by Norhafidz on September 26, 2008
You’ve got to agree with me on this, it is a tempting situation when you heard someone is making money online. Supported by images of bloggers and online entrepreneurs holding their monthly load-of-dollars cheques. Anyone would want to be like them, making fortune through the silences of the Internet. But it is not as easy as we thought it would be. They did not get those numbers written on that cheques easily, a lot of things to consider substantively. A good strategy is a must.
Being unique is a factor for you to be an imperishable force in any field, and that include making money online. One great example of being unique is John Chow. I’ll try to share with you what Chow’s did in my views. I remember when John Chow first giving away his juicy link to other bloggers, back to that time, getting a high PR inbound link is a “trend”. If I’m not mistaken, Chow’s blog was PR7 at that time.
No one think of giving away their link juice to bloggers for a review in return. Though that idea caused Chow’s blog being penalized by Google, he managed to gather a lot of world’s intention by bloggers’ efforts spreading the words about him and his blog.
I got to admit that Chow’s is a brave man, he doesn’t care much about Google, instead, his momentum is increasing since Google penalize him, and he managed to get thousands of active-subscribers. Chow has a great strategy, he focused on building the reputation of his blog first before attempting to make any money from it. And when his blog is at “that level”, he make use of it at its limit. He got the patience, and now he has the the money 
Another strategy that Chow’s did was using AdWords. He focused a lot on marketing and his undeniably entertaining content. If you were there watching Chow’s empire raising, just do exactly the same. Though there are chances you will be getting penalize by Google, it still worth it if those strategies succeed.
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by Norhafidz on September 10, 2008
Kesatu? WTH is that? Is it another lucrative and profitable Google keywords? Or is it a blogger that made thousands of dollars online? No it is not a keyword nor a blogger. It is a 2-column free WordPress Theme designed by me 
Sorry for the little hype introduction though, I’m so excited, inasmuch this is the first time I manage to incantation the w3 validator to obey to my theme code. For me, satisfying them is not an easy job. This is a more to a personal blog theme since I don’t put any type-banners or adsense space. Nonetheless, I’ll try make a new one later with that features to be included
I tested it on Chrome, Firefox3 and IE7, it works just fine. Here’s the s/s of Kesatu theme:
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It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress and should work fine with the other version. Should you use the theme, I would appreciate if you keep the links on the footer Enjoy the theme and I am expecting more free wordpress theme will be release soon ( I’m not promising, it’s an ‘expecting’ ;P ), depends on how much free time entertains me. What do you think of Kesatu?
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by Norhafidz on September 8, 2008
There is no doubt that internet marketing is an effective way to reach your target costumers, but that doesn’t mean you have to totally banish the offline marketing methods in your advertising campaign. Though you are doing business online, offline methods does help a lot. The methods are varies, depending on your budget. If you have a lot of advertising budget, you can target your local media and buy ads on the television or radios stations.
Contrariwise, just target a simple and cheap marketing plan, for example, making business cards. You can even design and print it online and just wait for your business card at home. There are some online printing companies that actually do this job, where there charge only $9.95 for 50pcs. Don’t think of just business cards, you still can print your brand on pens and car’s sticker. This methods are quite powerful when you implement it in the right situation.
Say you have a blog about cars, and you are attending some of auto conferences in your town. These business cards and pens can be distribute during the conferences. Since those people are chasing the same niche with your blog, it can help increase your readerships and of course this need other factors like the quality of content and design layout of your blog. But, obliquely it’ll help expose your blog to others.
Implementing car’s sticker is another nifty idea to promote your business offline. Print out simple sticker which can attract people to actually go to your blog. Well, have you ever implement offline marketing technique for your blog or online business?
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