Michelle Khang Dot Com

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.

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.

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”

When I started out trying to make an income online slightly over a year back, I used a very powerful tool (YouTube) to suck in traffic to my website and converted some of this traffic into paying customers. Back then I was really lost and just aiming my shots (strategy) blindly so my income grew steadily but rather slowly.

Using YouTube alone to promote my very first product resulted in more than 150 sales and motivated me to work harder but smarter in the online world. I created a gambling themed blog next and after I that released 2 other products and launched 2 subscription websites which has resulted in earnings in excess of $15,000 over the course of a year. I think many people would be happy to earn even an extra $1000. So read on…

All this while until just a month ago I was waiting to sell my products to new customers and had not realised that I owned a very important email list of 500+ past customers. I had read time and again that the money was in the list but had little idea of how to go about milking this list. If you remember a few posts back I told you about Clate Mask and his free report, after reading it I was all geared for action. I thought of how I would try to make money off my current list. This resulted in me launching another subscription website late last month and the free information website that I talked about in my Google Adsense post.

I am going to show you what I did and what I achieved from it – (cause and effect show!)

Since my very last post was about how I used a free info webpage to make some Google Adsense income, I’ll show you the effect of this email series and how much money I have made from it.

As you can see this is a brand new website/sub domain. Since I own 10 different website I can easily create as many sub domains as so that I can track my performance. Also a new domain only cost me $7.15 so I could easily move this to its own domain later if it works.

You can see from here that the sub domain was registered and had some traffic coming in from July followed by a spike in traffic in August. This spike in traffic is nothing more than me sending a few emails out to my email list of 500+ subscribers. Here is date specific view of the traffic that this sub domain received in August.

If you can remember from my last post where I wrote about my adsense income over the last 7 days, you can see from this chart exactly when the first email was sent out. It was 14th August.

I have sent out a total of 5 emails so far, the first email was to inform my list subscribers that I have some free information to share with them that they may find beneficial and the next 4 were just reminders that I had updated the page with new information.

Do remember that this sub domain does not get any new traffic whatsoever as I have not advertised it anywhere or even linked to it from my blog.

Here is what I have made so far from just 5 emails.

These Adsense earnings is the latest update after I wrote the earlier blog post, so I actually made $27.08 instead of the $24.05 that you see there as the 7th days earnings had not been added to the total when I took that screenshot.

Now for a quick look at my Clickbank Account.

Since the 14th of August I’ve made $36 and this is a direct result of the 5 emails that were sent to my mailing list. The $36 is actually just commissions from 2 sales that I referred.

There is one other product that I reviewed on the webpage and this one is pretty interesting.

I had posted an old review of a racing system that I wrote a while back at the bottom of the free info webpage and this resulted in 4 sales of this product providing me with an additional £30 commission per sale. So that is an extra £120 from a 200 word review that I added to the website.

So that would be roughly $240 (betexprofits) + $36 (clickbank) + Google Adsense ($27.08), making a grand total of $303.08 in 7 days without incurring any cost whatsoever.

All I need to do is keep posting new product reviews and provide quality information for my past customers to devour.
Also keep in mind that I have not opened up the website to the general public yet and the current traffic is coming solely from my email list of 500+ subscribers (which is considered tiny compared to other internet marketers who have lists with 10k – 20k subscribers).

At this point I should remind you that I am a complete novice at using email lists to generate income just as I am also an amateur at using google adsense to make extra money but they both look like they will become a permanent part of my online efforts.

So have I convinced you that the money is in the email list?

People use a variety of methods to generate income online and Google Adsense is one very popular method. Although I’ve been reading about how to do it over the last year I have never really bother to try to make much from it… until last week.

Previously I had already been making a little loose change from Google Adsense but I have never looked at it as a potential source of income as I thought that it would be too difficult to generate big enough checks to make it worth my while (time pursuing it).

As I am in the midst of a test and review, I decided to allow mypast customers the opportunity to view what I was doing. I always test all products that I intend to review before I actually write the review, this enables me to give my honest opinion about the product. I test each racing system out either by placing actual bets or just paper trading, sometimes even back testing. To do this, I use the product’s recommended selection method to identify the bets, then either place a small bet or just paper trade.

Since I had been doing this for a while already, I decided to invite all my past 500+ customers to join me in testing. I created a webpage to allow my customers to view the picks so that they could follow the betting if they liked. Since the service was free (for now) I thought of how I could make money from the influx of traffic to this webpage and decided that I could make money using a 2 pronged strategy.

First I would make some money from placing “discreet” google ads in strategic places and the other money making technique would be to promote other people’s products otherwise known as affiliate marketing (which is also relatively new to me).

As it turns out I have made quite a nice amount over the last 7 days. Since this post is about Google Adsense, so it shall not share the spotlight with my affiliate sales. Just Google Adsense alone has made me a grand $24.05, which is pretty good considering that it is sort of like free money or passive income. Since the information was going to be uploaded on this webpage anyway and just by adding a single adsense code I made myself $24.05 richer. On one of the 7 days I made $8, simply amazing. But let me warn you it is not as easy as I make it sound. Just by putting an adsense code isn’t going to make you any money, it is the whole “strategy” or plan that needs to be put in motion that will bring about a good amount of adsense income that can be worthwhile… ie enough to buy something with…not just a few cents..(many people manage to make a few cents..)

First the screenshot, then we’ll talk about the whole Grand Plan.

From this screenshot of my Google Adsense account you can see that I had XX (censored) clicks on my google ads at this website http://horseselections.systemsthatprofit.com/todayslays.html

The beauty about google ads is that they give you the ability to change the colours to match that of your website and this really make a lot of difference with click through rates. Getting XX clicks over a week is no easy feat I tell you.

Now see this screenshot of where the clicks came from and I’ll explain why I put the ads there in the first place.

You need to place your ads in strategic locations so as to help the click through rates. As you can see HLP Daily Lays has XX clicks. (more clicks compared to the rest) This is my main top banner ad for all the pages that are linked to this webpage. Here is a screenshot of the ad.

You can see that ad 1 is placed on top right below some of my own links, the best is to place them as close together as possible. Once people have read what they need to read on this webspage they are very likely to look for something else to proceed to.

Since Google has the technology to place ads that are relevant to your site’s content their is a high likelihood that they will find an ad that interests them. This is why google is the leading ad provider and why some people can make a fortune with Google adsense. All they do is keep churning out websites that provide people with good quality information and place google ads strategically.

My ad 2 is placed right next to the information that they are looking for, just incase they might have scrolled down and ad 1 is  no longer in view. So this is why ad 2 has the second highest click through rate. You can see in the expanded google ads screenshot above, it is Daily Lays Box Ads with XX clicks. (less than for ad 1)

Now for the Grand Plan that would bring people to my website and inadvertently click on my ads…

You see I have a mailing list of over 500 people who are my past customers so I decided to email all of them to tell them about this new product that I would be testing and invited them to test it out alongside with me.

This resulted in 200+ people going to my website (the first day) to check it out and they did exactly as I expected and clicked on some ads. The traffic also resulted in one affiliate sale on the first day (more on affiliate sales in another post).

From this exercise I have added an additional income stream of $24 in 7 days, this is now worth my while… don’t you think?

Well, as the saying goes “free things are the best” and better still if you can monetize free stuff then you have potentially a money making formula that can last a pretty long time.

Wait till you hear about how this website made me $100 pounds from affiliate sales….in a later post!

Since I was so busy last month I never got round to writing this post. June was a very average month but my earnings was boosted by some “new” income generated through the art of affiliate marketing which is pretty much unchartered territory for me until June.

I made an extra 200 pounds through selling other peoples’ products and was absolutely pleased with my achievement so this month I am putting more effort into affiliate marketing.

This is the summary of my earnings for the month of June according to my Paypal statement.

USD 207.31

GBP 668.80

My total income for the month of June was  USD 1517.33 .   AVERAGE… I really need to keep it above 2k…

July is no better I think , the Paypal statement should be out in a day or two.

I’ve also just logged into my Google Adsense account and found that this blog has finally generated almost enough money to pay for its domain renewal next year HAHAHA… MichelleKhang.Com has generated a grand total of $6.42, this domain cost me $7.15 so I think by the end of the year this blog would at least have paid for itself.

I should really start thinking of how I am going to make this “real estate” (this blog) make a little more money. But at the moment all my efforts are concentrated elsewhere.

Just when I thought that it is time to give myself a short break, I suddenly have an excellent idea and can’t wait to get started on this new project.

But before I can go ahead and start planning for this new project, I need to revamp and relaunch a joint venture football service that we’ve been running since Oct last year. It is at http://footballinvestorsclub.com   The system that we use needed a makeover and so does the website. So this is top priority right now.

It seems to me like I have a never ending stream of work to do, because right now I am also thinking of taking on a few more private betting account management clients. I would likely take on another 3-5 more clients and then close the doors for good. This is because it takes quite a bit of time and also attention to monitor 8-10 accounts! I have made them roughly 79% profit in the last 17 betting days since I perfected the system that I now use. So I doubt that I’ll have any difficulties finding another 3 or 5 clients.

Then right after I relaunch the Football Investors Club, I am writing a new ebook with a friend. This time the project is bigger than anything that I have ever done before this. So I am a bit intimidated and also excited at the same time. I’ll be writing about this project here later on, so stay tuned.

That’s all for now, I need to go pick some losing horses for today’s races!!