Michelle Khang

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.

Yesterday afternoon while the kids were as usual running around the house and screaming, suddenly Ethan yelled out for me saying “mummy, come see the white fish die already…” I thought he was joking… but decided to go down to investigate.

We’ve had this little pond going since Dec 31st, 2007. Me and dh were busy hammering the wood together on the eve of new year while people were out celebrating and popping champagne! We bought 5 small carps for the pond and one bandaraya (cleaner fish). Initially for the first 6 months we used to feed them all the time and paid quite a lot of attention to this carp family we had living with us but lately we’ve been busy with other things so we have not been “visiting” them as often as previously.

To my horror, this is what I saw when I got to the scene of the ‘crime’.

This white carp seems to have been stoned to death, I think it was poking it’s head around looking for food when it accidentally got stuck below a stone (too small to call it a rock..). But it is still pretty strange that it did not manage to wiggle it’s way out of there.

So I stood there a bit shocked for a while thinking poor fish…and then I counted the fish and OMG…there were only 4 inclusive of the white stoned one! Where the heck did another fish go? It seems that we may have lost a fish sometime in the last 2 months without knowing it. So from 5 fish we are now down to 3!

Even fish need attention.

For those of you who know anything about feng shui, this would not be a good situation to be in (not that I believe in feng shui lol). I was relating this incident over yahoo chat this morning and my friend quickly told me to go out and buy a few more fish to replace the AWOL fish and the stoned fish…

It is still a mystery … the AWOL fish. Do you have any conspiracy theories about what may have occured?

I asked my maid if she fried one of them…???!!!!

I just logged in to my business email and found an interesting email from the guy who sent me 3 pounds twice. Here is what it said;

“I’m betting that having select and although I have not yet committed to working with you I am amazed at the results I like mucho.queria hecerte two questions: how long you’ve been with the selections of the horses? how long you have to continue with this project? can subscribe in the future? consegido how many points you since you started? greetings”

Below this message there was this written.

espanol >> ingles

Traducir

I mostly understand what he said but the translation seriously sucks… and some words weren’t even translated…LOL.

Now I am going to be sneaky and write a reply in spanish! HAHAHA….

Here is the English version.

“Dear Ivan,

Thanks for your email.

The free selection service will run until the middle of october as I will be launching STP Club in early Oct. Once STP club is launched only members will have access to all selections that I pick (back and lay). I have been picking selections for 1 year now but have only been using this particular method since 2 months ago and so far this is the best results that I’ve had.

I too have a question for you. Are you betting with level stakes or are you using progressive betting to win back your losses?

Best regards, 

Michelle “

This is how Babel translated it…

” Estimado Ivan,

Gracias por su email. El servicio libre de la selección funcionará hasta el centro de octubre pues lanzaré al club de STP oct. a principios de. Una vez que lanzan al club de STP solamente los miembros tendrán acceso a todas las selecciones que escoja (trasero y endecha). He sido selecciones de la cosecha por 1 año ahora pero he estado utilizando solamente este método particular desde hace 2 meses y éste es hasta ahora los mejores resultados que I’ VE tenía. Tengo también una pregunta para usted. ¿Usted está apostando con las estacas llanas o es usted apuesta progresiva que usa para ganar detrás sus pérdidas?

Recuerdos, Micaela”

I love the doing business online!!! This is so much fun isn’t it? I really hope that Babel knows it’s espanol :p

Anyone here mind telling me if this is even vaguely correct?

Most people who know me think that I am skinny and for a good reason too. For most of the last 12 months I’ve weight 45-46kg which is not the ideal weight for a 162cm girl.

So I made several attempts to gain weight over the last year and have had some success recently as I now weigh 49kgs. I recently stepped onto the weighing scale to see how I was progressing and was pretty delighted to see the needle almost reaching 50 but then I’ve also noticed that my contours (you’ll see my illustrations below) have changed too. Much to my dismay, the extra 3kgs (mostly from chocolates and carbonated drinks) has now been distributed lumped on my abdominal area.

Of course it doesn’t help that I am a mother of 2 and all the skin is so stretched there around the tummy, so any extra fat tend to have meets at my stomach area (where there used to be a six pack)!  This has spurred me to take action by cycling on the cycling machine at least twice a week for 20 mins a session while watching Ellen Degeneres… (only done 3 sessions so far)

Suddenly today, it dawned on me that I should be doing sit ups NOT cycling!!! Dumbass… So just now before my shower I huffed and puffed to 50 sit ups.

While in the shower later, this is what I saw. Please note that this is a P18 image, to be seen under parental guidance only.

First let me apologize because I am really bad with graphics and can’t draw to save my life! But they will give you a good idea of what I am talking about.

Please stand up now, take off your clothes and look down. (make sure you are at home ok!) Oh, by the way…this is for women not men. Hmmnn…maybe if they are seriously over weight too, then they would also have the black lines!

If what you see when looking down looks very similar to the picture above, then it is highly recommended that you immediately do 50 sit ups. Do 50 sit ups a day for 30 days and I think you’ll end up looking like the picture below. (I am not sure of outcome yet because it is only day 1 for me today).

After a painful 1500 sit ups, this is what you should see when you take off your clothes and look down again.

Please note that you SHOULD NOT look down in the shower from Day 1 till Day 30 , during the entire length of this regime. This will ensure that you will be pleasently suprised on Day 30!

Quickly then…take off your clothes and look…  And tell me what you see!

If your stomach looks anything like the first picture above, then you really need to get yourself some Turbulance Training because it really works. I am so impressed with the numerous testimonials with before and after pictures, simply amazing!

It is now 3.11am and about an hour since I got up to pee… As usual I stopped by my computer to check on something and noticed a notification that some kind soul had sent me his second donation in the last 30 days. After checking on a few things I promptly returned to bed and tried to go back to sleep… and tried….and tried… but it seems like my brain just won’t shut off again as it began to wander and plan for the coming week. So here I am sitting here in front of the laptop at 3.15am writing this post about what I am thinking. I thought that if I were to write it down at least I will remember most of it in the morning! I am sure that I am going to regret this by 2pm after lunch tommorow because I’ll be dozing off just as I’ll need to begin work…

I was thinking of a couple of things … in no particular order…

• That I still have not found a talking Ernie or Cookie Monster for Aaron as I was planning to suprise him with a talking Sesame Street (almost typed sesame seed!) character for his second birthday coming up in less than 2 weeks.
• I was also thinking of where we would dine on my birthday, I’ve been compiling a list of places in my mind over the last week. The options are Italianies, Teluk Gong Seafood (in Sunway), Alegro or Rakuzen. I’ve narrowed it down to either Alegro or Rakuzen but it seems like we’ll probably end up in Alegro since I love Italian food so much. Give me a nice Spaghetti Bolognaise and you’ll make my day!! I’ve been crazy in love with Spaghetti Bolognaise ever since I had my first one over 13 years ago in SeaCafe by Lake Lucerne in a small town called Weggis, Switzerland.
• I was also thinking that the guy is pretty nice to have sent me another 3 quid since he had just sent me 3 quid less than a month ago… if only all my ‘customers’ were like him, I’d be laughing all the way to … Paypal right now!
• A friend who works at Sunway Lagoon has invited us to Sunway Lagoon this weekend, so I was thinking that I should get a pack of swimming diapers for Aaron..er..TMI?
• We were in Sunway Pyramid earlier today and I lined up at J. Co for a good 15 mins just to get 1/2 a dozen of donuts and an Ice Lemon Tea. I paid RM20 for it and the donuts were in the box for less than 5 mins… and the darn Ice Lemon Tea is probably the cause of my apparent lack of wanting sleep at the moment!
• Oh yes, I was also thinking of the yummy Bak Kut Teh that we ate for dinner. Yum Yum Yum that’s all I can say.
• I signed up for a Nuffnang account today and wonder when I’ll get my first assignment. By the way Nuffnang is a ad publication network and they provide PPP(payperpost) opportunities, something like Pay Per Post but this one is based in Malaysia.
• I was also reminding myself that I should call a friend of mine to inform her that we will be making a Hari Raya visit to her house next week on day 1 of Raya. Oooh.. just can’t wait to taste the delicious Chicken Rendang with dark soya dish that they make every year.

I’ve just realised that my entire conversation with myself has been about FOOD or related to food. LOL…what else does a person think about at this time of the morning? (3.44am now)

I’ve been reading a lot of other blogs of late and realised that a lot people who blog are so full of themselves (which would technically include me into the equation!) No offence to some of my friends who write lovely blogs – those that I routinely read – BUT some of these blogs that I’ve been reading lately are really really self indulgent. There is usually an About Me page and they go on and on about themselves…

This has brought me to the conclusion that I am going to write a Me, Myself and I post, that will be linked to my very short About Me page that currently looks like it is lacking character!

3.52am and almost 2 hours wide awake…I think it is time to say Good Night !

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!