Category: Online business

Google is the number one search engine in the world, therefore many people want to know how to make money online with google. When you want to search something, very likely you use google to find the things you are looking for.

This create a very good opportunity for internet market to tap on. By utilizing google high ranking position in the internet world, you can make money online.

However, be careful! The internet is full of good things and bad things. You need to differentiate among all these good/bad things and find your treasure. I have done various research and would like to share my experiences and success with you, so you will not get burn/hurt. This is important lesson.

Look around my website. We have all the resources to help you to succeed. But, I need to tell you upfront. Our teaching is not those get rich fast kind of model. I need you to be patience and do all the ground work, to build your solid foundation online before you see your money coming in. No work, no money. This is the basis for all things in the world.

I will teach you what you need to know about web development in order to create power website which you can earn income from it. Creating an online business is exciting and it is amazingly easy to do it. Online business  allow you to reach customers 24-hour and distribute your products/services worldwide.

1. Get On Page 1 of Google

 

Get On Page 1 of Google

When you key in your keyword phrase inside Google search engine, Google will show you a bunch of result pages on the screen. Normally you will only click those result showing on Page 1.

For those people who do a lot of research, they may go beyond Page 1 and go through Page 2 and Page 3. Seldom we will continue to scroll through all the results, the most we randomly pick one of the SERPs.

Therefore, it is important you get page or post on the 1st page of google. And that is where you can make money online, by recommending product or service you wish people to consider.

 

 

 

What are the ways to attract traffic to your website? You must be a valuable information resource through your online platform and you must provide value. Be useful to your customer.

You need to show that you understand your potential customer’s problems and desire. One way to do it, is to create online resource for them to refer. You can provide immense amount of free information to them, and once you have the traffic you can put up your paid products or services for your customers to consider.

Here are some of my suggestions:

1. Win visitors heart
2. Build trust on your site
3. Use Google Featured Snippets
4. Use catchy title and headline
5. Learn from others
6. Attract Traffic tips I learned on Sep 24th 2018

Win their heart to attract traffic

Many people say there are already a lot of information on the internet for people to consume. But you know what, we know it is usually very hard for us to find the good information to solve our problems. Thus, if you can create valuable information and help people to rectify their problem, you will win their heart.

There are many opportunities out there for us to grasp, and what we need is to become an expert in the field we want to solve. By demonstrating our expertise, people will come to your website and they will refer more people to visit and traffic will increase further. People have problems and desires and they always look for solutions. When you help them with those problems, something very powerful will happen.

By giving our expertise first to help others and later the reward will come is the best business model in the new internet age. You have to give without expecting any return, and you will be surprised how often the “return” often outweighs the original generosity. When you share your expertise freely, you are not giving anything away. You still own it and never loose it. By sharing will lead to more people knowing you.

How to win people hearts? Here are the basic characters people like:

• helpful
• honest
• trustworthy
• generous
• fair
• understanding

When you have create your online platform with trustworthy resources and show that you understand your customers problems and desires, and you are here to help them. You will win their hearts.

Here is the formula for success:  Know + Like + Trust = Belief

All of us prefer to do business with people and brand we like. We also trust the integrity of the provider that our problem will be solved. With like and trust leads to the belief in us.

Site trust

Depending on which search engine the searches use, if they are using Google then you will need to understand how Google provide the right answer to them. One way to master the know-how, is to learn how Google indexed your website and Google expert Matt Cutts show you How Search Works.

Google Featured Snippets

Featured Snippets will increase your website traffic because searchers can get direct and instant answers for their queries. The click through rate is reported to increase steeply. Some call Featured Snippet as Rich Answer or Direct Answer.

What are the ways to get your website on Featured Snippets? Your content should be specific, detailed and provides direct answer to searcher’s query. Using a direct Question and Answer format is recommended. Use structured data markup language and put your keywords in H2/H3/H4 header.

Use Catchy Title, Headline

Even your article appearing on Page 1 of Google, you still need to compete with other 9 articles on the same page. In order to stand out among others, you can use “Here” or “Now” in your title, description and headline.

Number is also a very good idea to attract attention. For example, “15 Impossibly Adorable Knitting Patterns For  The Baby” uses number in the title.

Learn From Other Experts

I like to learn from others, especially those that have gone through a lot of their own mistakes and eventually achieve success. It is good to pick up useful tips from them and we will save a lot of our times and energy. Not repeating the same mistakes as they took before and we can achieve success faster.

One article I found on the internet teaching you How To Increase Website Traffic is from the blog of mythemeshop. Do have a read about it.

Attract Traffic Tips I learned on Sep 24th 2018

• There are 3 fundamental components of the search framework: document relevancy, link building and authority, and the technical optimization.
• As internet marketer, we must understand what the searchers are searching for, and we must create relevant content to solve their problems.
• All the search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo all try to answer searchers queries in the most efficient way.
• Do not create new page if your keyword is only slight variation, instead put that keyword in the same content page. Use Latent semantic indexing technique.
• Putting too many same keyword on single page/post will lead Google to mark you as keyword stuffing.
• Title tag is the most important element of On-Page Optimization
• Link which is above-the-fold has more value.
• Linking your content to good resources of the topic you are discussing could be rewarded by Google.
• Updating of the old content will help to boost your ranking, and it also freshen up your page/post.
• Do not change your URL as Google will treat that as page migration.
• Using heading tags will help to layout your web page logically.
• Try to fit your keyword in your heading for On-page optimization.

What is ThomasNet and how is it related to your online business here?

ThomasNet is actually an online platform for you to source for suppliers and look for technical products you need. However, recently I have discovered that they have very powerful marketing program which companies can tap on to grow their technical business if you wish to expand your online business. But, there is always pricing concern when you talk about engaging others to do the digital marketing work for you.

What is the answer if you want to start small or even try it out at free firstly to see the result?
Yes, you can. Simply visit the Wealthy Affiliate Online platform I am referring you to visit. There are few simple steps you just need to follow and you will learn all the skills highly desire in the digital market now, free at first and more advanced support when you upgrade to premium support level.

The platform I recommend is very suitable for company owner, who would like to manage your company website by yourself and do not want too much technical detail to manage. For other hosting company, usually it requires you to handle the cpanel yourself, which can be difficult to handle.

By using the platform I suggest, you are free to focus on your business building, rather than IT work.

Digital Marketing for businesses have become the new form of marketing to expand their business. The trend is going to increase further in the coming years, with more digital solutions targeting the online business community.

With the grow of smartphone usage, digital marketing will become even more important from now. We can search anything on the smartphone, more information is being stored digitally and can be assessed everywhere in the world, as long as there is an Internet connection.

Cloud computing is one of the factors driving the wider adoption of digital marketing in all the industries. The two most population countries in the world (China and India), are seeing increasing usage of smartphone among it younger generation. This trend has a big impact in the near term on how new generation consuming the information in their hands.

We are seeing many younger generation holding their smartphone wherever they go, and they are using different kinds of Apps in their daily life. Popular Apps like WhatsApp’s, Shapchat, Instagram, Twitter, etc are widely used by the younger population. It has become their lifestyle, and they cannot liver without their phone.

Even older generation at the age of 50 years and above are digitally driven. This group of consumers is coming to the online world to search for new opportunity, be it additional income or to improve their health. All kinds of activities can be learned from the internet and the internal is digitally connected with all the countries in this world.

Being digital, it means information can be transmitted through the internet and stored electronically. Comparing with the traditional way of marketing, digital marketing allows small companies to compete directly with the multinational corporation.

The bosses of these small setups are able to handle marketing by themselves, without spending a large amount of budget on marketing, especially like advertising on the TV and radio.

Where To Learn About Digital Marketing For Businesses

You can register here for the free Starter membership at Wealthy Affiliate and explore all the digital marketing lessons to kick start your business.

Google has partnered with Squared Online (started in UK 2013) to build digital skills for employees of businesses. However, the cost fee is rather expensive costing about USD2,595 as of September 20, 2018 on its website. Will you pay for that or explore below option?

It has been a difficult period since last year 2017 as my ex-company decided to close down the office, after working there for 20 years. This year I have worked for 2 companies but not successful, it does not work out well and ended with jobless now. Start wonder how to change my life, so can provide my family food on table.

I have been searching eagerly these few months and looking for an answer to solve my problem. What changes I need to do on myself so that my life will become what I wish to be? Confused, doubts, angry, loss, etc all these negative’s emotion keep coming to my mind. I started to question myself, why this thing happen to me at this stage of my life?

Starting to seek for an answer. I re-read those books I have came across in the past and still lying in my bookshelf. Book like “Release Your Brakes” caught my eyes and I started reading it again, hoping to gain some perspective from it and get tips to improve my life. One sentence that strike me is ” How your life will change, will be the result of some decisions I am making now”. This is a very good phrase which reciprocal within me very well. Any decision we make now, will determine where our life will be. I totally agree with this statement.

The Decisions I Make Now Will Change My Life

When I acceptted the closing of my ex-company last year May 2017 from the management, this is the result I am facing now. If I will to reject their decision and decided to offer other alternatives, thing may change otherwise. Do I feel regret or angry? I am not sure at this moment because when I accepted their decision, I was loosing hope on that company and decided to moved on from it.

I wish to have a change at that moment as I see no future if I will to continue working for that company. The company has created many issues while I was with them throughout the 20 years career. I wish to have a better future life and decided to accept the closing of that company. So, why I am regret and feel lost? It shouldn’t be. I should focus on the better side and feel good about my decision. Start creating my new future and do what I wish to be in life.

So what is the life I wish to be?

A life that I can decide on my own terms and not being decided by others what I should do. I have strong feelings recently as I went for interviews and sending resumes to potential employers. Feeling so much stress and need to fulfill their needs instead of my wish, it limits my creativity and I need to focus on their wants instead of what I wish in my life. I kind of feeling frustrated and trying ways and means to please them in order to get the job offer. Is that what we want in our life?

Life shouldn’t be this way. We must live our life with joy and fun and do what we want.

Guides I Should Follow In Order To Change My Life

So, what should I do now? How do I move from here and start making my life better?

With internet and books everywhere, we can always turn to them and refer to them,  and learn from the experts. Which resources are good and effective on us? It depends on each individual. Everyone of us is created differently. Therefore, it is important to find guides, methods and tips which work for us.

As the book “Release Your Brakes” mentioned, just like playing golf or driving a car, we need a manual which teaches us the basic and fundamental techniques so we can start with ease. I am re-learning about the techniques taught in the book, and eager to apply it in my life now.

According to the book, author James W. Newman promised you that Your Life Will Never Be The Same after you apply all the techniques in the book. I am excited about it.

Learn From Other Experts

It is always good to learn from experts who have experienced the same setback as you and they have moved on to become a better person that they want. Most importantly is, the change make you a better person you wish to be, not to follow others. Do what is good for you, uniquely different from others, be yourself and feel happy about it.

One of the articles I came across, is written by Tim Denning, “14 Ways I Completely Changed My Life“. You can have a read and get some inspiration from his article. His words are full of wisdom which I like them very much. All these tips can apply easily in our daily life and we should adopt some of them if all are too heavy for you. Try one of the methods he suggested and see the outcome. You never know what decision you make today will change your life tomorrow.

Be An Alpha

Recently I came to know a dietary supplement called Alpha-Male and wonder why the name “Alpha” and google it on the internet. It leads me to a site “To be Alpha” and this site contains a lot of tips to help us take control of our lives and live the life we want. Have a read and gain some benefits from it.

Challenge The Impossible

 

 

 

 

I was inspired to add some word here tonight (Sep 13, 2018) after watching the show on TV “Challenge The Impossible”. The show tell us that there is nothing impossible if we put our efforts, time and energy to do those thing we love.

With the huge population in the country, China has many talents and you can see how human can challenge the impossible. Below is the YouTube showing the show. Have a look and see the impossible.

 

Going The Extra Mile

As Peter Sage said, by going the extra mile, only then we can make an impact and produce lasting change in our life, as well as others life.

His phrase is full of inspiration, and that is the reason he is a well known international & serial entrepreneur, author, philosopher and teacher. We need to learn from him.

Conclusion

Change your thought today, and make a decision now, your life is going to become better. Have faith in ourselves that we can leave the world a better place and everyone of us can make a different.

Be happy with what we have now, and feel good about ourselves. I find blogging really an effective way to motivate ourselves to become a better person and also free ourselves of all the limits other impose on us. When we are blogging on our website, our mind is full of ideas and we think freely. This is very important to cultivate a confidence within us.

For those of you who want to create your own blog or have your own website, go to my home page or Get Started page and sign up for the free account. It is absolutely free to use and you can create 2 free websites for yourself.

All the best to you and let us start our life changing journey together.

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With over 50,000 companies providing hosting services, it could be overwhelming to select one for your hosting need. I would like to recommend the Best hosting company in Singapore which I have used personally. The company is SiteGround  and it is also recommended by WordPress to use them as your hosting platform, when you check on WordPress official website.

SiteGround have various types of hosting plans and each has its own merit. It is very suitable for running WordPress and Joomla websites. SiteGround was established in 2004 and has since then become the top few in the hosting industry, and is trusted by more than 200,000 customers all over the world.

High Quality Web Server with 99.9% uptime

SiteGround web servers are high in quality and 99.9% uptime. This is superior fast among many web servers I came across. It has 3 sites for their data center and one of them is right situating in Singapore. If you are Singapore company, choosing to host your site at a data centre in your own country make very good sense.

The speed and efficiency of your web traffic to your site is super and it allows you to outpace other competitor sites in other parts of the world. Pricing is affordable for most companies with different package to meet each company preference.

Hosting is important to SEO and some search engines like Google pay attention to your site’s IPs. By hosting your site at SiteGround if your primary audience is in Singapore, your users in Singapore will experience faster network latency with faster site response times.

Live Chat Support

I have use Siteground for my Joomla website, as well as WordPress website. The support staffs at the Live Chat are always helpful and knowledgeable. Any time you have query, you can always go to Live Chat and seek support from them. You will be amazed by how fast they respond to your query.

Recently when I requested Siteground Live Support staff to install WordPress at my subdomain, they swiftly do it for me within 3 minutes. I now have a new website powered by WordPress and I am able to rank higher at search engines with WordPress powerful platform.

Want to see for yourself?
You are welcome to visit Siteground and have a view of it, before you make further decision.

Friendly Dedicated Staffs from SiteGround Hosting

SiteGround started as a small startup and has grown to more than 300 staffs. The hosting company has many talented and hard-working people in the industry, sharing the same values, motivation and passion as a team and have fun for their works.

Criteria in selecting a Hosting company

Here are the criteria I believe you should consider when making a decision, to chose the best hosting company you want to have for your website in Singapore:

• fastest speed
• large data bandwidth
• sufficient disk storage
• 24/7 technical support (by phone and online-chat)
• easy to use FTP, PHP
• secure SSL
• efficient email, autoresponder
• friendly control panel
• good domain hosting, subdomain
• secure webserver
• good pricing
• easy payment plan
• excellent customer service

Web hosting company is like your landlord which you lease a space from them so you can host your website at their web server. It is the responsibility of the web hosting company, ensuring that the web server keeps working and the internet connection stays connected. Once you have signed up the hosting plan, the hosting company will provide you the control panel or dashboard for you to manage your hosting. You will be able to setup your email accounts and do all the back-end activities related to hosting.

It is important to have a good backup system for your website. Therefore, when choosing your web hosting company you need to choose one with good backup system. Web host that offer phone support, online chat and ticket system are the best to use.

Most of the web hosting company use Linux as their operating system as Linux is very robust and free, thus helping to keep hosting cost to the minimum. SiteGround uses CentOS as its Linux OS, which is built on the Red Hat version of Linux.

Questions you may want to ask the web hosting company if you decided to use their services:

• is there a limit on how many sites are put on one server?
• what kind of specifications for all the servers?
• what is the uplink port speed on the server? e.g. 10Mbit, 100Mbit, or 1Gbit?
• what is the operating system and server software being used on the server?

SiteGround use cPanel as their hosting system and this is the most popular control panel being used by web hosting companies. cPanel control panel is highly customisable and very powerful. Webmaster will be able to make full use of the cPanel features to increase their site full potential and draw more traffics and understanding of visitors’ detail.

When picking a good web hosting company, you may want to find a balance between cost and features. Generally, the more you pay the more features you will be getting. Standard and share hosting usually the cheapest and there will be lots of websites stored and run from the same web server machine.

Lower Price For Hosting at SiteGround

If you just need a basic website and require only 10GB of storage space, you can choose the lowest price plan at only USD3.59 per month. This is absolutely the best deal you do not want to miss.

Next up the pricing is also very attractive, only USD5.59 per month and give you 20GB of storage for hosting multiple websites. This plan is the best seller and allow you to have 25,000 visitors each month.

Crafted for the professional web user, GoGeek plan provide 30GB web space and allows you to scale up 100,000 visitors monthly. Even with these advanced features, it only cost you USD10.59 each month.

 

SSL Certificate support help in Google ranking

To ensure your website is safe to visit and help in your Google ranking, you are encourage to install SSL certificate on your website. I have installed all my websites with SSL certificate and would recommend you to do the same. Siteground is fully supporting this security protection on their web server, therefore you do not need to spend additional money purchasing the SSL certificate from third party provider.Just inform the support staff at Siteground, and they will do it for you.

SiteGround Customer Reviews Rating

Here are 3 customer reviews on SiteGround. As you see, the rating of SiteGround given by these customers are excellent. You should consider to host your website at SiteGround as well.

 

Want to know about SiteGround? Watch below video and Click the banner below it for detail.

 

 

 

 

 

Singapore Insight

97% of Singaporean age range between 16 and 44 are constantly online. They turn to YouTube for video and daily spent on is about 39 minutes. Typically, they do research online, compare choices before their purchase of mobile phone, TV etc.

Singapore is also at the center of South East Asia market, which has 260 millions internet users. This is the 4th largest market in the market. Do not forget about this huge size. Start creating your online presence to reach this market.

We no longer go Online. We live Online.

Focus on the micro-moments, be there when the searcher looking for the products or services you have.

 

 

 

 

 

What are the key steps you need to follow, in order to build up your small business website? Do you want a website for your business?

As a small business owner, you have limited budget to use for your marketing expenses. Thus, finding the right ways and proper steps to follow is essential for you to create an impact on the internet and lead to more businesses.

There are 4 simple steps we will teach you how to build up your company website:

1. Choose the best platform to build your business
2. Follow the training inside the platform
3. Take action each day and complete the tasks
4. Be active within the community in the platform to continue learning

Being a businessman managing my small scale business, I share the same problem as you when doing my marketing program. I search on the internet and found Wealthy Affiliate program helping me to create a website for my business within short time, even in 30 seconds if you follow the right way.

How To Create Website Under 30 Seconds

I am going to show you an easy way to create your own company website in less than 5 minutes.

Above video clip show you the easy steps you can follow through to create a wonderful website for your small scale business. I can promise you that it is comparable to big corporate website which do not have this capability to reach out to many countries and market in the world.

With your own website, you can scale your business to new height and create new businesses which you never thought before. Believe you can do it and your website will bring you the business you want.

Want to know further about the way to create a powerful website for your business?
Click Get Started here and I will show you the way.

Under Wealthy Affiliate online program, you can join the starter program which is free for you to explore. The program will teach you how to make a business website on your own for free, using the site builder on the platform.

Once you decide to up your skill-sets, you can consider go for premium membership to have more online support and large community to support your query, 24/7 throughout the year.

Just like the traditional business, you need to build up your small business website with contents. I have outline 14 steps you can use to leverage on what others have gone through, and create useful contents on your company website:

14 Steps To Create Useful Contents On Your Website

Step 1. Know Your Audience – You need to know who are your customers and their profile. Are they single/marriage, student/retiree/working professional/jobless, age/sex/hobby/education as detail you can find about them.

Step 2. Decide Key Themes and Messages – What do you want to communicate with your customers? Focus on their concerns/problems and find ways to help them solving it. Do not keep thinking about your products and services, instead think like your target customers and what they want to see answer from your website.

Step 3. Set A Frequency Framework – You need to create a schedule for you to create content on your website. Update your website constantly to keep up with current market trend and condition. Think in advance what stories and features you wish to put on your website.

Step 4. Create a editorial calendar – Think like those newspaper publishers, have some features on your website to entice your customers coming to your website for the content. For example, my Online Training School – Wealthy Affiliate, has weekly webinar to teach us how to scale our business further with the latest digital knowledge.

You may learn from the local newspaper, by having a food feature on Monday, home improvement on Wednesday and entertainment section on Friday. With these features, it make your website with useful and helpful tips to those who come to your website.

Step 5. Develop regular features – Horoscopes, comics, weather listings are some examples help people coming back to your website for update information or for leisure reading. They will love to follow your website events when they learn something useful or interesting.

Step 6. Interview Experts – You may seek ideas from experts by interviewing them in similar industry like yours. By learning from others, you can improve your business knowledge and share it on your website.

Step 7. Utilize Multimedia – It is common for us to learn things at YouTube and you can widen your reach by incorporating multimedia on your site. With various forms of communication like text, images, photos, videos and audio you can make your web contents much attractive.

Step 8. Seek Expert Contributors – To create quality and additional contents on your website, you can seek expert in your field for contribution. Speak or write to them for content contribution to your site.

Step 9. Create User – Generated Content – One way to create content on your website by those visitors to your site, is getting them to put comments, ratings and reviews on your web pages.

Step 10. Give Your Opinion – Become an expert of your industry by observing and understanding the details of all the products/services. Offer your opinion and thoughts about the industry and become a thought leader in your respective field.

Step 11. Welcome Comments and Feedback – WordPress website has very good comments and feedback mechanisms, and in Wealthy Affiliate content creating platform – SiteRubix has even more of this you can utilize to let visitors to your website participating in your business.

Step 12. Listen to your customers – When you care more about your customers and listen to their needs, you will win their hearts and gain more business opportunities.

Step 13. Improve Old Contents – The flow of river is ceaseless and you will never able to step on it twice. This shows how our modern day like, with new technology and things keep evolving each day. You may to update your old content and make improvement to make them relevant and exciting.

Step 14. Capture Visitors to your site – Once people found your website, you would want to understand them more, send them additional information and keep them coming back to your website and continue to engage with them.  You would want to capture their profile, detail by giving them to opportunity to subscribe your newsletter and email marketing.

There are plenty of addition resources, tools and information you can gain from our platform. Let’s sign-up with our membership and receive all the useful tips to build up your small business website.