First of all, I realize i had not updated my businesspeanuts list for such a long time that i did not realized that people who signed were recommended to a forum that they can earn a bit of money.  I always wanted to write a “how-to” guide but was always too lazy busy.

Anyway, I wanted to segregate the active from the inactive just by looking at the list and for some strange reasons, I deleted the whole list of people.  Though the list was only consisting of 20 over people, I still couldn’t believe the mistake i made.

So sorry to anyone who sign up.  Deeply apologize. I better start writing that ebook, that was left half-done about a month ago.

Regards,

Andrew

Not much clickbank sales but in terms of providing web services, income has increased.  Expenses could be lower but the itch to buy IM products is killing my profits.  Damn! I have also began outsourcing article writing on a daily basis.  I wrote 30 articles last week and it took my life away.  It is simply too boring.  Frank Kern was right, do what you like and outsource everything that you do not like.

My past and present performance below.

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First week

Income – $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses – $170.58

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Second week

Income – $120.32

Expenses – $89.35

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Third Week

Income – $170.10

Expenses – $193.71

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $121.80

Adwords – $8.41

Food – $45.00

Newspaper – $0

Taxi – $0

MRT/Bus – $0

Miscellaneous – $18.50

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Fourth Week So Far:

Income  – $252.00

Expenses – $20.27

Breakdown Of Expenses:

Adwords – $4.27

Food – $16.00

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Last week, I bought this product call Market Samurai (bought it for US$87) and the promises seems good but the performance and stability has been questionable. It can do keyword research, find all the hubpages, squidoo lens and ezinearticles that has the keyword you are trying to target.  But the problem is performance.  And sometimes, the loading just cannot seem to finish.  I am comtemplating to ask for a refund or to wait for a further release.  Anyway here is how it looks like.

Market Samurai Pics

It is offering a free trial for 30 days.  It cost US$147 for the full version but there is no full version at the moment.  Whether you are using free or paid, it is the same version as they are still trying to solve many issues and the estimated time for the whole software to be stable seems to be at the end of the year.  So if you intend to buy now, I think you should just save your money until a stable system is out.

Regards,

Andrew

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Typing this blog post at Starbucks, relaxing with a mocha frappacino. Basically, it has been a lazy 2 weeks.  First week was a transition period.  Distractions from my dogs, my baby niece as well as totally being unmotivated to do anything except eat, sleep and eat some more.  But still manage to squeeze out 1 clickbank sales from no where.

Second week was much better.  Starting writing articles (about 10 so far), made changes to my adwords campaign as well created 1 new CPA campaign as well.  Got 1 clickbank sale from my article marketing effort and also got paid $70 from a friend to guide him on using some CPA tools.

So overall:

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First week

Income – $34.80 (Clickbank)

Total Expenses – $170.58

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $32.78

Adwords – $16.90

Food – $43.50

Newspaper – $1.40

Taxi – $16.00

MRT/Bus – $25.00

Miscellaneous – $35.00

Actions:

Create 2 articles. Submitted to ezinearticles.

Met new friends in the IM industry.

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Second week

Income – $120.32

Expenses – $89.35

Breakdown of Expenses:

Buy IM Products – $0.00

Adwords – $17.40

Food – $48.90

Newspaper – $1.40

Taxi – $0.00

MRT/Bus – $3.00

Miscellaneous – $18.65

Actions:

Wrote 7 articles but did not submit.

Wrote 2 articles and submitted to ezinearticles.

Created 2 CPA Polls.

Got paid for advice on CPA website creation.

Set target with Donald to make SGD$3000 by December 11th, 2008.

Spoke to Chee Kui for advice on what he do day to day to achieve 4-figure paycheck now.

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I am not calculating my other income that is coming in from my part time jobs so that I can track those money that has to do with online.

I have still got a long way to go but for being lazy in the first 2 weeks, it is still ok I guess.  Just need to work much harder next week.  Let’s see how things will go.

Regards,

Andrew

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Just when I was about to give up on Adwords again (this is the 4th or 5th time already), the magical feeling has happened again! This is the first time in my Adwords history that I have achieved 3 sales in just 3 days using purely Google Adwords advertising.

The last time I achieved a sale from clickbank was in last year september 2007 and so far, in my first 4 attempts at google adwords, I have already lost $400+. So for this fifth time, it feels great that my cost is still low and yet, the profits are there.

Finally … Finally…Finally..

Why the initial dejection from me? Because I have 2 campaigns, one for a CPA offer and one for this clickbank product. I was making a lost on that CPA offer but when the smell of profit is just about to come, I seem to have been slapped on that domain by Google. And the clickbank campaign was not really making money. But after these 3 days, it has been a joy!

CPA offer Campaign – Still Slapped!

Clickbank Campaign – Profits finally!

Breakdown From Clickbank

Using Adwords From 1 Clickbank Product : SIN$105.76 (USD$78.34)
Adwords Expenses 11/07/08 to 31/07/08 : SIN $34.35
Profit (Sales minus Adwords Expenses): SIN $71.41
Article Marketing To Clickbank Product: SIN$35.58 (USD$26.96)

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Total Profit(Adwords Tactic + Article): SIN$106.99
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This is the first time that i had 4 sales from clickbank and the special moment, 3 of them came from adwords. And using a tracking software, I am beginning to know my first profitable “long tail keyword”.

For The Future

I have just tendered in my resignation today and hopefully, for the month of August, since it will be my last month on the job, the game will be raised to a higher level. Both on the article marketing and adwords front. Maybe when i see more success with august, i can start sharing some strategies that i have just recently learned.

Thanks for reading!

Regard,

Andrew

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Just receive this email from Travis who is one of the kings of bum marketing and this is a pretty good video about how to write a good bio box that attracts people to your website when you are using articles to attract traffic.

Enjoy!

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You Have Been Sold The Idea That Earning Money Working From Home Is Easy

The very idea that you can earn money working from home is one that can really get people excited with plenty of ideas on how much money that can potentially earn from the Internet. But life working from the comfort of your own home can be far from the reality some guru always portray to others. Do not get sold into the idea that making money from home means you can constantly be relaxed and comfortable, only working one hour a day. What makes it different is the fact that even though you are doing a job, there is no safety net that comes when a person is employed. Instilling certain disciplines and methods into your working can make you successful and totally independent.

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These Paid Surveys And Home Based Data Entry Jobs Rarely Turns Out Real. Mostly Exist As A Scam

Opportunities such as paid surveys and home based data entry jobs promise to make you rich but they very often don’t deliver what they state. One imagines doing a few surveys in the morning, then a leisurely lunch may be, then doing a few more surveys and ending up with several hundred dollars for the day; this is ridiculous.

How About Writing Your Life To A More Stable Online Income As A Start

This really isn’t the way to go if you are looking for a well paid job working out of home. This is an area where scams abound so it pays to be careful. If you do have the writing skills, you can start off by writing articles – and there is always a need for these; of course how well you do will depend on how good you are. However, in the beginning you will usually find that you are writing for people who are selling your efforts on as their own. In the beginning, it doesn’t pay well – perhaps for 500 words, just but this is how it goes so don’t get disappointed.

Ideas

If you then start thinking of writing for yourself, you could maybe think of private label rights or PLR articles as these could bring in more money. You could write a certain number of articles and then sell them not to one but a few people, pricing the articles low. If you charged 10 dollars for the bundle of ten and sold them to thirty people, that would be 300 dollars, or the equivalent of 30 dollars an article, which is considerably better than 5 dollars an article.

Conclusion

You need to put in constant efforts to make your home based employment more dependable and to earn a regular income. In the beginning it will not be easy, however, once the kinks have been ironed out and the process streamlined, it will be easy. When it gets to the point of getting a pool of writers who outsource for one, that will be the point of hitting the jackpot and real money can be earned.

Regards,

Andrew

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