The Eleventh Week of My Online Business

I did not do much this week. I spent most of my time to promote my new website. I added more information there. I am very careful for what I have added there. I tried to make my website look like a directory of affiliate programs, but not quite because I provided a short review for each product I posted.

I found someone to exchange links with me, but I am still waiting for his answer. According to Allan Gardyne - Owner of Affiliate Programs Directory, I should wait for three weeks before I send a brief, polite reminder to him.

In order to get more traffic to a website, I found out that using ezine(an email newsletter) and articles are two powerful tactics to achieve that. Most importantly they are low-cost effective ways of advertising.

The Tenth Week of My Online Business

I was busy designing my new website this week. I added more stuff to my site. Check it out and give some advice or comments.

I also read more eBooks about affiliate programs. That led me to an informative 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forum. I was surprised to meet a top affiliate, Lisa Irby there. She was mentioned in the eBook Secrets of Top Affiliate Marketers and she is also a senior member in that forum. People are so friendly there.

There are tons of tips and strategies there too. I am impressed with the website of 5 Star Affiliate Programs. Whoever is interested in running an online business definitely should join its forum. It sure is an asset for succeeding in your online business. Besides,

I started to search for relevant reciprocal links. It is a strategy I learned that can help a website increase Google's ranking in search engine. It can also help increase traffic too. To get one-way links, you can try to submit your site to major directories such as Google, Yahoo, and DMOZ.org. I found these five directories that you can submit your websites for FREE!

1. Open Directory Project - Help build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web.
2. Premium SEO Friendly Directory - Free web directory, essential for link building. Fast approval times. SEO friendly free web directory with fast approval times.
3. SearchSight.com - Changing the Way People See the Internet! Visual Search Engine with Thumbnail Images...
4. Web World Directory - Web Directory is an established web directory of quality web sites organized by topic, offering business listings to quality sites on the Web. Suggest your site for possible inclusion.
5. World Site Index - A searchable directory of websites organized by subject.

However I learned that joining Free-for-all links and Free classifieds, exchanging banners, and sending spams to people are not wise and should be avoided.

The Ninth Week of My Online Business

This week I dumped the website that Ultimate Wealth Package had provided. I spent lots of time putting up my new website using Joomla! - one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems. It is FREE to download, easy to install, and simple to manage. Moreover it is reliable and is used all over the world.

It doesn't matter where you live or what language you speak, Joomla! is targeted for international users. It is used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. For instructions on how to install and use Joomla!, you can visit Joomla! Tutorials.

Many templates are available on the Internet. However, some of them want you to sign up for free templates while many of them require you to pay. For your convenience, I have found over a thousand free templates you can download for use. To find out more about Joomla!, please visit Joomla!'s forum.

It Has Been Two Months

I still earned nothing. However, I have done a couple of things this week.I finally solved the login problem with ROIRocket.com account. I cancelled the AWeber account and got my money back because I think I am not ready to have it yet.

Through the ebook Secrets of Top Affiliate Marketers, I found a forum in Affiliate Programs Directory. It is a very informative site. It provides tons of tips and helpful strategies for either beginners, intermediate, or advanced affiliates. I think everyone who is interested in affiliate programs should check this site out. You will be surprised how many things there you can be beneficial from.

The Seventh Week of My Online Business

This week I signed up for a free account from AdBrite.com - The Internet's Ad Marketplace just like Google AdSense. I then put some of its ads on my WordPress blog. I learned this marketplace by visiting a forum. Some people believe that using AdBrite's marketplace service can earn more money than Google AdSense. True or not? I want to test it out.

I read another ebook - Secrets of Top Affiliate Marketers. This book interviewed some top affiliate marketers and revealed their secrets of being the top affiliate marketers. It tells people what should or should not do in order to succeed in their online affiliate business. For the newbies of affiliate programs, it mentioned that forums are the best places to start. Besides they are free. The only thing to look out is to find the right forums to join.

The second ebook I started is Mark Warren's Ultimate Wealth Package Volume II. This ebook tells people how to get rich from affiliate programs, how to explode your profits through email marketing, how to create newsletters that sell as well as inform. Joining adventure - partnering for success and selling information products online are the last two topics he covered in details.

Update: In my case, it is not true that AdBrite can earn more money than Google AdSense. Maybe I did not fully utilize its methods.

The Sixth Week of My Online Business

The ROIrocket account is still unsolved. However I have to move on. Since I did not want to pay $3,900 for mentoring, my business is so static. I don't get any traffic to my site. I think it has to do with resubmitting my site using Get Visitors Now.

I do not like the websites that The Ultimate Wealth Package has provided. I want to change it to be the style I like. However I cannot do anything about it. It uses a PHP file and I am not familiar with that. I heard it is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic web pages .

Since I cannot do anything about my website, I have to leave the way it is. I will build my own website one day. I searched from Google search engine, and I found The Site Wizard is pretty interesting. It covers broad topics toward website design, promotion, programming, and revenue making.

The Fifth Week of My Online Business

Last week I signed up for the ROIRocket.com, but I still cannot log in to that account. The reason is that I signed up using my affiliate control panel, and the account was created automatically. The username and password are shown on my control panel, but the password cannot be read because it only shows dots.

I emailed to the Pro Support Team. They told me to go to the ROIRocket's homepage and click on "Forget your password?" I followed every single detail the Pro Support Team had given to me. At the end a message says that "An email has been sent to the address we have on file for your account requesting confirmation for this action to take effect."

However, I never got an email. Two days later I did that again from the ROIRocket's homepage. Still no email. I even emailed to the ROIRocket.com from its website. Still no reply. On Friday, I called them up. I gave my ROIRocket's username, I was told that an email would be on the way. However, up to this point, there is no email at all. I am pretty frustrated with this matter. Hopefully, things will work out better by next week.

It Has Been One Month

Well, one month is past. I only earned $33.25. This week I almost finished reading Ultimate Wealth Package's Guide to Internet Marketing Volume One. This ebook has 80 pages and can not be done in one day. It covers broad topics of online marketing. Reading seems an endless task. There are many more ebooks to read.

One thing I've done is that I signed up for an Opt-in list program named AWeber, which charged its customer a fee depending on one month, three months, six months or one year's plan. I paid $19.95 for a one month trial service, which it says that "If you are not completely satisfied with the AWeber system, simply contact us within 30 days for a full, no-hassle refund."

This system basically helps its customer capture visitor sign ups from his or her website, sending unlimited follow ups and newsletters, and thus increasing its customer's profits.

Another thing I've done is I signed up for ROIRocket.com, which is an affiliate marketing program. This program connects the top advertisers on the Internet and publishers who are willing to promote the advertisers' offers based on a pre-determined commission amount. Everyone is beneficial by this system.

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The Third Week of My Online Business

This week I read a lot of materials that were given by Ultimate Wealth Package. One of the strategies that I applied to my online business is to set up a blog account, which I did with Google Blogger.

I also set up another blog account with WordPress from my affiliate site. Moreover, I added Google AdSense's Referrals on my website, which I had difficulty to paste Referrals' codes on my web source. It would not allow me to save that file.

I emailed to Pro Support Team and they told me to ask a webmaster, who designed my website, to post the codes for me. Therefore I emailed to MidPhase who hosted my website. They asked me to email those codes to them which I did, but I still did not see any ads I chose from Google showing up on my webpage yet.

I guess it takes time. Good news is I got some traffic to my website now. Although I did not earn that much this week, I am optimistic about my first online business.

First Two Weeks of My Online Business

I bought The Ultimate Wealth Package on September 14, 2007. It's been two weeks now. I only earned $25.25.

I followed the instructions that were given. I bought Pro account for my website. I got Google AdSense working on my webpage. I also signed up for a free Clickbank account. Besides, I even bought Get Visitors Now on September 17, 2007, trying to get traffic to my website. However, it does not work.

I still did not get any visitors except a friend whom I sent my link to. The template I chose could not be replaced with some other templates, otherwise the Google Ads won't show up on my webpage. I emailed to Pro Support Team. They said they are aware of this issue and their development team is working on that.