Can’t resist a chuckle at the end.

“The Internet Marketer’s Night Before Christmas”

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and all ‘cross the net
Marketers were searching for the best payout yet.
They tried banners ads and they tried pay per click
They tried popup windows in hopes they would stick.

Bombarded with offers, product launches galore
Some sold their domains while others opened a store.
Hard products, digital, it didn’t matter which type,
with something to sell, it wasn’t just hype.

I surveyed the landscape, looking back at the year
When what to my wondering eyes did appear.
Flashbacks of launches, some big and some small,
and some that no one had heard of at all.

There’s Butterfly Marketing, Yes, Mikey Filsaime,
You could say he was top of his game.
And Shearing and Shaffer, our friends ‘cross the ocean,
When they launched a product, ’twas commissions in motion!

With Anik and Yanik it’s just so confusing,
But with product so great, no one was losing.
Happy consumers with options for earning,
Many great products, the tide it was turning.

The time it passed quickly and soon came the fall…
There’s Jenkins and Fallon, Stomping them all
And Schefren with content, churing out free reports,
When time came for selling, people were very good sports.

On Casey, on Wellman, on Chia and Knox
Your launches did surely knock off our socks
On Alex, on Shaffer, and on Michael Cheney,
on Armand Morin, or should we say Michael Lee?

With Video appearing, those who were wiser,
Had grabbed onto Frank Sousa’s cool “Traffic Geyser”
And AdSense, yes, AdSense, how could we forget?
These templates for all were my best product yet!

Another email, promotion, JV.
When would it slow down? This was making me crazy!
With bonuses sometimes stealing the show.
Cash, games and scooters could be yours, don’t you know.

Another “best product ever”, Another “death of” report
A flood of emails to technical support.
Guru’s popping up like never before,
Some valid, some not, but here’s something more…

The opportunity now has never been stronger,
for those with integrity, don’t wait any longer
To fire up your web site, to crank out that ebook
For now is the time when folks will take a look!

The vision came clearer for this new coming year,
quality product will rule, have no fear
For people are searching for hope that they need
We’re proof that any old schmoe can succeed.

All the knockoffs and clones, the market will weed,
Just do your very best, plant your good seed.
Prosperity, there is plenty around.
And niches galore, they are there to be found.

With such a great future for you and for me,
I enjoyed the bright lights of the Christmas tree,
with presents around it, and my family,
the reason I do what I do, can’t you see?

Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy New Year
May your dreams come true, be full of cheer.
And I heard Cody say, as he shouted with glee,
“Don’t buy that product, you do JV with me!”

Contributed by Joel Comm.

After having personally spoken to a few real AdSense success stories and dig deep into certain exclusive information, I can confidently come to an answer at least to myself to the classic quality-vs.-quantity question of how many sites must you create to earn substantially in AdSense.

Churning out 300 sites is no longer a worthy endeavor without a decent amount of marketing effort to promote the sites for their asset: genuine and sincere content. Neither is it possible for most people to earn just from 3 original and excellent sites.

So the answer is, “30 sites would do well…”

This relative number is something I derived listening separately from different people. They don’t have the skills nor the resources to set up another YouTube. All they use are simpler templates like the mini niche sites which you may even have in your hard disk now.

Every success story has his/her own formula, but I’ll let you in on a strategy: some of these marketers rely heavily on cross-linking several sites that serve a common niche sphere or a particular demographic of visitors i.e. teenagers, retirees, housewives, etc. So they are able to drive visitors back and forth from one site to another.

Reading through AdSense Wealth Empire yields an information that confirms my answer. As you scroll down you will find a screenshot of how much a cluster of 50 sites can earn.

If AdSense is your game, just to let you know you don’t have much time now, because AdSense Wealth Empire Christmas Edition is now left with 22 copies! To learn how to build such a cluster and manipulate traffic around masterfully, get AdSense Wealth Empire for 50% off the original price.

I just want to introduce an old pal from the Money Mastery community (what’s that? Tell you next year), Tan Kian Ann, the Blogopreneur.

He is definitely one of the most photogenic and hard-typing blogger around Singapore, and as you can see, that is a recent photo, not some age-old worn-out pic taken from an ancient drawer.

As far as I know, blogging is the thing Kian Ann knows best and does most. His Blogopreneur is testament of just why intensive blogging (while having FUN) can push any blogs up the Alexa rankings and possibly traffic volumes too, no question, even if you are not conscientious about SEO.

His latest post is something I would like you to read, a worthy comparison between how visitors interact with one another in a blog and in a forum. It could be a very good clue as to how to develop and cultivate a community-based site.

Otherwise, I highly recommend you visit Blogopreneur for Kian Ann’s almost-daily musings. Give the chap a beer :)

To our local friends,

Money Mastery buddy Shi Heng Cheong will commence his 3rd run of the SEO Web Design Workshop on January 19th and 20th at SIM Management House along Namly Ave.

Here’s what you’ll get at the 2-day workshop:

* Hands-on practice to master the secrets of SEO Web Design
* Web hosting – free subdomain
* Free search engine submission
* Internet business resources & ebooks worth $497
* Admittance to Internet Marketing In Action eCommunity
* Bonus: 3 months Online Coaching worth $997!

While these workshops happen from time to time, in between Shi provides SEO consultation for corporations because “that’s where the big money is”.

You are encouraged to bring along your own notebook. Please don’t call Hercules to move your desktop (an instance like that happened in one U.S.-based workshop I heard of. What a legend.)

We are looking forward to form our local community of e-marketers within the best of our capabilities. Get to know fellow attendees and network too.

All the details and enrolment form is in here.

Hope to see you around, because I’ll be there. - Nelson

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