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Michael Jackson, The King Of Pop Is Gone – You’re Sad And He’s Rich

Dexter Damien Chan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:46:29 +0000

If you are a great fan of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson reading this post – my deepest condolences and sympathies to you. The World has lost a great man, a father, a singer and one of the greatest influence ever and Michael Jacksonwill be deeply missed by all the fans, family and friends.

My Small Tribute To The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson

For a start, I will not be going to do a full page of the lists of achievement that the King of Pop has proudly done for you and for the world. There will soon be many sites that will be poping up to showcase the talents of Michael Jackson.

Sites like All Michael Jackson, MJ Site and from MSN and ETonline are good sites that’s helping you and me to remember Michael Jackson better. For myself, I would like to share a vid (courtesy of YouTube) of Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror and with lyrics.

This song has touched me deeply and after been through with this song, I truly understand the deep meaning behind the lyrics – if there’s going to be better world, you have to look at yourself and make the change on yourself and not onto others.

As the world remorses over the great loss, as an internet marketer, I do have a marketing message to share with you and that is:

While You Are Feeling Sad, You Are Making Him Rich…

Everything About Michael Jackson is Valuable Now

A simple real-life scenario was that early in the morning during a meeting, my Boss received an sms from his sister to update him that the King Of Pop has passed away and my Boss has to search for his MJ Tshirt (which he is no longer wearing it) so that she has a chance to sell it off at eBay. When is she doing it, that I have no idea but…

I did my check over at eBay and was also surprised to find out:

A pair of Domain Names (.com & .net) bearing Beloved Michael Jackson that will cost you $10,000 (wow!)
Michael Jackson Auto Guitar PSA/DNA Real Signed and Legit going for $1,225 and there’s already 30 Bids for it
Very common – Michael Jackson’s Autograph on a 8 X 10 Photograph going for $1,000.01 and there’s already 18 bids for it

How About Amazon.com?

I headed over to Amazon.com and indeed, they have set up a page to showcase all of Michael Jackson’s works. You can check what is being showcased by clicking over to this link >> Amazon.com’s Michael Jackson Page.

Are People Really Looking For Michael Jackson’s Items?

A Dummy Site Offering Sale Of Michael Jackson Memorabilia?

Savezy.com >> List of Michael Jackson’s items but no actual items there… Are we supposed to wait?

A Marketing Tidbit For Your Reference – Make Use Of A Trend

It’s true that a Great Legend has passed on and the idea to make some money out of the Legend seems something unethnical but this is something that every online marketer should take note of – a Trend.

And making an income out of a Trend as it still fulfils a need – you are sad and you miss the person a great deal and wanted something that’s close to that person to give you a lasting memory (something’s that priceless) and even over the long run, what you may own will also increase in greater value (like Elvis’).

Last but no least…

A Few Resources For You To Check Out And Ride The Trend

For general trends check out Google Trends or Twitter Search
For all Tech Stuff check out CruchGear
For all Celebrities check out Oprah, Ellen, ETOnline

Dear Michael Jackson, may you rest in peace! We will miss you always!

A Good Read Over At TrendWatching.com

Review On Ewen Chia’s Book – “How I Made My First Million On The Internet And How You Can Too!”

Dexter Damien Chan — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:39:15 +0000

Congratulations to the Super Affiliate Ewen Chia on releasing his first-ever print book entitled “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” and also getting his book to the Amazon.com Bestsellers List even after a series of servers crash!

Have You Gotten The Book?

If you are going ahead with the book and have yet to order, please do hurry and head over to Ewen Chia’s personal book site and get his “Internet Millionaire System” plus “Internet Business Basics” which is 100% FREE as a bonus for the book – and it’s a $1,894 Value that’s valid till end of March 4.

If you have not gotten his print book yet, or have some doubts about it, I hope to provide you with some of my personal insights whether or not to go ahead.

What is Ewen Chia’s New Book All About?

This book is 380 pages that cover various topics that’s seemed to be a collection and combination of all Ewen Chia’s previous works like Auto Pilot Profits, Super Affiliates and Working From Home and many others. All fully digested into this single book.

The content of this book, though, would be mainly targeting people who are interested to get online and want to try making money through the internet marketing or affiliate marketing channel.

For those who are rather experienced, the content may not be new to you, but it can serve well as a refresher or if you have been lucky with making money, the content of this book can provide you with some basic fundamentals on why things are being done this way and not that way.

And with Ewen Chia’s usual straight-to-the-point teachings, you will be learning or improving on your internet marketing or affiliate marketing adventure like:

The Internet Marketer Mindset – The Mindset that you need to get started
Market Research – Learn what people look and buy online
Market Selection – Go into a market that promise profit potential
Product Selection – How to select your products that will meet market needs and demand
Offer Targeting – How to position your offer correctly and effectively to receive the most clients
Traffic – The most sought after component in internet marketing and how you can present your offer in front of many clients
Lead Generation and Follow-up – How to build up on your mailing list (another sought after component) and how to present your offer to them (most marketers still do not know how to present their offers in follow-up emails)
Backend – How to create additional offers that will help you in your online business in long term profits and growth
Automation – another of Ewen Chia’s personal favorite in his previous work. Learn how to set up, forget (still need to go back once a while) and make your internet business run on its own.
Duplication - Do you know that just by running one business or offering one product will not make you a six-figure income? It’s the series of these businesses running together that will make a difference in your income!

And the above are part of the components of the Internet Marketing System that Ewen Chia has personally created and has been teaching to all his affiliates and students!

So How Do I Find The Content?

In this book and in relations to Ewen Chia’s previous works, the content focuses a lot on the “Where’s”, “How’s”, “Why’s” and the “What’s” required of getting started in Internet Marketing.

For example, on the topic of Preselling, instead of just letting you know what you need to do to improve or do for Preselling, Ewen Chia shares on the:

Why – Most Prospects do not make a purchase when they first visit the site and dislike being “sold” in obvious ways. Therefore they would prefer being educated and being informed. You would need Preselling (= Following Up) to keep your offer in front of the prospects and to earn their trusts.
How – In order to perfect the Preselling skills, you would need to know how to build a landing page, collect email addresses and to send follow-up materials.
Where – Where to get the necessary software like autoresponder? You can get the software that Ewen Chia recommends
What – What is needed and to be included in your landing page and in your follow-up materials so that it will be effective! Ewen Chia shares!

Another part of the content worth mentioning would be the Checklist for the various topics.

Planted in the whole book are various checklists that’s worth taken note of. For example in the area of designing effectiveness for my squeeze page, I need to take note of:

Is my headline compelling enough?
Do I have a time-sensitive offer?
Do I have a clear offer and Call To Action?
Can I or Do I have Bonuses to offer?
Am I building Trust with a privacy policy?

In Conclusion

If you are looking for a good read after a long day of work or during your travelling (to and back from work) and would at times like some sudden “Eureka!” ideas for your internet marketing efforts – this book can provide that!

If you are really interested in getting online to try making some money, this book will serve you to provide you with the fundamentals needed to get started.

Too many internet marketing products out there already and do not know if you should go ahead? This book will serve you with the fundamental understandings on why things are being done this way. The rest of the marketing products will help you to enhance that understanding.

Get Reading Today!

Get Ewen Chia’s “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” from:

Amazon.com
Barnes and Noble (you’ll be entitled to the bonuses over at this site)
If you are in Singapore, try on Opentrolley or Berkshire.sg

For Ewen Chia’s Range Of Works:

Make Money Online With Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com)

Dexter Damien Chan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:23 +0000

Newbie and Experienced Marketers… Please Pay Attention To Amazon Mechanical Turk!

Amazon.com has released a service whereby Newbie Marketers can start making small money completing tasks at the comfort of their home and Experienced Marketers can start driving traffic and actions to your sites, affiliate products or internet marketing services.

This service, which you can join at no-cost (you can get started easily if you have an affiliate account to promote Amazon.com), is known as Amazon Mechanical Turk or mturk.com.

What Is Amazon Mechanical Turk All About?

In a marketing sense, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a market place where Advertisers (known as Requester, in Amazon.com’s term) will list out a series of actions that’s needed to be completed by the Workers, like:

A Number of HITS Waiting For You To Make Money From...

Doing a review on a iPhone Application (must have iphone though) or
Write a 400-550 word article on a Self-Catering Holiday or (please see image below)

In exchange for this completion, the Workers can expect to earn like $4 for an article or $0.01 for a quick recipe review. These earned funds can then be transferred (anytime) to your U.S based Bank Account or to Amazon.com Gift Certificate Balance.

How Do I Complete A Task And Make Money As A Worker?

Once you are in your account, you will see a Header Navigation with “Your Account”, “HITS” and “Qualifications” so for a start, simply click on the HITS to see all the available tasks.

As you can see from the image above, this is what you’ll be looking at. A quick run through of what each Headers mean to you:

E.g. Quick Recipe Review and Choose The Best Category For This Product are tasks that you can start doing. Those in shades of blue are available to you whereas in Brown shades will require you to request the Requester to approve you.
Requesters are simply people who need Workers to complete their tasks.
HIT Expiration Date is the date that this task will expire.
Time Allotted is the time given to you to complete the task, and do note that if you failed to complete the task in time, it’ll automatically be set as you have given up the task and will be reflected in your Account Status (like a negative rep).
Reward is the amount of money you’ll be getting. Do note that the reward is not instantly credited and will require the Requester to review and approve.
HITS available is the number of Workers that the Requester needs to complete the task.

Once you are ready, just simply click on the View A HIT In This Group to understand what is required of you and to get started.

You can either do a read through or click on the link(s) provided to see if you are up to the job. If you are ready, simply click on the Accept Hit and complete the task before the expiration time. Once you are done, either head on to the next task or rest for the day and wait for the money to be credited in a day or so.

To see how much you have earned, just click on the Your Account at the top navigation bar and you’ll see all the stats there.

How Do I Create A HITS As A Requester?

At this time Mechanical Turk does not support Requesters from countries outside the United States (I’m from Singapore…), therefore I am unable to show you how to do so… If you are interested to use this service, please click on this link to get the FAQs >> https://requester.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=requester

Amazon Mechanical Turk A Run For Money For Google Adwords

After going through the tasks for the last few days, there’s a huge potential for this Amazon.com’s new service to run for money against Google Adwords. If you are using Google Adwords today, are you seeing results (people buying and trying out your services?) with all the money you have spent on your Pay-Per-Click Campaigns till date!

With Amazon Mechanical Turk, this is a totally good deal for Experienced Marketers!

Why Is That So?

Simply looking at the tasks, you are basically looking at:

Targeted traffic to your niche site (for as low as $0.01 per new vistor), I don’t think you are able to get such a low rate for your Pay-Per-Click Campaigns
Pay-Per-Action is lower than those CPA networks. As an Experienced Marketer, like yourself, you need only to pay a small fee to have people trying out and reviewing your internet marketing services, posting articles and forum posts for you.
Cheapest Outsourcing for your online business. You do not need to find high and low to outsource your online activities. With Amazon Mechanical Turk, you are looking at worldwide and at 24/7.
Total control over what you want, what you need to help you in your online business!

If you are ready to take your online business to a higher stage, try on Amazon Mechanical Turk today (currently only for U.S based Requesters) by clicking on this link >> http://www.mturk.com

If you are also ready to take on a dual role and make some small money in your free time, complete some HITS today! All at this link >> http://www.mturk.com

Case Study: Zoomii and Amazon Web Services

Dexter Damien Chan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:44:02 +0000

I was reading my online newspaper site a few days ago and I came across one corner article sharing the “Website Of The Day” and that article was featuring Zoomii.com – an online bookstore featuring all the books (almost) on Amazon.com.

Also I shared with you back then my posting on “Are You Using Amazon Web Services Technology?” So happen, this site is related to what I have posted.

And for you, this is another real case study that you as an affiliate marketers or budding entrepreneurs can use as an effective business blueprint.

So let’s take a good look into this “lucrative” business model:

The creator of the site has a passion for books and goes to a bookstore often. This is a niche market for him. What passion do you have that can be translated to a business?
This is not a new online bookstore that’s trying to compete with Amazon.com. Rather this is a collaboration and a win/win situation for both. The creator of the site is an affiliate of Amazon Associates Program. Any sales of the books will give him a commission and a good sales relationship with Amazon.com. Ideal Affiliate Marketing!
Gone are the days of deep programming… Why so? This site is hosted on Amazon Web Services – the EC2 and S3 services. If you are interested in using some of the products and services that Amazon.com is offering and will like to save time on creating a storefront (not the same as Zoomii.com). Check out this link: http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1260
With revolutionizing technologies like FireFox 3 (loading speed) and the iPhone (the site has a few similar interface) – you do not have to worry about issues like the “site is lagging and taking donkey years to load”. What does this mean to you – you are not alone online. Whatever plans you may have for your “next big thing”, there are ready technologies that you can tap into.
Making Better Money Online is faster than before. This site is just more than a month old and many are already picking up the existence of such a site. What this will mean is that if you have a feasible idea or a good affiliate product to promote – work on it, as soon as possible, and let the internet and the media pick them up for you!

There you go! So for all the affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs out there… work on your products and marketing today and make better money! And for all book-lovers out there, you have another bookstore to go to today, not the physical one but the online Zoomii.com.