The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

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It’s time to start a new weekend confession. I felt very funny when I saw the following two photos that my old college roommate posted on FaceBook. It totally brought back my memories about my college life. We had so much great time. I just could not believe that my old buddy posted them on Facebook. I lost the photo a long time ago.

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I had a great weekend with a friend from Taiwan. I felt good because I did not spend a lot of time in front of my computer over the weekend. We watched few movies at home and enjoy outdoor activities together. Last week was an intense week, because I spent so much time working on my online stores. I am getting to the point to re-design or to improve the conversion rate on my stores.

Start doing Internet Marketing on my own is not an easy job. In the past few weeks, I bought a great book and start implementing some techniques to enhance my online business. There is a long way to go with it. In some case, it’s quite lonely, but I have to move on. I think there is not much for me to confess about what I did in the past week. It’s like spending too much time on Twitter or Plurk. I will start shorten my Weekend Confession.

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While reading the blog post on Google Reader, I realized that I have posted “Increase page ranking with DIY marketing strategies” in the past. It was one of my top visited blog posts. Looking at that post again, I felt that I was drawing on the white paper like a young child. It’s nothing but a kid’s play.

Doing serious business requires serious marketing strategies. If I don’t seriously plan my marketing strategies, I will not get anywhere I want my business to be. I have spent two days reading the book I just bought about marketing toolkit for small business. So let’s play like an adult in the business world.

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Many of my readers probably don’t realize that I started a happiness project a while back in early 2008. The happiness project was created to bring more joy to the world by sharing the happiness and great smiles from all over the world. Although there are many copycat blogs trying to copy my idea, they are not doing as much as I am to bring the joy to the world.

Every smiles photos on the happiest blog are either with creative common license or with permission from the original photographer. I put my personal touch into every single smile post. To make this project moving forward, I social with many friends and strangers. It’s not just a smile blog with copy and pastes. I have put a lot of energy to the blog. It’s finally paying off.

This happy news totally make me a big happy day. The happiest blog in the world is now featured on the happiest news on earth.

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This afternoon, I spent 6 hours in the book store and tried to pickup a marketing book that will help me boost my online business. I pick one from the 16 marketing books. The book is written by Beth Goldstein, founder of Marketing Edge Consulting Group, LLC. The book name is The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Toolkit: All the Tips, Forms, and Strategies You’ll Ever Need!

I have a lot of reading home work to do. I may come back to pick few of the rest 15 marketing books.

If you read my blog post in the past few days, you probably feel my anger about the marketing company. I have decided to fire my marketing companies and do Internet Marketing on my own. The goal is to lower the marketing cost and boost the sales.

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I can’t believe the time goes by so fast. I need another weekend confession. Since my last weekend confession about How big is too big? Is my big picture too big? Working on increasing my e-commerce store conversion rate is my top priority. I have spent time review my current status and progress of my online business. I decided not to bother paying huge money to just increase my business profit. Doing Internet Marketing on my own will not just make sure it works for my niche but also increase my knowledge how to replicate that to the next one.

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Entrecard, a well known traffic exchange widget, which has generated a big buzz a while back. It actually made me got rid off BlogRush widget at first place. Personally, BlogRush is the the most useless widget, it only brought me few visitors in 4 months before I got rid of it.

As a blogger, generating quality traffic, earning readers’ trust and increasing readership are more important than receiving thousands Entrecard credit with no increase of readership. It’s time to review my traffic sources while I will spend more time on generating organic search engine traffic for my online business.

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After wrestling with the marketing companies, I have decided to go with low cost or zero cost DIY Internet marketing strategies on my own. Regardless what you are doing on your sites, you need to have marketing strategies. I will be recording everything I have learned on my entrepreneur journey diary. I am hoping to help other entrepreneurs learning what I have learned and to avoid making the same mistakes that I have made.

Again, I am not marketing expert. I would love to get real suggestions from real marketing experts. Let me start from scratch and find the brutal facts.

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