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Apr 22 2009
1

John Reese Releases New Video – “The Affiliate Commission Engine”

Tips & Tricks

Internet Marketing ‘SuperGuru’ John Reese has just released a great free video that will teach you how to maximize affiliate commissions on auto-pilot.

In this video you’ll learn how to quickly and easily set up an “Affiliate Commission Engine.”

You can set up as many of these little ‘engines’ as you want in any market you want and they’ll work for you 24/7 – - making affiliate income for you while you’re busy working on other things.

Go right now and watch this video and start making more affiliate marketing commissions right away:

http://www.stanleytang.com/go/opportunity


Feb 27 2009
6

Piggybacking Off A #1 Best-Selling Book Launch

Internet Marketing, Personal Thoughts & Ideas, Tips & Tricks

Yesterday, internet super affiliate Ewen Chia launched his latest print book, How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider’s Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business.

He kindly sent me a review copy and I took a quick look. And honestly, I was blown away. It’s literally an step-by-step blueprint of his affiliate marketing system that almost anybody can follow. Although it might not be as “insider” as you may think, it’s definitely worth the $13 from Amazon.

With this amount of incredible content in his book on top of Ewen’s incredible marketing skills, it was no surprise to see the book become an instant best-seller and hit #1 on the Overall Best-Seller’s List on Amazon in as little as 12 hours!

But what does it got to do with me? Well, here’s the interesting thing:

Ewen Chia's Book

See that section where it says “Frequently Bought Together”? That little blue cover right there is my book – eMillions: Behind-The-Scenes Stories of 14 Successful Internet Millionaires! It got actually recommended by Amazon themselves! Now just imagined the thousands of people who went to that page on the day (it takes hundreds of sales to hit and maintain the #1 spot)… I’m pretty sure quite a few are going to take on that offer from Amazon ;) (in fact, it says 6% of the people visiting that page end up buying my book)

Within just 24 hours, my book ranking has soared from 400,000 to 743 (hitting the #1 spot in the Home-Based Business Category)… all with ZERO effort and promotion on my part! (A typical campaign like this would cost anywhere from $1,000 up to $10,000! – unless of course you’re using word-of-mouth marketing)

eMillions Book Ranking

This is the power of piggyback marketing :)

Remember to get a copy of my book, eMillions, over at Amazon (and get tons of cool bonuses):

http://www.emillionsbook.com


Feb 22 2009
19

How I Generated 1,052 Unique Visitors To My Blog In 72 Hours

Internet Marketing, Tips & Tricks

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post explaining how I brought in 184 unique visitors to my blog… just with a simple trackback that took me 2 seconds.

Like any good scientist marketer, I repeat my experiments to ensure accuracy and precision in my results. So the other day, I wrote a blog post called Web 2.0 Is Dying… Or Is It and linked it to the post on TechCrunch (which then got displayed on the trackback list).

72 hours later…

1,054 In 72 Hours

:)


Feb 07 2009
2

How To Make It As A Young Internet Entrepreneur

Internet Marketing, Tips & Tricks

This guest post is written by Josh Lam.

Even though Internet has covered all areas of human life, a young Internet entrepreneur might feel it a bit tough to things started. Internet has helped to broaden their horizons and explore new heights in business development. The dramatic impacts have been instrumental in infusing the spirit among young generations as it made them realize that the opportunities have got no limits and a great career is there for the taking.

Having said all these, creative actions are the way to success, to the say the least. The preliminary step is to study about existing market that you are interested in and the next step essentially deals with designing of a proposed market of yours. Since the pool of opportunities might be confusing, the areas of your interests should be given supreme importance. After the selection of a specific area is done, a detailed study and analysis of the same had to be made. This knowledge would remain to be the best capital investment of yours in building up a name and reputation as a young internet entrepreneur.

Marketing area is one of the most demanded and attractive section in internet marketing and this is the arena in which a young internet entrepreneur can shuffle his cards. He can sell his own product or he can go with the commissioning stuff. Marketing and selling of their own products would take a lot out of a young internet entrepreneur and would be highly challenging. To accomplish the same, the business man should have his own products to sell. He should be well versed with marketing terminologies, tips and tricks prevailing in this arena. Apart from that, he should have a production section as well as a shipping office. It is something that cannot be accomplished within a short span of time and with little experience in the respective section. In, fact there are young entrepreneurs who do these activities, and confident people can never look backwards.

The other area where young internet entrepreneurs can excel is the area of affiliate marketing. In affiliate marketing, the marketers do not need to have a production section or shipping office. He does not even need to master the tough marketing strategies. Here, the marketer is not selling his own products. Instead he sells another party’s products. Simply speaking, the internet marketer promotes other’s products through their web sites.

Numerous affiliate marketing opportunities are there in the internet these days, and majority of them are genuine. Affiliate marketing is something that can very well be tried by young internet entrepreneurs as the studies reveal that the success rate is very high. Having said that, it should not be taken for granted that it does not require skill and knowledge. It does require good skill and sufficient knowledge. Terminologies do s and don’t s in affiliate marketing should be very well investigated by the beginner. For the products you promote, you will be getting a commission for that. It should be taken into account that some companies offer about 75 percent of the price of the products as commission that the affiliate marketer sell.


Feb 04 2009
0

How To Build Your List In Record Time

Tips & Tricks

You already know how important it is to build your own email lists.

But do you build your lists as quickly as you could?

If you’re not sure, I can understand why.

More often than not, I was too busy chasing sales and not building relationships. Sure, I’d set up pay per click, write articles, post useful comments in forums. and still not make any sales. Argh! Before I knew it, I wasn’t marketing as often I should have. “Bah, what’s the point…? No one’s going to buy my product anyway, so why bother. Besides, I’m so busy working on my next big project.”

In the back of my mind, though, I knew I should be marketing differently. It nagged at me, so sometimes I would at least make the effort to ask another successful marketer for their advice. But, smart people that they are, they would usually say, “The money is in the list!’

So when I found out about a marketer named Jason James (one of the featured experts in eMillions), I perked up. You see, in less than 3 years, Jason has created more than 5 different products that debuted with six-figure paydays.

But that’s not the part that amazed me. You see, Jason found a way to add thousands of people to his own mailing list at the same time. In fact, one of his launches he created a brand new subscriber list of 1,000′s of buyers.

Jason is a real sharp guy. He realized that he could (and does) make even more money, simply by mailing to his own list.

He sends them useful content.

He sends them new product announcements.

He sends them affiliate emails that promote the latest big product being offered by other marketers.

And each time, he makes money when those subscribers buy.

It didn’t take Jason long to realize that the more subscribers that were on his list, the more money he could potentially make. So he shifted his focus to the list building methods that ultra-successful marketers use.

The good news is he discovered their marketing edge.

It’s called a Giveaway event and they have become fairly popular in the internet marketing niche. Of course, if you’re an online marketer, 99.9% of the niches you’ve thought of entering have never heard of giveaway events. (Talk about a big competitive edge!)

Done right, a giveaway event can give you a big list of hungry buyers and more money in your bank account.

Done wrong, and your event will be a major flop. Your professional reputation will be toast and you still won’t have a big list.

That’s why I was really excited when I learned that Jason wrote a manual that covers Giveaway Events.

It’s called Giveaway Riches.

http://www.stanleytang.com/go/giveawayriches

With Giveaway Riches, you don’t have to worry about doing your own giveaway event. As long as you follow Jason’s step-by-step plan on setting up and running your own giveaway event, your success is practically guaranteed!

http://www.stanleytang.com/go/giveawayriches

Jason reveals everything he’s discovered about giveaway events – and nothing is held back. He even tells you some of the major mistakes he made – and learned from – so you don’t make the same mistakes too.

He’s now making this manual available to you. Say goodbye to slow list building and say hello to:

  • Rapid list building. Add loads of new buyers to your mailing list that other marketers gladly refer to you.
  • Easy to understand step-by-step plans. You don’t have to guess how to do a giveaway event. You get access to exactly what you need to know. FAST!
  • Unlimited license. You can use Giveaway Riches system on as many websites as you want or any niche you want to go after. There’s no limit to where you build a list.
  • Make money at the same time as you build a list. Thanks to the special offers built into a giveaway event, you can make money while you build a hot fresh subscriber list. Brilliant!

Check out Giveaway Riches:

http://www.stanleytang.com/go/giveawayriches


Jan 31 2009
3

More Traffic Does Not Equal More Profits

Internet Marketing, Tips & Tricks

I see it all the time…

One marketer will only get a handful of visitors to his site per day. The other will work really hard to get hundreds of visitors daily. Six months later, the first marketer will be earning a nice monthly income from his handful of daily visitors while the other marketer will still be struggling to get more “unique” visitors to his site while making very little money, if any. A great traffic-generation model linked to a poor profit-generation model leads to failure.

If you want to make money from your site, you have to understand these key points:

  • The site that gets the most traffic does not necessarily make the most money
  • The site that is able to turn traffic into subscribers and buyers usually does well
  • The site that can turn traffic into repeat buyers always comes out a winner!

Getting traffic to your site is only the first step. Once it gets there, you need to have a powerful direct response sales message ready to take orders or add subscribers to your list. Otherwise, all your efforts will go to waste.

You see, while most marketers are only focused on finding new customers or getting more unique visitors to their site, the smart marketers are also consistently working on getting their existing customers/prospects to buy more often. And maybe even buy much higher ticket items.

Getting an existing customer to buy again is much easier to do than getting a stranger to buy from you for the very first time.

So, all the extra traffic you get to your site will not make any difference to your bottom line unless you work on turning these strangers into trusting, repeat buyers.

An Important Point About Profits…

Over the years, I’ve noticed that the individuals who make the most profits consistently are those who charge a monthly, recurring fee. This can either be in the form of a monthly access fee to a product-based membership site or it can be a service that requires a monthly payment (e.g. hosting service, Internet access, advertising service etc) – anything that creates a residual income source.

It also takes much less effort to make a profit using this system because, again, you’re selling to an existing customer who has already willingly paid for that product or service. Instead of having to sell to the customer every month, all you have to do is keep providing a good product and service. Compare that to always having to find new customers, or even selling new products!

If you can find a way to provide a product or service that charges a monthly fee – be it just a few bucks a month – you can really begin to maximize your profits from the traffic stream that comes your way.

A predictable monthly fee, even as small as 9 bucks per month, is a lot better than a “probable” sale of $27, 2 or 3 times per year. Start using bigger numbers and you’ll really see big differences.

Oh, by the way, this monthly access product or service does not necessarily have to be your own. You can also join a dependable affiliate program and just as easily earn a monthly residual income.


Jan 14 2009
18

How I “Accidentally” Brought In 184 Unique Visitors To My Site With A Simple Trackback

Internet Marketing, Tips & Tricks

I was on the plane to Korea for the ski trip during Christmas when I began writing a blog post about the fall of Cuil (aka the “Google Killer”) and how it was a complete disaster. As soon as we got off the plane, a RSS feed came in from TechCrunch that also covered the same topic about the fail of Cuil.

We had to wait one hour for the bus to arrive, so there was plenty of time for me to finish off the post (it was very short) and read the TechCrunch post. It was pretty relevant so I just decided to link to that post.

Little did I know how much traffic it brought me…

Traffic From Trackback

Traffic From Trackback

I was completely shocked and wasn’t expecting any traffic at all. Just goes to show the power of trackbacks. How an “accident” brought me 184 unique visitors of free traffic :) It’s not a lot, but keep in mind this was just from ONE trackback. What if you did 10, 20, 50? (obviously, I would recommend you to do so relevantly and not just spam/abuse)


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Hi, I’m Stanley Tang – a 19 year old tech entrepreneur, author and student. Since 2006, I’ve been building internet businesses ranging from online magazines to social web applications. I also published a book called eMillions, which was a #1 best-seller on Amazon.com.

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