Malaysian Internet Marketing Blog

New job

2007-05-09T11:53:00.000+08:00

Quit my old job in a web hosting company and joined a new one. I must say i like this job very much, at least for now.

My goal here is to achieve high search engine rankings for the company website. A couple of link building here and there. Still lots to learn for me about SEO.

On a separate note, I will be going to the World Internet Summit in Singapore on the 26th of May. Alot of great internet 'gurus' will be speaking and I am excited to see what it is all about.

No new projects for me regarding internet marketing. Maybe I will get a better idea of it after the summit.

Back to work

2007-04-05T09:45:00.000+08:00

Took a spontaneous leave from work yesterday. Lazed at home checking out I.M stuff but didnt get much work done. Still no money from clickbank. I dont really know how to start with no money. Waiting for my 3 articles to get approved on Ezine to see if they can convert.

Gotta find a new job by the end of this month :/

Internet Marketing

2007-03-30T17:44:00.000+08:00

So I finally decided to start blogging again but this time regarding my success/failures of Internet Marketing.

I made a product and put a site together about 1 month ago at www.easyseoguide.com. However so far I have only gotten one sale. Bad huh :p

After learning more about IM I realised that I totally chose the wrong product to market. In my opinion, it just wasnt niche enough. Trying to SEO against SEO pros is a nightmare! What sucks is that my budget is tight so I cant be spending on latest softwares and guides and stuff.

I am currently trying out Bum marketing and we shall see how that goes. Basically its just writing articles and then diverting them to an affiliate site. I got about 2 articles up so far which redirects to some squidoo lenses. No luck so far. But looking back at them, I sorta of know why they dont work. These are the links

www.squidoo.com/adwords180review
www.squidoo.com/hometreatmenttmj

Again I think i chose the wrong keywords and wrong product to sell. Damn its not easy. But I was just testing them out. Seeing what works and what doesn't. I outsourced an article to some freelancer about restaurants. Will try to see whether that works out.

Really eager to get my first affiliate sale. When will it come!

Update soon

Adwords 180 Review

2007-03-26T10:33:00.000+08:00

I have been using Google Adwords for about a year and I can say that I know quite abit about it. I managed my company's campaign so I would constantly read new materials on the latest method to further expand my knowledge on Adwords.

The funny thing is that when I came across Adwords180 I didn't immediate jump at the chance to buy it. Why you ask? I feel that here I am about a year in from my first Adwords experience and there is an e-book claiming he knows something "new" and "special"

You could say I was shocked, curious, and hesitant at the same time. I spent about a week scouring the net for any other information on Adwords180. Various well known forums sang praises to this product and I became more and more curious.

What else could there be in Adwords that can be as revolutionary as the writer claims, and yet all those who have read it agreed with him? So I bought Adwords180 after much contemplation to see what the hype is all about.

It has indeed lived up to its claims. Claims which I felt were so out of the world that it just could not be true! Let me just list a couple of them

- Getting CPC's for less than the minimum $0.01 set by Google

- Converting cheap traffic into high converting ones.

- Convincing you that 5% CTR is bad and with this system you can achieve 10% or even 25%!

These are the 3 major claims and true enough the information inside blew my mind away. Who would have even thought that it was possible? I felt so excited with this new knowledge that I immediately went to set up a new Adwords campaign based on this system. It feels good to know that not many people are using this method as of yet and I wished I knew about it years ago.

I have no doubts about this method because the core principle is not exactly new. It is basically using the content network and site targeting with a whole new twist. Therefore, this isn't some kind of elaborate scam or "black hat" tactics, which i respect the author of thinking outside of the box.

I have seen tremendous results for my own personal campaign, which is kinda funny because looking back at it, I ALMOST didn't want to buy the book.

My view of Awords has definitely taken a 180 degree change and it is all for the better. This is DEFINITELY the guide to read to go on to the next level.

For full details of Adwords180 go to www.adwords180.com

2007-03-22T15:32:00.000+08:00

Lol,

After 3 dead years I think I am finally going to revive this blog. But this time its gonna be different I guess. Plenty of potentials with blogs these days and I am gonna see if anything works!

Cya

2004-09-07T20:41:00.000+08:00

Hi all..

This blog is almost dead. Luckily, there's a saviour.. which is ME!

I have a lazy boyfriend that doesn't bother to blog!

Anyways, Ben is still alive, just that shame126.blogspot.com is almost dead!! haha..

I'm bored, forgive me for my stupidness..

BEN chin, faster update if u don't want me to continue doing this to ur blog :p

teee heee.. Love ya, baby! Mwahk mwahk mwahk..

2004-07-05T17:21:00.000+08:00

hey all.

ive been back for two weeks and things are really not good at home. on the outside it seems okay i guess, but on the inside theres alot of emptiness and greif. i wont say its because of my moms death. its actually old issues that has never been solved. plus a whole lot of inner conflict.

the maid ran away just before i got back. so my grandma is suffering cause she does alot of work.truth is she has been suffering in silence for the past 20 years and funnily enough, she finds me to be her outlet. so yeah, i listen to her go on about the family, my mom, my dad and a whole lot of issues.

to add to that, after 7months of seeing each other everyday, i had to depart from my baby for 3 whole months. i always hear this but its nothing compared to experience it. on the night when she left it seemed like eternity for the next day to come. i couldnt sleep. i miss her smell, her smile, her everything. a week has only passed.

i had an account with my picture hosting site and i guess it got deactivated and deleted. so some in fact all of the pictures ive posted cannot be view. pics from this blog on should be fine.

last saturday, my brother held a bday party at home. invited 15 or so people. at the beginning all of them clustered around the tv playing ps2. my dad suddenly brought home 2 ps2 sets for the amusment of everyone. its seems now that one of them was a present to my bro from god know who. how lucky huh?

after sessions of winning eleven and burnout2, the kids had some lunch and then it was time to play football. me and a couple of frens played too. it was fun not to mention HOT.

i lost 100 due to portugal losing. not a good opening bet for me in malaysia, especially since the copa america is just around the corner.

this seems to past slowly around here these days. i wouldnt say i have nothing to do. its just probably whether i want to do it or not.

anyway thats it for now

2004-06-09T02:21:00.000+08:00

theres obviously something wrong with my picture hosting.my guess is that i havent renewed my membership.okay whatever.

been studying for my exams.there is so much to read that sometimes i dont really know where to begin.

constantly i am reminded to blog but then again i figured that the purpose of blogging(for me that is) is if i have something interesting to tell. so being that i have my exams now and nothing interesting happens to me during the course of it, hence...the empty blog. sigh...

in a few weeks time ill be flying back to msia. im not sure whether thats a good thing or not. personally i feel that its a very depressing place for me. i was kinda lucky to come to uk at a point of time where a change of environment was the best for me. maybe thats why its been so much easier for me to put down the past and get on with life. maybe thats why everyone sees me as someone with no problems whatsoever.

coming over to uk made my moms death so easy to get by. but i guess the real test is coming my way soon.

i always have this funny policy i abide by where, if i have any problems or sadness i tend to tone down the situation when i tell my friends or anything. i hate those akward silences where no one knows what to say. i mean, i wouldnt know what to say in those situations either, and i dont want to put my friends in that position.

anyways... as the day grows nearer to my departure from uk, the fear gets darker that one day, my grief will be so bad cause its been bottled up so lond that i may not know how to handle it myself.

2004-05-16T07:29:00.000+08:00

satu kilo 5 ringgit.. mari mari!

i remember once i went ss2 to this all u can eat durian "buffet" ahaha and i think i blogged about before. anyways the point is, i had a chance to taste durians again today!or rather, durian.

after our dim sum lunch today, me,sy and jh went to this chinese grocery store called tai sun. i so happened to read their custom made paper bag just now and it read

"come taste our tasty oriental foods!"

ok whatever :P

sy says that as soon as she entered the shop she got a whiff of that unmistakable scent. me and jh however were plotting on the side to steal magic booster cards at the store opposite.

when we saw the durians we somehow behaved like foreigners who had never seen such dangerous weapon like fruit in our lifes. we got excited and started groping and sniffing it like seasoned eaters( okay only i did that). somehow with our minimal expertise we manage to pick two decent looking ones. when we went to weight those thorny bollocks it came to a price of a whopping 30 pounds! basically we were about to pay RM 210 for two durians!we could have easily made the headlines in the msian newspaper

"trio spent RM210 on two bogus durians. what suckers!"

so we decided to take only one(which was 15 pounds) and walked happily out of the shop.

though our thoughts were still fixtated on the durians me and jh managed to persuade sy into entering our plot to steal magic cards. and so we went into the comic shop to try. heavily guarded and armed with mirrors, we couldnt stand a chance so we left with despair.

at night, we gathered at my kitchen for the awaited durian fest. many theories came about on how to deftly hack open the durian. unfortunately the biggest knife we had was nothing compared to those monsters we usually use in msia. nevertheless i just gave the durian a good beating with the amizingly sharp knife.minutes later we had our fingers covered in good ol' durian flesh. ahh! and its sweet too!

in the end we had very contented stomachs and one very unprofessionaly cut(details witheld to not cause any embarasment to me) durian in the wastepaper basket.:)

2004-05-02T12:26:00.000+08:00

so rome was certainly breath taking.i always had the liking for its history anyway. as kevin already posted in a nutshell what we did there, i shall proceed to tell what he missed out.

first,

there was this one tram ride which we had to catch to get back to our hostel. when it arrived at our stop, the tram was already so packed that we had to jam our way through. once we were in there, i had sy right in front of me and at least 5 armpits to wall me into this very confined space. misdispiaci(sorry), miscusi(excuse me) or whatever the hell the spelling is, chanelled into my ears but there i was on the verge to so offer the person next to me digested pasta with bolognase sauce and acid sulfuric. 4 stops later i saw wei hsiang and vivian outside the tram waving for me to get out.

"we left jian hung wei, have to go back and get him"

a series of sentences stringed "fuck" formed into my head but thankfully the impulses from my brain never reached my voicebox. despite of that i couldnt believe what i heard and i kept laughing. jh could be robbed and raped as far as my imagination could bring me too.

anyhooss on the (freaking)ride back i caught a glimpse of jh wandering around looking left and right throught the window. we got out and imediately had a private joke to ourselves before heroicly saving our frend from the possibilities of mafia encounters(tough i think he wouldnt mind that himself haha!)

we rushed to his aid(yeahhh right) and we all saw a huge sense of relief on his face.:P it was really funny and i guess u had to be there to know it.

i cant imagine what if he really got lost? furthermore jh was always saying to us, how we knew where to walk and which street was which. funny thing was that he asked some guy where was the the train station and the guy told him 10 stops from there. he would have walked for 3 hours. and our hostel is 15mins from the train station. oh well.. it was nice pestering him to repay us with gelati tough it never materialised. sucker.

secondly,

something that kevin seemed to have "forgotten" to include in his account in rome, was probably the water cooler talk, dinner gossip, joke of the week, advice 4 in "things never to do in a foreign country" and nonetheless the first thing to bring up on those 'do u remember that time in rome when...' ocassions, etc....

the gun exibition as i may aptly put it.

there we were, crossing the scanners and the security checks when all but kevin was abruptly stopped and had his bag checked. split seconds before this incident, the italian guard was at his seat inspecting passengers hand carry routinely when he saw something which would most definately be his highlight of his career. through all the undergarments and smelly socks, he spotted what looked like a single barreled miniature shotgun. shocked and in fear of terrorist threat, he signaled two of the officers on duty to reconfirm and.....

back to kevin where they stopped him and rumaged through his bag. those who got thru already were in fits as they saw the gun displayed on the screen and probably everyone thought we were wack jobs.

the profiecient guards immediately identified the danger object and shook their heads to disagree with kevin that he could not bring it into the airplane, for the safety of the passengers.

he then had to bring his 3 euro gun shaped lighter together with his bag to check the everything in.

couldnt stop laughing but had too cause now the people surrounding were convinced we were nuts.
funny this was that i paid half for that lighter and also partly coerced? nahh rather persuaded him to buy it haha!

sure we had other more mind blowing sights especially the last jugment by michealanglo? but my fingers are freakily getting stiff. so i shall stop here for now.

ciauz

2004-04-26T21:08:00.000+08:00

hey ppl back from rome few days ago and yeah im gonna post pics out. however 6 ppl went to rome and all shared cameras for different places so my pics are everywhere.

ALSO

i have this very important assesment which is due on the 28th and i have to rush to finish now so theres no time to update now!!

BUT i visited kevins site and apparently he wrote a few things about the trip and u guys and view it here however he omitted one very funny icident due to the fact that it occured to him hahah. will write about that soon.

time to get my asre back to my assesment. 33%!! no joke!

2004-04-21T15:10:00.000+08:00

hey all right now im in rome! and this is my last day here.i just came online to check my mail actually but what the heck just blog a few words.

unfortunately, sy is suddenly pissed at me so ill hafta go see whats up

ciauz!

2004-04-14T06:21:00.000+08:00

went all the way to liverpool on monday to see them lose. crap! took some interesting pics which i will post them up later cause im now blogging in sys house.

not doing much these days except watching loads of stuff. right now im dling a reality show called my restaurants rules, where 5 couples from all over australia try to start their own restuarants in only 8 weeks. only 3 weeks in they look depressed as hell.

im also watching queer eye for a straight guy, getting loads of fashion and shaving tips :P

not to mention my on going obsession(is it?) with sopranos.

also a few more dvds watching to be viewed.

its seems today is the indian chinese new year. as of now sy and classmates are playing mahjong downstairs, with 3 of them who just learnt how to play. interesting to watch them sratch their in puzzlement on what to do next. haha!

so my dinner and dance(prom like thingy here) is just around the corner. theres this flea market im going to in rome and im hoping, just hoping that they offer some cheap italian suits hhaha ill buy them if their priced from 3-4 euros lolz! broke as hell here. as wei hsiang puts it "i only can afford nessecities, luxury is out of the question. work for me too.

theres this site where u type ur name in and it says a slogan. i think the first one i got with benjamin was
i think, "where theres benjamin its a yes" freaky cause i think i tend to be a yes man.

so i tried again and it said " my goodness, my benjamin!" which sounds weirder ahhah

i dont know why i feel so stoned now, no its not weed or sorts. i think its because i was losing endlessly in mahjong just now. there is a saying if u play a game with one girl in the girl will always win. it seems to be the case just now. i just couldnt win at all and she kept winning. just to comfort myself and keeping my mind away from the fact i was incapable to win due to lack of skills, i deem that quote 100% true:P

anyway. i really dont know what else to write now, eamon - fuck it is repeating itself on my player. sub consiously i feel like going to someone and saying

"fuck what i said, it dont mean shit now"

which reminds me. five-100years is such a soothing song to listen to especially on the new sony mp3 player courtesy of sy hahah. its cool alright.

signing of for now ciauz.

2004-04-08T09:33:00.001+08:00

i was awaken today by sy with pictures of the new camry solara, and my god it looks so cool!im not sure whether its out in msia yet. or is it? hahah which reminds me, yy would have told me earlier eh?

anyway this car rocks! sleek,slender and a convertible!

EXTERIOR

SE V6 Convertible shown in abosolutely red

SE Sport Coupe shown in absolutely red

INTERIOR

SE Coupe interior shown in Ivory cloth

SLE V6 Convertible shown with standard Dark Stone leather-trimmed interior with available DVD navigation system

2004-04-07T18:22:00.000+08:00

after meddling with so must HTML i finally got my blog looking all nice and pretty hahah. because of that, im brain dead now and i dont know what to type!

so here are a few pics of what i ate last night for dinner, all prepared by sy. how sweet of her eh!

tofu with minced chicken

spring onions and ginger chicken

bolied egg with my grandmas homemade sambal

asparagus with crabmeat and cheese

hope my pics show!

off to bed now

2004-04-04T21:55:00.000+08:00

...yeah yeah yeah...

cant get that usher song outta my head! who can eh:P a few days back i went to this new club and i remember jumping out of my seat when this song came up.

i was lazing on the couch talking cock when suddenly that familair beat boomed. it was also the last song as the lights suddenly blared.

anyway, yesterday i had minor career inspirations that i migh consider next time hahaha. i was thinking, im sure uve been to restuarants and after eating u say to urself

"hmm the foods too salty here"

OR

"hmm the foods tasteless here"

SO

i was thinking maybe one day ill open this new, innovative,stylish,grand...ok whatever place which has too sections.1 section will cater customers whom prefer their food "more" salty and the other section "less: salty.

cause i mean different ppl like their meals differently. this way, everyone can be happy haha!

also, i was thinking IF they tried the more salty side and proclaim its too salty, at least they might come back again to eat at the less salty section...no? compared to saying

"the foods too salty, im not coming back here again"

funny how i thought about this to the extent of listing down some drawbacks to the idea.it would be disastourous(sp?) if only one section of the restuarant gets famous.then technically that section is fully booked but overall the restuarant will always be half empty.

but i guess i was just day dreaming, whilst drinking some red bean soup sy boiled for me lolz.

its already spring here, which i find it slighty difficult to adapt with the sun setting at 8pm everyday. during winter the sun sets at 4pm so by then ill feel sleepy thus sleeping early, which means waking up early for class or whatever.BUT nowadays..sheesh all screwed up

theres currently a crack on my lip which is causing me grevious pain. god help me if i ever get a busted lip. now i cant really laugh or smile cause when my lip streches theres that stinging pain. so when ppl crack a joke im forced to laugh while trying to hold my lip in place. complicated? yes painless? yes looking like a COMPLETE spastic? YES

hahah. on the brighter side, its only 13 more days till i get to say quanta costa which means how much is this in italian. (housemate told me that 2 days ago):)

gtg have lunch now!

2004-04-02T23:42:00.000+08:00

well well. i dont know what made me suddenly do this, but i guess its one of those "spur of the moment" kinda thing huh?

must try to get used using blogger, i mainly chose to use this so i dont have to tediously cut and paste the comments html everytime i finish blogging.

i guess its been months since i last blog. i wonder if ANYONE would read this if i plan not to tell anyone about it. so whats up with me the past few months? really nothing at all.just the usual shit.

okay enough of small talk and introductory. what i really wanted to write (if i planned to earlier) is that i recently lost my mom to cancer. i wrote something on her sometime ago but didnt manage to publish it. i really dont know what to say about that issue. and i thought i would have slowly let go.

but then yesterday,i watched this episode of sopranos and it conviniently was about cancer. not one character but 3 ppl in the show had cancer. sheesh. memories flooded in.whats worse is that, later at night i watched the OC and AGAIN something about the mother having cancer.....

so sometimes no matter how much u try to put something behind it always comes back to u in different ways.

like there this once when i was with a couple of frens playing mahjong and suddenly shu yiing(shes my gf:)) said she wanted to call her mom, then my frend said "okay ill call my mom toO!haha" then out of reflex i didnt know why i also said "hahahah ill call my mom too"

then i realised, i had no mom to call anymore. i still think its weird why i said that.

anyway, things have been hectic. meaning watching the OC and sopranos mainly haha and sleeping.my sleeping times and been totally screwed. i sleep at 5-6am in the morning and wake up and erm..4-5pm? good days 3pm hahah!

my holidays just started and will be going to italy in say...two weeks time! woohoo...rome here we come!(thats the only place we are going in italy)

besides whatever ive said above, i have my ups and downs and sorts. its been fun and boring in sheffield. but i guess overall i have my freedom which i scarcely had. sheesh.

so okay. i guess thats about it for now!

ciauz

p/s
one more thing. pls leave a comment to show that u know about this site. for fun ahha thanks