Make Money Online by John Chow
‘Make Money Online’ is a ‘real’ (ie. not ebook) book by Internet marketer, John Chow. John is probably most well known for his blog which generates tens of thousands of dollars a month and his book is designed to help individuals to make money from blogging. So is it any good? The first thing I should say is that I am certainly no beginner when it comes to Internet marketing having been working online since 1998 so I am possibly not in the intended target market for this book but I do like to keep up to date with what other Internet marketers are writing about and actually, I am pretty new to blogging. I work on the basis that if I can find one or two gems of information in a product such as this then it will be a worthwhile investment of both my time and money. If you are a complete beginner to blogging then John’s book is a great place to start. It sets out the basics very clearly and will give any newbie a pretty much step by step action plan to work from. I did find that many of the points had already been
Jeez, it’s easy setting up an online business these days!
// Seriously, how much easier can it get?! I started my online ‘journey’ in 1998 and getting an online business or website up and running was a totally different experience to today. My first ‘product’ (if you can call it that!) was something which went onto become an eBook. However back then, I had no idea what an eBook was and I certainly wasn’t aware of the fact that you could buy software to create one. Thus my first eBook was little more than a text file (which went onto become a Word document)! It looked cheap and scrappy and to be fair, it was BUT the content was solid and that was the most important thing and my poorly presented text file sold by the bucketload. When I eventually decided that there must be a better way of presenting the information I was selling, it took me days of Googling (actually I probably wasn’t even using Google back then so perhaps that should be AOLing or Yahooing) to find the one piece of software that would do what I wanted. Search for ‘eBook software’ now and Google is jammed full of the stuff! Not only that but today you
Travel Review – Auramar Beach Resort, Albufeira, Portugal
// I know, this is supposed to be a blog about Internet marketing so what am I doing writing travel reviews? Well firstly the Internet provides me with 100% of my income each month so Internet marketing effectively pays for my holidays and secondly I still need to keep on top of emails etc while I am away so even if I am on holiday, I am still working. Finally (and to be honest, this is the real reason), I know that this article will get picked up by the search engines and will eventually provide me with a few free visitors each day Last week I travelled to Albufeira which is on the Algarve in Portugal. To be honest, I was lucky to have made it given the week-long closure of UK airspace due to the volcanic ash cloud hanging in the skies from Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland. Fortunately flights resumed the day before we were due to fly out and despite a slight concern that we would be entering absolute chaos by going to an airport after such an unprecedented event, we decided to risk it (as it happens, there were no delays or problems as a result
TheUKTrader.co.uk – what’s it all about?
// Over the years, I have written and published countless articles, podcasts, ebooks and other info-products covering various topics related to Internet marketing. Indeed, I have been generating an income online since 1998 and the Internet has provided me with my sole income since 2001. Although none of my main income-generating websites are in the Internet marketing field, I have over the years spent a fair bit of time helping other people to set up their own businesses both online and in the offline world. For the past couple of years I have taken a bit of a backseat from my online businesses and have basically let them tick over with minimal input from me. Any work that I was doing to help other people start businesses pretty much came to a complete stop in 2008 when I stepped back and decided to take a break from Internet marketing for a year or two. Now though, fully refreshed, I am ready to get back into the game again and one of my first projects was to give TheUKTrader site a bit of an overhaul. TheUKTrader was originally my main wholesale website and operated with considerable success from 2002 to around
