Internet business is one of the types of business that you would want yourself to get involve with. You can start internet business with just a laptop and a wireless connection. 90% of the world population is poor, with 10% of the people controlling the wealth of most of the people of the world. Same goes to cyber population, where about 10% of the internet marketer is reaping profit from 90% of the internet users. It is a huge margin you can get out of this business, all you need is some passion and the spirit of NEVER GIVE UP (That’s what most of the successful internet marketer told me)The question is should you look for a product to sell (regardless of your interest) or should you sell your interest?

The answer to me is to sell interest. Internet business is a long journey to wealth (though some said can make it very short time, which most of the people not able to do that), the dream of getting rich fast will usually turn off an enthusiastic internet marketer really fast. Especially when they later find out that they could not make money as fast as what has been told.

My name is Luis Tee, and I am making my way in the internet business. I started off working as design engineer, getting myself involved in MLM in my early days, then property agent(make a couple of thousands but later find out that is not my interest). Before I get into this business, many people told me that we can make fast money in internet business. From my experience, I think not quite possible. If you are thinking of making a lot of money in a short time, you will get disappointed yourself really fast.

The secret to success in the internet is to continue doing what you do, consistently and systematically. I applied this principle for the past two months and it really works on me.

Let me tell you this, I started off my blog last month, with just 4 unique visitors for the first one week. I started to write articles seriously and began to attract interest from my readers. I ended my first month with 192 unique visitors.

This month is second month, I am currently at 220 unique visitors in just half a month. It is growing fast  and I have over thousands of visits from my visitor groups.

People all told me that there are intense and great competition in the internet business, especially in the affiliate marketing. But I don’t think that’s the case. It is a race against passion and interest, if you have the interest, you will find yourself going ahead of others in a long run. It is a marathon, not a 100m speed run. There are few steps that we need to learn in the internet business, taught by many Gurus:

Step 1. Find a niche market.

Find a niche market, that has great potential with less competition.

Step 2. Find a solution or product for that niche market.

Find a solution or product for that niche market, find it in the clickbank or other affiliate website. Go to forum, website, research site or any other channels to find out what people are looking for in that niche market.

Step 3. Setup your website

Setup a website targeted to that niche market. Fill the website with powerful content.

Step 4. Create an opt-in page to collect email address

You have to capture your visitors by their email and first name, so that you could continue to communicate to them and hopefully sell something to them.

Step 5. Create your own product for that niche market.

Create your own product/solution. The best product to sell is to have your own product. Try to create something that’s really useful and bring benefits to its’ readers/buyers.

Step 6. Have a great sales copy and start selling.

Sales copy is your sales man online, and it works 24 hours 7 days a year. You want to create the most interesting and attractive sales copy so that you could pull as many buyers as possible.

I am not in the position to comment further on the effectiveness, I have created some products which I am good at doing and I am starting to follow those steps as stated above. I will update you on the progress.

In order to keep your blog hot and on top of the search engine ranking(especially for make money blogging and affiliate marketers), you will have to always post articles to attract as much traffic as you could (preferably one daily). But you may not find it possible because of other commitments at the same time. You may want to go for holidays, join some social activities, spend some time with your family or even worse, you may get sick that you are not possible to post any articles for say weeks!

In today’s Luis’s How To Library, I am going to share with you a way where you could still continue to post your articles when you are not free for days, weeks or even months. The secret is on the “Post TimeStamp” at the right bottom corner in the “Write” page in Wordpress. This is a powerful but often neglected tool that Wordpress could offers.

“Post TimeStamp” allows you to set the day, month and year you want to get your articles posted. It even allows you to set the time (in hour and minute) you want your post to be published. All you have to do is entering the date and time you want, and Wordpress will do the rest. It is that simple.

The strengths of this feature are:

1. Flexible posting time- you can complete and organize your articles weeks ahead.
2. Organize work- As you can do your articles ahead, you will find it easier to organize your post and content.
3. Utilize time effectively.

I always write my articles ahead of time, I call it Article Inventory. Currently I have inventory which could last for the next one month or so. This feature is particularly important for part time affiliate marketers and bloggers (like me) because they could utilize their time more effectively, say for example if they are not free on weekdays, they could always write the whole list of articles on Weekend and program them to be posted in the days they want.

For those who want to be successful in making money blogging and affiliate marketing, you will find this helpful. One thing for sure, your post will continue to publish, while you are sleeping.

For your pursuit of Happyness.

Article by Luis Tee

If you checking through the internet, you probably run into this term- Web 2.0.What’s it really mean? How you relate the development of Web 2.0 benefit you and your business online.Simply put, in Web 2.0, the websites become more conversational, it is a conversation through technology. In Web 1.0, you have to hire someone to build a website for you and then you need someone to maintain it before you try to drive people to that website so that they can see what you are trying to offer.

In Web 2.0, you can set up your website easily, you can use things like Godaddy, My Bloglog and Wordpress to set up your own website, you can then customize it using your own unique and niche content. Web 2.0 is very interactive, you can go out and actively network to find your new friends or clients looking for the same and unique products.

Other than this, you can get instant feedback and comment for in the Web 2.0. Consumer of the information have a lot power to review their experiences with your products, you will get fast and reliable feedback.

The other characteristic with the Web 2.0 is all about sharing information and knowledge online and you will be adding value first before you could expect sales. So in Web 2.0, you teach first before you sell.

Of course, you need to adopt a consultant approach rather than selling approach. You have to capable of teaching people what they don’t know, adding value to what ever they are doing before they could buy something from you. They will see you as an expert because you are giving them all this valuable information.

The best advertisement in business is the word of mouth, same goes to Web 2.0. It is the cheapest and most valuable way of advertisement.

Think about building a virtual network online, you are building a network for your products. Same as any business in the real world, you are building a relationship, you have got to develop your relationship strategy online.

You want to build the relationship and that’s the nature for any small business. You got to build your communication strategy online. It is about conversation, relationship sharing and trust. Web 2.0 made it easy to do it in the virtual world.

This is the summary of Web 2.0

Article by Luis Tee

Just what is affiliate marketing? Simply put, affiliate marketing is selling other people’s stuffs, that’s all it really is. On one hand you have a merchant, the merchant can sell any type of products, that can be physical goods, service or digital products.Merchant who sells digital products , like http://www.clickbank.com/, it is selling digital products. You can become the affiliate of that sites, and if someone clicks on the merchant’s site through your site, and if they happen to purchase something, you will get commission paid by the merchant for that purchase.

It’s that simple. In fact there are hundreds of products that you could instantly promote from Clickbank and then get a commission base on every sale. Many people are real big fan of selling digital products because the overhead is low and the commissions are usually very high. For example if you promote Alvin Phang’s ebook -Atomic Blogging 2.0, you will get 70% of commission out of the ebook sold.

If we are talking about physical products, the most famous example would be Amazon.com, in fact Amazon.com is one of the first merchant who started the affiliate marketing. You put their affiliate link on your website, and again, if somebody like it and click on to their page and purchase a book, Amazon will pay you’re commission for that purchase.

There are thousands of merchant with products to sell, they want you to sell their stuff. And you earn money by selling their stuff.

There are other affiliates marketing with subscription model for example the Wall street Journal, if you sign up for their affiliate program, and if visitors to your site make that purchase you then earn a commission. Some membership site and subscription base program actually pay monthly recurring commission, and this is favorable to most of the affiliate marketers. So in affiliate program is just really selling other products and if you have website, you can do this and make money online.

I hope this explanation of affiliate marketing would benefits people reading it.

To your pursuit of Happyness

Article by Luis Tee

 Hi this is Luis again.

Today I am going to share with you how you are going to change your theme to your customized SEO wordpress blog. The first thing you want to do is to navigates to the login of your blog, for example in my case www.greatselflearner.com/wp-admin. You will go a page where you have to key in your user name and password.

So login to the site by entering the username and password.

Then you should be brought to the “Dashboard” in the Wordpress.

Choose “Presentation” from the menu bar.

You will see a list of themes in the presentation which are pre installed with your SEO package.

To select or change your blog theme, you will just click on one of the theme, say for example Black and White theme, you will see the Current Theme (on top of the page) being changed to Black and White theme.

Go to “View Site” just beside the Great Self Learner header, you will go to your site with the theme changed to Black and White theme feature.

It is easy. Choosing a theme could be important because that will kind of decide your image and brand, avoid theme with dull or dark in color because it will give the visitors the wrong impression. Choose something bright and delightful because that will bring a message of energy, passion and enthusiasm.

To your pursuit of Happyness

Article by Luis Tee

Wordpress pages are important for bloggers to customize or categorize their content and information. Information like Contact us, free ebooks and free tools are something that visitors would want to read other than the daily blog post. Usually pages in Wordpress can be seen on the menu bar on top the site (below blog Title).In today’s session, we would skip the steps from Login to DashBoard, we will start with Write Button.

This time, instead of choosing “Write Post”, click onto “Write Page” on the menu bar.

Key in “New Page” in the Title Page box.

Key in “This is a new page in Wordpress” in the “Page Content”.

Click on “Publish” button.

Lastly, click on “View Site” to go live.

It is as easy as creating a post yesterday.

 In the next session, I am going to share with you how we could make a statis page, and how you could customize your blog in a more professional way.

 To your pursuit of Happyness.

 Article by Luis Tee

Let’s create a new post for our blog. First thing I will do is to go to my admin page to login www.greatselflearner.com/wp-admin.Step 1: As usual, supply the username and password and you will log on into Dashboard in Wordpress.

Step 2: Once in my Dashboard, click on the Write Tab on the top of the page. By default the Write Post tab will be selected. You will be presented with the write post area.

Step 3: The first thing I will do is to write in the title. Say you are writing about yourself. Key in “About Me” into the Title Box.

Step 4: Write your article in the Post Box.

You can do some basic functions

1. Bold, Italic and alignment.
2. Add links and so on…

Step 5: Select category(at the top left corner of the page)for the article you are posting. For example, select Luis How To Library.

“Save and Continue Editing”- if I select this button, it will allow me to save and continue with my article editing.

“Save” button-If I click the save button, it will actually take the article away and put it into a draft area.

Publish button- “Publish” means you have completed the article and you want to post it live.

Step 6: Click on the “Publish” button.

Step 7: Go to “View Site” and you will see your articles posted online.

You can see your new post “About Me” on top and now the content that we wrote is now presented publicly.

This is the fundamental skill all newbies should know before you could make money blogging. Have a great start!

To your pursuit of Happyness.

Article by Luis Tee

The world today is operating at 80-20 rule, you have 20% of the population owning 80% of the world’s wealth. With 80% of the populations either living in the poverty or middle class. Why is this happening? What actually make the difference between those 20% and 80% of the people?Rich people create wealth by ideas, they usually manage to turn that idea into actions, multiply the actions and that’s bring them a lot of money. Out of the so many businesses out there, you will find that internet business is one of the easiest ways to start and to excel.

However, 90% of the internet business today failed and in my opinion the reason for that failure is basically they don’t have the passion on the thing they are doing. Of course, the number one factor is to the success would be PASSION, this applicable to internet businesses. You got to have passion in what you are doing now in order to persist and prosper.

My name is Luis, I started off a few business myself, being involve in a couple of industries myself like MLM, property and sales, I try and try but I still failed, later to find out that the reason for that failures were I actually don’t like what I was doing, I was actually going after the money rather than enjoy what I was doing. That kind of mindset drove me to give up at the end because it is kind of misfit to what I dream of in life.

Hard for me to pull through actually, I had worked day and night, besides normal job I was holding, I had to go for appointments, deliver goods and attend to complaints. It was a difficult situation, I worked till 11pm everyday, I totally do not have time for my family, , my girl friend (during that time, now my wife), and some of my personal commitments. I started thinking, is it worth to sacrifice everything? I was like sacrificing all my time into the businesses, hoping to be succeeding in the business. Sooner I found that instead of getting what I dream of, I started losing what I had

Would they be a way where I could still continue what I am doing now (my job) and still be able to start a business? Internet business popped up in my mind and this where I am landed now.

I enjoy what I am doing now, it is and it will be a happy encounter I have in my life. I am like exploring a big jungle of knowledge and eager to consolidate them all into a ONE STOP blog site for the benefits of my visitors. This is why I name my site “Great Self Learner”, because everyone is a great self learner, most importantly you must learn it and share it.

The first criteria of what you want to do better is not all the technical skills you acquired, but more to the drive come from within. The passion, the drive that comes from deep inside your heart, of course… with the right motive.

You will see there is a lot of website telling people how to do better in internet marketing. To me, all those step 1 to step infinity is immaterialize without a right mindset equipped with drive and passion.

Forget about all the steps, just focus on what you like and what you have passion in, build the strong fundamental for the right purpose.

To your pursuit of Happyness.

Article by Luis Tee

Why people want to use internet? What drive them to user internet?

Internet is basically a platform for people to gather information and to share information. People use internet basically because they need some information, which only internet could provide the fast and immediate response. Ask yourself, why you use the internet?

You use it to keep in touch with friends and family, especially when you go oversea, you can use Skype to get cheap phone call and video calls to your family members and friends.

You use it for networking, like Facebook, Blogs and Friendster, people use it as a platform to know more people from different culture and background.

You use it to know about latest news, across different time zone and countries, other than get the information from the traditional way like radio and television.

You use it to know the latest movement about stock market trend, to trade and buy stocks, all transaction could be done through the internet. You also use it to know the weather forecast and to know about traffics.

All in all, it is about INFORMATION. Everyone is going after the fastest and most reliable source of information. If you could provide the information, you will be always ahead of others in online business.

Nowadays, people needs more than mere information itself. Internet users expect more than this. Internet becomes more interactive with Web2.0, where you could get feedbacks and reviews easily prior to your purchase of any products. You could get the best price out of several providers through their websites in split seconds.

You could make money out of people’s needs of information. Whoever gets the information, he/she would be able to tons of traffics and to make money online.

To your pursuit of Happyness.

Article by Luis Tee, owner of www.greatselflearner.com

 Hi again, Let’s continue yesterday discussion:Pay per sale, the most common method in affiliate marketing where affiliate marketers get paid with every successful purchase from the visitors. Generally the commission is quite high, for example clickbank.com products can offer up to 70% of commission out of the products. This is also the highest commission paid among all 4 methods of commission structure.

Pay per lead, the “lead” actually refers to “Sign Up”, which is a number of person sign up to the merchant website. In affiliate marketing, it is very important to get the contact information from the visitors. Contact information such as name, address and most importantly email are the channels to establish relationship with the visitors. This is the channel where the merchants or affiliate could go through to promote their products. However, the commission paid on pay per lead is relatively low.

Pay per post structure generally pays their affiliates to write review on products or services for the advertisers. You may refer to the top right corner of this website for http://www.smorty.com/ or http://www.pay2u.com/, affiliate will get money for their writings. Mostly this is common among bloggers. Blogs that are not indexed, have little or no content, are banned from search engines or contain hate related and crude content may be rejected or put on Probation until corrected. You can get paid up to $5 or a lot more with quality reviews.

All these commission structures are designed to suit different market demand. It is for you to discover which one suits you better, and which one could lead you to road of prosperity.

Hope this helps,

To your pursuit of happyness

Article by Luis Tee