image or theme. For this alone, I think Patric has done a great job. I don’t find the name “Chan Do” that catchy, but as long as it serves the purpose of raising curiosity and embedding an image at the subconcious part of your brain, it’s done it’s job.

I’m thinking that most of Patric’s clients pronounce his name as Patric “Can”.

“If I Chan Do It, You Chan Do It Too!” – That’s a good tagline. Memorable and simple.

I got to think of my own branding strategy. I think the best way to do this is to ask your customers “What is the first thing they remember about you?”. Your customers will have the answer to your branding strategy. Don’t just come up with something that no one can relate to, or can relate you to.

Filed Under: Home Business, Internet Marketing Malaysia
April 21, 2006 By

Is There Really an Alternative to Paypal?

I invite someone to challenge me on this statement: there is no alternative to Paypal.

I know many of you may have heard all the horror stories about Paypal. I recently got my Paypal account suspended indefinately and they have yet to pay me the balance. I was frustrated and I told myself I will never use Paypal again. “Screw them” I thought…

But things have been slowing down ever since, and when I finally started accepting Paypal payments again yesterday (another account) it’s as if I opened up an entirely new income stream.

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My conclusion: You make more if you accept Paypal.

Google’s payment processor better get rolling fast. I can only see an alternative to Paypal coming from Big-G themselves, no one else. And since their company motto is “Do no evil” I think they would care more about me :)

If you’re from Malaysia and want to learn how to use PayPal, here’s the best place to get video tutorials: PayPal Malaysia

Filed Under: Home Business
April 20, 2006 By

The Average Keyword Costs $1.39

Here’s a quick update on what’s happening in the search engine world: the average keyword now costs $1.39.

Categories tracked include: Automotive, Computing (new), Consumer Services, Electronics (new), Finance Investment, Finance Mortgage, Health (new), Media and Entertainment (new), Retail, Telecom Broadband, Telecom Wireless and Travel and Hospitality.

Full report here.

Wow… and that’s actually a reduction from last year :)

I remember when I started with AdWords I could get clicks for $0.05 – $0.20 for some reasonably competitive keywords. And that now seems like an eternity ago.

Filed Under: Search Engine SEO
April 18, 2006 By

Armand Morin and Alex Mandossian in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

I just went for the preview seminar, and it looks great!

In case you didn’t know, Alex Mandossian and Armand Morin are two of the most high-profile Internet marketers around. In fact, since Corey Rudl’s unfortunate accident last year, these two guys are quickly becoming the mainstream Internet marketing gurus.

They will be in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for the Asian Internet Marketing School “Boot Camp Workshop”. Dates are as follows:

Kuala Lumpur: 21st & 22nd May 2006

Singapore: 26th and 27th May 2006

They will then travel all the way to the Philiphines, India and China. If you’re new to making money on the Internet, there’s no better way to kickstart yourself into action. For experienced marketers, you may want to consider the networking opportunities. The cost is RM2,500+ but I’m almost ready to offer you double the value of whatever you pay..

Filed Under: Internet Marketing Asia, Internet Marketing Malaysia