In my recent blog post, i shared some resources about using article marketing to promote your websites and businesses. Today, i am glad to have the team behind Edubook.com to purchase this paid review to promote their community which provide a platform for users to promote their articles.

So what is Edubook.com about and how this community play a part in helping you to promote your website? Ok, to be brief, Edubook is a blogging community ( using the wordpress platform) whereby their primary purpose is to help authors to promote their authorship online. It is a free to register community and anyone can publish their handwritten articles using the platform. However, not all articles will be 100% approved. There is a reviewing team behind this platform whom control the quality of the articles being submited. I have not tried submitting any articles yet so i do not know how strict their policy on articles are. But i am pretty sure that any decent articles with no copyright issues will have no problem passing through the revewing process. There are a couple of standard rules and guidelines that user must obey if they want their articles to be approved.

So what is the catch? Just submit articles? Of course not, the purpose of this community is to promote authorship and also, article marketing. All authors will be given full credits to their articles, with a dedicated author profile page and a hyperlink to their website/blog. So this is how you market your website. First, you register for an account. Secondly, you update your profile page and include the website url that you are promoting. Thirdly, just wait for the article to be approved. Once your article is live, your hyperlink will be exposed everytime a user read your article. Simple? It’s just like any other article directories like goarticles, seekthat. ( If you done article marketing before, you will know it ).

Lastly, Edubook contains a wide range of categories ranging from internet to sports. Whether you are looking to publish internet articles, publish travel articles, or even recreation and sports articles, just find a suitable catergory and submit it. That’s it.

Please note that this is a paid review by derek-ang.com, if you are interested to order one, please look into here for more information.

I am sorry that i am not able to blog in this blog the past few days because i am still having some problems adjusting to the “army life”. For those of you who might not know, I am enlisted for national service since the last 2 weeks and currently, i am trying to plan and manage my time well so that i can maximise my 2 years in army.

If you blog, i want you to ask yourself this question. “Why do you blog??” I develop this blog primarily because i wanted to make money online with my blog after inspired by so many successful bloggers. At the same time, all my friends have at least a blog, so in order for me to keep up with the trend, i have to create mine.

I know asking yourself that question is kind of stupid, so don’t comment on that. But i believe everyone do something for a reason. For example, students go to school because they want to get educated and find a prospective job in future. They want to learn things that benefit them. Business owners employ people because they want people to generate more wealth for them. So afterall, before you can achieve something, you need to have a purpose.

When i first started out in blogging, i do not know the purpose of me blogging. I just blog for the sake of blogging, which inturn led me to nowhere. I am losing my direction! And of course, you can see my archives and view my first few posts. Quality is very low. There are alot of problems, i have problems everyday coming out with new post, i do not know what i am going to blog about? And look back, all this happen because i do not have a solid purpose in blogging.

It was then i decided i should blog about webmaster related / web development stuffs because that might be the only area that i could share my knowledge on. After getting my purpose in blogging fixed, i have no problems coming out with new posts, because i know myself that what i want to do with this blog is to share my experiences in webmastering stuffs. And you know the difference, i have more traffic, ad sales and more value.

So after wasting so many months in blogging, i learn that before you do anything, it is best that your list your purpose and goals right and go towards it without changing your main goal ( document it down ). Currently, i am working on the community i develop and i am kind of stuck with it because i did not set the goals for it right. Here’s one lesson learnt. I hope you guys won’t follow my footsteps…

 Like what you see from the title, digitalpoint banned me for something i should not be banned for. Here’s the email i received from them last night. See the below screenshot and judge, should i get banned? The related thread is at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8924400#post8924400

Quality of digitalpoint is dropping over the years

I have been a very supportive member of digitalpoint since 2 years back, but now, it’s regretful to see the forum being monopolized by “crap” moderators ( only some ). If they don’t like you, they ban you, if you snatch their business, they ban you. This is how they play. Well, i don’t know which moderator banned me, but obviously, there’s something wrong with the moderator because i do not deserved it.

Well, i think shaun hogan have to do something about the forum, if not the forum that he established with so much effort will go to waste.

Frankly speaking, my online income stream have been crippled with this unexpected ban because most of my online income comes from the services i offers in digitalpoint. But however, here’s one lesson i learn. Like what adam khoo said, always have multiple stream of income, don’t put all eggs in one basket.

OK, now i experienced it, i finally know the true meaning behind it. I will get over this really fast. One ban won’t destroy me! Watch out!

Do you know that you can actually make some petty cash just by selling what you have in your harddisk?Just recently, i am doing monthly maintenance for my computer and i found this wordpress theme file that i used for my previous blog design. Those who visited my blog since the past few months will probably seen it before. It’s a waste to delete it thus i decided to sell the sponsored footer links and release it for public download. I spent around 2 hour packaging it, cleaning up the css codings, enhancing the layout, create screenshots and then listing the footer links for auction. In the end, I managed to get $90usd for the 3 sponsor links. Better than deleting right? Well, i guess this will also help to increase backlinks to my blog and improve the SERPs. I will be creating a section mainly for wordpress theme downloads and you guys can download the theme there.

Today’s talk of the day,  we are reviewing another web hosting review site called Webhostingbreak.com. Webhostingbreak.com is a web hosting review website that mainly plays a part in helping you to make your decision on which web hosting service to engage; they provide reviews of hosting providers. It’s been established since 2007 and is managed by highly motivated team of experts.

“Let our experts make your web hosting choice easy!”, that’s what webhostbreak team strives to do. The team consists of experts with 11 years of experience in web hosting and site administration and only web hosting companies that pass their 12 points of checklist can make it the top.  Just by dropping over to their website, you could see a very professionally designed layout and a catchy web 2.0 logo.

On top of having a really good webdesign of the site, webhostingbreak.com have good content as well. Unlike most of the web hosting reviews site that mainly just provide the 10 ten hosting companies as their main content, webhostingbreak.com provides the most popular web hosting and the highest rated web hosting as well.  It allows users to check on reviews from existing clients of web hosting and there’s even a section whereby you can compare the prices plan of the top 10 web hosting companies of the year.

In addition, webhostingbreak.com provides useful tips and advices for the users as well. There’s a section whereby you can find articles that explain what is web hosting, how to choose web hosting and many others. This is good because as a user myself, i visit these websites to learn more about web hosting and how to choose a good hosting and webhostingbreak.com obviously caters to my needs.

What make’s webhostingbreak different from most of the web hosting reviews site is that they show us the 11 factors that they use to determine the quality of the web hosting providers. You can check out the factors on their website. Those are really good factors and you can see that the team of experts really put in effort into helping users to choose the best web hosting providers. There’s also a uptime spy chart where helps users to determine the uptime and downtime period. Those are detailed uptime statistic that are updated daily. See the below image to give give you some ideas.

That’s all about it. Drop over to webhostingbreak.com now to explore the other features of the website. I hope you guys like this review!

This question goes out to all those webmasters who have been been flipping websites. Why do you choose to flip a website? Instead of developing it, maintaining it and earning an passive income, why flip it? I have been flipping a number of websites since then and below are some of my experiences and thoughts into it.

Pros of Flipping a website

1) You get instant cash in your paypal balance. You do not need to wait for monthly checks from adsense, CJ or clickbank( If you monetized your website with affilite programs).

2) You get big payments in short term. Example, if you flip a website for $200 per day. But how long can it last?

3) I could not think of any others. Anyone got any idea?

Cons of Flipping a website

1) It’s a tiring process.

2) Sites that are developed for the purpose of  flipping are not of quality as they are just there for sale. You developed it in a short time frame just to sell it, thus standard of that website is definitely not good.

3) You need to look for buyers, such as posting it for sale and sometimes you won’t get any.

4) You won’t get big deals from buyers as those site are un-established. Buyers probably buy it to solve the hassle of creating it from scratch.

If there’s anything that you disagree or anything that i missed, please correct me. If the above question is directed to me, my answer will be no, but to some extent. Instead of just develop websites soley for the purpose of flipping, why not put in all your time and effort into one website? 100 websites with making 10 dollars per month or one website making 1000 dollars per month? Which is easier to maintain and monetize? Which of them has more value?  Which of them has more potential?

I say to some extent because sometimes when i am free, i really enjoy flipping websites, earning some petty cash. However, i won’t treat it as my main stream of income. In my opinion, it’s better to create a project that earns you alot, rather than alot of projects that earn you pennies. It add more value into it. You only need one big and good project in order to succeed. Just like facebook, did mark zuckerberg develop many websites? He just develop facebook and it earns money that can last him for a lifetime.

In the world of working adults i.e, the business world, there are two different groups of people. One is the group of people that make use of others, the other consists the group of people who are being make used of. Which one do you belong to? I understood this theory after working as an intern in some companies and a few part time jobs over the years. So, let’s talk about the first group of people.

People that make use of others

This group of people normally consists of entrepreneurs, business owners, venture capitalist or even managers. This people usually benefit the most while putting the least effort, compared to others. They play with money instead of being played by money. For me, i hate people of this group but however, i wanted to be one of them. Though i hate them, i actually admire them. That’s pretty contradicting right? Ok, imagine you are the boss and you have people working for you and being paid the pennies, won’t you feel great? Now, imagine you are the employee and you are being paid pennies for so much you done. I am pretty sure you will be angry and will have a strike to increase your pay. You get the point? Have you ever watched a japanese drama called “Dragon Zakura”. In this particular drama, it emphasizes on how “stupid people” are being cheated by the “smarter people” and how the “smarter people” rules the society by creating laws and rules that benefits themselves (Note: I am not making any comments of the government). Ok, now let’s talk about the other group which consists of majority including me.

People that are being make used of 

If you are in this group and you are the same as me, let’s not be depressed. We might be being make used of now but not forever. Let me give you an example how the company make use of us. Imagine youself as a designer that work for a designing company. Your monthly pay is $2000 and in every month, you completed maybe a maximum of 5 projects. Let’s say each project cost $2500 ( your company might not tell you this, afterall you are get paid monthly just to do what you are supposed to do). In this case, your company earn ($2500 x 5) which is equals to $12500 and offsetting your wages of $2000, they make a net profit of $10500. So now calculate how much a typical company with 30 employees can make monthly? However, if you can create so much  wealth for your company and you are just being paid $2000, you have every right to request for a pay rise and if your boss reject, quit it. If you are working for this type of company, you will have no future. Trust me.

Evolving from the second group

Now comes another group of people that are evolved from this group. This group of people are the ones that cannot stand it and decided to advance or level up themselves to the first group. Normally, this group of people are being most hated by the first group. People in this group learn and leech all information and social networks in a company and then they start their own with modified technology that are even better. Have you ever wondered why coca cola taste so alike to pepsi? A recent example will be Cuil search company which rivaled google. For more information, it’s started by ex employees of google.

So which group are you in and which group you want to be in? Any views or insights regarding this post today will greatly be welcomed.

Hello everyone, as promised, today is the end of the rss email subscription contest. First of all, i would like to thank all the participants for making this contest a success. This contest has increased my rss feeds by  some percentage and i am quite pleased with the results.

The winner of this contest goes to … “weikhang”. $11(to offset the paypal fees) has been sent.

Below are the list of participants that took part in the contest.

People, let’s congrats weikhang for being the lucky winner! Also, i will be having another contest in the becoming next few days. Already have some ideas in my head. If you wana take part, check out this blog again!

Cheers

It’s been a long time since there’s a contest here in this blog, so here’s one small one. As I am looking to increase my email rss feeds count, instead of using the money to buy links or advertisements on other website, why don’t i offer it as a contest to my visitors?

How the contest works?

1) Subscribe to my email list by using the form in this post or the form at the sidebar of my blog.

Remember to verify it and activate the feed. Inactive feed will not be counted.

2) Reply to this post with your email ( Linked with paypal )

3) On 20th August 2008, a lucky winner will be chosen from those who participate and win $10 via paypal

Just only for a 20 sec effort, you stand to win $10 paypal.

Benefits for subscribing to my email rss

1) You stay up to date to the  latest update in this blog. Everytime when there’s an update in this blog, such as new blog post or contest, you will get the first hand information. (Daily post send to your email)

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Happy subscribing. Contest Ends at 20 August 2008