Clickbank Announces Direct Deposit
If you have a Clickbank account, chances are you’re getting paid by check every pay period (2 weeks). If your payments are consistent, ie you have received at least 3 consecutive payments, then you qualify to apply for Clickbank’s direct deposit feature.
ClickBank is pleased to offer International Direct Deposit (XACH) for direct deposit of your ClickBank account payments into certain international bank accounts, at no extra charge.
This will help me save loads of time waiting for checks to appear in my mailbox, and trying to cash in the checks in time to pay other expenses and bills. If you live outside any of the countries where Direct Deposit is allowed (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States), then you can get a non-resident US bank account as an intermediary bank.
Blog Less, Make More Money?
If you noticed, for the past few months I’m averaging about 1 post a month, and in fact I didn’t update GobalaKrishnan.com at all in June. Neither did I write a lot for ProfitBlogger.com (formerly know as EasyWordpress.com). So what exactly happened to me?
Was I facing a really tough writer’s block, or did I just give up on updating my personal blog altogether?
A little bit of both actually. When I first started blogging, this was the only blog I had, and I posted everything here. In fact this blog is responsible for most of my life-long customers, subscribers and fans. However along the way I started a blog about how to make money blogging, one on music marketing, and another on MLM tips, and a while later yet another one about Internet business in Malaysia.
After juggling all blogs (with the help of hired bloggers), I started becoming a slave to my own business working 9am to 11pm and yet my income hardly grew. A classic case of stretching yourself too thin; biting off more than you can chew; or whatever you call it.
I lost my direction for GobalaKrishnan.com - I didn’t know what to write here since now I have all those other blogs where I can publish my content to. So I stopped blogging here and all I could do was to publish one or two rather lame post just for the sake of keeping it updated.
But I wasn’t being lazy.
In fact, I was working harder than ever before. The only thing that changed is that I realized with the time I spent on blogging, I could actually create a lot more of my own product which generated much more income. In the last three months I created Super Affiliate Blogger, wrote Blog Paycheck and even managed to update my first successful product you probably already know as WordPress Adsense System.
As a result, in a two week period in May / June I made $10,882.33 from sales of my own products alone, thanks to the great response to Super Affiliate Blogger. Then I followed up with Blog Paycheck less than 30 days later and that too was a hit, bringing my income level for the next month to more than $8,500.00 from the sales of my own products. This means that by introducing those two products I almost tripled my income.
The funny thing is, since August 2006 the only product I had that generated daily sales was WordPress Adsense System and I never tried to even create a follow-up product to that. Instead I spent most of my time blogging, blogging, and blogging even more. A lot of blog post, and lot of “Thank you for the wonderful resource, you’re such a nice guy..”. But not a lot of money.
Which got me into thinking, is it really worthwhile to write 2-3 blog posts a day like some of the big name bloggers do? Do I really need to be a content-generating machine just to keep up? Do I need to give away so much free information, when it’s proven that I can charge for the information, have more time for myself, and yet keep everyone happy?
The answer is: it depends.
I now realize the difference between “having a blog” and “blogging” - at least in my own definition of those terms. Having a blog is good - after all blogs are still one of the best ways to get traffic and search engine rankings. But to be “blogging” day in and day out is not my cup of tea, especially when it becomes more of a chose than a pleasure.
I now have a new strategy to create more sites, make more money, yet spend less time with day-to-day blogging.
What is it? You’ll need to subscribe to my blog about blogging to find out. I’ll be writing about that soon.
This blog will focus more on strategies, experiences and insights on creating products, copywriting, list building, and direct response marketing. That’s what I’m really good at - selling stuff 
A lot of work to do, but I’m going to take my time doing it. It’s more fun that way.
Aweber Introduces FeedBurner-Like Chicklet
If you have an Aweber account to handle your email marketing, you’ll be glad to know that Aweber now has their own “Chicklet” to show off the amount of subscribers you have. Very similar in appearance to the FeedBurner chicklet we’re all used to seeing, plus you can customize the colors too.
Super Affiliate Blogger Is Launched
After months of preparation, my WordPress Affiliate Marketing guide is finally out. While I initially called this product “WordPress Super Affiliate” I decided to change it’s name to “Super Affiliate Blogger” for mass appeal.
So what is it exactly?
Super Affiliate Blogger is more than just an e-book; it’s a complete system for affiliate marketing with blogs. It comes with a special link tracking system, special list building system and most importantly the customized Super Affiliate Pro WordPress themes. The theme is the most important factor here, as without this theme you will not be able to follow the instructions in the guide.
Unlike most WordPress themes that only have a single layout, the Super Affiliate Pro WordPress theme has several templates you can use for different purposes. One important template is the “Landing Pages” which is critical if you plan to use PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising to sell affiliate products on the Internet, as well as build a huge list.
Yes you can depend 100% on search engine traffic but there are thousands of blogs out there all using the same “SEO and free traffic” strategy. Besides, SEO takes time to work.
PPC on the other hand is instant, and with Google AdWords you can start getting traffic to your blogs in 15 minutes. Of course you pay for each click that you get, but with a carefully crafted landing page, careful keyword selection and good pre-selling content, it is more than possible to start making money very, very fast.
More info: WordPress Affiliate Marketing Guide
750 Traffic Tactics with Private Label Rights
Edmund Loh has just done all of us a big favor.
As you may already know, traffic is the number one thing almost every Internet marketer wants to know about.
If you’re selling a product related to Internet marketing, web design, blogging etc than you should definitely get Edmund’s 750 Traffic Tactics PLR package. (Update: All sold out)
The first thing you should do, is to cut up the massive package into parts and create your own product based on a specific theme. For example, traffic tips for bloggers, traffic tips for forum owners, SEO tips for webmasters, social media traffic, etc.
That way you can create more value out of your new product and position it uniquely on the market.
Create an Awesome PopUp For Your Website
This is my the first software product I have developed and marketed, and you can get it for just $10.00.
As you can see from the screenshot above, Awesome Popup adds a very cool, lightbox-style popup to your website. What happens is that once the popup loads, you page will be frozen and covered by a transparent black background, with the pop-up on top. This type of popup isn’t annoying (unless you make it annoying) and cannot be blocked by browsers.
(Popup effect very similar to what happens when you click on the image above)
You can use it to greatly increase your marketing results, to display an offer or urgent news, and much more. Visit www.AwesomePopup.com - it comes with Master Resell Rights too.
Turn Off Directory Browsing to Protect Your Web Content
In my post about the Top 10 Silly Mistakes, a lot of readers were surprised about one particular seemingly “common” mistake, which is not turning off directory browsing for your folders.
This is really simple to do, and will avoid your web content from being stolen as people will not be able to browse the contents of your folder by typing it into the browser. If you type in www.yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins and directory browsing is not turned off for your web site, you can see the content of the entire folder, like this:
This exposes your website to thieves and hackers, making their lives much easier and serving your files to them on a silver platter.
To turn off directory browsing, simple log into your Cpanel account and look for the “Index Manager” icon, click on it.
This will take you to another page where you can turn off directory browsing for individual folders, or for the entire site. Usually, to turn off indexing for the entire site you need to click on the root folder, which is public_html
Finally, change the settings from “Default System Setting” to “No Indexing”. Now, your folders should be protected from peeping toms forever.
Running an online business involves learning how to secure your website, intellectual property, and business processes from people that mean to do you harm, and turning off directory browsing is the easiest (but most overlooked) way to get started in the right path.
Indonesian Internet Marketers To Dominate The World?
When I was on holiday in Indonesia, I met a really cool group of Indonesian Internet marketers who showed me a really good time in Jakarta, Bandung and a few other places.
Although Internet marketing in Indonesia is relatively untapped, the Internet marketers I have met are enthusiastic about the huge opportunity. After all, Indonesia has the 4th largest population in the world with cheaper labor costs than most countries and increasing Internet penetration - and these guys have a plan on how to ccapitalize.
From left (excluding me): Cornelius, Semmy Wijayanto, Francis Jimenez (imported from the Philippines) and Dee Ferdinand - a special thanks to all!
Meet these guys at the Bali Rendezvous Internet marketing event in Bali, Indonesia. Very smart guys, and even if they do not end up dominating the world, they will definitely be among the top Indonesian Internet marketers.
3 Things I Would Change With The Help of Hiro Nakamura
What if you could travel back in time? What would you do to change the past to positively effect the life you have today?
Unlike Hiro Nakamura who can just blink and be teleported to different timelines in history, most of us are stuck with what we have now and try to make the best of it. But what if Hiro Nakamura was real, he was your friend, and he’s asking you “I am Hiro. How do I save your world?”
Only 3 things Hiro, just tell the “past” me 3 things:
- Don’t Take That Loan - I would ask Hiro to talk to the earlier me (at age 18) to not accept any education loans, because they are nothing but a trap, and most of the “education” I got from taking a loan for RM70,000 was crap anyway.
- Don’t Drink That Beer - I would ask Hiro to ask the past me (at age 22) to stop drinking every single day. I would give the past me (fit and lean) a picture of me now and he would get the point.
- Don’t Bother with The Band - I would ask Hiro Nakamura to hit me on the head (at age 23) with my own electric guitar and tell me to stop trying to be a rockstar. I would probably go into a coma for 3 years, but when I woke up I’m sure my band would still be playing the same 5 songs they did. It was a good experience, but this year I realized how much time I wasted by not following my own intuitions in the band.
Now of course you’d say “Never regret..”
But I bet if you were Hiro Nakamura or at least had him as a friend, you’ll be pretty tempted to change things a little bit.
10 Silly Mistakes Even Internet Marketing Experts Make
Some of you may have seen something like the image above if you visited my blog in a few days- my domain got parked by GoDaddy. In fact I managed to renew it just in time before the domain expired and was put under GoDaddy’s expired domains market, which would mean that I will have to pay USD1,000+/- to get it back. Luckily for me, I had to pay only regular domain renewal fees.
In my case it was not a typical rookie mistake. I DID put my domain on auto-renew ever since I bought it but the problem is last month the credit card I’ve been using for over 5 years expired, and I was issued a new card. This meant that any recurring payment using the old card will fail as the new card has a different security number (at the back of the card).
To make things worse, during the renewal date I was in Indonesia for a 5-day holiday and had almost no Internet access. I went online for a couple of minutes but there were so many emails, I must have missed the warning notice from GoDaddy.
All things said, it was still rather silly on my part.
This brings me to an interesting topic - silly things we do as marketers.
Here’s a list of them, tell me if you’ve done any of it before:
Anti Domain-Auto-Renewal - As I mentioned in the story above. I’ve lost one or two domains before from this but those domains were not critical to my business. Still, the guy who got it just put up a “domain parking” page with loads of ads and is probably still getting some cash out of it.- Bad English Domains - I’ve done this with 2 domain names. The funny thing just as you hit the “Order” button you suddenly realize the spelling error but it’s just too late and you’re stuck with that domain for a year.
- See Only, Don’t Buy - I once spent $230 a day in AdWords and got up the next morning to zero sales. I realized not too log after that the order link was broken - and I felt like a total idiot.
- Neighborly Love is Bad - I once wrote the wrong address for my Aweber commissions, resulting in the checks being sent to my neighbor. Luckily for me, he had already move out by then and I retrieved my check from his mail box after checking my Aweber affiliate profile.
- Who Moved My Affiliate Checks? - Sometimes people move around. I moved from apartment to house to apartment (5 times) in the past 4 years and I’m pretty sure there were some miniscule affiliate programs I signed up with that finally sent me a check - just to the wrong address!
- Wrong Paypal Address - I did this once, send a huge sum of money to the wrong person. The I had to file a dispute and only through the grace of the receiver did I get my money back.
- Come See My Download Files - In Cpanel you can choose to disable indexes of your directories. This way when someone types in yoursite.com/images they wont be able to see a listing of all the images. Most importantly, if they type in yoursite.com/download and you have no index page there (htm/html/php) they will be able to steal your products. If you have a WordPress blog, try typing in yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins and you will see what I mean
- Premature Ejaculation- I’ve sent out an email for an affiliate product that read “Product X Is Live Now” only to realize that it would a good 12 hours before that happened. In my case you could forgive me because converting between time zones can be confusing.
- Backups Are For Wimps - It’s soo easy to delete stuff, and by “stuff” I mean anything from your website files, your e-book source MS Word files, your database (MySQL databases are very easy to delete, just one click) and even your important emails with your login details. Then you realize you didn’t create a backup and you’re screwed. No choice but to spend another 15 days re-writing the same ebook.
- [yourname, [fistname], Who’s Name? - How many times have you sent out an autoresponder broadcast email and got the variables wrong? Instead of getting “Hello Gobala” you get “Hello [firstname” - this always happens when: (a) You have more than one autoresponder service and each uses different variables, and you “copy and paste” carelessly (2) you typed in the variables manually, and you made a typo, oops!
Well there you go, 10 silly mistake even Internet marketing veterans make. I made all 10 of them, how many have you got?
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