I suspect a lot of us are subscribed to too many mailing lists.

Are you one of them?

And if you’re not sure, how do you tell?

Simple …

Be completely objective about this one and ask yourself if you’re overwhelmed by information from 30, 40 or even 70++ sources or gurus (you name it).

Put another way, is all this email reading taking precious time away from you taking action?

To put things into perspective, I’ve got a close friend who’s been sucking information ravenously over the last 24 months or more and I’m definitely sure he’s knows much more than the average IMer here and yet, he’s still hardly breaking $50/month (can you believe this?)

One of the principles I keep sharing with friends is this …

POSITIONING!

Start taking action and be a producer rather than a consumer.

Start being the player on the field rather than a watcher.

Closely related to my original point, it’s my belief that we should be hungry for action rather than hungry for info.

Often times the truth is that we don’t need to know THAT MUCH in order to move forward and proceed.

Ok, enough said.

Hope this aids some of you ahead of 2010.

Have a good one fellas!

P.S. Be on a low info diet and keep IT simple!

Just wanted to share these with you …

1) State something unexpected

Examples:
- Don’t Buy …….. (my product, etc)

2) State something believable and TELL THE TRUTH

Examples:
- I spent $7.20 on a burger and bought my mum a rose yesterday

3) Don’t assume the reader’s position

Examples:
- You’re poor … and here’s why …

4) Simple to grasp benefit statements

Examples:
- 3 New Traffic Methods In 8 Minutes

5) Use superlatives

Examples:
- The #1 Thing I Do Everyday

Have a lovely end to 2009!

Just a while ago, i unsubscribed from a mailing list but not before a long and hard tussle with the description of the mailing list.

It read something like … “You own a piece of ….. , DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE”

Essentially, the owner of the list is making his best effort to tell me to stay on the list.

Bottom line was I unsubscribed in the end but not before I had to consciously make an effort to do so.

Cheers!

Amidst the masses of people profiles on Twitter, how you do attempt to (if you do that is) differentiate and brand yourself from the rest of the crowd?

A little rhetorical from me there …

Anyway, I just came across one particular (and interesting) background that caught my eye’s attention (pity I did not note which profile it came from).

Here it is:

Seen any other interesting ones?

P.S. If you like to add me on Twitter, go here => Kelvin’s Twitter

I just did a quick check on sales for me last year (i.e. 2008) and because I’m a stats freak I wanted to know which hours in a typical 24 hour period were the hottest for me.

I thought I might just share it with you people the actual stats in %-ages numerically and graphically and see if you people have similar results as me based on your knowledge (either with hard stats or not).

Here it is (Based on PST time):

In A 12 Hourly Period …

00:00 – 11:59 (36.5%)
12:00 – 23:59 (63.5%)

In A 6 Hourly Period …

00:00 – 05:59 (12.5%)
06:00 – 11:59 (24.0%)
12:00 – 17:59 (35.7%)
18:00 – 23:59 (27.8%)

In A 4 Hourly Period …

00:00 – 03:59 (8.73%)
04:00 – 07:59 (9.92%)
08:00 – 11:59 (17.86%)
12:00 – 15:59 (22.42%)
16:00 – 19:59 (25.20%)
20:00 – 23:59 (15.87%)

In An Hourly Period …

00:00 – 00:59 (2.77%)
01:00 – 01:59 (2.38%)
02:00 – 02:59 (1.58%)
03:00 – 03:59 (1.98%)
04:00 – 04:59 (2.38%)
05:00 – 05:59 (1.38%)
06:00 – 06:59 (2.38%)
07:00 – 07:59 (3.77%)
08:00 – 08:59 (3.77%)
09:00 – 09:59 (4.96%)
10:00 – 10:59 (4.56%)
11:00 – 11:59 (4.56%)
12:00 – 12:59 (5.15%)
13:00 – 13:59 (4.16%)
14:00 – 14:59 (5.55%)
15:00 – 15:59 (7.53%)
16:00 – 16:59 (6.94%)
17:00 – 17:59 (6.34%)
18:00 – 18:59 (6.74%)
19:00 – 19:59 (5.15%)
20:00 – 20:59 (5.75%)
21:00 – 21:59 (4.96%)
22:00 – 22:59 (1.78%)
23:00 – 23:59 (3.37%)

Enjoy these!

P.S. I’ve no doubt some of you will make use of these stats (either mine or your own) to your own advantage.

You see … To survive and thrive in this business, you will need to think and act like any other brick and mortar business that quickly needs to generate cashflow to sustain the business. No point focusing on business structures and such at the beginning because that’s usually the cause of many a failure.

Don’t misread me though. I wasn’t talking about ignoring your business building activities. What I’m saying is START EARNING CASH and when you eventually do, then you can start building on your business (by outsourcing for example).

Hope I wasn’t confusing you because it is past midnight as I’m sharing this with you.

Till later!

Pretty excited to be sharing with you my results using a particular method so far.

I’ve been marketing affiliate products using video for quite a while and have had pretty good success at it. And this is the first time I’m posting about it.

Earlier this month, I created a video clip that is under 3 minutes long. And uploaded the video to a few sites. This particular entire process took all of just 14 minutes. After uploading it, I left it alone (basically, no social bookmarking or anything of that sort was done for it).

2 days later, it started clocking sales for it and in 20 days, have already chalked up 9 sales transactions (as seen below). This is only just 1 example of the many different videos I’ve uploaded before.

Recently I’ve decided to create a quality video course to reveal and teach others how to market and make money using videos.

What I would like to know is …
1) Is this some product you would personally be willing to pay for? If so, what’s the price range? And if not, why not?
2) Assuming you’re interested, what would you like to see in this video course?

Love to digest any inputs or answer any questions you may have.

Cheers and Blessings!

P.S. Chances are I’ll also contribute a review copy (if and when I create this video course) to someone who provides the most contribution using comments here so do post away.

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Just to update this post a little:

Another sale came in for the particular niche which I posted earlier and the new screenie reflects that …

Really cool don’t you think. I’ve no doubt that this one would eventually go on to produce $500 in due time.

Ok now, I just thought I might provide yet another example to show how effective videos can be in providing passive income.

Here’s niche #2:

This video was created back much earlier this year and took all of 12 minutes to create, upload and tag.

It produced on average a sale every month for me (some months twice). The only month which did not produce for this particular video was back in March. No complains here.

After refunds and 13 sales later … nett profit of $296.68. Neat!

Feel free to ask questions if you have any. (Don’t ask about the niche though)

Here we go …

1) Identify a niche (Preferably a proven one so that you don’t waste your time and money)
2) Do niche and keyword research (To see if people are willing to spend in this particular niche)
3) Building a site or blog around the niche
4) Add content (Either by outsourcing or generating your own content)
5) Monetize it (Either with adsense and / or affiliate and / or your own products and / or CPA offers)
6) Add more content and build links
7) Drive traffic, drive traffic, drive traffic!

Ok fellas, back to work …

And good news if you’re a Clickbank affiliate that resides in either Hong Kong, India and Singapore as direct deposits (XACH) are now available in these countries.

I logged into my account settings and see that these countries are now enabled.

Hallelujah!

Ref: https://www.clickbank.com/account/news.htm#2008-12-16

WordPress 2.7 has just been released and the new look of the dashboard is much better than the old one in my opinion.

Looks a lot more professional and might I say yummy?

Here are the new features of WordPress 2.7:

* XMLRPC Comments API (Ticket 7446)
* Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation (Ticket 7643)
* Sticky Posts (Ticket 7457)
* Theme update api, like we do for plugins (Ticket 7519)
* Dashboard and write box rearranging (write box in trunk)
* One-click plugin installs (Ticket 6015)
* Reply to comments from admin (Ticket 7435)
* Core updating (Ticket 5560)
* Frame-like method for moderating ping/trackbacks
* Plugin browser embedded (Ticket 6015)
* PHPXref hosted on WordPress.org
* Separate Large and Full image sizes, related improvements (Ticket 7151)
* Comment threading (Ticket 7635)
* Comment paging
* Batch and inline editing (Ticket 6815)
* HTTPOnly cookies
* Column hiding for all management pages
* Post box hiding for all edit pages
* Upgrades and install over SFTP
* Template Tag wp_page_menu wrapper for wp_list_pages and support for Home page (Ticket 7698)

Download it here