BusinessPeanuts

Hi friends,

Bum Marketing Daily Diary

I am going to use this blog as a daily diary of what I do everyday in order to generate the money I am targeting. I am not sure who will be interested by I realized that a blog is the best place I can record my daily actions, better than writing it in excel spreadsheet. So from today onwards, I will try as much to update this blog daily, but it may not be anything interesting for anyone to read as I will just be recording my daily actions.

This will serve as a reminder of what I do everyday and whether it is productive and how long did it took all these actions to bear any fruit. Anyway, my monthly progress reports starts on the 16th of every month to the following month 15th. No business expenses will be included since I have totally lost count and it is definitely too much money I have spent.

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My progress report for 2007 are as follows:

Amount made from clickbank in 2007: $192.90

Amount made from bluehost: $455

Amount made from blogs:$20

Amount from CPA: $10

Total from May 2007 to December 2007: $677.9

Earnings Per Month Average: $677.9 divide by 8 months, round off to $84

Earnings Per Day: $84 divide by 30 days = $2.8

Total Articles Written:40

Subscribers: 19

Total Websites Created: 5 websites but only 1 making a bit of money.

Total Squidoo Pages: 2

Verdict: Too much learning, too much waiting and not enough actions taken to increase sales and increase traffic. Waste time reading too many blogs as well.

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Progress For 2008:

After reading 5 bucks a day, I decided to change my behaviour. The book was not very great in terms of learning anything new about making more money on the internet but the key point I learned was the point about setting clear daily, monthly and eventual targets and constantly reminding myself about my goals, and continue taking actions. I have slack for the first 8 months of learning about Internet Marketing and though I know about bum marketing, I did behave more like a bum than marketing it more often.

So on Jan 08, I set my new targets to achieve $100 per month and get hit 100 subscribers for my niche (definitely not internet marketing niche).

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Period Jan 15 to Feb 15 (Target: Earn $100 And Reach 100 Subscribers):

Click bank Sales: $66.75

Total Subscribers from 2007: 19

Total Subscribers in this period: 39

Total Subscribers: 19 + 39 = 58

Target Amount Failed: $100 – $66.75 = $33.25

Total Subscribers Failed: 100 – 52 = 48

Total Articles Written: 12

Total Websites Created: 1 (But no sales generated from it so far.)

Total Squidoo Pages: 0

Remarks: Was having fever, cough and flu. Total sick for 3 weeks.

Verdict: Target Failed

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Period Mar 16 to Mar 15 (Target: Earn $100 And Reach 100 Subscribers):

Click bank Sales: $85.47

Affiliate X Sales: $10

Mass Control: $15

Total Sales: $110.47

Total Subscribers From Last Month: 58

Total Subscribers in this period:50

Total Subscribers: 58 + 50 =108

Target Amount Achieved: $110.47

Total Subscribers Achieved: 108

Total Articles Written: 43

Remarks:

Redo squeeze page to increase conversion rates to capture names and emails.

Create new emails to opt-in readers.

Created 2 new squidoo pages, and edit another 2 existing squidoo pages created in 2007.

Attracted 100 unique visitors on 2 different days out of 1 month all from writing and submitting articles. First time ever.

Verdict: Target Achieved

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Period Mar 16 to Mar 15 (Target: Earn $200 And Reach 200 Subscribers):

May 16: Just rest and check statistics. Edit squidoo pages.

May 17:

Writing this blog post at 2:39am.

Will log down everything I do everyday.

No sales so far.

2 new subscribers so far.

To be continued daily………………………………….

Regards,

Andrew

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Hi Friends,It’s been a tired day and in Singapore time, it is already 3:30am in the morning. I know I should be sleeping but this video was too funny that you just have to watch again.

Just want to share this with everyone and enjoy the weekends.

Regards,

Andrew

Not much of activity lately, partly because I was busy during the Chinese New Year holidays and I have been sick since the 11 of Feb.

What a torture!
- Fever for 4 straight days
- Add the flu virus that I could barely smell anything
- Add the coughing that felt like I could cough my lungs out

The good news is that fever is gone finally, flu and cough is running out of steam but the bad news for me is that now almost everyone in my family is sick.
All yes, everyone is blaming me for their sickness. ~~~~~

At least, finally, I can concentrate on bumming the marketing away, since I wasted so much time not doing anything for the past 2 weeks.

Just want to say what a good post by Andrew Tan from www.oasisofinspiration.com. Made me think a lot about the society in Singapore.

To Andrew Tan, I was thinking of leaving a comment on your blog but as I wrote, it became longer and now it suddenly become long enough for a blog post. So I figure, why not treat it like a tag and continue this discussion on my blog too. Hopefully I will not offend anyone in this post. I have a slight belief in the way Singaporeans view their government and how I view the singapore government (since I am a malaysian living in Singapore).

Poverty is happening around the world and not just Singapore. Just look at Bill Gates for example, he will be donating almost 80% of his wealth to charity foundations, or hong kong’s Richard Li donating their money to help fight poverty but we are not seeing much better results around the world. There seem to be too much poverty and not enough man power to put a stop to it.

I once had this strange theory bubbling in my mind.

The word “Balance” comes to mind. When there is good, there is bad. And where there are riches, there will be poverty. Without the bad, how can the meaning of “good” exist. Similar for poverty. We cannot categorize the old people in the videos we see as poverty (Go to oasisofinspiration.com to watch the video). Rather, i know this may sound cruel, but we chose the path which will lead us to where we will be tomorrow.

Through a few experiences while I did that very little*2 bit of volunteer work did I realized some of the situation of the kind of elder generation that live in poverty.

Some situations:

- There are so many businessmen who suffered from their failures and can never stand up to fight back again. They also lose their will to live. They will beg, if there were donations, they will eat, if not, they will just sleep the night away.

- Some older generation refuse to let their kids look after them, they run away from home, but with no help, they will resort to begging, and collecting trash cans for a living.

- Some of them never receive any education but work the hard way, and never had any family. So when their age caught up with them, and with very little savings, and the fact that nobody wants to employ them anyway. Poverty catches up with them.

- The loss of family members through accidents made them lose their will to live. And with the loss of loved ones, there was no hope or aim in their life.

- Lack of financial education. This does not only happen to the older generation, it is still happening among us. We can fall into poverty if we do not educate ourselves to prepare for what the future has installed for us.

Actually, from my understanding, there should be government help available. Only problem is whether do the folks in the video we saw want the government’s help (from my understanding, many of them refuse any kind of help). I have met social workers and they are trying their best to give as much help as possible. But life of a social worker is tough, and the salary is not as attractive. So the lack of manpower also prevents charity organizations from spreading their wings to help more people.

Sometimes I wonder, are the poverty situation in Singapore different from the rest of the world. If you have been overseas, whether in thailand, where you see so many beggars, or in China, where I have seen worst cases. I have seen families that were so poor in Malaysia that they were living in a durian plantation, with just a small little roof over their heads and nothing else.

And when I come back to Singapore, I will still think, the situation may not be as bad. There are still rooms for improvement but it should not just come out from the government. A nation starts from its people, so let us do our part without waiting for the government, to give that extra helping hand.

Many times I have heard people complain about the government, but look around the other countries, their government, their security. I do not believe in getting anything from the government, other than they fulfill the basic necessity of water, electricity and a safe society. The rest, with our own hands, we can built our own future, and in the process, extend that extra helping hand to friends in need.

Hopefully no one felt offended,
Signing off,
Andrew Choong
http://www.businesspeanuts.com
http://www.appleiphoneforxmas.com

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Hi everyone,

It has been a while since I have updated my blogs. Gone were the days that I could keep blogging about trying to make money online. I was always feeling uncomfortable when I first started writing blogs about my journey to make money online. The more I wrote, the more frustrated I become as I still do not really know how to get money coming in.

And after oneday, things started to change for the better. Though I was still doing offline methods, I was able to get friends to get new domain web host under me and I finally broke the deadlock and got my first sale in clickbank as well. The happiest moment was when I got my check from bluehost. Previously I blog about my first check but due to some stupid mistakes I made, all my august blog posts are gone. Anyway I just want to share this best moment here.

Already cash the check but still waiting for the money to be transferred to me. I just talk to bluehost and they could actually transfer the money to paypal so it is better for fellow internet marketers who are staying outside of the US.

Previously, I stated that I wanted to earn $1000 from the affiliate marketing for the month of August. I have a few projects in the pipeline and but somehow, the target of $1000 for the month of August seems like a mile away. Never mind, I will keep pumping out projects, modifying and keep learning all the way. Most important is that there must be action in order to get a reaction.

Anyway, I have just recently setup a new blog that focuses on the Apple Iphone craze. It took a lot of planning and research (ok, it actually took me 3 full man-days to research all the avenues). Do give my new domain www.appleiphoneforxmas.com the support. Really need it. And the best part is that google.com has not indexed my new domain. So imagine how new it is.

So left some comments there if you can, and tell me how I can improve. Thank you for reading.

Regards,

Andrew Choong

www.businesspeanuts.com
www.appleiphoneforxmas.com

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.