Michelle Khang Dot Com

A few nights ago we hosted dinner in our house for Chris’ family and after dinner we were about to play a game of UNO when I noticed that Chris’ 10 Year old niece was more interested in watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua, so I asked… “are you gonna play UNO or watch the movie” Emma retorted.. “haven’t you heard of Multitasking?” I shut up and dealt the cards! I wonder what they teach 10 year olds in school nowadays??

Over the last 2 months, I’ve been Working hard to relaunch one of my subscription websites so finally last month I sent out an email promotion about the new launch and had a 5.25% conversion rate. I was very pleased as it is above the market average of 2-3%.  Together with my graphics designer we have improved the look of the website, so it now looks a little more professional, or at least we think it does! lol…

I was approached by someone to do a JV to launch another subscription website targeting UK users late last year, so this partnership finally materialised this year so I now run a another member’s only website with approximately 500+ subscribers. It remains to  be seen how well this website will work out in the future as subscribers only stay on and become full paying members if they are happy with the services provided. So we may end up with only 300-400 paying subscribers….I am happy even if it is only 100!

At the start of this year I had decided that I was not going to sit on my butt and wait for things to happen, so I sought out a JV with another guy who owns this massive mailing list and created yet another membership site to market to this huge list. His list is so huge, you won’t believe me if I said it… 165,000 people subscribed to it!! So I’ve been keeping myself very busy working on this. Our initial marketing plan did not work well, so I had to go back to the drawing board and take the website to a whole new direction.

I am sitting here… doing quite a few things right now…

- I am deleting 1000 spam comments from one of my blogs..

- am chatting with my friend about our kids

- am helping Ethan with his homework

- am listening to Anoop…

- am selecting a blog theme for my new JV

with 100 thoughts running though my mind as I am writing this!

I’ve been sitting by and watching the ratings for this website slip over the past few months. It seems that ever since I’ve stopped updating my online earnings my readers are just not too interested with the rest of what I have to say…lol

I also need to admit that I am a lazy ass for not updating my blog often enough to keep an audience satisfied, so here is my 2009 Resolution - I will try to update my blog weekly from now on!

Here is what I made since my last earnings update for the months of Aug, Sept 2008. Further earnings updates will follow.

August 2008

USD -  $227.65

GBP -  £451.00

September 2008

USD -  $232.82

GBP -  £821.00

The earnings for Aug - Sept 2008 were STILL relatively good compared to the last quarter of 2008 as I had begun to spend a lot of time focusing on Ethan’s school work. You’ll see a significant drop in my online earnings from October onwards.

I’ve been using this method of getting targeted traffic from You Tube very effectively for the last whole year. Infact you can say that part of my online success it due to the traffic that I got from YouTube in the early days. Had it not been for the free traffic flow, my first website would have been a complete flop as it did not have any other source of traffic except YouTube. I have sold over 200 copies of my first digital product as a direct result of the traffic from YouTube.

All you need to do is shoot a video in your relevant topic, edit it using Microsoft Movie Maker (this is provided free with your Microsoft Package when you purchased the computer) and then upload it to YouTube. Even a simple video like my son’s sports day can drive some traffic to this blog. Here is his 2nd Sports Day video taken in April 2008.

You’ll notice that I have added my website URL to the entire video so many people who are curious will likely click through to view my website. My website address is also posted as the first line in the video description that I posted in YouTube so that people can easily click on the link next to the video after watching the it.

I’ve used videos to promote many products with great success, you can also create videos about any topic and generate enough traffic to a website to either increase your blog readership or make a profit.

You’d be surprised at what people like to watch, because even really strange videos that you would not spare a minute for have many views and do remember that not only is this traffic source free it is also a one time set up project that will continue to work for as long as YouTube exists or until you remove the video.

Since Microsoft Movie Maker is free to use and also easy to use, you can create many videos to suit your targeted audience. Give it a try and you’ll be very pleased with the results.

The internet is such an amazing invention as it gives anyone regardless of race/religion or nationality the ability to start an online business with literally no money down.

When I started out one year ago, little did I expect to be earning this much a year later. Although I am not making megabucks only small bucks, I have hope that one day I will hit the ultimate dream of making a 5 figure pay cheque.

On this special day as I turn one year older, I’ve received some surprises from Google and Clickbank.

Starting last year around this time, I began experimenting with Google Adsense in hopes of making some…I figured that even if it took me a whole year to reach my first payout it would be worth it. And I have just made it to payout (minimum $100) BUT you should note that it was so blardy difficult to even make $20 let alone $100.

After several months my Adsense balance was going no where and hovering around a few bucks..I really gave up then and forgot about Google Adsense for a long time till very recently. I am sure most of you remember my Google Adsense Experiment which started on the 14th of August which is exactly 43 days ago.

Before the whole experiment began I had roughly 20 bucks in my adsense account. I managed to qualify for my very first payout yesterday when my account surpassed $100, in the past 43 days since I began my adsense experiment I’ve made $63.68 from the very same free info webpage.

My account balance stands at $102.45 as of this morning, this means that Google is paying for dinner tonight at Michelangelo’s Kitchen.

Here is a screenshot of my adsense account.

To make my birthday even sweeter I received my second cheque from Clickbank just 2 days ago for only $146.12, it’s not a lot but enough to pay for a nice birthday present for Aaron who turns 2 a week from now and pay for his birthday party too.

Here is the screenshot of the cheque, (I forgot to take a picture of the first cheque a month ago before I banked it in)

Thank you to whoever invented the internet,

Thank you Google for the best CPC ad service in the world.

Thank you Clickbank for allowing me to sell other people’s digital stuff to earn huge commissions.

Thank God for another wonderful year, a wonderful family and good health to enjoy more wonderful years to come.

When I first read about this cool tool, I tested it out on all the blogs that I am familiar with. It’s quite fun to see how much other blogs are worth compared to your own. This blog is only worth $1693.62 as I really have not done any ‘marketing’ work on it.

My blog is worth $1,693.62.
How much is your blog worth?

My other blog, Systems That Profit is worth $2258 which is a bit more than this blog. I don’t market that blog too but it receives a lot of free search engine traffic.

The price calculation is made by counting the number of links that you have pointing to your blog and mutiplying it with the same dollar ratio that sealed the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal. Now you realise how important link building is, one way links are viewed as way more ‘worthy’ than 2 way links… incase you are going to go on a link exchange rampage!!

Enjoy!

Yes I know a lot of you just want a simple straight forward blogging profit strategy to deploy. These days there is just way too much information out there causing most of you to suffer from information overload.

Well, pay no attention to all that noise out there and just do this! Read this post carefully and follow the recommendations to start making money soon.

Pick a topic

We all need to blog around a topic or about a topic, it’s no darn good to have a blog about everything or nothing in particular. Here’s why.

When you have a blog about a particular hobby or interest, most of your posts are related to the same subject so all your posts will be search engine friendly because you naturally keep mentioning your keywords. This will help you rank higher for your keywords and when people search for that keyword your blog will show up on the search results, thus brining you free traffic. Before you can make any money from blogging you need to have a blog with interesting posts about a particular topic that will keep your reader interested. A blog with no readers will not make you any money.

I have 2 blogs, one is a gambling themed blog that focuses solely on gambling product reviews and then I have this blog about.. how I make money online. I have only monetized my gambling blog and have not implemented this strategy on this blog yet.

Since my gambling blog at http://systemsthatprofit.com  is strictly about gambling related products, my blog shows up on search results for horse racing, football and other gambling related topics. This is why you’ll notice that I get a lot of free traffic from search engines. You can see this by going to my blog, on the right panel you’ll see my Neo Counter.

I’ve had 6279 unique visitors in the last 1 year since I started this blog, half of them were from United Kingdom which is pretty much my main target market. 95% of the traffic that this blog receives it from search engines and the other 5% is from my past customers.

All the traffic that I get are people who are interested in gambling. So since my blog is only about gambling, they tend to stay on and read a few posts at least. A lot of them end up making me some money one way or another. (more about this later)

Once you get your blog focused on a certain topic, you’ll now need to get their details (name and email address). This is key to making long term profits. This may seems a bit difficult at first but once you implement a simple method, it is automatic after that and will keep collecting names till you stop it.

How To Collect Email Addresses?

Most readers will gladly give you their details in exchange for some quality information. So all you really need is to give them what they want. At my gambling blog I offered something gambling related but since most of you are having a hard time thinking of what to giveaway, let me help you. Here is an example;

I have a friend who loves digital scrapbooking, you can see her lovely edited pictures at her blog http://tsulin.com . She can start a blog about digital scrapbooking and giveaway an ebook entitled “Best Places To Find Digital Scrapbooking Tools” . She can easily compile a list of websites (using affiliate codes) and give this away. Or she can write a short guide “10 tips to using adobe photoshop to make your pictures look better” and you can still add a list of digital scrapbooking websites to the end of the ebook.

Everyone who visits her blog is into Scrapbooking so they’ll be more than happy to get some free help.

So now that you have a product to “bribe” your visitors, you’ll just need the html know how to implement this. All you need is to download and install MaxBlogPress Unblockable Pop Up and best of all it is free. This works with all wordpress blogs and it comes complete with installation instructions.

You can set the frequency for how many times the pop up displays on your blog, so as not to annoy your readers. This tool works very well to get you your visitor’s names and emails to help you build your email list. Getting this right is an essential part of making money from your blog.

The Pop Up will collect names and email address from your visitors and it will automatically send them to an email address or an autoresponder.

Now that you have a blog and an email list, you can start making money.

Recommended Weekly Routine

The best thing about running an online business is the flexibility, you can blog at 2am or 10pm and it really won’t make a difference as long as it gets done. You should blog regularly and write quality posts every so often. As part of your money making effort, you can incorporate product reviews into your blog posts for products that have affiliate programs.

Do try to write at least 2 new posts a week so that your readers become familiar with your routine and can start looking forward to more of your work. Imagine waking up in the morning wondering if there will be a morning paper today? or will the next issue be made next week. People like familiarity, so try your best to have weekly targets.

Whenever you write an above average blog post you can send out an email to your list to inform them that you just wrote this “amazing post about…” Many of your readers probably keep a busy schedule and may not visit your blog as often as you’d like them to.

How Will The Traffic Make You Money?

1. As I mentioned earlier, you need to give away a free ebook/product in return for the details. You can add some important links to several products that you recommend in this ebook. This way if a person were to click on the link in your ebook and ends up purchasing a product from that website you’ll make a referral fee.

2. Google adsense will be part of your blog. You can have a single skyscrapper that is visible on one of the panels on your blog. Most readers will look for something to click on to continue on their journey, so if they find something that is related to what they are looking for they are very likely to click on it and that is when you’ll make money for serving google ads.

Do remember that you will be emailing your list to inform them of a certain post that you have just written, so take the opportunity to make a google box ad present on this particular post so that they have an ‘exit’. However, there is an exception to this rule, if the post is a product review it is best to omit any google ads as you want your readers to be focused on the product review and hopefully follow the link to the recommended product site in order for you to earn referral fees.

3. Once a month you can send your email list an email reviewing a new tool/product that you came accross. You will write the entire review on this email and provide a link direct to the product website. This is a surefire way of making money every month. Please be reminded that you cannot send a product review email to your list everyday as all your subscribers will unsubscribe. You need to keep them happy, so 75% free information and 25% products recomendations is ok.

I’ve just started recomending other people’s products and this is what my Clickbank earning are since I started in mid July. In the last 2 months I’ve made $383.69 just for writing a few reviews.

If implemented correctly, this blogging profits strategy will make you money for years to come. It is a virtual Automated Money Machine.

Please be aware that while it sounds pretty simple to deploy, you will need to be patient and perservere. You won’t see $$$ overnight but there is a good chance that you’ll make at least a few thousand in your first year if you follow my instructions to the letter.

I have managed over $1000 a month on average over the last 1 year that I have been online and no one thought me how to do this. I learnt through lots of research and trial & error.

If you need any help, just ask me. Post a comment here and I’ll get in touch with you.  YES… free help… no strings attached!

I am subscribed to many different newsletters online, some are online marketing newsletters and others are from the gambling scene. So far I’ve found that I have benefited most from 2 newsletters that I do not miss reading, I even check my spam folder occasionally to see if I had missed one of them.

Here is the publication from Yaro Starak a few days ago that I thought was really worth sharing with you.

The tittle is The Secret To Successful Blogging.

Hello Michelle,

I expect you already know about the very famous
movie, The Secret, and the underlying principle it
talks about - The Law of Attraction. If not, go
watch it now - http://www.thesecret.tv/

I’m a fan of The Secret. I’m not necessarily a
pro-active devotee, but over the course of my life
I have implemented law of attraction style
thinking without realizing it. To me this was
another case were someone came up with a fantastic
methodology - a label and system - to encompass
something I was already doing.

Of course we are all manifesting things in our
lives all the time, but there is a difference
between doing this actively vs passively, and The
Secret can help raise your awareness regarding how
you think about your life. It’s empowering to
know you are capable of controlling your outcomes,
to a certain degree.

What I like about the law of attraction is how it
can unify your thoughts with your actions. If you
truly believe that you can manipulate reality
through thought and subsequent action, then you
gain a sense of inevitability about everything you
strive for - it’s simply a matter of time.

Having faith that an outcome is possible given
enough consistent action towards a specific goal,
and actually believing that it will happen, means
that you become completely congruent - your
thoughts and your actions both drive you towards
your goals. This I believe is when the law of
attraction can truly manifest and it’s a powerful
thing when you experience what you are working
towards. It’s a self reinforcing pattern that if
you can sustain, can lead to achieving whatever
you want.

HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO BLOGGING?

A congruent thought process with action and
positive reinforcement from celebrating each
little step forward, are critical for successful
blogging.

As bloggers we all have similar goals and we can
break things down into very specific outcomes. We
may desire a certain amount of RSS readers, or
unique daily visitors, links from other sites,
opt-ins to our email newsletter, exposure on
popular sites, monthly income or any manner of
achievements.

As you study more about blogging you collect a
body of knowledge largely made up of tactics. Some
people teach strategies as well - this is
something I personally like to focus on - but
mostly you are taught techniques, tactics that
should get a certain result.

Techniques are great, they are the foundation of
every successful blog, but unfortunately most
people don’t follow through with enough of them
to realize a result. It’s great to know how to
get something, but if you don’t actually do
enough to earn the reward, then it’s pretty much
useless knowledge - it doesn’t move you closer to
your outcome.

This is why most people, despite reading so many
blogs about blogging and uncovering hundreds of
great techniques, never grow a popular blog. They
lack a strategy and the necessary mindset to carry
through the strategy.

The successful blogging puzzle looks like this -

1. Mindset
2. Vision
3. Strategy
4. Tactics

Your mindset sits at the top as the most crucial
element. You can establish a brilliant vision for
your blog, determine a strategy to realize it,
which contains various techniques, but without a
mindset in place, even the perfect strategy and
copious knowledge of tactics will help you, your
blog will go nowhere.

This is where the law of attraction can help. If
your mindset is lacking then you need to change
your thinking. One of the best ways to reconstruct
how you think is to establish a belief - even a
“faith” based approach - to how you go about
your life.

Faith is a powerful force and it doesn’t have to
apply to just religion. If you believe you will
succeed, if you see the result and can envision
yourself taking the steps day-by-day to get there,
then it’s only a matter manifesting the process
into reality.

If you believe the law of attraction works and you
apply it to how you think and consequently act,
then you will start making what is in your head
happen in the real world. That’s all there is to
it really.

You don’t have to call it the law of attraction
if you don’t want to. In “Think and Grow Rich”
a book by Napoleon Hill, the author reveals
countless stories of how people simply thought
about what they wanted, then ceaselessly worked
towards making their thoughts a reality. This book
was published long before The Secret came along or
anyone wrote about the law of attraction.

Whether you believe there is some mystical force
linking thought with reality doesn’t matter. What
is clear, is that the mind can be your greatest
roadblock or your strongest advantage.

As you no doubt realize, this principle goes way
beyond blogging, but since blogging is a big part
of my life and I expect it’s important to you
too, I tend to devote a lot of time to thinking
about my blog and my Internet business.

Without having a strong belief in my own abilities
and following some simple principles, I wouldn’t
be sitting here writing this on my laptop in the
middle of the day, earning six figures a year from
an Internet business based on blogging.

I hope you come to realize how important your mind
is to your success and take steps to bend your
thoughts towards positive outcomes.

Here’s to your blogging success.

Yaro Starak
Blog Mastermind
http://www.blogmastermind.com

What Yaro says in this email is so true to online profits because this is really what happened to me. Exactly one year ago I dreamt a dream that one day I would make a living online. Then I started to make it happen. We all know that a business cannot be built overnight and planning and strategizing is needed to make it happen. Just like your baby needs to crawl first before he/she can learn to walk, only to realise that the ultimate speed rush is to run.

Likewise, you first need to crawl online too. By crawling I mean you need to take action and make it happen. I started in Sept last year with only one website and my first month online I made a grand total of 7 bucks! I now have a total of more than 10 websites because I use subdomains to make me money as well. Although I cannot boast a 6 figure income, I make 4 figures which is more than enough for me. Many of you reading this will be very happy to make an extra $500 a month but you should stop dreaming now and make it happen.

You may think that Yaro was lucky or that I am lucky but you fail to realise that we decided what we wanted and sought it out. Go to Yaro’s website and subscribe to his newsletter, he will tell you that making money from blogging is not really so much about churning out post after post. It is about providing quality reads/posts and using a simple strategy that I use too.

The way to make money online I have found is quite simple. Give your audience what they are looking for (fullfil a need or desire) then you’ll need to collect their names (opt in to a newsletter). Once you have a list of even 100 people, you just try to keep them happy and continue to build it. Give them more quality information so that people will enjoy your newsletter and recommend you to their friends. Soon you will have 500 people on your list. Then occasionally you can recommend a product that you think will give them value, your subscribers will now trust you because you have been providing them with quality information. Be your subscribers friend and the money will follow.

Would you believe me if I told you that I can make money by just sending out one single email to a small group of people? A few days ago I sent out an email to 14 people, this resulted in affiliate commissions of $22.16. Tell me something, how often would you send out one single email to 14 people if each time you email them you’ll make $22?

I don’t mean to be a pain and keep talking about this TAKE ACTION thing, since most of you love to blog so much and write like 10 posts every month why don’t you blog about a subject that can make you money? If you enjoy digital scrapbooking, create a blog that details your digital scrapbooking techniques. Of course you won’t be collecting money up front for your free posts, but you can offer a newsletter that you will send out whenever you find new techniques or products. Once a month you can email your list to tell them about a useful scrapbooking tool that you came across and earn affiliate commissions from it. It is virtually a way to set up an online ATM, since you are doing all the work already why not make money from it.

Where ever you are at now, whether you are a beginner or you are an expert blogger you need to stop dreaming of the cheque coming to your mailbox and take action. Make it come to your mailbox. I received my first Clickbank pay cheque last month for a total of $237.57. I make money from many places online and it all adds up to my total monthly 4 figures.

As Nike says “JUST DO IT”