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News Flash - Exclusive 1 Hour Alex Jeffreys’ Interview Coming Soon!!!!
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Derrick.
I know its been a while since my last post, mainly because there has been some major changes in my focus, however I have not forgotten the great opportunity that exists online. I’ve been trying to organise an interview with Alex Jeffreys for quite some time now, and have had delays due to our both our hectic schedules and a mistake on the timezone difference causing me to miss a previous scheduled interview a couple of months ago. But i’m happy to say that a couple of weeks ago I finally got a chance to do an exclusive 1 hour interview with Alex Jeffreys. So stay tuned! - I’ll be posting the entire interview with transcript in the next couple of days.
If there are any questions you may have - let me know, and I’ll aim to get the answers from Alex when I get a the chance to do a follow up interview 
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Are You Ready To Learn How To Make Money on the Internet? 3 Serious Questions To Ask Yourself To Find Out!
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Derrick.
Are you ready to learn how to make money on the internet or how to achieve any desire, dream or goal you might have? here’s 3 Serious Questions to ask yourself to find out if you’re a contender!
I’ve just read Alex Jeffrey’s New ebook - Newbie’s Nightmare which you can download for free, and thought I would do a 3 part review mixed in with some of my personal thoughts and ideas :). Firstly its relatively lightweight and easy to read- only 46 pages, about a 45minute read (1 page a minute) but it contains some highly concentrated concepts, and strategies, including detailing Alex Jeffrey’s basic marketing strategy.
Although Newbie’s Nightmare does not have chapter headings or sections, it is basically split into 3 parts (hence the 3 part review). - Here is my breakdown of the sections:
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- The Prelude - The Prerequisites to being successful online
- The Problems - The 3 common problems newbies face
- The Pathway To Success - Understanding The Internet Marketing Method (This last part includes the hurdle that is stopping 99% of newbie’s from ever making money.
So in this first part of this Review I’ll be giving you my slant on the Prerequisites - and there are only 3!
1. TIME
Do you have the TIME to invest to become successful? Sometimes we are in a very busy place - everything seems to be happening at once - we have problems at work, financial challenges, relationship issues, health problems or just as possible - they could all be good but stressful events - eg buying a new house or moving house, planning a holiday, getting married, getting promoted at work. These are probably not the best times to begin a new venture. I believe these are valid reasons why you may not have the time right at the time, but they will only delay the determined individual for a short period of time.
Generally most of us we usually do not have all these things happening at once and if we really wanted to, we could MAKE THE TIME. Just think about all the time we sometimes waste on unimportant things that really have little or no impact on the quality of our life (I know I wasted my first 30min this morning just surfing and reading some news when I should have started preparing for the day). So really, the question is not do YOU have the time to invest to become successful, but do YOU WANT to invest the time to be successful.
You need to ask yourself - Am I Prepared to set aside time, MAKE TIME EVERYDAY to do what is necessary to become successful at something (whether that be making money online or learning a new skill).
2. TARGET
Do you have a TARGET? do you have a goal, a dream a desire? Something you really want?
It doesn’t have to be big or amazing. but whatever it is it does need to BE SPECIFIC. It can be an income value, it can be to lose weight, to get that six pack, whatever it is, you need to know exactly what it is and be committed to it. As most of you are reading this because you want to make money online, it should be a dollar value. Once you have locked your Target in - you must develop a game plan - a plan of attack, a map to give you the most direct route to reach your destination.
This is the value of having a mentor, a coach an advisor, someone who has been where you want to be, so they can guide you on the path to success. Of course this information doesn’t always have to come through direct guidance as much of the information these days is available online, in books, magazines etc. . but really the most powerful way to learn and make the fastest progress is having someone coach you.
Having a network of people who want to join you on the journey can make a big difference as well. - Get yourself a TARGET that inspires you and gets you excited in the morning! and BE SPECIFIC!
3. FOLLOW THOUGH.
Probably the most important of the 3 prerequisites, as without this one, you’ll be wasting your time. I think this is probably the biggest reason for not hitting the target. Not taking action on the information and guidance provided.
We start enthusiastic, even taking action on everything (which in itself can be a problem:) , but then progressively laziness creep in, things become a little too difficult - it becomes too hard to make that phone call or send that email, because you don’t have the persons contact details right on hand - I mean its going to waste 5 minutes trying to search for that phone number on my computer or address book, I think i’ll just continue surfing the web and waste my time that way - I’m a lot more comfortable with that. . Target? what Target? . . . .
This happens to often when we let our focus fall to the menial or seemingly insignificant task before us rather than keep our eyes and mind on the prize. Know your Target, Keep it alive in your mind. BE COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING THROUGH on a proven path and you must Meet with Success!
Hope you enjoyed part one of my review and thoughts on Alex Jeffrey’s Newbie’s Nightmare. Love to know if you found this useful - Please post any questions or comments below. . . part 2 of the review
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How To Streamline Your Affiliate Marketing on Wordpress
Posted on 07. May, 2009 by Derrick.
I know its been a couple of months, but I’m happy to say I’ve finally finished a new video on an excellent wordpress plug in I use on all my websites to help me streamline my affiliate marketing, it called Ninja Affiliate, and it basically does 3 things very well all within the Wordpress Admin panel:
- Makes it quick and easy to add affiliate links to your wordpress blog including a very powerful feature that automatically converts your keywords into affiliate links
- Creates professional redirect links
- Cloaks your affiliate links preventing affiliate theft.
you can learn all about these features in this short video I have made explaining all these points, and why I’ve invested Ninja Affiliate
Please feel free to leave any feedback or comments below!
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Preview of Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging 3.0 System
Posted on 05. Mar, 2009 by Derrick.
I’ve been out of action for the last 2 weeks due to my offline work and projects and have just found some time to make a new post. Over the last 3 months I have done a lot of research on the net for blogging and internet marketing resources. One of the resources I have come across is Atomic Blogging by Alvin Phang. I signed up to his mailing list, and ever since have received various emails including his recent engagement!. .
In the last few days I have received a number of emails with regards to his latest version of Atomic Blogging. Having decided that blogging is definitely something I want to continue, I read with interest what his Atomic Blogging would provide me.
The system he sells inlcudes his
- Blogging Guide 3.0
- Atomic Blogging 3.0 Wordpress Plug-in
- Atomic Blogging Nuclear Nodule Pack (A collecton of Wordpress plug-in’s Alvin Recommends)
- One Month Free Access to his Atomic Blogging VIP Membership including his Atomic Blogging 4.0 Wordpress theme and 500 Fresh New PLR Articles every month.
- Interview with Yaro Starak
- Private/ Master Label Rights for the Barking Traffic Videos (14 Videos), Adsense Revenue Exposed and Bloggers Guide To Profits ebooks plus eWriter Pro Software for writing ebooks.
Limited Time Bonuses:
- Atomic Blogging Keyword Research Tool Version 2.0
- Interview with John Chow and Carl Ocab
So after reading what the package included, besides the actual Atomic Blogging 3.0 Guide, the key products I found of interest were the Atomic Blogging 3.0 Wordpress Plug-in, as I have not come accross this plug-in before. Most social bookmarking plug-ins I found only add the functionality of making it easy for others to social bookmark your article, but don’t actually submit your article to the social bookmarking sites. If you have ever submitted your own article to Digg or any other social bookmarking site, you will know it can easily take 10-15 minutes to do. This software submits your article to up to 15 social bookmarking sites everytime you publish a new post! This will definitely be a timesaver and help with traffic.
The other product is the Atomic Blogging 4.0 Wordpress theme. I still haven’t found the perfect theme, but always interested to try a new one and see how well it works. Also the Atomic Blogging Nuclear Module Pack would be very useful as I’m constant looking for new plug-ins to provide more functionality to my blog, so hopefully there will be a few new plug-ins I can use here.
The final product that looks very useful is the Atomic Blogging Keyword Research Tool. I’m only just beginning to realise how important keyword research is, so again, I look forward to test this one, and find out how useful it is compared to other tools I have used.
Anyway I’ve decided to buy the Atomic Blogging 3.0 Pack, and look forward to do a more detailed review, once I get a chance to study the Atomic Blogging Guide and test out the Plugin’s and software. If you are already a user or have any comments to add please feel free to comment below!
Click here to check out Atomic Blogging 3.0
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Alex Jeffreys’ Announces Competition Winners For Coaching Students
Posted on 14. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.
After starting the coaching program at the end of November 2008, Alex Jeffreys set up a number of competitions to motivate and inspire some friendly competition amongst the students. 4 Competitions were set up in all, with the last of them ending on February 6th. The competitions and winners were:
- Most Traffic to Blog over a 2 week period: US$1000
Jim Gallagher link to statistics here
- Most Creative / Best Produced Video: US$1500
Derrick Siu (That’s Me! - Woohoo!) see videos below: - Most Traffic to Video: US$1500
Tim Buttles - Direct Link to His Video Here - 1st Person to Get No.1 On Google for Search Term Alex Jeffreys: US$1000
Gary Simpson - For Video Proof click here
Congratulations to all the winners. . and I have to say I’m quite happy to have won the most creative / best produced video and the $1500 will come in very handy
In case you haven’t seen all the videos I’ve included them below:
Video 1 : Its Time To Shine in 2009 Starring Alex Jeffreys
Video 2: The Fortunate 500 - 300 / The Matrix Spoof:
Video 3 : Why Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO aka Monkey Boy Went Crazy And Left Microsoft!
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How To Increase Your Click Through Rates And Maximize Profits From Affiliate Programs On Your Wordpress Blog.
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.
Before I get to the meat of the article, I thought I would first define a few terms just in case you’re a newbie: If you already have some knowledge in this area, feel free to skip the definitions and go straight to rest of the article.
DEFINITIONS
What is an affiliate program?
An Affiliate program is simply a program you can join that allows you to sell specific products for a commission. Usually when you join such a program, you will be provided with a specific affiliate web link to the product sales page. This allows the Affiliate Program to track referrals to their site from your link, and thus compensate you for any referrals that actually lead to a sale. This is probably one of the easiest and fastest ways to create an income online, as you don’t need to create, deliver or provide support for a product - you just recommend it.
What is a Click Through Rate?
A click through rate or click through ratio is simply the number of times a link is clicked on and goes to the linked web page over the number of times that link is shown within a specified timeframe. (Also known as “impressions”). For example if this article was visited 100 times, and one of the specific links were clicked thru 20 times to another webpage - then the click thru ratio would be 20%.
THE PROBLEM
So if you’re an affiliate marketer, ie an independent sale’s agent for specific products, you would normally make your sales through having a website with links to these products. There are many other ways to do this such as creating advertisements that link straight to the their sales page (and therefore not requiring you to have a website) as well as email marketing (which requires you to build a list). For the purposes of this article I’m focusing on people who have set up a website or blog and primarily write articles that include links to the products they are recommending.
Most people who do this, simply insert their affiliate links into their blog or website: They simply copy and paste the affiliate link into the post. Now here’s the problem. Most affiliate links look horrible and meaningless as they are computer generated and created primarily to produce a unique link so your referrals can easily be tracked. Here is an example of how these affiliate links can appear:
http://www.AffiliateProgram.com//a.php?a=CD13798&b=25367&d=0&l=0&o=&p=0&c=4110&s1=&s2=&s3=&s4=&s5=
Of course this is not the link that will be in the text - however this horrible link will show up in the status bar. (usually at the bottom of the web browser). They appear when you hover over the link - revealing the address of where the link will take you. Because the link is meaningless and looks ugly, many people will choose not to click through and therefore you are losing opportunities for sales. These are visitors who have somehow found your website as a result of the the time you have spent with traffic generating strategies. You can stop losing these potential sales.
THE SOLUTION:
There is a way to minimize the loss of these click throughs and that is by creating professional looking and meaningful links. This is done by creating a redirect ie - creating a nicer looking link that redirects to the actual affiliate link. Here are some examples of such links:
http://www.YourDomainName.com/AffiliateProgram
http://www.YourDomainName.com/recommends/AffiliateProgram
http://www.YourDomainName.com/Goto/AffiliateProgram
Compare these links to the one previously. Which would you prefer to click thru on? As you can see, these links look much more professional, meaningful and therefore more likely to be clicked through. By creating these links you should be able to increase your average click through rate. Also since redirects conceal your affiliate ID’s within the actual affiliate link - you are also stopping people from stealing your commissions by removing your affiliate ID and replacing with their own!
So how can you set these “redirects” up? I’ve been using a software that not only creates these redirects but also helps you manage and track your affiliate links within Wordpress. Normally when you use the affiliate links you have no idea how many times they are actually clicked on unless you login to each individual affiliate program and check your statistic there - This can be very time consuming if you have subscribed to many affiliate programs. This software makes it much easier to see an overall picture of how effective each of your affiliate links are - all in one place.
Besides this great benefit and helping you make more money and preventing loss of income from stolen afffiliate ID’s, the software has many other features which also help you save time and maximize your affiliate programs. For more information about Ninja Affiliate click here and watch their video on how you can do this and more.
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Progress Update : 2009 January 19th-31st
Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.
Ok. . Another 2 weeks has passed. . and I feel I have neglected my blog. . but not for good reason, As I have been busy working on videos for the Video Competition. I was shooting to win the creative and was still hopeful for the video that gets the most traffic for my last video uploaded 2 days before the comp ended (I Guess I was a little too optimistic on that one). . Anyways. .I haven’t heard confirmation of the winners yet. but will be sure to post the results when I do.
So what’s happened in the last 2 week of January? well after checking my time log, I was a little shocked to discover I spent just over 50 hours on the 500 Video! And due to a couple of mini holidays during this time - weekend trip to Brisbane for Chinese New Year and a 4 day break at Jervis Bay in New South Wales - that also cut down my time available to be productive :). So here’s what I have achieved:
- Produced the 500 Video - I know I probably over did it :). . but I wanted to be totally happy with it, and I have to say I am pretty proud of the result ~ 50 hours
- Traffic Generation Activity ~ 3hours
- Building and optimising blog ~ 4 hours
- Writing Content ~ 2 hours
- Miscellaneous ~ 10 hours
After this first full month working on the blog. . - which has mainly consisted with producing the videos :). . and just in my research on what’s happening and whats out there, I feel I’m getting a much better idea of where I am best placed within the World Wide Web - I’ll be making my plans in the next week as I spend time evaluating where I should be heading, and what I want to spend my time on.
Jan 2009 Work Breakdown
Ok. . so lets see how all this activity affected my traffic to my site: - Just click to open up the full size image
Google Analytics Jan 19th-31st 2009
You’ll notice a HUGE peak on the 19th wtih 144 Visits in one day! This was as a result of my first Video being launched. My Second Video was launched on the 30th Jan and had to leave for my mini holiday so didn’t have the proper time to promote it.
Lastly my Alexa Ranking has improved as well. . I didn’t do a check on the 31st so here are my stats from today:
Alexa Ranking February 6th 2009
Wow - I’m now in the top 250,000 websites :). . My goal to get to the top 100,000 is in sights! When I first started this blog sometime in mid December it was ranked around 9 Million, and slowly I have gone up the Alexa Ranks :). .anwyays still much more work to do, but this is definitely encouraging!
THE FUTURE:
Anyways. I think my future lies in making instructional videos and reviews, so I’m researching on what I should be making them for. If you have any ideas or suggestions on what type of videos I should be making - please leave your comments below!
Cheers,
Derrick
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Video - Why Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO aka Monkey Boy Went Crazy And Left Microsoft!
Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.
I got a burst of inspiration yesterday afternoon and made a parody of Steve Ballmer doing his “Monkey Dance”. It’ll probably be my final video entry for the Alex Jeffrey’s Video Competition. Actually make that definitely since the competition ends in 2 days 
I saw this clip a while ago and its pretty funny seeing Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft - one of the worlds biggest companies going crazy, running around shouting and jumping up and down. I couldn’t resist doing something with it. . so here it is - if you like - please DIGG it (click on the icon just above this text) and leave me some feedback love. Enjoy!
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Don’t forget there’s still a chance to win some great Graphics From Aurelius Tjin with his Copy And Paste Graphics Package Just enter your details in the box to the right and watch the 500 Video for the answer :).
If you want to see more of Steve Ballmer doing his monkey boy dance - do a search on youtube for Steve Ballmer Developers as well as the video he made introducing windows 1.0.
Now. .some time to do some blog hopping
My Previous 2 Video Entries for Alex Jeffreys Video Competition 2009
300 Spoof:
Its Time To Shine in 2009 Starring Alex Jeffreys : Episode 1
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500 Competition Prizes
Posted on 02. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.
I’ve just gotten back from a 4 day holiday to Jervis Bay, so its been a bit hectic organising stuff :), But happy to say I’ve secured one prize at this point. A big thank-you to Aurelius Tjin from Unstoppable Profits who has agreed to give a copy of his Copy and Paste Graphics package which gives the lucky winner a truckload of beautiful graphics designed to help you sell products for your current and future websites :
Copy And Paste Graphics
I will Announce further prizes in the next few days. I am on the lookout for more giveaways so if you think you’ve got something good to offer, let me know and I’ll write a post about it here.
Don’t forget for your chance to win, just register by entering your details below: Good Luck!
Be in the Chance to Win Some Awesome Prizes by simply watching the Video & naming one celebrity or Internet Marketer who made a cameo appearance in the video. (excluding Alex Jeffreys and Mike Filsiame of course - clue - take a closer look at the Matrix Sequence with the TV’s and watch in HD!
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Episode 2 - Its Time To Shine in 2009 - 500 Video Post - A Forward To Internet Marketing History in 2009 - Starring Alex Jeffreys, Mike Filsaime and The Fortunate 500!
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.
I’m very proud to say that I’ve finally completed another concept video for the Alex Jeffrey’s Video competition. This has taken me practically a whole week. . and an all nighter (last nite) to get it completed (As I plan to take a few days off now :). I’ve done something special with this Video and tried to include as many of the fortunate 500 in it. . see if you can find yourself - Make sure you watch in HD and you’ll probably have to pause the video to look at the appropriate place - there’ s plenty of very interesting stuff to see - anyways, hope you enjoy It.
Please DIGG if you like it (just click that DIGG button to the right) and let me know what you think by leaving a comment!
COMPETITION DETAILS:
I’m setting up a competition for this video as well - There will be some great Internet Marketing Giveaways - I’m just in the process of organizing the prizes and will be able to confirm on Monday what they will be - but rest assured they will be of great value :). All you have to do is put your name and email address plus answer this simple question:
- Name one internet marketer or celebrity featured in the video (besides Alex and Mike of course :).
Deadline for the competition will be the 6th of February, and I’ll announce the winner by the 10th Feb. So Enter today! Click here to go to the full post and post a comment.
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