A life long journey from nothing to something! Thank you!
Make Money Online January 27th, 2008 
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This post title was once on my blog tagline for just two days. I started this blog few years ago in 2003, after I got my own domain name back. I was never doing very well with my blog. It was all about my life, my IT experience, my tips and tricks about the computer programs, web development, the foods I ate and the travel photos I took.
Ever since I worked so hard as a chief architect at my ex-company, I did not update this blog until early May 2007. At that moment, the blogging was already booming. Especially for people who wants to make money off their blog. I was also one of them. However, I was not really impressed by the outcome of my blog. I made only few bulks in three months.
I need to thank many of you!
If you read my blog all the time, you pretty much see that I am giving my blog another try. I have been adding some advertisement links on my blog, including my own e-commerce stores. I have restarted my blog from nothing to something.
I wanted to transform my blog into a place, which people can learn from my experience as a successful man and a happy man. In addition to my own e-commerce business, I want to share my experience on how to make money online with blog. I have learned a lot from many probloggers, readers and Internet marketers. I have to thank many of my readers who inspired me and who gave me a great example about “you can be who you want to be“.
In the past few weeks, I did make some small amount of money off my blog as a great re-start gift. To avoid my mistakes I made few years ago with Google AdSense, I have not done anything wrong with all of the stuff on my blog this time. I am seeing my advertisement income growing already.
For those who want to make money off their blog, here is my suggestion.
- Keep your blog schedule.
- Create good quality content
- Choose your advertiser carefully
- Plan your ad placement creatively
- Join high quality affiliate program
- Don’t ever click on the advertisement link on your own blog
- Don’t force your reader to click
- Visit your own blog as a reader
Personally, I don’t think you need to have advertisement everywhere; you just need some decent ads!
How much do I make?
All I can say is that my investment on the hosting, domain name and anything that runs this blog is already covered and still makes some profit.

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I can say out loud that I started from nothing to something. I started seeing some green on my entrepreneur desert. It soon will become a green forest. Please read my post “One tree at a time - Move on to the next journey” about my journey to be an Entrepreneur.
Here are few blogs that I will like to thank for!
Internet Marketing & Social Media - DoshDosh.com
The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul - Make Money like JohnChow.com
One Man’s Goal - OneMansGoal.com
Where Vision To Make Money Becomes Reality - SlyVisions.com
Blogging | Living Overseas | Personal Freedom | Entrepreneurship - MyTropicalEscape.com
And many others on my links page.
At the end, It’s never too late to make some money off your blog.
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January 27th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Hi Terence - THANK YOU for including me in your list!! I feel honored
January 27th, 2008 at 4:26 am
@Mark:
I am honored to know you. Now you don’t have any excuse to stop blogging. I am watch you.
January 27th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Hi Terence - it’s funny you mention that because I am going to be backing off from blogging, probably sometime after this week. Unfortunately, I had to step down over at NorthxEast, as well.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:39 am
@Mark:
I am sure that you will come back with a lot more to offer to your readers. I also thought about spend more time only on my own business, but I just learned to work more efficient to keep my blogging schedule. Keep me post!
January 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Thanks for the mention Terence. Glad to be of help to you… Keep plugging away, it’ll only get better!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
It really was nice meeting you Terence. Just like Bryan, I’m glad to be a big part of your internet journey.
Sly from Slyvisions.com
January 28th, 2008 at 3:18 am
@Bryan:
It’s great honor to mention your name. I have seen some progress you are making. That’s get me going as well.
@Sly:
Thank you too! I am back on track to make some money off my blog. It’s going better now.