Ever thinking of starting your own blog just for fun or profit?  First question that comes to mind is: Free Hosted or Self-Hosted?

Free Hosted Blog

Free blog comes freely, you can sign up in just a 5 minutes from: Blogger, TypePad and Wordpress.  There are more of all these free blogs around but these 3 are more prominent. With blogger.com you can simply sign up within 5 minutes, and viola your blog is up and running. You can also create as many blogs under one account. However the cons is - the biggest drawback about using free sites is that they are limited to what you can change on a blog.  A good example would be you want to add custom HTML code to you blog, you will have to upgrade and transfer all of your content later. Also, the most cumbersome problem is you will not have your own URL!

Self-Hosted Blog

you will need to buy a domain name (RM100) and a web hosting package that probably cost you about RM299/year, setup a blogging software, and take care of the details yourself (or contact PooiLing for help!) it may requires a little bit of effort to setup the blog, however, from the minute you host your own blog you will have total control and freedom of your site.  You can change absolutely everything on your blog from blog theme, to header and add HTML code wherever you want and make the blog of your dream.  You can also add custom pages, really you become a webmaster. from my experience, i highly recommend you to have a self-hosted blog because you can always make changes to your themes easily and you will not have any sort of restrictions. You can even build in a forum if you site is a place where people would gather and share ideas. As i mentioned before, it’s a total freedom for you! So, start today to create a blog and have your site up and running by the end of the day!  And, looking at the image below, you can have absolutely 100 to 1000 domain names to choose from for your own self-hosted blog!

own domain name

Free Hosted vs Self-Hosted?

The choice, of course, is up to you and you should get the blog setup that best meets your needs. If you only plan on sharing the blog with friends & family, then a free hosted blog plan is sufficient.

However, if you need a good solution for business that wanted an inexpensive hosting solution - WORDPRESS is the answer for you, easy to use and provides such flexibility while take care of  most complicated code by widget.  And, if you have plans on starting a blog that will be highly traffkeced and will make money, i strongly recommend purchasing your own domain name and self hosted. With just RM299, save yourself a lot headachees down the road!

PooiLing.com provides wordpress blog site setup with minimum fee with the best quality!

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The basis of the book was about his affiliate marketing career and the tips & tricks he learns along the way.  The book was under 100 pages long and full of spelling mistakes.

The reason why I’m telling you this so you know anyone with half a brain could do what he did.

He only advertise the e-book with $250 US dollars, however, he manages to use other main method to promote his e-book, there are:
1) Joint venturing
2) Ezine advertising

Heres the reveal of the secrets of effective advertising without big cost:

There are tons of people are running ezines or we normally call it online newsletter in the internet world.
My problem was I have a good product, but I didn’t have a list of potential customers to send my offer to, so i offered ezine owner in my target maket that they will receive 50% of all the sales they refer to me. however, this sounds like a normal deal over the internet marketing world, so I’ve done a little bit further to sweeten the deal.

Besides the 50% profit, I also promise that I would pay them half of the ad cost (what it would normally cost someone to advertise in their newsletter), if they read the book, and recommend it to their potential customer lists.

Here I would like to explain the difference of an ad and a recommendation. If you get someone with credibility to promote your product, you will see the profits soar.

I had this happening every week and 1 weekend, a very big marketer promoted my book to his list, and just that weekend, i had $4000 in sales. just over 3 days, i had over $4000 in my credit card processor.

you can easily follow the same steps:
1) create a hot product
2) write a sales letter
3) setup your credit card processor
4) find joint venture partners

Of course stay tune with my blog, I will explain all this concept in details too!

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Somehow the business sense just exists genetically in all of our blood.  My whole family is really into business,
My father is a business man himself working on metal trading (but never earn money :S).  My sister is a beautician who owns her own salon, and my brothers owns a car repair shop

Business blood just run in my family as you can clearly see!
However, for me - a master degree holder to run my own business.. it’s a little bit hard for me.  Reason being, everytime I think of a business it will be involving at least 100k of capital with no guarantee of return.

Hence, when i was first introduced to the Internet Business, that’s it! I know that’s the way to go for me!
Being an IT graduate cum internet freak, surfing..err i mean Internet surfing is really my pass time hobby.
I have tons of friends to communicate online everyday and of course I do online relationship too!

Internet just means the world to me!
Therefore I decided to start an internet business though I’m new to internet marketing, but i’m definitely no stranger for internet business.

My first internet business started when I graduated from my degree in a world financial crisis year - 1998.
I setup a web design company with a portal www.easi.com.my.  The company lasts me for a good 3 years, before my ex-boss found out and forced me to cancel it. And, on and off I’m getting freelance for web based application ranging from web portal, MLM (multi-level marketing) applications to web design and web hosting.

And in 2006, I decided to start www.prettydeal.com to sell authentic designer bags with discount and pass the savings to my fellow customers. All in all, I have about 11 years of internet business experience, why do i choose internet business?

Why do I choose Internet Business?
for 3 benefits:
1) It doesn’t require whole tons of money to be your own boss. Unlike the brick & mortal buisness which needs thousand of dollars as capital.

2) According to statistics, around 2 millions of people are shopping for products, goods, and gifts off the Internet every single day.  In fact please don’t get shock when I tell you that billions of dollars are spending everyday off the Internet. It’s just a HUGE market that you can tab into from the comfort of your home!

3) Have you read the book of “rich dad poor dad”? The rich dad said passive income is the way to go.  Selling info products such as e-book is an excellent source of passive income.  You just need to setup a website (can be done in 1 day), and you are all set!  A website that can gain you money $$$ while you are eating, sleeping or even travelling!  All you need is just a website, an email address and get online about 1 hour a day to check how much commission you’ve earned.

3 significant benefits to own an internet business!
isn’t it amazing? isn’t it cool? isn’t it something you are looking for? This e-book will guide you profitable business ideas with a small budget as low as $50.  This ebook also will show you step by step how to come up with your own brilliant business ideas in no time, and start earning big bucks.

I’ve been doing internet business for the past 10 years,
some have not been great but some are really big money makers
the only important thing is you don’t have to spend a ton of money to setup a business in internet.

Because it just doesn’t make sense! When you spend thousand of dollars starting an online business,, you’ve got to wait at least 3 years to make it break even almost all of my internet business only cost me less than $100 bucks, and the most is under $1000.

So I’m very sure at this point, everyone of you would like to know what kind of business ideas i have that cost me barely nothing and end up making millions?

And more importantly, how can you copy my unique workable way to setup your very own internet business it’s nothing really fancy, it’s just 4 simples steps listed in this book will guide you through the end of the tunnnel with bright path with tons of money!

First question is: think of what type of business you want to start?
In the internet world, you can earn money from many aspect,
here are the 4 major ways to make money with Info Products.

#1: build a membership website

membership sites are a popular phenomenon in Internet world, it’s because selling a product to a person will only get 1 business ever, but selling to a member, you can sell to the same person every single month.

membership website is such when you pay a monthly payment to get access to certain information or services
here are the example of membership website:
1) information membership sites - bmyers.com, swepa.com
2) services - getresponse.com, host4profit.com

more information to how to build up a membership site:
1) www.startamembershipsite.com
2) www.paidmembershipsite.com
3) www.bmyers.com

#2: selling an e-book

E-book allows the readers to get hold of urgent & useful information in a matter of minutes makes e-book a big winner over physical products. E-book always have and always be the big seller online no matter what.

Of course coin has 2 sides, the down side of selling ebook are the fact people are either
a) buying them and asking for refunds or
b) illegally giving away and selling the authors work without their consent

Despite the downsides, it’s still a worthy move to sell you own e-book.  Because the upsides outweight greatly. to start, it cost absolutely nothing to create an e-book. All you need is to think of a topic that you likes, do some research and make the research into a book.

for more info on creating an e-book, here are a few good resources:
www.premiumeproducts.com/main.htm

#3 become an affiliate

You can virtually sell anything online due to affiliate program. If you would like to learn how to setup your own affiliate business, then you really need the following guides - www.clickbank.com

#4 start an online e-book store

an online e-book store is actually a website that sells e-book,
you can start an online e-book store via 3 diffferent ways:
a) write you very own e-book and sell them in your online book store, since you will create your own products, this will be a long time to setup

b) buy resell rights from other author
this is a faster way than creating your own products, because you can buy ready made product, rename and rebrand and you are all set!

c) simply link and promote other author’s e-book on your website. Basically become an affiliate of your friend’s stuff by having affiliate link son your website

what’s more for you?
d) buy resell rights and sell e-book on ebay, you can open your own online store that sells physical products, you can open an adult membership site.  The truth is there are millions and millions of way to make money on the internet just choose the right one for you and start making big bucks!!

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1) product or service
2) lead generation
3) conversion
4) administration
5) education

Step 1: Product or Service
You must have some sort of product or service online that a fair amount of people would be interested in to make any money.

You can start thinking from the view of your hobby. You might have a hobby you would like to make money from like polishing brass, making jewelry, designer handbags. However those probably have a very big market online to sell too. This is one of the example - www.prettydeal.com

This product could even be an affiliate program you are promoting, like this = www.premiumeproducts.com/main.htm

In my consulting work, I always get to meet and listen to people talking about their business ideas and huge webite idea that’s going to take thousands of dollards to make it happen. Not to mention a lot of time, they dun even have a real clear plan on how they are going to make any money beceause they dunt knoww hat they are selling.

Some of the profitable sites on the Internet are those with 1 single page of writing, exactly like the page selling Autoresponder Unlimited.

Step 2: Lead Generation
Contact prospects and customers anytime you want without spending a fortune in the process is one of the great things about marketing on the Internet.

Once you have those leads, you can contact them again and againf or practaically nothing. it doesnt even need to take up your own time, you can use autoresponders to do the work for you.

The first thing to collect is an email list full of people who aare dying to know about your product or service is like having money in the bank.

Step 3: Conversion
This is one of those things you tweak along the way. If your website or emails are only converting at 1% then that’s ok, it’s something you can improve on.

For instance, if you get 100 customers to your website, and you have 1% conversion rate, you will only make 1 sale. If you have a converstion rate of 2% you double the amount of sales you get and the amount of money you make without having to get any more traffic or even spending any more money.

Basically, try and get the most out of what you have. it really is the simple things that count and if you do them right, everything else falls into place.

Step 4: Administration
Administration is something i struggled with. People fail to realize that an internet business is just alike any otehr busienss and needs to be run the same way.

There is book work, emails, finances, expenses, you name it! while this might be mundane, it needs to be done. if you don’t want to do it, hire someone to do it for you.

Step 5: Education
Education never stops. Even now, I still spend thousands every year on books, tapes, seminars, workshop. you need to be able to keep up with what is going on in your industry, in the internet world. just like a doctor has to read medical journals, you need to keep up to date with the latest marketing techniques and news that will affect you in some way.

No one knows all there is to know about running a bsuienss online, that’s why testing and tracking are so important. as much as reading is important, just doing something will make all the difference to your business.

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• 11 years of experience in Information Technology, ranging from programmer, web designer, user interface programmer, usability analyst, internet marketer, human factors engineer
• Tremendous experience in Internet world from website design, portal development, shopping cart development, Blog theme development, Prestashop theme development, shopping cart development, web-based application, desktop application
• Fluent in .Net development (C++, C#, ASP.Net) with Microsoft platform
• Work in multinational company with lots of experience working with counterparts from USA, UK, Israel, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Japan, etc.
• Worked in Intel to develop complicated factory automation applications, mission critical and mission important projects with flawless programs. Anything goes wrong would cost company to lost millions of dollars in just 1 hour
• As usability lead in no 1 computer maker for imaging and small devices businesses. Taking care of ease-of-use of everything from hardware, software, firmware to documentations developments.
• Pioneer in computer user interface and usability related development work, establish usability guidelines for factory automation web application
• You can get to know me more at  www.pooiling.com/about

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PooiLing is proud to announce, finally, after 1 month of hardwork of programming, setting up payment processor, preparing e-book, and strategize direction - PooiLing.com is born today!!

I have alot of friends, who are working hard for other people, who are working in MNC (multi-national company), who are looking for low capital business idea - been chasing me and urging me to share my Internet Business ideas. That’s the main objective i setup this blog = PooiLing.com, to share all of my ideas, product ideas, business ideas, and most of all the Internet Business - which you can use minimal capital, but earn the maximum income even when you are sleeping!

So, cheng cheng, welcome again to PooiLing.com

and of coz, do check back often for all the valuable tips & tricks for working on successful Internet Business model and you can also start to work on your own!

welcome also everybody to download the FREE e-book on side bar!

enjoy and i wish you best of luck in learning and setting up your Internet Business !

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