Internet Marketing Coach: RisingIMStar.com

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

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There is so much things happening to the economy nowadays.
With the rising oil price hitting new highs every now & then, it has been very interesting just tracking the price.

I remember just beginning of last year when petrol price is the low end of $1 and I’m already complaining about the price.
Recently, in just 5 months, the oil price has increased so many times.
And today, the price hits $2.186.

This doesn’t come as a surprise, cos my friend Wong, who is a trader always tells me when oil price hit new highs.
So i always know there’s about 2 weeks before the price goes up again.
Although the interesting part was that it was only $2.02 2 weeks ago, last thursday it hit $2.077, today it has hit $2.186.
Very interesting.

So when price hit this high, the natural tendency for me is to go back to malaysia to pump petrol, but guess what?
The Malaysian government has decided that no Singapore cars can pump petrol 50KM radius of the borders.
This is one of the moments that I say I’m damn ashamed to be a malaysian.

As I was reading the newspapers on the interview on the petrol pump owners, this act will force a lot of them out of business, simply because the majority of their sales comes from Singapore cars.

What I would have preferred is that Singapore cars have no subsidies. Why? It’s because people still go in to do business, how can they survive without being able to top up?

In any case, while everyone is cutting back on their expenditure to meet the rising prices, I’ll be doing something else, is to make more money.
There’s only so much I can cut from my daily expenses, but there’s sooo much more potential in creating income & profits for myself.
So I guess, the mindset is different ba.

So all internet marketers, focus on making the money and ensure that rising prices on commodities are just a drop to the ocean.

cheers,
Ming Chern

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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.

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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

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Bing the infamous technical coach, I would like to know more about what is stopping you from doing those technical things of the Internet Marketing world.

Please leave comments on what do you need and I promise to do up something for you. Anything.
Do you have issues with HTML? Wordpress? Autoresponders? Just name it.

So go ahead, help me to help you.

Cheers,
Ming Chern

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