It’s been a while since I really placed any emphasis on blogging recently.  Especially since I had to recover all my blogs back to the original look, but I was not able to savage all my august postings.  Anyway, I have been busy with writing articles, planning some of my niche marketing, as well as having problems at work.

Anyway, some of you who have read my august posting (which is missing now) knows that I have tried to outsource my article writing.  I was trying to apply the bum marketing techniques.  Through this experience of outsourcing my article writing, I have met some good writers and 1 writer who cheated his articles on me.  Worst part was I was too tired to check after my work and by the time I found out that all his articles were direct copy from other websites, I could feel a boiling feeling inside of me.

Partly, it was because I trusted people’s nature too much and second, I was just too tired to check before I had paid for his works.  IT sucks!  Anyway, I was glad I got to know some good and dedicated writers as well.  This was a lesson learnt in outsourcing your articles.  Ironic, since I am doing bum marketing but I guess I should not be a bum marketer when it comes to checking those articles that are not written by me.

Always always check your articles for duplicates before you pay.  Most likely, I must be one of those nut case who will trust anyone easily.  Even though I had this lousy encounter, I still believe that outsourcing is still important, just need to be a little more cautious.

Bluehost Payout

By the way, before I sign off, for those in Singapore who are promoting bluehost, I just found out that you can specify to them to pay you via paypal, instead of sending you a check.  Even though I wish to receive more checks from bluehost, but the service charge by the local banks just piss me off to find other alternatives.

Anyway, it’s the weekend again, and my target is to write another 20 articles.  So until next time, signing off.

Andrew Choong

http://www.businesspeanuts.com

Tags: Experience In Outsourcing Article Writing , Bluehost affiliate program , Applying Bum Marketing Theory

Another interesting article by Mark Daoust from www.affiliatekb.com.  This article is based on his interview of David Cooper of Affiliate Avalanche.

You can always count on affiliatekb.com for very informative articles and for this article, David Cooper talks about his methods of using JV to promote products.  Yes, it was always the same old story but this is slightly different because, in the interview, David Cooper was actually suggesting using JV partners to do affiliate marketing.  Or in simple newbie terms, doing JV using other people’s products.

 http://www.affiliatekb.com/article/605/affiliate-avalanche.html

In his article, Mark Daoust also manage to get more hints on a few pointers that you will learn from:

- What makes a good affiliate program

-Should you write your own product or get merchants to write

- Tips on creating your own materials for sale

- Tips on building links using using social bookmarking

The articles are free to read and one very important point to note is that these are quality articles and not just any “rewrite” articles you can find in article directories.

So just read more articles and may we learn and earn more together!

 http://www.affiliatekb.com/article/605/affiliate-avalanche.html

Signing Off,

Andrew

Finally manage to get back my blog to “almost” its original look.  I was trying to setup a new blog and somehow, I remove all my blog files and luckily I have a backup of the postings until end of July.  But my key moment was in august when I receive my cheque and that posting is gone!

Took me 7 hours to finally configure everything.  I shall try to rewrite some of the blog that I have lost.

Moral of the story is: Do your backup, especially your database regularly, if you are someone like me who loves messing up my own blogs.  2 time I have messed up my blog and wasted another night.  Nevermind, at least it was another new experience gained.