What technical things is bogging you the most?

April 26th, 2009

Hey people,

thanks for reading this website.
Let me know which are the things that troubles you the most.

Setting up wordpress blog? Doing a shy-yes page? Wondering how to ask me out for dinner? *oops*
scratch that.. haha…

Do let me know via the comments ya?
Thanks!

Cheerios,
Ming Chern

Going back to roots

April 21st, 2009

This is pretty interesting.
I just realized that I had not blogged in my flagship site for over 6 months!

Talk about being lax.
For the longest time, I’ve stayed away from the IM niche as a respect to my master, so that there is no conflict of interests.

But after months of consideration and planning, I believe it is time for me to come back to the niche that I started from.

I’m definitely much more equipped, had a much better understanding and tons of experience to share to my readers.

I’ve always been doing affiliate marketing, but as the stars have shown, it is time that I should be creating my very own Internet Marketing product. It will be due early June, so please stay tuned guys!

Honestly, after being away from this blog for so long, I’m not sure if I had any more readers left, but it’s definitely a start! If you are still out there! Do drop me a comment to let me know you are still out there. :)

After all, I’m still the #1 Technical Coach! hahaha, my blog still #1 after so long. Seems like my SEO is working huh? :p

Take care & be well!

regards,
Ming Chern

Save The World: Purchase a Hosting Plan?

July 10th, 2008

Long time since I’ve shared something.

Anyways, it’s gonna be a quick post.
One of my ebay participants asked me a question as she wants to purchase a hosting account.
It’s at www.thinkhost.com (not affiliate link)

The interesting part is that it’s a GREEN hosting.
Meaning to say that the hosting company uses the wind & the sun to generate power for the hosting servers.
How cool is tat?

While we’re living in a very monetary-driven era, it’s really great & refreshing to hear that there are companies out there to save the world but going out of their way to really care for the company.

I find that it’s really up to us to save the world, especially with the escalating oil prices, the global warming, natural disasters, all due to the inconsiderate acts of mankind. I think it’s time for us to start looking around us.

Switch & off power outlets when not in use; Use lesser aircon (or off it if you can) & switch to using the fan, eat more vegetables as animals consume alot more resources before they become our food. Well, you get my point lar. :)

Check out the website: www.ThinkHost.com if you can.
I think i’ll really support them. :)

regards,
Ming Chern

Technical Coach Series: Creating a PDF file

March 20th, 2008

This is the continuation of my technical coach series to Kate’s question on how to create a download-able pdf file.

In these question, there are basically few things to learn.
1) How to create a PDF file
2) How to FTP your file up
3) How to identify your link for people to download.

Take my blog header for example:
You can download it here.
This will be what we are simulating to create a link for your readers to download.

Step ONE:
Now, to create a PDF file, the fastest way is to install a program called PrimoPDF. It’s free to download and install.
Here is how you would use it. After you’ve finished typing your content in Microsoft Word. All you need to do is to PRINT the document and choose the printer:PrimoPDF. There would then be a popup window asking you on where to save it to.
This is basically it. You’ve created a PDF.

Step TWO:
The next thing to do is to FTP the file up to your hosting server. For those who want a good hosting, I would recommend Blue Host (Click here to find out), i’m using it rite now and you can be assured of its reliability. :)
Now, the software for FTP is called FileZilla, you can download it here and it’s free.

Step THREE:
Once you’ve connected and uploaded your file to your server, you can now give the link to your intended people.
Just note that if you’ve uploaded to /public_html/files/myfile.pdf on the right window of filezilla, your link would be www.myowndomain.com/files/myfile.pdf. This is assuming you own www.MyOwnDomain.com, of course.

Okay, I hope this helps a little. :)
Stay in touch.

Regards,
Ming Chern

P.S. I welcome more questions. I want to answer them. :)

Technical Coach Series: Linking

March 20th, 2008

Okay,

answering axileon’s question on linking.
Basically, what you should know is that there are namely two types of links.
One-way and Two-way(Reciprocal).

Both are very straight forward.
For the one-way, it is just some one linking to you without you linking to them.

Two-way links or reciprocal links are two websites exchanging links to the other.

Alot of the linking strategies are for SEO purposes. For example if you link to me using :
Technical Coach
There would be a higher chance when you type in [Technical Coach] inside Google, I would rank higher for that.

Of cos, due to the huge benefits of linking, whether in SEO or for traffic, people tend to abuse it.
Some of the things that people use is LinkMetro.com. I explored this when I first started Internet Marketing.
Well, you can subscribe for the paid service to have automatic linking done.

But the issue is that quality links are hard to come by. Think of it from this perspective: if 100 thousand drug addicts says that John is credible and very trustworthy, you will not trust John to be so right? On the contrary, if the MM Lee says that Ming Chern is very smart and handsome, you’ll definitely think so. So you see, it is not about the number of links, it is about the quality.

So in the beginning, how to make people link to you? Well, there is a few ways. To start things off, you will need a credible website. Once you provide good content to your readers, people will not mind linking to you. You may find similar websites that complement your niche and you link to them first. Then you can send them an email saying that you’ve linked to them because of good quality content in their site. The rest of the email should ask for an exchange so as to benefit the other person’s readers.

As you proceed onwards in your niche, you should be fast becoming an expert in your niche, so naturally, people will start linking to you just because of your content. :)

Hope this answers Axileon’s questions.
More later.

Regards,
Ming Chern