Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Ok, I'm all ready for the MPS Masterclass tomorrow at Kaplan Financial. I've actually had my PayPal account for a few years, I remembered the first blog I set up was for my hobby club; the Marine Parade Radio Control Modelers Club.
The club is a sub activity group with the Marine Parade Community Club, under the purview of the People's Association (PA). The reason for the blog was because in those days, PA had a 10 page guideline for all websites. I took one look at it and pass it on back to the office and decided not to built a web site. So the blog, as it states at the top is the UNOFFICIAL web site of the club. My first blog post was in 2006 August 10, Wow! never really bother to check, now that I see it, it was indeed quite a while ago. Thereafter, being the Chairman of the club and the only one who would bother, I simply write what I want. I also recorded the various overseas events for which I was invited as the event Referee. The first was to the Asian Championship in Malang Indonesia. Subsequently, in a similar capacity, I attended events at Jakarta, Taichung, Pattaya, Ichirino & most recently Kuala Lumpur. The highest traffic was recorded when I reported on the iFMAR World Championship in Ancol Jakarta. I used various Web 2.0 photo sharing sites to host the photographs I took on my trips and videos were uploaded onto Youtube. I manage to get viewers embeded into the blog for Flickr and Webshots. Youtube is a breeze, they gave the embed codes, I simply modify the sizes to suit my blog template. On hindsight, one thing I would have done, if I were to do the site again, I would first set up a membership list. I would have easily amassed thousands of members by now for this blog on my hobby.
Ok, that would be enough of history. Since January 2008, I've retired from my Chairman post from the club. I decided that it is time to get serious with what I know on the internet and stop monkeying around.
Tomorrow this monkey is going to put everything I know into some real use. I trust that the MPS Masterclass is going to blow me away. ha ha ha ... Ahem ... ok ok, my jokes doesn't get any better, so I'll stop here tonight.
The club is a sub activity group with the Marine Parade Community Club, under the purview of the People's Association (PA). The reason for the blog was because in those days, PA had a 10 page guideline for all websites. I took one look at it and pass it on back to the office and decided not to built a web site. So the blog, as it states at the top is the UNOFFICIAL web site of the club. My first blog post was in 2006 August 10, Wow! never really bother to check, now that I see it, it was indeed quite a while ago. Thereafter, being the Chairman of the club and the only one who would bother, I simply write what I want. I also recorded the various overseas events for which I was invited as the event Referee. The first was to the Asian Championship in Malang Indonesia. Subsequently, in a similar capacity, I attended events at Jakarta, Taichung, Pattaya, Ichirino & most recently Kuala Lumpur. The highest traffic was recorded when I reported on the iFMAR World Championship in Ancol Jakarta. I used various Web 2.0 photo sharing sites to host the photographs I took on my trips and videos were uploaded onto Youtube. I manage to get viewers embeded into the blog for Flickr and Webshots. Youtube is a breeze, they gave the embed codes, I simply modify the sizes to suit my blog template. On hindsight, one thing I would have done, if I were to do the site again, I would first set up a membership list. I would have easily amassed thousands of members by now for this blog on my hobby.
Ok, that would be enough of history. Since January 2008, I've retired from my Chairman post from the club. I decided that it is time to get serious with what I know on the internet and stop monkeying around.
Tomorrow this monkey is going to put everything I know into some real use. I trust that the MPS Masterclass is going to blow me away. ha ha ha ... Ahem ... ok ok, my jokes doesn't get any better, so I'll stop here tonight.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thanks to Andrew Boey's guidance and prompting, I've now got my GoDaddy domain setup done, got my HostGator account working. In preparing for Jo Han's class this weekend; I've managed to re-confirmed my account details in Paypal & ClickBank. And completed my registration at PayDotCom - the site kept upselling during registrations with pretty attractive offers, I called up Jo Han's enquiry number and was told that I don't need any of those upsell items, so I got through the process soon thereafter. Andrew reminded me about Adsense, so I have done that up.
So, I am here to share my experience if you need to chat with someone regarding the following:
GoDaddy
HostGator
PayPal
ClickBank
PayDotCom
Adsense
So, I am here to share my experience if you need to chat with someone regarding the following:
GoDaddy
HostGator
PayPal
ClickBank
PayDotCom
Adsense
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Alright, got my hostgator done. But I'm too tired today to do anything further, so I simply copied my Blogger.com page at http://phlim.blogspot.com and pasted it into the root directory of my hostgator account as index.html. And Viola!, page is up. Okay now I need to sleep, still got a job to do tomorrow.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
It was great to meet up with like minded partners at Funan MacDonalds yesterday morning. Andrew Boey help us set up a plan and gave us some starting tips on what to do first. We registered as a member to his website.
Now I've got my domain name selected and would be setting up a hosting site.
I'll share more once the above two is completed.
I don't think Blogger.com likes me to redirect this blog over to my new site, but I'll see what I can do to put up a link and continue from there.
In the afternoon, I was a volunteer at the South East CDC's MoneyWise program at Simei Community Club. I hosted 2 needy families to a MoneyWise board game. It was rather fun, the two families were very proactive and both feedback that it was a good hour of fun at the game.
At the event I met Ms Belinda Koh and Hoong Yip, I met them previously at the SECDC Office during our MoneyWise training a week ago. Both are from YMCA and Hoong Yip is looking for students who need to projects for their Community Immersion Program while Belinda is from the Childcare & Development Centre; she is looking for teachers and assistants for her Sims Branch in Geylang. I promise to help them pass on the requests to my connections. If you are reading this and can help, let me know.
Now I've got my domain name selected and would be setting up a hosting site.
I'll share more once the above two is completed.
I don't think Blogger.com likes me to redirect this blog over to my new site, but I'll see what I can do to put up a link and continue from there.
In the afternoon, I was a volunteer at the South East CDC's MoneyWise program at Simei Community Club. I hosted 2 needy families to a MoneyWise board game. It was rather fun, the two families were very proactive and both feedback that it was a good hour of fun at the game.
At the event I met Ms Belinda Koh and Hoong Yip, I met them previously at the SECDC Office during our MoneyWise training a week ago. Both are from YMCA and Hoong Yip is looking for students who need to projects for their Community Immersion Program while Belinda is from the Childcare & Development Centre; she is looking for teachers and assistants for her Sims Branch in Geylang. I promise to help them pass on the requests to my connections. If you are reading this and can help, let me know.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Fabian Lim's 5 step Internet Marketing Success Model
By now the 5 steps is no longer considered a secret, if you are a member of Fabian Lim's membership list, he would have already offered it to you for free. So I am not blogging the 5 steps, just some thoughts as I start to internalise what I have learned at the 2008 Asia Internet Congress, starting off with some personal thoughts on the above.
The direct URL to Google's Adwords Keyword tool is fantastic, so even if I am not at my own computer, I don't have to do a search. This direct URL is also very easy to remember..
The live example provided with the keywords 'left handed electric guitars' was very helpful. We can read as much as we want, but a visionary demonstration that we could see right before our eyes is surely worth more than a thousand written words.
Blue Ocean Strategry; this was well said and presented, most times a lot of us, muah included, just follow the crowd and we wonder why are ended up with mediocrity. We don't have to be very big in order to be a big fish in a small pond, but surely we have to be as large as a humpback if we want to be a big fish in the ocean. That's negating the fact that the humpback is a mamal, not a fish.
T. Harv Eker's teaching of TFAR is so very relevant. Our Thoughts leads our Feelings which leads to our Actions which generates the Results. A lot of times I do a lot of thinking (Thoughts) and inevidently without my knowledge it lead to a lot of emotions (Feelings). This is the point where my Mindfrick kicks in at overdrive. And many times I never take the required Actions. Sitting down again and again, wondering why I don't see any Results. Well, ACTIONS speaks louder than words. I am a Warrior, I am willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES ! AHO! AHO! AHO!
By now the 5 steps is no longer considered a secret, if you are a member of Fabian Lim's membership list, he would have already offered it to you for free. So I am not blogging the 5 steps, just some thoughts as I start to internalise what I have learned at the 2008 Asia Internet Congress, starting off with some personal thoughts on the above.
The direct URL to Google's Adwords Keyword tool is fantastic, so even if I am not at my own computer, I don't have to do a search. This direct URL is also very easy to remember..
The live example provided with the keywords 'left handed electric guitars' was very helpful. We can read as much as we want, but a visionary demonstration that we could see right before our eyes is surely worth more than a thousand written words.
Blue Ocean Strategry; this was well said and presented, most times a lot of us, muah included, just follow the crowd and we wonder why are ended up with mediocrity. We don't have to be very big in order to be a big fish in a small pond, but surely we have to be as large as a humpback if we want to be a big fish in the ocean. That's negating the fact that the humpback is a mamal, not a fish.
T. Harv Eker's teaching of TFAR is so very relevant. Our Thoughts leads our Feelings which leads to our Actions which generates the Results. A lot of times I do a lot of thinking (Thoughts) and inevidently without my knowledge it lead to a lot of emotions (Feelings). This is the point where my Mindfrick kicks in at overdrive. And many times I never take the required Actions. Sitting down again and again, wondering why I don't see any Results. Well, ACTIONS speaks louder than words. I am a Warrior, I am willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES ! AHO! AHO! AHO!
Saturday, December 06, 2008
I've just finished Day 2 of the 2008 Asia Internet Congress at the SMU. I've attended 1 hour long sessions each by Mr Alvin Phang (blogs), Mr Ian Del Carmen (Membership sites), Ms Virpi Tervonen (Information Products), Mr Benjamin Wee (eBay Expert) & Mr Jaz lai (Multiple Revenue Boosters). I'm looking forward to listening to Mr Eugene Ang (PPC Marketing), Mr Patrick Chan (Niche Marketing), Mr Jo Han Mok (Minisite Meta Model 2.0) and Mr Fabian Lim (Search Engine Optimization) tomorrow.